The Way the World went Then. By Isabella Barclay. (Edward
Stanford.)—Miss Helen Blackburn and Miss Palliser have edited this charming "story of the world," for its writer is dead, and so is the child for whom it was put together. It is an attempt to show the young how the world was built up, and how the thoughts of man were widened through the very unknown days of old. We do not know of any other book on quite the same subject ; it might be made to interest most children, and others will seize it for themselves, just as their predecessors did the "Madam How and Lady Why" of thirty years ago. It is indeed much on the same lines,—spiritualised science, rationalised re- ligion; for if these be ever possible, they are naturally brought into play when a mind that thinks wants a child to learn to look at the Universe as searchingly and as reverently as may be. The work is very pleasantly done.
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