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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 every department 

 of the works of the infinite Creator. 



20. Astronomy for Schools ; upon the basis of M. Arago''s Lectures 

 at the Royal Observatory of Paris, and in which the leading trutlis of 

 that science axe clearly illustrated without Mathematical Demonstra- 

 tions ; with numerous engravings and an appendix ; by R. W. Ras- 

 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 tliat 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 has been performed. How far it is 

 possible to obtain a full understanding of asti'onomical truths without 

 the aid of mathematical demonstrations, we are not prepared to say \ 

 that a very useful and interesting treatise may be thus composed, is 

 sufficiently proved by the character of the present volume. The au- 

 thorities used in composing this abstract, are ample and of the greatest 

 weight ; and the use made of them is quite as extensive as the limits 

 of the undertaking will allow. 



21. Pantology, or a Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge; pro- 

 posing a classification of all its branches and illustrating their history, 

 relations, uses, and objects ; ivith a Synopsis of their leading facts and 

 principles ; and a select catalogue of books on all subjects suitable for a 

 cabinet Library ; the whole designed as a guide to study for advanced 

 students, in colleges, academies, and schools ; and as a popular directory 

 in literature, science and the arts. By Roswell Park, A. M., Prof. 

 Nat. Philos. and Chem. in the Univ. of Penn. Philadelphia, Hogan & 

 Thompson, 1841. pp. 587, 8vo. 



It is far from our purpose to enter on any analysis of the present 

 work, albeit it covers with its ample title the field of human knowledge to 

 the illustration of many important parts of which our pages are devoted. 

 We cannot better set forth the author's classification than by transferring 

 to our pages the order of growth of his tree of knowledge, which forms the 

 frontispiece of the work. This plant is represented as springing from the 

 soil of NooLOGY and Cosmology ; its trunk divides into two principal 

 stems, Physiconomy the left, and Psychonomy the right ; from the latter 

 proceed various branches — Glossology, which ramifies into General 

 Grammar, Oriental Languages, European Languages, Barbarous Lan- 



