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pleasing and attractive style, and not only comprehends an interesting 
notice of such leading events in the history of the Province as are to 
be found in the various bulky volumes already written on the subject ; 
but our examination satisfies us that the author has gone for his 
materials to the original sources; and his facts and dates are not only 
well arranged and placed in an attractive form for reference, but he 
has also corrected errors which have been repeated by one writer after 
another, in volumes of much greater pretension. Mr. Boyd’s his- 
torical sketch has been prepared. expressly for the use of schools, and 
for the instruction of our Canadian youth in the history of their 
country. For this it is admirably fitted. The only regret which the 
teacher must feel is, that after guiding his pupil through so excellent 
a summary of the History of Canada, he must be at a loss where to 
direct him for the larger and more comprehensive History to which 
such a volume should be the fitting introduction. We should be glad 
to learn that the same pen which has been so well employed on this 
little summary, was engaged on a full critical survey of the teresting 
story of Canadian discovery, settlement, and progress, through all the 
interesting events of its three historic centuries. D. W. 
Paleontology, or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and 
their Geological Relations. By Richard Owen, F.R.S. Edinburgh: 
Adam and Charles Black, 1859. 
It is somewhat singular, that, whilst few studies in England can 
compete with Paleontology in popularity, the English language 
should be still without a really comprehensive treatise on the subject, 
properly adapted to the student’s wants. We possess, it is true, 
many isolated monographs of the highest authority on special 
departments of the science, quite equalling, in this respect, the 
palzeontological literature of any country ; and we have also sundry 
popular works of general treatment; but we possess nothing, for 
example, of the systematic and comprehensive character of the 
Letheea geognostica of Bronn, or the Traité de Paléontologie of 
Professor Pictet. For a work of this description we must still wait ; 
but, in the meantime, the student may welcome, with much satisfac- 
tion, the reproduction in a convenient form of Professor Owen’s article 
on Palzontology, published in the late edition of the Lnclycopedia 
Britannica. This, with a few modifications, has been reprinted in the 
