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Picture History of England for the Young. By H. W.

Deleken, Ph.D. Illustrated with eighty engravings by the Brothers Dalziel from designs by A. W. Bayes. (Rontled,ge.)—The illustrations in this volume will attract children, and so lead them to take an interest in historical per- sonages. As far as the letter-press is concerned the author seems to have adopted a sound theory ; he has endeavoured to put in as much as possible all that should be learned, and to keep out of it anything that the reader would afterwards have to unlearn. Thus the bock consists

of a plain narrative, and slightly sensational illustrations which have no connection with historical portraits, but are iateuilated to take the 'limey of children.