"that expreffion) is a Chronological Table, "of near 100 pages, comprising articles of "hiftorical and biographical information, "under the feveral days of the year referred "to in the problems. This we confider as a valuable portion of the work; and whether "it might not even be a defirable thing to enlarge "this article, and make a detached publication of "it, is for Mr. B. to confider.

"To conclude: though the Treatifes of "Dr. Watts, of Coftard, of Bransby, and "fome others on this fubject, contain more "fcientific information, we do not hesitate "to recommend this volume; the object of "which, the author tells us, was, to furnish

a more ufeful, comprehenfive, and attrac"tive Practical Treatife on the Ufe of the "Globes, than any that had hitherto ap

peared: and, in our opinion, there are few "writers on the fubject of practical educa"tion, to whom our female offspring are "under greater obligations than to the Author "of the prefent work."

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The following are extracted from the accounts given of this work by fome of the other Literary Journals.

"Of all philofophical inftruments the GLOBE is, perhaps, the neatest and most impreffive. Its circular form, the divifion of its furface by fuch a number of regular lines, and its revolution on its axis, serve to fhew the ingenuity of man after an interefting manner. The prefent volume, by a feries of eafy problems, profeffes to lead the pupil into a thorough acquaintance with the globe on which he lives; and alfo to make him familiar with the heavens, by which our earth is fo gloriously and delightfully encircled.

"Mr. BUTLER has happily fucceeded in hist endeavours to render plain the first elements of geography and aftronomy. His definitions are

clear, and his problems are introductory to each other; fo that the solution of them may be effected with a greater degree of facility.

"The mifcellaneous notes fcattered throughout the volume, are extremely valuable; they contain much information, and will give youth a pleafing infight into the propriety of the manner of the feveral conftellations into which the ftars are divided. Without fuch a knowledge the Heavens feem confused; but when we have attended to the real

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real origin of the divifions, we fhall find that they allude to fome of the most important incidents in the page of ancient hiftory. In this point of view the firmament refembles a mighty RECORD, where the eye of science difcerns traces of wifdom which, otherwife, would have for ever lain concealed in the folds of obfcurity."

Monthly Vifitor, Vol. xi. p. 316.

"In a judicious manner this Author has here, as in his former productions, contrived to blend amusement with inftruction. The Problems are more numerous than in any book of the kind that we have before feen, and the definitions are precife and eafy of comprehenfion. But, in a manner that we think peculiar to himself, Mr. BUTLER has contrived to intersperse fo much mifcellaneous information among the scientific parts of his work, as muft neceffarily cultivate the mind and enlarge the ideas of the fair pupil on general fubjects, while fhe feems to be ftudying geography only. To the main work is added,

A Brief Chronological Table of remarkable Events that have occurred on every Day of the Year mentioned in the Problems.'

"On the whole, we think thefe Exercifes' a very defirable acceffion to the stock of fchool literature."

London Review, European Magazine, for Auguft, 1801, p. 115.

ADVERTISEMENT.

A LIST OF BOOKS,

Published by the fame Author, for the Ufe of

AN

YOUNG LADIES.

I.

N engraved INTRODUCTION to ARITHMETIC; defigned to facilitate the progress of young beginners, and to diminish the labour of the tutor. Price 3s. 6d. bound, or with the addition of "Exercifes in the first Four Rules," 4s.

II.

ARITHMETICAL QUESTIONS, on a new plan: intended to answer the double purpose of arithmetical inftruction and miscellaneous information. The third edition, with a copious index; price in common binding 5s. 6d. in calf and hot-preffed 7s.

III.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, on a new plan; comprising articles of an hiftorical, biogra phical,

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[A third edition of this book is now preparing for the prefs.]

The author has been honoured with the most flattering teftimonies to the utility of the above publications by the writers of the different Reviews.

IV.

GEOGRAPHICAL and BIOGRAPHICAL EXxERCISES, on a new plan. The third edition, price 4s.

V.

ARITHMETICAL TABLES, fecond edition,

price 6d.

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A fmall tract of SCRIPTURE GEOGRAPHY and BIOGRAPHY: with which will be incorporated, a brief sketch of the different principles maintained by the chief Chriftian fects. This part of the work will, it is prefumed, prepare the juvenile pupils for the perufal of the Rev. JoHN EVANS's admirable treatife on the fame interesting fubject. See Arith, Queftions, 3d edition, P. 107.

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