C7iambers's New Geographical Readers. (W. and R. Chambers, Limited.)—We have
no hesitation in saying that these are some of the very best school-books that have ever been produced. They are in seven volumes, apparently designed to suit the seven ages of boys in the seven standards of a public elementary school. Happy boys, who have these well-written, well-printed, well-illustrated books, instead of the miserable handbooks of our youth ! The series leads the youth on from the small to the great, from the concrete to the abstract. The first volume conceals its learning under a story, which the present writer has found by experiment to interest a boy of five when read to him, and a boy of eight reading it to himself. Perhaps the best testimony to the merits of these "Geographical Readers" is that the said boy of eight is so interested in them, that he is reading for his own amusement steadily through the series, and remembers what he has read.
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