A History of England. By C. H. Simpkinson, M.A. Part
I. (Wake and Dean.) —Mr. Simpkinson has followed the excel- lent plan of choosing important events in the history of our country, and describing these with as much detail as space permits, and passing over with the briefest mention or indeed entirely, the intervening periods. The plan, it is true, depends for its success in some degree on the intelligence of the teacher who has to make these pictures form part of an ordered whole. This is not an easy task, nor one to be done in a hurry. But it is a great thing to get into a child's mind some conceptions of real things and persons. There are many proofs in the book that Mr. Simpkinson has studied his subject carefully, and writes out of a full knowledge. And he has certainly a gift of picturesque description.
We have received Thorn's Official Directory for 1898 (Alex. Thom and Co. 21s.) The Directory has for its speciality information about Irish affairs, while it supplies the information usually to be found in such volumes about the United Kingdom in general. If we may make a suggestion—Messrs. Thom invite suggestions —it would be that two or three pages should be given to a list of golf-links in Ireland. Nothing would do more to attract English visitors, and with them English money.—The Book of the Year 1897, compiled by Edmund Routledge (George Rout- ledge and Sons), gives in chronological order (supplemented by a subject-index) the principal events of the year, political, social, literary, artistic, Icc.
We heartily welcome the volume for 1897 of the Journal of Education (86 Fleet Street), which continues to be a source of "light and leading" in educational politics, literature, We have also received the yearly volumes of Knowledge : an Illus- trated Magazine of Science, Literature, and Art (326 High Holborn) ; Home Words, conducted by Rev. Charles Bullock (7 Paternoster Square) ; Hand and Heart : a Family, Social, and Temperance Magazine, edited by H. Somerset Bullock, M.A. (same publishing office); Sunday Work Annual, Vol. XXVI., edited by Rev. Charles Bullock (same publishing office); and The Fire Side (same editor and publishing office)
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