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    It principally consists of an inquiry into the utility of Classical Instruction , and is , perhaps , the best examination extant of that much-debated question . The . pamphlet ( as may be expected

    from a fair statement ) is not likely to please either the despiser of Classical Instruction or the defender of it , as it is usually pursued in this country . That many years are frequently spent most unprofitably , if not perniciously , in what is called Classical Instruction , Mr . Pillans would readily admit ; though no one can be a more ardent defender of this branch of

    instruction when it is rationally pursued . He has pointed out very clearly the grievous defects of our present plan ; and he has shown , no less clearly , the various remedies that must be applied before Classical Instruction can produce the admirable effects which he claims for it peculiarly , in disciplining the faculties .

    The Solar Eclipse , or the Two Almanacks . By Itosina Maria Zornlin . London , Ridgway and Sons , 1836 . This is one of the best books of science for children we have seen . The explanation of the almanacks is , we think , too technical : but the part relating to eclipses is written with great

    clearness ; and is particularly good because it aims at leading to observation , the only harmless aim of such books , which are too apt on the contrary to give a conceit that all is understood , and so check the progress towards truth at the very outset . The philosopher who said "he had learned to know that he knew nothing , " would be thought very ignorant by the scientific children of the present generation . Everyone of them ,

    however , who is led by this little book to expect and to watch the great eclipse that is coming on the 15 th of this month , will owe it a debt of gratitude . We hope , for their sakes as well as our own that the day will be clear , and that they will see the darkness coming over the sun , and Venus high up in the heavens , where they never saw her before , with Jupiter near her and some of the stars , at three o ' clock in the afternoon . We could wish the story of Columbus and the eclipse had been omitted .

    Sixpenny-worth of Truth , good measure . Strange . Thk Author describes himself as " one of the Faction , " ( according to the Standard newspaper ) " without a God . " He is a ticklish subject to pelt at , inasmuch as he throws back the stone with more force than it came . The hypocrites who deny him a Deity , will be not unlikel y to allow tnat they have rai £ ed a Devil in him . The pamphlet contains "Mammon , Molochism , Wellington ' s Oxford Installation , Caste , Pack tpgether , Reformers ; and warning and advice . " The stvle is vBrjuicean , and the pithy Preface of which we give the whole ,

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    Critical Notices . 8 * 6

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/61/