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    pieces are arranged in the following orderV—Fables , SeFections on Natural History , Historical Extracts , Essays miscellaneous , moral and religious . The work is divided into two parts , prose ^ and poetry , bpth which are filled up under these several heads . It is not sufficient to say that Messrs . Hollands have made

    their extracts from the best authors ; they have extracted their choicest parts . They introduce the young student to an acquaintance with most of our best modern authors , and to some who , as we have often lamented , are seldom known within the waHs of a school . The youth who shaH have read their Selections with care will not be a total stranger to any species of literature . Yet we felt a little regret , on looking thejen over , that they contained no extracts from Shakespeare , the prince of

    poets , and the glory of the English language . We coiud have wished , also , to have seen among the Historical Extracts some of the select parts of our three great historians ; such , fur instance , as Hume's narration of the rise of the Crusades , Robertson ' s of the Gowrie Conspiracy > or the escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Loch-Leven Castle , or her execution ^ and Gibbon ' s of the Seven Sleepers . We are aware , at the same time that the authors could not have done all that might have been done , within the limits which they prescribed to themselves . Perhaps they may hereafter publish a second volume ; in which case we wtnilcl recommend them to give extracts from all our great original writers , in order to form in the mind of

    the scholar a just sense of their peculiar excellencies and a taste for their works ; and this migM be done so as by classing the selections in chronological order ^ beginning with our earliest \ vriters and ending with cotemporary ones , to exhibit a concise view of the progress of English style . Burt it is- not for critics to become projectors ^ ¦; * The selections before us are , in our eyes ^ valuable , on account of the great number of passages they contain in favour of humanity , patriotism and religion . Some of the religious -pieces , as also , we believe , some of the poetical pieces ^ are by the authors j and it is not to say totf much of them to remark that they are inferior to few in the volume . One of them , especially , on the infinitude of the divine works , is-. 3 © excel

    tent that we much regret our limits will not permitu § £ to extract it . Prefixed to the selections , is a list of books , for the instruction of young persons at school ^ which in consideration of its usefulness , we shall lay before our juvenile readers . ; €€ Barbauld ' s and EdgeworthV early Lessons , Barbauld ' s Prose ftVains , Sandfotd an < LMeEtoii > M ^ s , Trimmer ' s Introduction to the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/44/