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    to the very excellent Scries of Questions on the New Testament , by the Rev . W . Field . Fully aware of the necessity of leading youth , at an early age , to au acquaintance with the Scriptures , and more rparticutarly with the Histories of our Saviour ' s Life aud labours , he has considered the Questions of Mr . Field ,

    in consequeuce of their harmonized arrangement , too difficult for very young persons , and especially for the lower classes of Sunday Schools . He has been induced , therefore , to prepare Questions on each of the Gospels separately , in as familiar a style as the subjects admit . By the regular use of them , considerable

    kuovyledge of the -Gospels may be obtained , and the pupils may then enter on the course pursued by Mr . Field with great advantage . " The utility of such a work as this may be considerable to those young persons who are endeavouring to improve themselves in the honourable and happy art of e # emg £ ng -the mjiuls < of children upou , and euaicking

    $ hek * memories with , the all-important facts of the evangelical history . The well-qjialifiju d will not need it ; in the Jjands of the contentedly unqualified it will be almost worthless ; but to the elder brother or sister , and the Sundayschool teacher , it may become a valuable aid in self improvement , as well as in the communication of instruction to the objects of their affectionate or benevolent solicitude .

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    Art . V . —Stories , presenting a Summary of the History of Greece , for the Use of Children and Young Persons . By Sarah Lawrence . Second edition . We have to notice the present edition of this work chiefly as \ % is " enlarged and improve ^ . " If it be not actually a History of Greece , it is now a connected

    series of stories , in which alJ the most important events are told in their order , and . leave on the mind a just impression of time . " A list of dates is added to the present edition , which will be found

    useful for % he elder pupils , who will , it is hopea , not cjjsjlain to avail themselves of any information which the book may contain , because tjie simplicity of the general style niay seem more suited to the capacities of their little brothers and

    sisters . " " In reference to the last mentioned ela , ss , " jyj iss Lawrence observes , that ; "chronology , important as it is universally allowed to be in the study oi

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    history , can only prove an unprofitable burden on the memory of a child , whoso largest conceptions of time can scarcely extend beyond the period of a year . " The proper najwes iu this work are accented , and every care has been takca to adapt it to a young child ' s capacity . Sometimes , indeed , we are tempted to wish that it were not quite s ©

    didacticthat there were more enthusiasm and less of guarded explanation and moral remark ; but the safe side is ( and ought to be ) preferred by the generality of parents and instructors , and we hardly dare suggest that ( in childhood at least ) it may be ' * better to be moved by false glory , than not moved at all . " The tak of Thermopylae should not have been

    told without giving the epitaph on the Spartaus ;—that epitaph , which speaks volumes on the customs and character of the Lacedaemonians , . and is in itself a gem—a cry&talizatjton of eloquence ! It is a tljon ^ and pities that our language ilo . es not answer better to the spirit of tJjfi original ^ but tkere is a real and indefeasible beauty about it that nothing can hide .

    We could have wished , too , that the retreat of the tea thousand had not been so hastily disposed of , and that it had bwive some reasonable proportion to the Expedition of Alexander the Great ; but we are well aware of the difficulties which the author had to contend with , and we cannot but allow that she has performed her task with fidelity aud judgment .

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    Art VI . —A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada ^ from the MSS . of Fray Antonio Ag'apida . By Washing-ton Irving . 2 Vols . 8 vo . There is more spirit and power in this book than in any which Mr .

    Washington Irving has yet put forth . It is as good as the old ballad of Chevy Chase , and leaders , whose age of chivalry is uot yet goue , will find it stir their souls like the souud of a trumpet . The style is as quaint and graphic as that of the Old Chronicles which the author has imitated .

    The subject is , in every sense , a striking one ; the materials seem to have been collected with great diligence ; and the story is put together most felicitously . So well told a tale , whether of truth or fiction , we scarcely remember to have read ; and we doubt whether auy historical romance can be named which can compete in interest with this rouiautit ' history .

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    § 02 Critical Notices .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1829, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2574/page/54/