We have received the Seventh Volume of the Penny Cyelopredia,
and the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Parts of the Encyclopeo- dia Britannica. The volume of the Penny commences with "Charleston," and ends with "Copyhold ;" and, in the articles we have looked at, displays the labour, care, and painstaking exactness, which have distinguished the former numbers : but, considering, that A, B, C,is not completed at the close of the Seventh Volume, there are small hopes for the subscribers of seeing the end of their journey. Part of this arises from want of judgment, in wandering out of the record. Let the reader who would under- stand our meaning, turn to "Chronology," the subject of which lie will find introduced by a longish critical disquisition upon the narration of events in the order cf time,—very good, but very out of place when brevity and faith to subscribers are among the first things to be considered.
The parts of the Britannica are employed with M ; concluding " Mechanics ;" containing, inter alia, "Mechanics' Institutions," " Medals," and " Medical Jurisprudence," " Medicine," " Men- suration," and commencing " Metaphysics."
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