596 Smith's Chairmmi^s Guide. 



Lessons, appropriately designated, and characterised by many 

 new and important features, &c. 18mo. Wisbeach, 1835. 



A very useful little book, particularly well adapted for that 

 very numerous class of persons, who have good ideas, and abun- 

 dance of valuable knowledge, but who are unable to communicate 

 what they know to the world, from the want of power to express 

 themselves clearly. The rules for using a or an will be found 

 very useful to many English gardeners ; and those for placing the 

 proper prepositions after each different verb, to many Scotch 

 ones. The book is also short, portable, and, we have no doubt, 

 cheap. 



Smithy Thomas, author of " Lessons on Arithmetic," &c. : Evo- 

 lution ; or, the Power and Operation of Numbers in the 

 Statement, the Calculation, the Distribution, and the Arrange- 

 ment of Quantities, Linear, Superficial, and Solid. Svo. 

 London, 1835. 



In our seventh Volume we strongly recommended the Lessons 

 on Arithmetic of this author ; and we may now, with equal safety, 

 say that we consider the present a most agreeable philosophical 

 treatise on a dry subject. The author's objects are, to strengthen 

 and improve the mind, and to teach reasoning without the irk- 

 someness of dry and repulsive rules. The book, he says, " will 

 also prove to be a short and easy introduction to mensuration, 

 surveying, and gauging." 



Smithy Thomas, author of '' Evolution," " Lessons on Arith- 

 metic," &c. : The Chairman and Speaker's Guide ; being an 

 Essay towards a brief Digest of the Rules required for the 

 orderly Conduct of a Debate. To which is prefixed an Essay 

 on Public Meetings, Manner of Proceeding with Regard to 

 them, &c. 18mo. London, 1835. 



At first sight, this may seem a very unsuitable work to recom- 

 mend to gardeners. We know, however, that some gardeners' 

 societies about London, which have been founded by young men 

 for the most laudable purposes, have failed entirely from the 

 ignorance of their leaders as to the proper mode of conducting 

 public business. In this point of view, therefore, the little work 

 before us may be of use even to the young gardener, who forms 

 one of a society for mutual instruction. To master gardeners, 

 and to nurserymen, who officiate at public meetings of horti- 

 cultural societies, it will be of still greater use ; and it will also 

 be of service politically. Every Briton ought to know how to 

 conduct a public meeting ; for to meet in public, so as to express 

 his opinion openly, is one of his most glorious privileges, and 

 one not possessed by any other nation in the world, except 

 North America. 



