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OUTLINES OF SCRIPTURE GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

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As a first-class school-book, or as a book for the traveller and historical student, we can safely commend this as the cheapest and most compendious it has ever been our lot to peruse.-United Service Gazette.

One of the ablest of Mr. Hughes's educational works is his Outlines of Scripture Geography and History, a clear and interesting sketch of the history and geographical divisions of Palestine, from the earliest times to those of the Turkish dominion. It is admirably done, and though intended as a school-book, and well fitted for its purpose, it is one which any person may take up and read with pleasure. The best authorities have been consulted, and the book, as far as it goes, is complete.-Guardian.

Whether for schools or private reading, the work will alike be found invaluable.-Cheltenham Journal.

Mr. Hughes is the author of several educational works. He has published none, however, of more importance than the one on our table, which gives a very clear account of the sacred geography, than which, as the author observes, "no department of sacred literature can be of greater assistance to the biblical student." The author connects the history of God's chosen people with the description of the land they inhabited, he makes his work more complete, and adds greatly to its value. There are twelve illustrative maps in the volume, and a better work cannot be placed in the hands of young persons; whilst many adults will find themselves considerably better informed in Scripture history and geography from its perusal.Naval and Military Gazette.

The student of Scripture geography cannot fail to derive valuable aid from this compendium, in which is embodied the results of the labours of the most painstaking writers and travellers, who have illustrated and journeyed through the scenes and countries mentioned in Holy Writ. The entire history of the Jewish race, as related in the Old Testament, is traced with the fidelity and care befitting so sacred a subject, and the marvellous events which marked their career as a "chosen people" are linked, as it were, inextricably with the localities in which they took place. Nothing can be more interesting and instructive than the mode adopted by the author, by which the researches of modern writers are made to throw a new light on the Bible narrative, and bear testimony in numberless instances to its truth. It is an especial merit of Mr. Hughes that he has fulfilled his promise at the onset, of giving the collected results scattered through many volumes, and not within the reach of ordinary readers; and, when perused in connexion with the investigations and personal researches of the writers we have enumerated, the study of the oldest records of man's history assume a new and living interest. The work is illustrated by numerous maps, and is intended not only for private reading but for the use of schools, for which we cannot but deem it admirably adapted, the practical experience of Mr. Hughes, as head-master of the Naval Schools at Greenwich, having been brought to bear very efficiently on its production. -Sunday Times.

This is a work showing no ordinary research and knowledge. It is a compilation or digest of all the most eminent authorities on Scripture history and geography; giving the substance of their labours in a moderate compass, with the help of indexes and maps-so that parents or teachers may be more readily as well as more completely instructed. Like Mr. Hughes's other works, this one exhibits much care in the details, skill in the arrangement, and adaptation in the result. It will prove, we have no doubt, an invaluable contribution to a class of literature which, in our day, is rapidly progressing in excellence and utility.-Newcastle Guardian.

A correct knowledge of Scripture geography is essential to the Biblical student, whether as regards the elucidation of the sacred narrative, or the

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proper interpretation of the prophecies relating to different nations. Abundant information on this subject has been accumulated by the learning of English and foreign divines, but not presented in a sufficiently acceptable shape; and this little work supplies the desideratum. The volume, which is one of the handsomest school-books we have ever seen, is illustrated by a number of very beautifully engraved and coloured maps.-Belfast News Letter.

One of Mr. Hughes's admirable educational works. Nothing could be more clear and concise than the composition, or better adapted for easy reference than the maps, both in point of execution and arrangement. No good school ought to be without it. The self-educating student will find it also exceedingly useful.--Leeds Times.

We think Mr. Hughes has been remarkably successful in this useful but laborious undertaking. His work comprises the spirit of many volumes; it contains a vast amount of well-epitomised information; and by its clear elucidations of the less intelligible parts of Scripture, will be found, both in schools and families, a valuable adjunct to Bible reading.-

Doncaster Chronicle.

A very compendious and well-arranged little manual, likely to be widely useful. It contains a series of maps, adapted to the successive epochs of Scripture history, to the Crusading period, and to modern times.--Inquirer. The work is one that should find its way into every school and every household circle.-Brighton Herald.

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SCHOOL ATLAS of BIBLE LANDS; Containing 12 Maps, engraved on Steel by J. and C. WALKER. 12mo.

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OUTLINES of PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY; Descriptive of the Inorganic Matter of the Globe, and the Distribution of Organised Beings; with Eight Maps engraved on Steel and Coloured. Designed for the use of Schools.

"A little book, comprising a very large quantity of information, arranged to advantage, and imparted with precision. A more decided advance upon the ordinary character of even excellent elementary works, has not recently occurred to us. This advance is indicated, not only by the really scientific nature of the instruction given by Mr. Hughes, but by the equally scientific mode in which it is afforded. The instructor is not learning, bit by bit, like a pupil, but having acquired a mastery of the complete subjectat least for every ordinary purpose-is enabled to display it in its proportions as well as in its minuteness. The book is, in little (but not on that account in indistinctness), a concentration of a score of the invaluable volumes upon Physical Geography which have of late years been enriching our better libraries, but to which the average class of readers can with difficulty attain. The neatly drawn and carefully coloured Maps, by Mr. William Hughes, are exceedingly meritorious. It would be injustice to speak of this work as a mere school-book, modest as are its pretensions. It is a capital little hand-book."-Morning Chronicle.

OUTLINES OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

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"This little work which, though small in compass, comprises the evident result of much painstaking and really erudite labour, may be described without exaggeration, as a thoroughly useful class-book for schools; nor to children is its capacity of utility confined. Until comparatively lately, the notion of geographical tuition amongst the ordinary run of teachers, consisted in the pitiless inculcation of sterile lists of hard names, treacherous to the memory, and impalpable to the intelligence. Not descriptions of the earth, and the grand relations of its several parts, but an unmeaning jingling of words formed the vulgar routine of instruction; and there are many adult persons, on whose education sums of money were liberally expended, who went through all the drill and discipline of the old-fashioned schools, who pass, too, for folks of good parts and information, but who, in their mellow maturity, are deficient in the knowledge of even the relative bearings of the earth's surface, and are in primeval innocence as to the general scheme of its organization, the distribution of climates, products, and raw materials of produce, the distinction of race, and the varieties of organic and inorganic matter. The knowledge of the causes of what are called natural phenomena, but which may be more correctly designated as systematic developments of different stages of ordained process, is a knowledge not only theoretically pleasing, but practically valuable,--a knowledge which in every-day life might often save people from ridiculous, perplexing, or dangerous predicaments. Yet such knowledge was not always held indispensable in a liberal education, and not unfrequent were the occasions on which in general society the pretension to it was treated as intolerable pedantry. A better understanding has sprung up of the true meaning of education; in English schools the idea conveyed is the classical etymology. Mr. Hughes's turn of mind, and the direction of his studies, are of the kind which, combined with excellent judgment in condensation and classification, qualify him to be of eminent service in bringing this about. We recommend the book before us to intelligent heads of schools, and to the many thousands who, after years of unprofitable drudgery, have still to make acquaintance with the very rudiments of geography proper."-Weekly Chronicle.

"This is one of the most useful school-books of its class. *** In the compilation of this volume, the author has displayed various and extensive reading. It is altogether a capital work on the subject of Geography, and one which may be profitably perused by both adults and students. It is illustrated by Eight Maps, constructed with great care, by W. Hughes, F.R.G.S."-Morning Herald.

"We do not hesitate to pronounce at once this book to be the most useful school geography we have. We cannot possibly over-estimate the importance of Physical Geography as an elementary science, and feel sure that for such works as the present all the old school geographies will ere long be discarded. The book is a careful one, written fairly up to the present state of science, which on this subject is daily making such giant strides that each year ought to furnish a new edition of a school-book on such a subject."-Atlas.

"This is a work we can cordially recommend. It draws from us the best praise in our power to bestow; namely, that it answers the design of the author. It cannot fail to work well in school use. Simple and comprehensive in arrangement, written in a style neither difficult nor easy, full of information, at once fascinating and useful, enlivened here and there with judicious and beautiful reflections that speak to the heart, we are persuaded that it will become a great favourite among schoolboys; whose good fortune we almost envy, in possessing books so much superior to those used in our school days."-Educational Times.

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OUTLINES OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

"Decidedly the best book for schools on the subject of Physical Geography is, in our opinion, that by Mr. Edward Hughes. The interesting and useful information which it contains, the just and well-expressed sentiments with which it is interspersed, and the judicious arrangement of the whole subject, entitle his Outlines of Physical Geography to far more extensive patronage than that of the scholastic profession. As a teacher of Geography, Mr. Hughes is acknowledged to be most successful; and his Outlines, in the hands of any judicious instructor, will, we apprehend, contribute greatly to the attainment of similar success. The Maps compiled by Mr. William Hughes are what the reputation of that eminent geographer would argue, and form a valuable feature of the book."-English Journal of Education.

"The teaching of geography has become a very different thing from what it was when we were content with names and crude facts: we require now information concerning the natural condition of the earth, and the laws which govern its phenomena, and we conceive that Mr. Hughes's little book will be a good guide to such information. It is illustrated by Eight Maps, which seem to be very carefully prepared."-Cambridge Chronicle.

"It is replete with instruction in this branch of geography, which has of late come to be placed before pupils with a distinctness it so well merits, for all its information is truly knowledge,' and the individual who masters and remembers the contents of this single volume, will have a very general acquaintance with the great features of the globe we inhabit."-Literary Gazette.

"The Outlines' before us is designed for the use of schools, and is a clear, well-arranged description of the inorganic matter of the globe, and the distribution of organized beings-a systematic account of the physical condition of the earth. The Maps are small, but very neatly drawn, and the work in general contains such an epitome of the writings of Humboldt, Berghaus, Ritter, and other eminent geographers, as is calculated to initiate the young student into the principal secret of this wonder-working world which we inhabit."-Morning Post.

"We make an exception to our usual very necessary rule of not noticing school-books in favour of this little Manual, inasmuch as it is the first attempt we have seen to bring the results of the recently developed science of Physical Geography within the reach and capacities of the young. Such books as this is destined at no distant date to supersede the old class-books of geography with their dry dull lists of proper names, unrelieved by any iota of information of a higher or better kind than such catalogues of hard words supply. This praiseworthy endeavour to raise the science of Geography out of the region of a dull technicality in which it has so long languished, will gain valuable assistance in such little books as this now before us and a generation instructed in Geography by such books and on such enlightened principles, will grow up not only with a fuller and a higher knowledge of the physical economy and external characteristics of the globe, but with elevated ideas of the wisdom and power of its great Creator. Mr. Hughes's little book is a carefully compiled, well arranged, and comprehensive introduction to the science of which it treats. Its statements are made in clear and simple language, and the neat and distinct little maps that illustrate it are valuable assistants to the accurate and complete comprehension of its contents. By the aid of this little handbook children of a larger growth,' whose knowledge has not kept pace with the advances of the time, may profitably and readily acquire a vast deal of interesting and useful information."-Scotsman.

"This is the first attempt to provide instruction in Physical Geography

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for the use of schools, and it is a successful one. It is, in fact, a description of the earth in its relationship to the animal and vegetable life upon it. It traces the connexion between the locality and the inhabitants, and shows how soils and climates modify the forms of animal and vegetable life, and traces the laws which determine the phenomena of geography. The volume before us teaches geography in this rational and really useful manner. We may with confidence recommend this work to every school as a new and valuable assistant in the teaching of science, as it is only useful in its application to nature."-Critic.

"We have not hitherto seen any school-book devoted solely to the subject of Physical Geography; and intelligent teachers have been left very much to their own reading to supply the deficiency. Mr. Hughes's' Outlines' will be found to deserve the attention of teachers, as embracing in a compact and distinctly arranged manner the kind of information which they would desire to accompany the usual typographical descriptions of their geography classes. Both teachers and scholars will find it advantageous to have a book like this in their hands."--The Scottish Guardian.

"A better volume for the use of schools or the private seminary we could not desire; it abounds with information of a valuable and by no means of a common character."-Reading Mercury and Oxford Gazette.

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EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

On the Third Edition of the "Outlines of Physical Geography;" containing upwards of 1,000 Questions. Designed for the Use of Teachers.

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HUGHES'S SCHOOL ATLAS of PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY,

Comprising 8 Coloured Maps, compiled by W. HUGHES, F.R.G.S. New Edition, 12mo.

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INTRODUCTORY ATLAS of MODERN
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Comprising 12 Maps engraved on Steel, and printed in Colours, exhibiting the Physical Features and Political Divisions of the most important Countries of the Globe. With Introductory Hints on the Method of learning Geography. 12mo.

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