one powerful cause of the tardy improvement of the class, to be the very early age at which children in many branches are set to regular work. He says its rigid duty-which is action, and not contemplation. Thus, fortunes so created are too generally associated with little that is generous in sentiment, liberal in principle, or elevated in view. The manufacturer is an animated machine, and as regular in the routine of his operations, and often as insensible of the condition and necessities of the artisans. The success which results, engenders an intolerant and overbearing disposition. The individual claims for wealth what belongs to mind; and looks upon all acquirements as things of no use in this world, unless they throw light on the process of money-makingthe secret of which depends not on large cultivated mental powers, but on determined energy, and the concentration of a few faculties. There is a remarkable difference between the intelligence, morality, and independence of the workmen, and the artisans in branches in which the young are seldom admitted under fourteen years of age. Many facts, in confirmation of this, are given in the analysis of the several trades in a subsequent part of this inquiry. Another circumstance, fraught with much evil and worthy of notice, is the employment of girls and women in manufactories. The introduction of them has greatly increased of late years, in all branches in which they can be made useful. It will readily be This is, however, stating things in the extreme. The admitted, that a workshop is a very indifferent school means of education appear more scanty in Sheffield than for the future wife, the duties of which are usually undertaken at an early age. To every person acquainted those of religious instruction, save to the miserably poor, with manufactures, it is manifest, that one of the great who need religious instruction most, and have least opand growing evils, unfavourable to the progress of mo-portunity of obtaining it; but of late the Church, and rality and intelligence, is the extent to which females also the Independents and Methodists are paying more are employed in workshops. The influence of this cir- attention to schools. The fault of Dr. Holland's cumstance extends widely, and counteracts much of the good that education would otherwise produce. The fre- book, as one addressed to the country at large, is its quent associations which in consequence take place bulk and extent of detail. A pamphlet, like that of Dr. among the sexes in very early life-the vicious habits Kaye's of Manchester, would better have served his purwhich are formed, and the marriages which result, with little thought or provision for the future, render the do- pose, save with those having a local interest in all that can be said about their own town. The book, however, mestic hearth not one of comfort to the husband, nor a school of virtue to the children. Ignorance, wretched- contains all the material for what we mean, and a great ness, and dissipation, are the evils which spring luxuri- deal more; and must have cost the author great pains. antly out of such circumstances, and are multiplied in Wanderings of a Journeyman Tailor through Europe and the successive generations. The progress of civilisation the East, from 1824 to 1840. By P. D. Holthaus, Jourmust not be measured by the creation of wealth; nor does the latter afford a just indication of the amount of hapneyman Tailor, from Werdohl in Westphalia. Transpiness pervading society. The intensity of the struggle lated from the German by William Howitt. 12mo, to accumulate riches, is familiar with disappointments pp. 288. Longman & Co. and anxieties, and is too apt to exert a painful degree of pressure on the millions-the instruments in the process. The imposing expression of independence and affluence in the few, must not mislead us in our estimate of the condition of the many. There never was a period in the history of this country, or, perhaps of the world, in which the same amount of indigence and crime existed, in relation to the population, and in association with boundless wealth, inactive and unprofitable, or overflowing in the refined indulgences of a selfish and luxurious age. The employment of girls and women, is both an effect and cause of this state of things; and though there are evils which the legislature cannot remove, this is one which admits of considerable correction. The town council of Leeds, in their statistical inquiry, remark, in allusion to this subject :-" Take, on the other hand, a mill girl from the town; she leaves her work and has tens to her associates, with whom, during the day, she has planned some project for the evening; her father is at the public house; her mother, thus left for months, has herself become careless in her person, and almost reckless in her habits: the daughter thus has no one to guide her; her associates at home and abroad are abandoned; eventually she becomes so herself, and is lost to all sense of decency." The peculiar nature of the manufactures of Sheffield do not admit of immense or large fortunes being realized by a class of persons upon whose character Dr. Holland thus moralizes Men spring up suddenly into a commanding position in society, with immense energies and determined enterprise-stimulated by one feeling the thirst to make a fortune. The success of their exertions is in no degree retarded by any refined or delicate considerations concerning the mode; education gives no relish to participate in the pleasures of social life; time is too valuable to be wasted in the interchange of thought, or in the discussion of matters which have not an immediate and obvious practical application. No field opens to seduce the intellect to look abroad, or to impart the first elements of taste, by which the mind might be tempted to forget We love all German tailors for the sake of one-HEINRICH STILLING. Holthaus is not a Stilling; but he is an amusing fellow, gifted with a prodigious organ of local, ity; and would have been quite a marvel had his travels been undertaken three centuries sooner, when there was still something new to be seen and told. The personal adventures and difficulties of the Tailor, working his way through Germany, Hungary, and Poland, and into Turkey, and afterwards to the Holy Land; catching, also, a glimpse of Greece, Italy, France, and Belgium, have, however, an interest belonging to them which we look for in vain in the works of those modern travellers who never think of setting out without money in their pockets. In his descriptions of places and manners, we cannot help thinking that the tailor must have refreshed his memory after he came home, or, perhaps, enlarged his knowledge by a little reading before he set out; as it is not likely that any tailor could, in his rambles, have picked up so much information about the customs of the East from personal observation. At the age of sixteen, our Tailor, having lost his parents, set out on his travels after the custom of all the German artisans; working a few weeks or months in the different towns as employment offered, or inclination prompted; drinking beer when he had money, and content with saltless meal-dumplings when it failed; often ragged and shoeless, but never out of spirits; strolling on, Wander-Book in hand, until he had seen nearly all Germany, and all its most famous sights. But he has repeatedly travelled in the Fatherland. His descriptions have the merit of extreme brevity, or how could he have told half so much as he has done? After wandering five years in the Beloved Fatherland, Holthaus entered Hungary, on his route, though yet undetermined, to the East. But he zig-zagged continually; and often, after long intervals, passed over the same ground. Here we glean, as a specimen, a bit of description of Mr. Borrow's favour- who had set them upon me, watched from a distance the ites: We were not far from Presburg, when at once we heard in the distance, a singing, shouting, and hallooing, which continually drew nearer. Presently we met four wagons, in which a brown company of gipsies were seated. It was a curious sight. There sate men and women, girls and boys, all dark as half-negroes, in ragged array, with long shining hair, smeared after the Hungarian fashion with lard. We gazed at them with astonishment. Scarcely had the merry company passed us, when a wagon halted. The little, starved, and skeleton horse, of which you might count every rib, could no longer continue the gallop. He stood still, and could not be moved from the spot. They did not stand long considering, but took a piece of wood from the wagon, and belaboured the wretched beast till it fell dead in the harness. The dingy company were now obliged to pursue their journey on foot; but the loss was not great, and night would see them in possession of another hack; for the gipsies understand very well how to set about horse-stealing, for thieving is properly their profession. This people have in this country their peculiar seat. They are scattered throughout all Hungary, Siebenbürgen, Wallachia, and Turkey, and we afterwards encountered them very often. many progress of the affair. To defend myself from these creatures, which flew upon me from all sides, I struck in every direction with my stick, and with all my might; but they pressed so furiously upon me that I considered myself as lost. In this extremity of danger, there occurred to me suddenly an idea: I took my hat in my mouth, put my stick between my legs, as a great tail, and stooping almost double, I dashed fiercely upon them. This took effect; they were startled, stood still, and I was at liberty to pursue my way in peace to Debrezin. In this whole district through which I travelled, live the thorough full-blood Hungarians. They are clothed nearly the same as the Raitzen, except that they wear only short boots or Ischismen of sheep-leather, with spurs attached. The common Hungarian wears patschen or sandals, if he does not go barefoot; white linen trousers, probably a couple of ells in width, and fastened round the body with a lace; a short shirt, which, like the Raitzen, he smears with bacon; and between the trousers and shirt is also a breadth of sun-burnt skin to be The long hair is also pomaded with bacon. They carry almost constantly a long stick filled with lead, and seen. spurs furnished at bottom with a thick knob. Their hats are low, with brims of three-quarters of an ell wide, and There are also amongst the gipsies handworkers, but serve them frequently for drinking vessels. The citizen of the middle rank wears blue narrow trousers, and a only in iron; smiths, who make nails, horse-shoes, and snuffers. The greater portion of them, however, consists blue spencer, set with large silver buttons. In winter, of wandering vagabonds, who practise robbery, theft, too, he has usually a great fur cloak about him. The Hungarian nobles wear Attila-coats; they are very and fortune-telling. There are, too, amongst them musicians, who play on all sorts of instruments, but sel- proud, and make excessive show. Especially do they dom from notes-although they steal by the notes. The understand making a great noise with their spurs. When musicians and smiths in all the villages are gipsies. For they dance, they strike their heels together, and the a glass of palinka, or brandy, they will do almost any-ring amazingly. If a gipsy only lets his fiddle be heard, thing. Boys and girls go about till twelve years old away goes the dance. Their peculiar dances are very almost entirely naked. Others, clad in rags, swarming artificial. They twist their huge mustaches into monwith vermin of every species. If you encounter them on the way, all run and beset you with begging most im- The reader may now guess the kind of entertainment portunately. Women and girls set aside all shame, and he will find in the wanderings of the Prussian Tailor. are the most teazing of all the crew. The gipsies nei-Young persons, and those to whom the ground is new, ther sow nor reap, and yet the Heavenly Father feeds them; like the birds of the air, they take and eat what they find on the roads. I even saw them eat dead fowls and geese which they dragged from the dunghills, and hardly plucking them, devoured them raw, or only a little warmed over the fire. The women carry the children about on the back till they can run. They work, dance, and run with this burden; the children making an outery only when they are hungry. My comrade, at the sight of this noble band, lost all courage to travel further into Hungary. In my youth I had heard of Hungary, as of a country that lay as it were under the world. No longer in Germany, but amidst strange and singular people, whose language I did not understand, I strode forward, hoping for the best. But my old desires and old courage triumphed. The stranger that men and countries were to me, the more curious was I to gaze around me. It was a beautiful and a blessed land that lay before me; many of my companions on my travels, and in the Herbergs, had said so much of it to me. Therefore, forward! While on his second wandering in Hungary, the Tailor had this singular adventure, one worse far than the combat of St. George and the Dragon : Immediately beyond Pesth, but particularly from Miskolz onward, where also many Slawakens live, begins a waste and desert region. There are immense plains of sand, clothed with dry grass; heaths, where you see nothing but isolated huts of shepherds and herdsmen, called Pusten. But these shepherds are no good shepherds; they resemble rather wolves in sheep's clothing, and are extremely thievish and rascally. They keep whole troops of wolf-dogs, and when a traveller appears, they hound these beasts upon him. Such a reception was mine: I was walking quite unsuspiciously over the Debreziner heath, when at once I found myself surrounded by twelve large hounds. The shepherds, strous rat-tails. may find amusement in accompanying him; but the better-instructed will not find much of novelty either in the objects which fell under his notice, or his manner of viewing them. The book is popular in Germany, if we may judge by a Third Edition; but it will, we fear, be of less general interest in England, save as a curiosity. Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire et de Géographie, par M. Bouillet, Proviseur du College Royal de Bourbon. 12th Edition. Paris: Machette. 1843. The French have hitherto taken the lead in great works of reference, and for an obvious reason: from the universality of their language, they have looked to the market not only of their own country, but of Europe at large. Now, however, that the German and English languages are more extensively studied, while the de mand for works of reference has at the same time greatly increased, the Teutonic energies have been brought into the field in a manner likely to shake the supremacy of" our natural enemy." The Conversations Lexicon and the great Encyclopedia of Ersch and Gruber, are taking the place, among those who read German, of the French works of a like class; and the Biographical Dictionary by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, bids fair to supersede the Biographie Universelle, which heretofore had so far excelled every English work aiming at the same character. The French, however, seem still to keep the lead in the smaller and more compact class of works of reference; such as the one now before us. The almost total absence of any portable work which may be trusted to for accuracy and scholarship, as a vehicle of general reference on biographical, geographical, and historical subjects, is discreditable to our literature. The little "Treasuries" of Maunder, with all their quackish air, are in reality the best works of the kind which we possess. It is evident, however, that they are the productions of a mere abridger,-a man who knows nothing critically of the subjects on which he writes; and whose qualification consists merely in a power to abridge the more lengthy details of larger works of reference without making blunders. The work before us is of a very different character; and we would feel gratified if it were in our power to say that our own language pos- | sesses its parallel. The success which it has met with in passing through eleven editions, seems to have incited the editor to make increased exertions to keep all rivalry, in what must be a highly profitable work, at a distance. The whole of it is contained in a single large and very closely printed volume. It ranges over the whole field of history; contains a Dictionary of Biography and of Geography; and furnishes a sort of Classical Encyclopedia. It embraces, in short, all departments of human knowledge which are not connected with natural science. It has received an official testimony in its favour which there are no means of bestowing in this country, in being sanctioned by the Royal Council of Education, as a book for the use of the universities and public schools. in the book before us, but they ought to be universal. With wonderful condescension the Frenchman has entered the word Haga, (which we call the Hague,) telling us to look for it at La Haey, which is the name the French honour it with. There is a cross-reference too from "Scotia, viz. Ecosse": it would have been too much to expect "Scotland" to be entered. But there is no head for Antwerpen or Antwerp. It comes in solely under its French name Anvers; nor do we find the German town of Aachen, under any other title than that with which the French have chosen to christen it,-Aixla-Chapelle. We British are not guiltless in this respect; we have sadly maltreated the ancients. What right have we to call Homeros, Homer; or Horatius, Horace ; or Livius, Livy; more than our neighbours to take the on from the end of Thomson, or the un from Brown? But the French beat us in this "by a long chalk," as the Americans say. What can be equal in degradation to the conversion of Titus Livius into Tite Live? We give Sophocles and Aristarchus their due; but with the French they are Sophocle and Aristarque. Moreover, even in the cases where our conversational usage has mutilated classical names, our books of reference restore them. Not so the French. We look in the present book for the head Mæcenas; but there is no such entry. We must be content with Mecene. With all the defects which these peculiarities in French literature predicate, the work before us appears to be an excellent one; and after having tested it by a multitude of references, we can safely recommend it to our readers. It will not probably be consulted by them for articles referring to England and Scotland: for though we are told that Leith is three miles (viz. four kilométres) from Edinburgh, and Abbotsford is said to be near the river Estrick, yet geography is a department so liable to blunders, that we find them perpetually occurring in our home works of reference. In a geographical work of very great pretension, published in London, we find it stated that the principal street of Aberdeen passes over a magnificent bridge across the Firth of Forth; and in an edition of Brooks' Gazetteer, published so lately as 1835, we find that Edinburgh has one member of Parliament chosen by the M. Bouillet is not the sole author of the book; indeed it is almost beyond the bounds of possibility that one small head should carry so much learning; and various departments have been respectively treated by a small army of assistants. There is an unfortunate characteristic of the French language which renders it peculiarly ill adapted for works of general reference. It is very difficult to awaken Monsieur from the dream that there is no people that has been or that is upon the face of the earth worth thinking or speaking about, except in its reference to the Great Nation. Hence mankind at large, with their institutions, notions, and habits, have been spoken of by French writers much in the spirit in which our travellers treat those of Kamtschatka or the Sandwich Islands: things trifling in themselves, but curious as a ground of speculation to the civilized observer. Our traveller will hardly be at the pains to take the name of a prince of Otahaite according to perfect Otaheitean orthography-Town Council, and that Aberdeen united with Forfar, he will content himself with some half-Anglified approach to it. So London and Edinburgh, not having anything French in their respective sounds, are considered barbarous names, which neither Young nor Old France will be at the trouble of acquiring; and according to civilized usage, they must figure as "Londres" and "Edimbourg." It is true that we have the same defect in our own language; but not to so extravagant an extent. We call Kiöbenhaven, Copenhagen; and Köln, Cologne. But our encyclopedists and geographers are getting ashamed of this provincialism, and are adopting what seems to be the only method for the avoidance of confusion-giving the subject under the name it is called by in the country to which it belongs, and affording a cross reference from the name it has acquired in our conversational language to that under which it is discussed. If this notice should come under the eyes of any manufacturers of French works of reference, we hope it may induce them to adopt this plan. Their language does so clip, distort, and denationalise the names of persons and places belonging to other countries, that it is very difficult to find them. We have some cross-references Montrose, &c. in the election of a member. M. Bouillet's This is rather a remarkable book, and one which would inevitably draw the paternal attention of the French Government upon the author, if it appeared in France. It must prove even more obnoxious to Louis Philippe than the Russian Travels of the Marquis de Custine can do to the Emperor Nicholas. The author would seem to be a thorough Liberal; yet, viewing his work in connexion with the crisis, we are not certain but that he has taken the best line which an adroit advocate of Legitimacy could select. We may be refining too far, and the purpose of the exposer may be single. The work is a clever and able one; written with a strong bias, no doubt, and highly coloured, but containing a great deal of naked, plain-spoken truth, According to this author, the Government of France is This history has a twofold purpose. It is meant to give a condensed view of the Protestant Reformation; and in doing this, to act as an antidote to modern Puseyism, which is held to differ little, substantially, from the system which the Reformation overthrew. "It is high time," says Dr. Morison, in his Introduction, "for the sincere lovers of Bible truth to bethink themselves of 'the signs of the times;' to rally round the living oracles; to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints;' and to take good heed lest the traditions of a corrupt antiquity should be suffered to supplant the plain and palpable doctrines of inspired truth." On this motive, Dr. Morison has produced a very readable compilation; though one which, almost of necessity, must be a little one-sided. One-sided reading may, in some instances, have caused one-sided writing. The work, however, discovers no bitterness, and no wilful exaggeration. The author merely dwells longer upon some subjects than a strictly impartial, or philosophic historian-if ever there was one-might do, and treats others with slight attention. This is, however, a book that is wanted just now; and it will satisfactorily supply the want felt. Impressions, Thoughts, and Sketches, during Two Years in France and Switzerland. By Martha Macdonald Lamont. 18mo, pp. 343. London: Moxon. This is, to us, an old friend with a new face, and that a much handsomer one. A considerable time since, we found on our table, a thick pamphlet, printed on a small type in double columns, somewhat in the style of Chambers's Information for the People, but very inferior in point of paper and typography; liker, indeed, a Yankee pirated reprint than an original English work. It was a still greater discovery, that, under this homely guise, lurked an excellent book; with many redundancies and superfluities, no doubt, as to be expected in the free correspondence of a daughter first separated from a mother to whom she was devotedly attached, but with many and rare graces and solid merits. It was said at the time, that we had met with works of a very inferior kind printed handsomely in several volumes, and published by a fashionable bookseller; and it gives us pleasure again to meet with this accomplished lady's work in a shape which may ensure it an adequate degree of attention. The young lady went abroad, probably to finish her education; though her education, wherever it was acquired, must have been considerably above the average before she left England. The first part of her work, which is in a series of Letters, relates to Paris alone, in which she resided in different boarding-schools and pensions; and saw a good deal of society, and of the domestic life of the Parisians. This is, indeed, the feature | which gives value to her clever book. The reader may be certain that, so far as Paris and its People are seen in her pages, they are seen as they exist; and not as in the fancies of a dreamer's eyes, or in the misshapen forms of an undaunted guesser. The tour in the Netherlands and Switzerland is of comparatively less value: but the adventures are pleasingly related; and the reflections indicate more expansion and maturity of mind than one expects to find in a very young person. She is a pronounced Liberal. But we formerly said so much of the merits of this work, that we must rest contented to announce its reappearance in a fitting garb; and not less worthy of the attention of a fit audience, from the revision it has undergone. The Emigrant to North America. From Memoranda of a Settler in Canada. By an Emigrant Farmer of twenty years' experience. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London. One object, if not the main object, of this little book, is to recommend Canada to British agricultural emigrants, as a field for settlement superior to any to be found in the Western States of America. The work was first printed in Canada; and though we will not aver that everything happened to the Emigrant Farmer exactly as it is here set down, and still less to his witty friend Robert Stevenson, the emigrant from Ayrshire, we may safely state that their letters contain a condensed body of useful, and we believe accurate information, and will form safer guides than works of much greater pretension, and of many times the price. We give but one brief extract; premising, that though we question some of Mr. Robert Stevenson's facts, we by no means doubt his general truth. The land through which I passed was all good till I came near to the town of Goderich, where it gets gravelly. Goderich is on a high bank, overlooking the River Maitland and Lake Huron, and a very bonny place it is. I here met with Dr. Dunlop, and he asked me to come over and dine with him; he has a bonny house on the top of a bank overlooking one of the finest holms I ever saw, with the River Maitland winding through it. He is a man of most serious and devout manners, but not more so than becomes his station as a ruling elder of the Kirk. Indeed I am told he is a saint upon earth. We handled together divers spiritual matters; and, I am happy to say, he is to the full as orthodox as his brother the advocate, who makes such a rippet in the General Assembly, and who is a wellmeaning young man, but not overburdened with brains, I'm doubting. The doctor showed me a statement which was published by the Canada Company about two years ago, that astonished me much, as showing the rapid advancement of the Company's settlements here, and which were only commenced in the latter part of the year 1829, before which period this extensive tract had not even been explored; and yet, in the spring of 1840, their population exceeded six thousand, and the value of the improvements made upon their lands, and of the live stock which they had acquired, was £242,287; and of this large amount, it is worthy of deep attention, that— £90,486 was acquired by five hundred and fourteen families who had come into the settlement altogether destitute. £10,242 by sixty-one families, whose means were under £10. £40,526 by two hundred and fifty-four families, whose means were under £50. And, £100,850, 17s. 9d. was accumulated by parties whose means, though small, were over that amount, but still they were so very limited, that they would not have been equal to securing for themselves at home one-fiftieth part of the independence that they now enjoy, LITERARY REGISTER. What ample encouragement is here held out to the sacred books of religionists so numerous as are the Mahommedans of different nations, and so far advanced in civilisation, before the Chinese and Hindoos, as to rank next to the Christian world, must be a subject of great to the liberal inquirer, as well as to the theologian. These curiosity and interest; and one too of some importance selections, made by an author not alone familiar as a scholar with the faith of Mahomet, but with the character and usages of Mussulmans, is therefore a work that ciple on which Mr. Lane has selected, leads him to was required to supply a want generally felt. The princhoose what is the most worthy of admiration in the pretended revelations of the Prophet, and so to pass over the grossest of the absurdities of the Koran. Voyages Round the World, from the Death of Captain Cook to the present time. Pp. 448. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. Another work on the Cold-water Cure, and the bulkiest of them all. The author, a German, practised for twelve years at Graffenberg, and the neighbouring village of Freywaldau; and had the advantage of a previous regular medical education. We believe he was invited over to England to superintend the Hydropathic establishment at Stanshead, Bury House, Hertfordshire. As we conceive that we fully did our duty by the Coldwater Cure long ago, in making its principle and practice generally known, we need only say, that the present work is merely an expansion of the selected papers and treatises published by Captain Claridge; though Dr. Weiss is by no means so dogmatic as some of the amateur Hydropathists, whom he indeed condemns for ignorance and presumption. He expresses great doubts as to some of the marvellous and rapid cures effected by cold water; though placing full reliance upon the treatment in the great majority of diseases, if it is properly regulated. He has no faith, however, in pneumonia being cured in six, eight, or at most twenty-four hours; or in the like miracles of children being cured of scarlet fever, and walking about in their wet bandages on the third day. We think we have heard of them being abroad on the second day; but Priessnitz is not for this accused of dishonourable motives in countenancing such tales, though he is charged with total unacquaintance with scientific nomenclature, with, in fact, mistaking one disease for another, from ignorance of pathology. The treatise of Dr. Weiss will, we think, be useful to amateurs even more than to professional hydropathists; as it may temper their zeal with a little knowledge and dis-work is the multitude of its varied facts concerning so cretion. Experimental Researches, Chemical and Agricultural, showing Carbon to be a COMPOUND Body, made by Plants, and decomposed by Putrefaction. By Robert Rigg, F.R.S. 12mo. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. We do not pretend to give any opinion whatever upon these Experimental Researches: and we are well aware that, in the present excited state of the practical agriculturalists, they are likely to be thoroughly sifted and tested. But we think that the experimenter, in his Introduction, lays down true, and indeed the only true, principles of scientific investigation and experiment; which he attacks Professor Liebeg, whether justly or not, for disregarding. The volume is occupied solely by minute details of the experiments by which Mr. Rigg supports his theory. Selections from the Kur-an, commonly called in England Besides the particulars set forth in the above title, this work contains an essential preliminary in an Introduction taken from Sale's explanatory discourse. The CABINET LIBRARY; and concludes, we imagine, that the compiler has not sacrificed the clearness and com- paratively recent, Europe knew little or nothing. The many regions and tribes, of which, until a period comvolume is printed with the same neatness and care which distinguishes the previous divisions of The Edinburgh Cabinet Library, and will form a valuable addition to it. Picciola. volume, revised and abridged by a French gentleman. It This is an Edinburgh edition of Saintine's celebrated is intended to form at once a useful lesson-book to the young student of the French language; and a work which may instruct the mind, and exercise the reasoning faculties. Hints Towards the Formation of Character, with reference chiefly to the Social Duties. By a plain-spoken Englishwoman. 12mo, pp. 330. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. well-expressed brief Essays upon the most important We have here a series of sensible, well-reasoned, and of the pursuits and ends of life, and on the best kind of preparation for entering upon them. with the writings of the best authors upon that educaEnglishwoman has made herself thoroughly acquainted The plain-spoken tion which forms men and women for the duties of life, Her book is distinguished by rational and cheerful piety, and for the enjoyment of happiness here and hereafter. and by that tone of sober good sen se which is quite compatible with genuine refinement of mind and manners. |