Educational Works. 



OPINIONS OF DR MACKAY'S GEOGRAPHICAL SERIES. 



Annual Address of the President of tlie Royal GeoffrapMcal Society. 



— We must admire the ability and iiersevering research with which he has 

 succeeded in imparting to liis 'Manual' so much freshness and originality. 

 In no respect is this character more apparent than in the plan of arrangement, 

 hy which the author commences his description of the physical geograpliy of 

 each tract by a sketch of its true basis or geological structiu-e. It is, indeed, 

 a most usefid school-book in opening out geographical knowledge. 



Saturday Review.— It contains a prodigious array of geographical facts, 



and will be found useful for reference. 



English Journal of Education.— Of all the Manuals on Geography that 

 have come under our notice, we place the one whose title is given above in the 

 first rank. For fulness of information, for knowledge of method in arrange- 

 ment, for the manner in which the details are handled, we know of no work 

 that can, in these respects, compete with Mr Mackay's Manual. 



A. KEITH JOHNSTON, LL.D., F.R.S.E., E.R.G.S., H.M. Geographer 

 for Scotland, Author of the 'Royal Atlas,' &c., &c.— There is no work 

 of tlie kind in this or any other language, known to me, which comes so near 

 my idml of perfection in a school-book, on the important subject of which it 

 treats. In arrangement, style, selection of matter, clearness, and thorough 

 accuracy of statement, it is without a rival ; and knowing, as I do, the vast 

 amount of labour and research you bestowed on its production, I trust it will 

 be so appreciated as to insure, by an e.\tensivs sale, a well-merited reward. 



G. BICKERTON, Esci., Edinburgh Institution.— I have been led to form 

 a very high opinion of Mackay's ' Manual of Geography ' and ' Elements of Geo- 

 graphy,' partly from a careful examination of them, and partly from my expe- 

 rience of the latter as a text-book in the Edinburgh Institution. One of 

 their most valuable features is the elaborate Table of River-Basins and Towns, 

 wliich is given in addition to the ordinary Province or County list, so that a 

 good idea may be obtained by the pui)il of the natural as well as the political 

 relationship of the towns in each country. On all matters connected witli 

 Physical Geography, Ethnography, Government, &c. ,the information is full, 

 accurate, and well digested. They are books that can be strongly recommended 

 to the student of geography. 



RICHAKD D. GPxAHAM, English Master, College for Daughters of 

 Ministers of the Church of Scotland and of Professors in the Scottish 

 Universities.— No work with winch I am acquainted so amply fulfils the con- 

 ditions of a perfect text-book on the important subject of which it treats, as Dr 

 Mackaj''s ' Elements of Modern Geography.' In fulness and accuracy of de- 

 tails, in the scientific grouping of facts, combined with clearness and simplicity 

 of statement, it stands alone, and leaves almost nothing to be desired in the 

 way of improvement. Eminently fitted, by reason of tliis exceptional variety 

 and thoroughness, to meet all the requirements of higher education, it is never 

 without a living interest, which adapts it to the intelligence of ordinary pupils. 

 It is not the least of its merits that its information is abreast of all the latest 

 developments in geographical science, accurately exhibiting both the rec^ent 

 political and territorial changes in Europe, and the many important results of 

 modem travel and research. 



Spectator.— The best Geography we have ever met with. 



