Claldren's Stories in American History. By Henrietta Christian Wright. (Bickers
and Son.)—These stories open up, as far as we are aware, a new field for the quite young English children, for whom they are specially written. The style, language, and sentiments are very .well suited to juvenile readers, and the twelve illustrations will add to the interest which, we have no doubt, the young folks will take in the very varied entertainment which the authoress has so successfully provided for them. Beginning with Ancient America, the Mound Builders, and the Red Men, they will be conducted in twenty-five chapters, comprising three hundred and fifty pages, successively through the most important discoveries of the great continents, while they make the acquaintance of the discoverers themselves, Cortez, Pizarro, famous Indian Chiefs, and the Indian Princess, Pocahontas. They are thus taken on to the Pilgrim Fathers and other settlements, and are told the sad story of Acadia, the book concluding with a few pages on the Revolution, and the separat:on from the Mother-conntry. It is a nicely got-up volume altogether, and printed in a large clear'type.
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