CALENDAR OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

This volume professes to be “A Familiar Analysis of the Calendar of the Church of England,” by explaining and illustrating its Fasts and Festivals, &c., in the form of Question and Answer.  The reader will not look for novelty in such a work.  The editors of Time’s Telescope, Clavis Calendaria, the Every-day Book, &c., have been too long and too laboriously employed in illustrating every point of the year’s history, to lead us to expect any new attraction.  Indeed, the preface of the present work does not profess to furnish any such inducement, the editor resting his claim on the cheapness of his book in comparison with the Every-day Book.  This is rather an ungracious recommendation:  the “Analysis” consists of less than three hundred pages, and is sold for five or six shillings; but these three hundred pages only equal seventy-five pages of the Every-day Book, or less than five sheets, which the public know may be purchased for fifteen-pence.  One of the pretensions of the “Analysis” is its condensed form, but we suspect Mr. Valpy’s Epitomizing press would reduce the editor’s three hundred pages to seventy-five.  It is a thankless office to be obliged to speak thus of a book on which some pains have been bestowed.  Now, had it been printed within the compass of an eighteen-penny or two shilling catechism, the desired object would have been obtained; but, as it appears, in the type of a large church prayer-book, what may have been gained in arrangement, must be paid for in paper and print, so that no good purpose is ultimately effected.

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FAMILIAR LAW.

Parts 3 and 4 of the Familiar Law Adviser relate to Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes—­and Benefit Societies and Savings’ Banks—­and will be found extremely useful to very different classes.  They have in them all the reforming spirit of the times, and must be of essential service everywhere, since cheap law is as desirable us any other species of economy.  Brevity, too, as recommended in these little books, should be the soul of law as it is of wit, for we all know that as the law lengthens so the cost strengthens.  Another advantage will be, that the sooner a man is set right, the more time will he have for increasing his good actions in this life.

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DEATH.

Oh God! what a difference throughout the whole of this various and teeming earth a single DEATH can effect!  Sky, sun, air, the eloquent waters, the inspiring mountain-tops, the murmuring and glossy wood, the very

  Glory in the grass, and splendour in the flower,