either of time or money, furnish a toler. ably correct outline and general idea of all the principal branches of useful and polite literature. Should any inquire why we have not entered more fully into the different branches, or why some have been extended more than others, we answer-Our plan was to give outlines only, not minutiæ; but, as our book is designed for the benefit of schools, and as there are several important branches of knowledge, upon which we have no other treatise than this for school use, we have ventured a little to expand some, whilst others of equal or even greater importance, have been proportionably contracted, both because we have them in other books, and because it was impossible to bring them at sufficient length into this. This little volume will be found to contain information upon a great variety of pleasing and highly interesting subjects, well worthy the attention of youth in every walk of life, but must be peculiarly acceptable to those whose time at school is somewhat limited, and whose leisure for reading is so contracted as to preclude an opportunity of their looking into larger works and more detailed systems of those things, of which not to know something, must, at this enlightened day, be considered as reproachful, |