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      1 Bt^T Imp^Ef^Ion^

      St . Maur , who has enriched the volume with some racy days and and picturesque wayswhil descri st pr p actic tions al of old xperts coachi li n ke g

      Colonel Smith-Baillie , Mr . Alfred Watsonand Major-General Teesdale , have contributed chapters , on matters with which they are peculiarly

      competent to deal . The Duke of Beaufort has written about a third of the volume , and his genial reminiscences of former ffimes , and characteristic

      comments on the coachmanship of to-day are bright and entertaining . An exhaustive bibliog which raphy may of d f rivin airly g be enhances said to s ustain interest the reputation of a . book

      which its predecessors have won .

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      Sir Francis Sandford Has Edited The Late

      Sir Francis Sandford has edited the late

      Matthew Arnold ' s * Reports on Elementary Schools , 1852-1882 ' ( Macmillan & Co . ) , and has thus , in his own words , rescued some interesting an 3

      characteristic work of his friend from the' oblivion which so rapidly overtakes Bine Book literature however valuable . ' Mr . Arnold was appointed

      one of Her Majesty ' s Inspectors of Schools in April 1851 , and he resigned this position in April 1886 , after a service of thirty-five years , during

      which he had not only witnessed , but contributed to , the progress of elementary education in England . He believed—we quote from his

      report of the year 1882—tljat to have an * expensive public education for one class of the community only and to make it gratuitous is practically

      to fall in . with the ideas of Jack Cade . ' He contended that there ought to be a certain ¦ number —¦ of free schoolsand a certain number of

      ™ — — — — ^^ v — — ^—^— m — — —^^ - ^^ v — — ~ -r ^ g ^ r ^™ w ^ f ^ , ^ m ^ m ^^^ ^^^^ . ^^^^ p ^^ " ^^ ^^^ r ^^^ r ^™* ^*^ ^^^™ ^ ^^* " ^^* ^^^^^* ^ " ^^^ ^^ " ^^^^^ fc ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ m ^^^^ ^ Vw free places in paying- ones ; but he expressed the hope that School Boards would not discontinue the school-fee generally . The book contains the

      mature opinions of one who speaks with the authority of an expert upon the subject , and it is therefore worthy of the careful consideration of

      school-managers , teachers , and all who take a I practical interest in the welfare of the children ¦ ( «& . - ¦

      ' ; or tri e land .

      Under The Quaint Title Of ' A White Umbr...

      Under the quaint title of ' A White Umbrella in Mexico' ( Longmans & Co . ) Mr . F . H . Smith

      has written a bright little book of social impressions of that romantic region of the New World . He does not fess to ive an account of the

      prog ) resources , religion , politics , and trade of Mexico , | but prefers to present a picture of the country

      1 as it make its appeal to a painter and idler . What he describes is a * land of white sunshine , | redolent with flowers ; a land of gay costumes ,

      crumbling crumblins * churches churches , , and and old old convents convents ; ? a a land Innrl of nf kindly greetings , extreme courtesy , and open broad hospitality . ' He declares that he has

      revelled in the swaying of the lilies in the sunlight and the bloom of the roses , and has not wasted his time in looking for the lizard and the

      mole crawling at their roots . He takes a very genial view of the people , and says that he found them unselfishpatienttender-heartedand

      capable of the hi , ghest culture , and worthy of , the deepest study . The book is altogether a dainty little productionand gives us a more vivid

      impression of the , people than sorne larger and i

      ; more pretentious works .

      R Two Years Ago, As Mr. Acworth States I...

      r Two years ago , as Mr . Acworth states in the preface of the * Railways of England' ( John

      Murray ) , he went dewn to Liverpool and Manfor chesler a magazine with the article intention . The of result picking of that up materials iournev .

      ** - mM — mf *

      R Two Years Ago, As Mr. Acworth States I...

      - ^ r : i however , was the present handsome , volume of more than four zmndred pagesin . which he deals

      , with the railways whiph terminate in the , metropolis . The history of English railways stili

      remains unwritten , and Mr . Acworfch states that his book is merely an attempt to "describe what our railways arewhat they doand how thedo

      it . In this task , he has been , on the wh ole successful , and the book bristles , with interesting ,

      fac tactts s concerning concerning : tne the JN North ortn--Western western , , Midland miaiand ., Great Western , South-Eastern , Brighton and

      South Coast , and other well-known lines .

      ^Eviewf, &Q. From Mr. J. W. Arrowsmitli....

      ^ eviewf , & q . From Mr . J . W . Arrowsmitli . — ' Elizabeth

      Morjey , ' by Katherine S . Macquoid , is a story after the fresh healthy fashion with which the name of the author in the minds of all novel

      rea , ders is so inseparably linked . Like the majority of Mrs . Macquoid ' s works , it is strong in human interestandwithout being

      re-, , rnarkable for any great character display , it pleasurably holds the reader ' s attention throughout . The chief action of the Story is

      depicted abroad . From M . Calmann - Levy , Paris . — Scherer ' s

      ' Etudes sur la litterature contemporaine . ' The ninth volume of this interesting series of critiques is now before us . In it . M . Edmond

      Scherer treats of Madame de Maintenon , Pascal , Kenan , Sully-Prudhomme , Pierre Loti , Leconte de Lisleand Greard . - There are also papers

      on the fu , ture of reliionhow to read Montesquieu , democratic government g , , the statue of Lamattine , the precursors of Lamartine , & c .

      From Messrs .. Cassell & Co ., Limited . —The first volume of an entirely new and revised

      edition of the ' Popular Educator' has just appeared . It is now more than a quarter of a century since this well-knownr-and most useful

      educational manual was first published , and during that period upwards of a million copies have" been sold . The present edition follows

      the old lines , but is to a large extent really a new work . The lessons have been ' revised throughoutand a considerable portion of

      the text re , -written . Many new illustrations have been added , and a series of specially prepared A coloured maps J . is one of the features of

      the present issue . We do not wonder that the * Popular Educator' has been described , with pardonable exaggerationas ' a schoolan

      , , academy , and a university . ' It certainly offers , at all events , to youths and artisans a better system of self-education than is elsewhere to

      be obtained . From Messrs . Dean & Son . —Two little volumes

      in the * Boys' and Girls' Library , ' respectively entitled ' Frolic ; or , the Adventures of a Water Spaniel' hy Ada Hityerand ' Our Garden and

      its Feathered , Families , / by the author of * Moravian Life in the Black Forest / are well

      , calculated to interest youngsters , and to provide them with something that shall not only

      amuse but be wholesome as well . From Messrs . Digby & Long . —* The Belvidere ;

      or , the Warning Maiden / by William Dwarris . There is plenty of incident in this story ; but the author in the telling dieplays inexperience

      and lack of literary construction . The language i .

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1889, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041889/page/14/