Mr. PRINCE'S Parellel of Universal History is a very useful
volume,ehher for reference, or for reading as an introduction to the subject. The events of' the world are arranged into three epochs, of Ancient History, Middle Ages, and Modern History. These are in turn subdivided into sections, embracing a limited period ; whose general history is first given, and then the leading events, followed by a sketch of the eminent persons of the age. In Modern History, the work confines itself to our own annals, and gradually increases in the fulness of its narration as it approaches later times. Of course it will be understood that the book confines itself to facts, or to a received view of them; but it seems to accomplish all that its author aimed at—that of furnishing a coup d'oeil of the history of the world, with as much matter as could well be put into so small a space.
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