to place it side by side with astronomy, the only physical science which 
excels it in grandeur—and to prove that only dark and. limited views 
can ever make us fear the development of truth in —e ASR 
of the works of the infinite Creator. 
20. Astronomy for Schools ; upon the basis of M. dines 's y os 
at the Royal Observatory of Paris, and in which the leading truths of 
t science are clearly illustrated without Mathematical. Demonstra- 
tions ; ; with numerous engravings and an appendix; by R. W. Has- 
kins, A. M. New York, 1841. pp. 324, 12mo. 
_Mr. Haskins has been for some time favorably known to the readers 
of this Journal by various papers which have appeared under his sig- 
nature on his favorite science. The object of the present work is fully 
explained in the above copious title, and we may say that the mode in 
which the subject is treated is well calculated to secure the end in view, 
The well known. patient accuracy of the author is a sufficient warrant 
for the fidelity with which the task ue been. performed, How far it is 
possible to obtain a fall un 
the aid of matical demons . 
that a very useful and. inte nay be thus composed, 
sufliciently proved by the pon of. the present volume. . The au- 
used in composing this abstract, are ample and of the greatest 
weight; and 1 the use made of Ahesn 48. quite, es anemere ae the limits 
mete soe tal : 
relations, uses, and saat with a pear he congo? leading nape 
S as talogwe hee hee 
le de 
| oe enter on any “ae ‘of the present 
work, Pando ees With its ample ‘title the field of human Knowle € to 
ie Matton of many important parts of which our pages ‘are “devoted. 
We cann ot better set forth the author’s classification than by transferring 
to ot T pages the order of growth of his tree of knowledge, which forms the 
frontispiece of the work. This plant is represented as 
soil of Nooxdey and Cosmoxoey ; its trunk divic aah ring 
Stem the left, and PsycHoNOMY the 3; from tter 
Ply be aan ,e8—Grossoroer, which ramifies into Gener! 
