HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASSES.
THIS may prove a useful, as it is certainly an entertaining compi- lation; but it is no history of either the middle or the working classes, though the earlier part of the bulky volume contains nu- merous facts respecting them both in early and in later times. The second and principal parts are devoted to discussions of political economy, in which all classes are concerned; the main object of which is certainly to guide the mind of the operatives into a rea- sonable channel with respect to their true interests. If there is any -chance of a book of this kind being extensively read, it can- not fail to be of service; but we apprehend that they alone who will read it stand in no need of its instruction. We would advise that its chapters should be separately circulated in numbers,— unless the odious stamp-laws in any way interfere ; which they would not, if the work were placed in the hands of a judicious number-distributor.
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