The words "fourth edition" on the titlepage of an Historical
Epitome V the Old and New Testaments, and Part of the Apo- crypha, seem to show that the judicious selection, condensation, and marshalling of facts, and the pleasant manner of stating them, far outweigh with puichasers a mode of narrative hardly simple enough in our judgment ler Scriptural subjects. Perhaps the getting-up of the volume, with its numerous wood-cuts and its very neat maps, may also be tempting ; though the first, showing the "Primitive Settlements of the Descendants of Nuah," would have been better away. We thought the time had gone by for pretending to such minute accuracy in tracing the migrations of the children of Shem, Ham, and Japhet, as to lix upon the iden- tical countries they peopled. It is not impossible but that Tubal may have colonized the parts round the head of the Baltic, and Javan Britain and Portugal ; but the points are not sufficiently clear to be set down as geographical facts. This sort of thing should be left to Welsh pedigrees.
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