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water out of shoes ; and all in forty - eight duodecimo pages . We hope the purpose of its judicious and benevolent author will be answered , and that his book may " afford assistance to the labouring classes in procuring for them more comforts than they at present enjoy , " even with their scanty earniugs .
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of oral instruction : the Accidence and Syntax are at the same time complete and concise ; and the Dictionary of Difficulties forms a no less valuable than novel Appendix to the whole . This manual of . grammatical casuistry would be remarkable for its originality if it were not ro for its usefulness .
The other work appears to answer its purpose as faithfully as the Grammar , and is , of course , by far more entertaining . We need only recommend our readers to amuse themselves with it .
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Art . XIII . — The New Game Laws , Sfc . By Lieut-Col . P . Hawker . This little pamphlet is brought out as an " Appendix" to the Sixth Edition of the well-known " Instructions to Young Sportsmen ; and begins with a compliment to Lord Althorp , for getting rid of the " diabolical Old Game Laws . " Col .
Hawker then proceeds to point out many of the Statutes which are good , and others that are opeu to amendment ; and , after recapitulating some original suggestions of his own , he gives a brief epitome of the old Statutes repealed ; an outline of those Laws which still remain in force ; and concludes with a clear Abridgment of the New Act , accompanied with some useful explanations .
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856 Critical Notices . —Miscellaneous .
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Art XII . The Commercial Vade Me cum . Allan , Glasgow . 1831 .
Thr more knowledge accumulates , the more necessary it becomes to contract the space in which it may be stowed . This is accordingly the age of literary gems and pocket editions of every thing , from the classics down to the almanacks . Here we have , in less compass than a housewife ' s pincushion was wont to occupy half a century since , as much kuowledge as may facilitate the
commercial intercourse of a nation of merchants ; — a calendar for twenty years , tables of interest , of commission , of brokerage , of coins , of commercial cities , with their statistics , of distances , routes , &c , &c , and all for three shillings , iucludiug morocco and gilding . What will the world come to ? The next generation may carry the natural history of the universe in their snutfboxes .
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Art . XI . A French Grammar . By P . F . Merlet . Richardson , Cornhill . ha Traducteur , or Historical , Dramatic , and Miscellaneous Selections from the best French Writers , &c . By P . F . Merlet . Effingham
Wilson . The learning of grammar becomes yearly a more hopeful matter . On looking over the works before us , we were conscious of an idle and envious regret for the hours and weeks and months of our school-life that we spent over Cham baud . Instead , however , of grudging our youth of the present day the facilities which we did not enjoy , we will exhort them to make use of
them with all thankfulness to the literary labourers who help to lighten the great but necessary toil of mastering the grammar of a new language . The teacher of French at the London University has constructed his grammar on principles of philosophy which appear to us sound , and of arrangement which are excelleut both as they regard the
progress of each individual pupil , and the external convenience of various classes of learners . The work is divided into four parts , which may be obtained either separately , as the learner proceeds , or arranged as a complete French grammar . The first part—on Pronunciation—is a less hopeless attempt than many we have seen to supply the want
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Art X . —Memoir of Miss E . Spree kley . By R Woolerton . Simpkin and Marshall . 1831 . This is one of the most ordinary of the very common histories of a life and death of what is exclusively called piety ; the piety testifying itself by alternations of feeling and by expectations of supernatural interposition . ( P . 89 ) Such narratives are as uncongenial with our principles as with our taste .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 856, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/60/
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