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produced, at a period the most eventful of our history. There are few 

 volumes of its size and cheapness so pregnant with sense, combined with 

 learning ; it is impossible to open it without finding some important fact or 

 discussion, something practically useful and applicable to the business of 

 life : and it may be said of it, as of that exquisite little manual lord Bacon's Es- 

 says, after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something 

 overlooked before. We should state that " The Book for the Million" 

 forms the second volume of " The Library of Elementary Knowledge," of 

 which series the Young Gentleman's and My Daughter's Books also form a 

 part. The public will assuredly evince their discernment by placing among 

 their favourite works this cheap and most agreeable production. 



Poems on Scriptural Subjects. By a Lady. Expressly dedicated 

 to the Young. Tisdale, 164, Strand. Third Edition, pp. 140. 



We are amongst those of our order who have, long since, joined the 

 " Movement party;" and have strenuously laboured to advance the pre- 

 tensions of woman, whether her religious, domestic, *or literary character. 

 We were almost the first, likewise, in the field, to present the world at 

 large, but especially the FEMALE WORLD with anotice, cordially recommend- 

 atory of " My Daughter's Book :" for sure we are, that charming volume 

 will have the effect of emboldening many a lovely creature to step forward 

 not only in vindication of her own cultivated and affectionate sex, but to res- 

 cue woman from the dishonourable and unmanly imputation flung upon her 

 by reckless and unthinking men men whose hearts are not in the right place 

 namely, that of inconsistency and crudeness or, in other words, a want of 

 intellectual capacity. It is enough, we think, for us to say, of this so 

 interesting volume of serious poetry that it has rapidly passed from a first to 

 a third Edition ; and that it abounds in beauties of no common kind. We 

 conceive the poem entitled "The Famine of Samaria," by far the most elegant 

 of the several compositions the work contains. We hope we have said enough 

 to ensure to the fair and accomplished authoress further success and additional 

 gratification. The Book is not well printed. 



Rowbotham's New Guide to Spanish and English Conversation. 

 Cloth boards. Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, pp. 172. 



Mr. Rowbotham is too well known as a linguist to require for his various 

 elementary works any recommendation of ours : but our attention has been 

 directed to his Guide to Spanish and English Conversation, particularly in 

 connection with the SPANISH EXPEDITION. Officers, who are about to pro- 

 ceed to Spain, and who are unacquainted with the language of that country, 

 will find Mr. Rowbotham's book an invaluable " Guide," and an agreeable 

 companion, as it will enable them to acquire sufficient knowledge for all the 

 ordinary purposes of intercourse, without drawing largely upon their time 

 and attention while the substance of the conversations introduced will fur- 

 nish abundance of materials for amusement. 



Natural Theology. By HENRY LORD BROUGHAM, F. R. S. &c. &c. 



Charles Knight. London, 1835. 



Enough has been said, on all sides, to demonstrate the excellence and utility 

 of this magnificent work. It is already in the hands of most persons of taste 

 and literature. The third edition will, we are quite sure, be succeeded by 

 the fourth and fifth : and still the demand will continue asatfirst to increase 

 rather than diminish. This is as it should be. 



