MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 5G3 



Butler's Atlas of Modern Geography. Coloured Plates, &c. 

 Longman & Co. 



IT would be useless to apply any additional praise to this work, so well known 

 and so universally adopted by academecians. The present new and revised edi- 

 tion, like the one we have no'iced above, exhibits a fine specimen of the arts 

 connected with the work, *uch as mapping, map- engraving, colouring, &c., &c. 

 Dr. Butler's Atlases have no competitors; there have been some p0or, and, in- 

 deed, contemptible imitations of the<n thrust upon the public, but without the 

 desired success of their parents. 



A Sketch of Modern and Ancient History, for the use of Schools. By 

 SAMUEL BUTLER, D.D. F.R.S. c. 12th Edition. Longman & Co. 

 pp. 364, demy 8vo. 



THIS is an enlarged and handsome edition of a work, already so reputable, that 



it would be mere idleness to do more than give publicity to the fact. Spotiswood 



was the printer. This is a very handsome book. 



The Popular Cyclopedia, being an Original Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, 

 and Literature, Biography, History, and Political Economy, &c. &c. 

 with Dissertations on the Rise and Progress of Literature, by Sir 

 D. F. SANDFORD, D.C.L. & M.P. ; on the Progress of Science, by 

 THOMAS THOMPSON, M.D., F.R.S. , &c. Vol. 3. Glasgow: 

 Blackie & Son, G.R.S., H.U., N.S. 



THIS valuable utilitarian and inexpensive work proceeds with all possible 

 celerity, and, we are glad to learn, abundant success. The influential, name 

 of Sir D. F. Sandford and Professor Thompson are, it will be allowed, a host in 

 themselves, and cannot fail to attain the support of the literary and scientific. 

 " THE POPULAR CYCLOPEDIA," when finished, will form the most complete 

 library for the middle classes ever yet published. We therefore feel deeply 

 interested in its success. 



Mahmoud, in 3 vols. Edward Churton, Public Library, Holies Street. 



MR. CHURTON is certainly a most enterprising publisher. We have perused 

 with infinite pleasure, another " smart novel" which has just issued from the 

 teeming press. The author's name is not set down in the title-page. Is the ab- 

 sence of it an indication of modesty or a proof of confidence ? No, Churton's 

 lips are sealed. " Silence" becomes the religion of bookselling, when the author 

 of a promising work, such as we verily take Mahmoud" to be, happens to be in 

 nubibus. Well : it is no use to ask Churton any thing concerning the author 

 let that pass. It must be recollected too, that Mr. Churton has become exceed- 

 ingly aristocratic of late, and has been elected a member of the conservative pub- 

 lishers. There is something in that, as they proceed. But what of Mahmoud ? 

 A great deal in few words. It is a very sensible and well-written work ; full of 

 spirit, and containing a narrative or combination of curious and deeply interesting 

 facts, which cannot fail to amuse in the highest degree. In short, the events de- 

 tailed in these volrmes, so far from being improbable, constitute the every-day 

 pictures of eastern life. From beginning to end of the work the style is pre- 

 served ; it is after this manner: 



u Stamboul gave me birth; Stamati Morozi, a Greek merchant, was my sire, 

 and Constantine the name by which I was known in early life my apostacy 

 gave me the title which I carried to my grave." 



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