The Book ,ihr the Million forms the Third Volume of
the " Library of Elementary Knowledee." It contains an English Grammar, a condensed view of Geography, and an abridgment of the History of England, with useful information on several points, and a selection of" varieties" for occasional reading. The Gram- mar is clear and succinct. The Geography is a good skeleton of the subject, but of course only usefully available with the assistance of maps. The abridgment is rather an extension of a chronologi- cal table, than an histmical pr6eis, but it is cleverly done. The miscellaneous parts are various, amusing, and not too long, though apparently selected without any leading object. Had the editor contented himself with yerfortning his duty, he would have dune well : but he has dashed his work by a frequent obtrusion upon the reader of conceit and self-sufficiency.
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