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A History of England. By E. T. Webb, B.A. (A

11 ma n and Son.)—We can recommend this book for schools. It is very com- prehensive, extending from the Stone Age to the Jubilee ; but so far as it can be sampled, it appears, on the whole, to be both accurate and sound. One may complain that the author writes about the Reformation as if there were no friars or canons ejected as well as monks : that, a yrropos of James II. and the Seven Bishops, he quotes "And shall Trelawney die P " as if it had really been written at the time ; while he misrepresents the French Revolution leaders as intending, in the first instance, to spread their doctrines by force of arms, when they only took up arms, in the first instance, to prevent the forcible suppression of the Revolution by. invading armies.