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Ingenious novelties are always attractive, and an educational news-sheet which has just been sent me is both ingenious and novel. It is dated 1815, and consists of what purport to be contemporary descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo ("from our own correspon- dent "), with a diagram of the battle, a picture of the Iron Duke, leading articles on the situation, a variety of current news of all descriptions (e.g., the publication of Guy Mannering, Lord Byron 's marriage to Miss Milbanke, the appearance of the first steamboat on the Thames, etc.). As a means of teaching history these sheets
(obtainable at prices from is. 6d. a dozen downwards, according to quantity, from Educational Bulletins, Welwyn Garden City, Hens) seem to me quite admirable.
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