24 APRIL 1875, Page 24

Cassell's Illustrated History of England. Vol. IX. (Cassell and Co.)

—To review a history of England which includes the period "from the death of the Prince Consort to the Geneva Convention" would be to enter upon an almost unlimited number of discussions, both about matters of fact and about matters of opinion. We may say that we think the book useful. We often know more about and indeed have much better means of knowing about remote times than about our. own. The files of newspapers bury history more effectually than do anything else, though they doubtless preserve the materials which they conceaL Further, the narrative is written well, and with fairness, and the en- gravings are numerous, and though somewhat rough in execution, not without vigour.