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our author has chosen are, all of them, deeply interesting. The story of 

 Justin is treated in a skilful manner, and will not, we think, be deemed voiceless 

 or songless, 



" But musical as is Apollo's lute." 



Let us take his lines addressed to England, however, at page 38, as a 

 specimen of the whole : 



ENGLAND. 



" Peace, Freedom, Happiness, have loved to wait 



On the fair islands, fenced by circling seas, 



And ever of such favoured spots as these 



Have the wise dreamers dreamed, that would create 



That perfect model of a happy state, 



Which the world never saw. Oceana, 



Utopia such, and Plato's isle that lay 



Westward of Gades, and the Great Sea's gate. 



Dreams are they all, which yet have helped to make 



That underneath fair polities we dwell, 



Though marred in part by envy, faction, hate, 



Dreams, which are dear, dear England for thy sake, 



Who art indeed that sea-girt citadel, 



And nearest image of that perfect state." 



There are other short poems of equal beauty and interest, to which, how- 

 ever, we can only refer the reader. The volume is well got up ; and Mr. Moxon's 

 name adds to its respectability. 



The Natural History of Man. London, William Darton & Son, 

 Holborn Hill, pp.288 duodecimo, half- bound and lettered. 



A VERY interesting and clever book. In short, it needs, as has been well 

 observed, but little reflection in order to be convinced not only of the utility, 

 but of the importance, of a work which shall place the knowledge of our own 

 species on a level with that which we possess of most other living beings. 

 This knowledge is only to be acquired with the same attention, and on the 

 same plan of reasoned analysis and classification, which has been employed 

 on other divisions of Natural History. Man's higher place in the scale of 

 creation ought surely to be a sufficient incitement to us to pursue such an 

 investigation as is contained in this charming publication. 



The volume is neatly printed, and the wood-engravings tolerably well 

 done ; but the work has been issued without the date of the year. The map 

 which accompanies it, showing the boundaries of the five varieties of the 

 human race, is, we think, unworthy of the Publisher. 



The Geographical and Biographical Compendium, containing 

 Concise Memoirs of Illustrious Persons ; a Gazetteer of Re- 

 markable Places ; and forming not only a useful Class-book for 

 Juvenile Students, but a Key to the Author's Geographical 

 Questions and Exercises. By RICHARD CHAMBERS, F. L. S. 

 Sherwood and Co. 183.5. 



A VERY useful compilation, and one, we suspect, which must find its way into 

 the library and the counting-house, as well as the schools, in a very short 

 time. As a book of reference, we have not one superior or equal to it. 



