SCHOOL QUESTION BOOK;

IN WHICH

EACH QUESTION, IN A REGULAR SERIES, IS FOLLOWED

BY ITS APPROPRIATE ANSWER;

NOT ONLY IN

ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY,

IN WHICH THE WHOLE IS

ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;

BUT ALSO IN

BIOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY, ASTRONOMY,

HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY, CLASSICAL PHRASEOLOGY,

AND A GREAT AND INTERESTING VARIETY OF

MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS:

THE WHOLE TENDING TO ENLARGE THE BOUNDARIES OF JUVENILE
KNOWLEDGE BY INCREASING ITS STORES;

AND THUS

By Blending such a Course of General Information with Sound Classical or
Liberal Learning, to raise the Better Superstructure of

SCHOOL EDUCATION.

BY JOSEPH GUY,

FORMERLY OF THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE,

AND AUTHOR OF

A Chart of History, Ancient and Modern; Pocket Cyclopædia; School
Geography; Elements of Astronomy; School Cyphering Book;
British Spelling Book; British Expositor, &c. &c.

THE SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR BALDWIN AND CRADOCK.

1829.

3986. 2. 3

BODLEIAN LIBRARY

20 JUN. 83

OXFORD

C. Baldwin, Printer,

New Bridge street, Lon don.

CONTENTS.

PART I ANCIENT HISTORY, &c.

Preliminary Chapter

History, from the Creation

The Israelites, from the time of Abraham

The Kings of Israel

The Jews, continued from their return from Babylon till

Abstract of the History of Egypt..

of the Assyrian Empire

13

Astronomical Terms explained

French Words and Phrases Englished

Latin Words and Phrases Englished ...

Usual Abbreviations with their Explanations

Abstract of Heathen Mythology

137

177

180

.......

185

194

197

Government, Law, and Jurisprudence

Tithes, Freeholds, Corporations, &c........

Trade and Commerce

239

243

247

Arts and Sciences

....

249

Instruments

258

Chronological Divisions, Months, Days, &c.

261

PREFACE.

THE Author of this manual has been long under obligations to an indulgent Public, for a countenance and an approba tion almost unprecedented; and he presumes to hope, that a work, like the present, containing such a variety of useful information, for the well-educated of both sexes, will be duly appreciated by respectable teachers.

The Historical Abstract has been either extracted from, or carefully collated with, the most authentic sources; and some of the most prominent features in each reign have been introduced; with the principal revolutions of the most illus trious nations in ancient and modern times.

Not that it is to be presumed that what is here contained is all that is needful to be known: far from it; but rather what is proper to be introduced, in a first review of history, to the Junior Classes; and at the same time, what the Senior Classes may find most worthy to be remembered, even after the perusal of voluminous treatises.

It is presumed that this Volume may be made a valuable Class Book for Schools in general, as well as for the purposes of private tuition, in every period of Juvenile Instruction.

The lower classes, for instance, may, by a regular course of reading only, be made familiar with names and historical facts; and collect much desirable information on a great variety of subjects.

The middle classes may not only be put to read, but be required also to retain the leading ideas, not exactly mé