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ford, for Asia; with many others whose adventurous footsteps have of late so much enlarged the boundaries of geographical knowledge.

These emendations, suggested by the progress of Discovery, as well as much additional information and many valuable improvements, are now transferred to the present Maps; the whole of which have been revised with a deliberation, exactness, and closeness of collation, which, they trust, have rendered it a work on which the utmost reliance may be placed.

The Publishers, having thus briefly enumerated the grounds on which they rest the superior claims of the present edition, would also observe that, with all these additional improvements, it still preserves unimpaired the peculiar feature which has attracted so much favour to the work from the beginning, namely, that, as an accompaniment to the Geography, it can be used with the greatest advantage, since the name of every place, mountain, river, lake, bay, cape, &c. mentioned in the Geography, is to be found in the Atlas. Thus the labour both of the teacher and pupil is very much di. minished; while, as a consulting Atlas, it is equally well adapted for the Library or for general reference; care having been taken to give prominence to the most important and interesting names, and to exhibit them with such a degree of clearness and precision as, it is hoped, will still more amply justify the eulogium passed on the first edition, that on this Atlas" places can be traced with greater facility than on any other that has yet appeared."

The Publishers have only further to mention that, in acknowledgment of the preference bestowed on this Atlas, and in order still more to extend its already great circulation, they now offer it in its present improved state at such a reduced price as, compared with the former editions, will give it, they trust, an additional claim to public favour. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. We can very confidently recommend Mr Ewing's Atlas as by far the most elegant and accurate which we have seen on a similar scale. One decided advantage it possesses over all other Atlases now in use the advantage of having the boundaries of the European Territories accurately delineated.

EDINBURGH LITERARY JOURNAL.-This is a new edition of the best School Atlas with which we are acquainted. The Maps have been re-engraved by those clever artists, the Messrs Menzies of Edinburgh'; and, so far as we have had an opportunity of judging, both for external embellishment and internal accuracy, it will not be easy to surpass them.

GLASGOW FREE PRESS. The Maps which it contains are executed with great skill, neatness, and taste. Altogether, it must be an excellent appendage to the library of the private student as well as an important text-book for the use of schools.

DUBLIN LITERARY GAZETTE. This Atlas is well and clearly executed, and contains the discoveries of the most recent travellers, as Parry, Franklin, Hall, Humboldt, Head, Denham, Clapperton, and Burckhardt.

AMERICAN JOURNAL. As a companion to his Geography, Mr Ewing has published an Atlas, which, for elegance, accuracy, and distinctness, we do not hesitate to pronounce superior to any we have seen on a similar scale. This preference we do not give lightly. It is warranted by the experience of several respectable teachers on this side of the Atlantic, who have uniformly found that their pupils can trace places on the Atlas with greater facility than on most of those in common use which far exceed Mr Ewing's in price. Owing to their recent publication, too, both the Atlas and Geography possess the advantage of having the boundaries of the American, as well as of the European States, described and delineated according to the latest arrangements.

EDINBURGH LITERARY GAZETTE.-As school-books, the two works that stand at the head of the present article are entitled to a decided preference over all that have appeared on the same subject. They are by much the best that we have seen. In combination, they are well and wisely adapted to each other. Every place mentioned in the Geography is to be found in the Atlas; an advantage of the highest consequence both to the teacher and the scholar; as every one will readily acknowledge who has been obliged either to teach or to learn from the text-books commonly employed. • In short, all possible care seems to have been taken to render them, both in point of extent and accuracy of information as well as of external embellishment, superior to every similar production. Perhaps we ought also to add, that the Maps of the Atlas have been re-engraved; and that, from the peculiar easiness of reference, nothing could be better fitted for a consulting Atlas. It is with the utmost sincerity that we thus bear our testimony to the merit of these publications, and recommend them to our readers, either for the education of their children, or for a place on the tables of their library.

EDINBURGH EVENING POST.-In commendation of these two works it is almost unnecessary for us to say a word. The celebrity they have acquired, and the extensive sale which they have met with, are the best proofs of their merit. Nothing, in truth, could be better adapted to the objects they have in view. In particular, the clearness, distinctness, accuracy of information, and beauty of execution, render the Atlas peculiarly valuable for the purposes of education, and, even as a consulting Atlas, give it the superiority to many far more ponderous and expensive publications; while the improvements of the Geography, and the additions which it has received, bring it as near as possible to what a manual of science ought to be.

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A COMPENDIUM of MODERN GEOGRAPHY; with Remarks on the Physical Peculiarities, Productions, Commerce, and Government of the various Countries; Questions for Examination at the end of each Division; and Descriptive Tables, in which are given the Pronunciation, and a concise Account of every place of importance throughout the Globe. By the Rev. ALEX. STEWART, Author of a History of Scotland, Stories from the History of Scotland, Editor of improved Editions of Cornelius Nepos and Mair's Introduction. SECOND EDITION, thoroughly Revised and greatly Enlarged. Illustrated by Ten Maps, 18mo, price 3s. 6d. bound in red.

The general approbation with which this work has been received, has encouraged the Author and the Publishers to use every exertion to render this new edition still more deserving of preference.-The whole work has been revised with the most anxious attention; and it will be found to have received many essential improvements. A few inaccuracies, almost unavoidable in a first edition of a work so comprehensive and multifarious, have been corrected. All the latest and most approved works, connected with any part of the subject, have been consulted; important hints have been received from individuals who have travelled in different parts of the globe; the information derived from these sources has been carefully collated; and this edition is now offered to the Public in full confidence, that its accuracy, so far as accuracy on such subjects is attainable, cannot be challenged.-Nor will it be less recommended by the additional matter with which it is enriched than by its superior correctness. The Descriptive Tables, in particular, are now very complete-some of them having been enlarged to nearly double their former extent. In these Tables will be found the name of every place of importance throughout the globe; while the complete General Index at the end of the volume-a very important feature in the improvements of this edition-imparts to them the character and the utility of a Gazetteer. Population of every place in the United Kingdom is accurately given from the last Parliamentary Census; of places in foreign countries from the latest and best authorities. The utmost pains have been taken to ascertain the correct pronunciation of the names of places contained in the Tables; and in the preliminary remarks a Key to the Pronunciation is offered, which the reader, it is hoped, will find precise and intelligible. The Courses of the Rivers are described with minute accuracy; the Altitudes of the Mountains are stated, as ascertained by the latest surveys; the Maps have been attentively revised, and adjusted to the most recent Discoveries; and a New Map has been added, illustrative of the geographical features of the globe.-Among the accessions to this edition is a Table of Longitude, exhibiting the diminishing Parallels from the Equator to the Poles. The Problems to be performed on the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes have been attentively examined. In a word, it is believed that in arrangement, in accuracy, in condensation, and in extent of information. this compendium forms the most complete, as well as the cheapest, elementary work on Geography, of a similar size, that ever issued from the press.

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Extracts from Reviews of the First Edition of this Work. MONTHLY MAGAZINE.-This Compendium is the best and fullest we have seen. NEW BAPTIST MISCELLANY. It is but just also to add, that the intelligence which it furnishes is the most recent and novel; that it contains a larger portion of matter than is to be found in any werk of a similar size; and that the Maps with which it is accompanied are remarkably well executed.

LONDON WEEKLY REVIEW.-Written in a clear and simple style, it is well calculated to interest the youthful mind; and the materials that form the volume are selected with much care and judgment. It is not so dry or meagre as the smaller Geography of Goldsmith, and is fitter for beginners than the useful work of Guy.

SCOTSMAN. We have rarely time to notice school-books, but this one possesses various merits which are seldom found combined. It is cheap, neatly got up, well written, well arranged, and contains a great deal of matter within a small compass. Literary talent is never better employed than in preparing good elementary works like this for the instruction of the rising generation.

EDINBURGH WEEKLY CHRONICLE. This little volume really seems to us to possess in perfection every requisite of a School-geography. The information is accurate, and brought down to the latest period; and the Remarks, written in a neat and spirited style, enliven the dry details to which works on this scale are usually limited. The Exercises are well selected, and must be exceedingly convenient for the teacher. The Descriptive Tables comprise a great deal of useful information in a small compass; and the mode of showing the pronunciation of geographical names forms an exceedingly convenient appendage. We cannot conclude without noticing the external aspect of the work, which is perfectly beautiful; and this, by rendering the volume attractive in the eyes of youth, and combining distinctness with elegance, is a solid advantage.

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EDINBURGH OBSERVER.-Among the many elementary works of this description, which have fallen under our review, we do not remember to have seen one which more completely secured our approbation than the one before us. It not only embraces a greater quantity of information than we ever before saw compressed into so small a volume, but is arranged with great skill, and distinguished by features peculiarly its

own.

EDINBURGH EVENING POST.-Various, and almost innumerable, as treatises of this description are, we have seen no one that will bear to be compared with the present compilation.

GLASGOW FREE PRESS. It is, as a work on Geography, as much superior to Goldsmith's meagre outlines as can well be conceived; and to its able author, who must have devoted so much time to its compilation, is due the thanks of all who have a judicious system of education at heart.

SCOTS TIMES. Almost every page furnishes proofs of diversified research, while the lucid order observed in arranging the materials, with the simplicity and purity of the style, and the general accuracy of the information which this Compendium contains, place it immeasurably above most works of the kind. We have compared it with five contemporary manuals of Geography, and we have no hesitation in awarding to it the palm of excellence.

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MONTHLY REVIEW.-What an admirable elementary book-how elaborate, and yet how simple; how precisely exact, and still how abounding; how superfluously crowded, we had almost said, with details interesting as they are important.

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.-The work seems scarcely susceptible of further improvement in the same bulk.

ASIATIC JOURNAL.-We cannot speak in too favourable terms of the admirable arrangement of this work, which does infinite credit to Mr Stewart. We are inclined to think with the author, that in arrangement, in accuracy, in condensation, and in extent of information, this Compendium forms the most complete, as well as the cheapest elementary work on Geography, of a similar size, that ever issued from the press.

IMPERIAL MAGAZINE.-For the use of schools, it includes nearly all that can be either expected or desired; and even when the pupil has left the seminary, he may occasionally consult its pages, with much advantage, to refresh his memory. Many useful Maps are interspersed; and the author's Remarks at the conclusion of each article are pertinent and instructive. Utility is its distinguishing characteristic; but its elegant appearance cannot fail to command respect.

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.-The Rev. Alexander Stewart's Compendium of Modern Geography abounds with useful information, and is ingeniously arranged. LITERARY GAZETTE.-A Second Edition of an excellent class-book, carefully revised and improved.

ATHENAUM. We are glad to see a second edition of this excellent school-book, which contains as much accurate and valuable information as many volumes of twice its size and price. Indeed, in the latter respect, it is matched by few productions of the press, even in this age of cheap books. We would particularly recommend

to attention the Descriptive Tables appended to the general account of every country, which are drawn up with extraordinary neatness, and in such a manner as to compre hend really a wonderful quantity of information in a very small space. Upon the whole, the book well deserves the popularity it has acquired, and which we have no doubt this new impression will both maintain and extend.

EXAMINER. A more compact, carefully compiled, and useful volume has seldom fallen under our observation. It is illustrated by 10 Maps, excellently executed, considering their size; and, with its judicious Descriptive Tables, combines, in some measure, the advantages of a Gazetteer with a Geographical Grammar.

GLOBE AND TRAVELLER.-This is a very useful school-book, with several neatlyengraved Maps.

DUBLIN LITERARY GAZETTE. The book is illustrated by 10 Maps, and is a very cheap as well as excellent Compendium of Geography.

EDINBURGH LITERARY JOURNAL.-We have no hesitation in affirming, after subjecting it to the ordeal of a careful comparison with a variety of others, that the work before us is decidedly the most successful effort which has been hitherto made to impart geographical instruction to the youthful mind. The Introductory Remarks, we ought to add, are written with singular discrimination and judgment,-the style, at the same time, being remarkable for vigour, conciseness, and vivid beauty of portraiture; while the Descriptive Tables, for luminous compression, and a felicitous exhibition of the leading features of the place described, are models of their kind. In a word, we scruple not to say, with the fullest confidence and most perfect sincerity, that, in all those respects which can confer value on a work of the kind, the volume

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under consideration is the best and cheapest Compendium of Geography over published in Europe.

EDINBURGH LITERARY GAZETTE. Having examined the present edition of Mr Stewart's School Geography with no small degree of attention, we can, with the utmost confidence, affirm that it is at once the most valuable and cheap work, of the same size on the subject, ever offered to the British public. The remarks on each country are beautifully written, and the sentiments and information they contain given with great candour and accuracy; the Descriptive Tables at the end of each division, showing also the correct pronunciation of names, are invaluable, and introduced, we believe, for the first time into a work of this nature; while the most laborious research and deliberation must have been employed in collecting the varied and multifarious knowledge which they contain. A cursory glance over its pages will convince the reader of the truth of these observations; and the publishers must evidently have reckoned upon a very extensive circulation when they offer such a mass of interesting matter, in so elegant a form, at the extremely limited price attached to the volume. EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT.-Among the various publications which have entertainment and instruction in view, there are none more successful than the above work, which we may safely recommend to our readers, as giving, within a remarkably short compass, a general and comprehensive sketch of the state of geographical science, together with a view of the various countries of the globe, of their peculiar institutions, manners, and national character. Though last, not least, it combines with all these qualities the advantage of cheapness, which, in this age of book-making, is no slight

recommendation.

EDINBURGH EVENING POST.-Mr Stewart's Compendium of Geography is the best and cheapest system of the size that has come under our notice. In giving this opinion, we must add, that it was formed not after a slight and partial survey. We We have used it both in acquiring have examined it with great care and attention. and communicating a knowledge of the subject. And hence we think ourselves entitled to speak with some confidence on its merits.

GLASGOW CHRONICLE.-Such a book must be looked upon as well calculated both to invite, and, from its amount of information, to gratify a taste for a very important branch of liberal education.

GLASGOW COURIER. We should hope that it will, by and by, be used in every parish and parish-school in the country; for assuredly so much necessary information, properly arranged and pleasingly brought before us, we have seldom seen; and there are works on Geography, thrice the bulk, which have not half the ability.

GLASGOW FREE PRESS. A simpler and more accurate system of Geography it would be difficult to find, and, while it omits nothing essential to a right understanding of the subject, its details are so brief and explicit as to preclude the danger of fatiguing the learner. From the increased and still increasing importance of Geography as a branch of liberal education, and from the intrinsic excellence of the present treatise itself, there cannot be a doubt that it will, as it deserves, very soon become one of our most popular books upon the subject.

PERTHSHIRE COURIER.—*

It is the most excellent and cheap publication on the subject which has ever come under our notice, and cannot fail to be speedily in general use.

INVERNESS COURIER. It would be difficult to find a publication of such modest pretensions, containing so much information of indispensable utility and importance.

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A CATECHISM of GEOGRAPHY; comprising all the Leading Features of that important Science, and including the most recent Discoveries. With a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Geographical Terms. trated by Seven Maps. THIRD EDITION, thoroughly Revised and considerably Enlarged. By HUGH MURRAY, Esq., F.R.S.E., &c. 18mo, price 9d.

Though chiefly designed as a manual for the young student, and as an introduction to more elaborate treatises, this little work will, it is believed, be found of value to those even of more mature years the information it comprises being brought down to the present day. This new edition contains many improvements, both as to matter and arrangement: and care has been especially taken to give a popular and inviting character to its details. The publishers beg leave also to observe, that the Catechism, in its present shape, will not only be found useful in Schools, but may be adopted with much advantage under the family roof, as a means of ascertaining the progress of the pupil engaged elsewhere in a course of geographical study.

EDINBURGH EVENING POST.-It gives us pleasure to bestow on this little work our unqualified approbation. The neatness with which it is got up,-the variety of information which it comprises,-and the low price at which it is sold,-give it strong claims to the patronage of the public, and to an extensive circulation. The character

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of the present editor,-a gentleman thoroughly conversant with geographical science, is a sufficient guarantee for its correctness; and, when it is considered that it con. tains three sheets of letter-press, with seven Maps, for the small sum of Ninepence, we are sure that we need not say another word in its favour. Yet, we cannot help adding, that all the recent discoveries have been introduced, and that the leading facts of the science are exhibited in a simple and familiar manner.

GLASGOW FREE PRESS. Neatness and simplicity pervade the whole; every sentence conveys a knowledge of some important fact; and all the great and leading truths of Geography are clearly and accurately unfolded. As an initiatory book,

to either old or young, we consider it entitled to our warmest recommendation. Indeed, it is rare to find so much useful knowledge comprehended within so narrow a compass and it is seldom that books, so unassuming in their character, are written in so plain, so pure, and so appropriate a style.

A CATECHISM on the WORKS of CREATION; intended to assist Parents, or Tutors, in conveying to the Youthful Mind a General Knowledge of the Objects of Nature, with suitable Reflections. Illustrated by Seven Engravings. By PETER SMITH, A.M. SECOND EDITION, Revised and greatly Enlarged. 18mo, price 9d.

GLASGOW FREE PRESS.-The perusal of this little work, even by grown-up readers, is like listening to, and joining in the instructive conversation of a family The illustrations are numerous and excellent, even without reference to the exceeding cheapness of the book.

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BAPTIST MAGAZINE.-An interesting and cheap little volume, written for the same juvenile classes with the preceding, and we believe in serie with others of a similar description on the History of England, Scotland, &c. Considering the diminu tiveness of its size, it is very comprehensive in its range of subjects, and, so far as we can discover, correct both in its science and theology.

EDINBURGH THEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE.-These are two very respectable attempts at simplifying instruction on some of the most interesting branches of useful knowledge. Mr Smith's Catechism takes in no small portion of the circle of the sciences,-Geology and Geography, Zoology and Astronomy, the manifestations of the Creator in his works, and the condition, and duty, and prospects of man. These, and other kindred topics, are discussed in the way of question and answer, within the limits of a Ninepenny Catechism. It is, therefore, a very cursory view of things that the author can have it in his power to communicate; yet, we must say, that, for conveying to the youthful mind a general knowledge of the objects of nature, we do not at present recollect any thing of the same size that we would consider better adapted. The other Catechism is confined to Geography, and appears to be complete of its kind. It has been carefully revised by Mr Murray, whose name is a sufficient guarantee for the accuracy of the information it contains.

EDINBURGH LITERARY JOURNAL.-These are exceedingly nice little books, and cannot fail to be found most useful auxiliaries to parents and tutors, in conveying to the youthful mind a general knowledge of a variety of subjects. We are glad to understand that it is the intention of Messrs Oliver and Boyd to publish a Series of these Catechisms on the various branches of Science, Literature, and Art. The respectability of the gentlemen whom they have engaged to act as editors is a sufficient guarantee that they will be well executed.

EDINBURGH LITERARY GAZETTE.-The former is a work of great merit, and excellently fitted for initiating pupils into the first principles of the science. It exhibits all the leading facts in a simple and familiar manner, and cannot be too highly recommended, either to teachers as an auxiliary in catechising their scholars, or to parents who delight in superintending the studies of their children. In the

author of the Catechism on the Works of Creation we are glad to meet an old friend so meritoriously employed.** He has presented us with an immense mass of information on every topic connected with the Works of Creation, clearly arranged, and made so intelligible as to be level to the capacities of all the reading classes of society.

SPIRIT AND MANNERS OF THE AGE. Two exceedingly useful publications, compiled for the purpose of rendering information easy of access, by men who, with high talents, are satisfied to appear in the humblest garb for the benefit of such as cannot easily procure introduction to loftier or more pretending personages. We have read them with pleasure, and, we are not ashamed to confess, with much profit; our readers may do the same,-and what, in this age of necessary economy, is of some importance, procure them for Ninepence each.

ATHENEUM. Two excellent little books for children. We venture to predict that they must soon find their way, generally, into nurseries and our national schools, where they may be made the vehicles of much useful instruction both to the children of the rich and poor.