HEVIEWS— GEOGRAPHY OF BRITISH AMERICA. ij 



a detailed account of the Observatory at St. Martin's, erected 

 and maintained by our esteemed contributor, Br. Smallwood, of whom 

 Canada may be proud, and to whose zeal and services a graceful 

 recognition is here awarded. The translation of Muller's " Seport 

 on recent progress in Physics," commenced in the last report, is here 

 continued by a diflerent hand and, we are glad to say, executed in a 

 much better style ; the paper itself is a mcst valuable one, and th© 

 Eegents have done well in selecting it for publication. On the whole 

 the present volume vail not be found less vahiable than the best of 

 its predecessors, and we trust it may be followed by many Avhich will 

 rival it in usefulness. 



J. B. C. 



The Geography and History of British America, and of tlie otlier 

 Colonies of tlte Mmpire ; io tohich is added a sketch of tlie variotis 

 Indian trihes of Canada^ and hrief hiogra^jhical notices of eminent 

 persons connected tvith the history of Canada. By J. George 

 Hodgins. ■TOTonto: Maclear & Co., 1857- 



We welcome, with sincere satisfaction, this useful little product of 

 the Canadian Educational Press, as an attempt — and in most respects 

 a very successful one — to supply a grave defect in the materiel for 

 juvenile school training, "We have already* commented on the highly 

 objectionable character of some of the most popular American 

 Geographies and Plistorical Manuals as British or Canadian School 

 Boohs. We have no desire that the rising generation should be 

 taught, in American fashion, to decry every other nation, and esteem 

 themselves the greatest, wisest, mightiest, and moss superlatively 

 progressive people that the universe can boast of. K'evertheless we 

 do think it becomes us as members of the British Empire to know s 

 little of its Geography and History • and as Canadians to acquire our 

 information from some less partial source than " IMorse's Geography," 

 and the like products of the American press, which still hold their 

 place in so many of our schools, and devote more space to setting 

 forth the glories of some single States of the Union than they can 

 spare for all Britain and the Csnadas together. 



Mr. Hodgins' Colonial History and Geography will meet, at once^ 



* Ante Vol. I., page 465« 



