396 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



The Family Library. No. LIII., containing the Life and Times of 

 General Washington. By CYRUS R. EDMONDS, in two Volumes. 

 Vol. I. London, Thomas Tegg and Son. 1835, pp. 365. 



EVERY book published by Mr. Tegg has proved (with very few exceptions) 

 not only meritorious, but utilitarian. It must be confessed, also, that by 

 means of such useful publications as the one before us, mankind must go on 

 to improve in the historical and intellectual as well as the moral and social 

 qualities. 



The life of the American patriot and statesman, Washington, will, we 

 think, prove a desideratum. It has evidently been drawn up with great care, 

 and undeviating 'strictness, both as it respects facts and data. We have no 

 room for extracts, nor do we think the work requires any. It will soon 

 become popular, and estimated according to its merits, which we incline to 

 think well of. It will be at once seen that General Washington's Life and 

 Times will furnish also an outline of the history of America. 



The Parent's Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction. Smith, Elder, 

 and Co., London. 1835. 



THIS is a neat and well-appointed little book, well calculated to amuse and 

 instruct boys and girls. We have literally read several of the short histories 

 which it contains, and have no hesitation in saying that they are not only 

 well- written, but amusing and instructive. The Visit to Manchester, together 

 with the brief memoir of Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and last king of 

 Rome, are among the best. 



The Cabinet Cyclopedia. By Dr. LARDNER, &c. &c. History. 

 Vol. II. Longman and Co., London, pp. 341. 



EVERY succeeding part of this popular and successful series demonstrates the 

 utility of the whole, and proves the efficiency of the talents that have been 

 brought within a comparatively narrow compass, for the express purpose of 

 giving to the Literary and Scientific a " comprehensive library" so inexpen- 

 sive, yet so admirably suited to the wants and tastes of the nineteenth century, 

 that we imagine few persons of condition will be found to be without the 

 Cabinet Cyclopedia. Dr. Lardner's name is a tower of strength ; and the 

 publishers, Messrs. Longman and Co., afford us a further assurance that 

 the work will be finished as it was begun respectably, and without any 

 abatement of style or merit. There is something in that. 



The present part, or volume, consisting of a treatise on the arts, manufac- 

 tures, manners, and institutions of the Greeks and Romans, will prove highly 

 interesting. Both the scholar and the philosopher will, we feel assured, 

 prize the contents of this new issue of Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia very 

 highly. 



A Treatise on the Causes and Cure of Stuttering, with reference to 

 certain Modern Theories. By JAMES WRIGHT, Esq., late of 

 Magdalen Hall, Oxford, &c. &c. London : Whittaker and Co. 

 1835. 



THIS Essay will be read with considerable interest. Mr. Wright has given 



us not only an explanatory, but a long, able, and interesting treatise. We 



cannot refrain from quoting the following, at page 17. 



" I am strongly inclined to believe, that if due consideration be given to the 



true, philosophical nature of mutes, and to the effects of those actions of the 



