From MR. J.F.  GOULD, Teacher, Baltimore.

Having examined Pinnock’s improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith’s History of Rome, I unhesitatingly say, that the style and elegance of the language, the arrangement of the chapters, and the questions for examination, render it, in my estimation, a most valuable school book:—­I therefore most cheerfully recommend it to teachers, and do confidently trust that it will find an extensive introduction into the schools of our country.

HISTORICAL SERIES.

From the New York Evening Post.

A well written and authentic History of France possesses unusual interest at the present time.  It becomes especially valuable when, as in the present case, it has been prepared with questions as a text-book for common schools and seminaries, by a scholar so accomplished as Dr. Taylor.  The work has passed through three editions in England.  The American editor has added one chapter on the late revolutions, bringing the history down to 1848, and has added to its value by illustrations throughout, portraying the costume and the principal events of the reigns of which it treats.

This treatise goes back to the origin of the Celtic race, or the Cimbrians, as the offspring of Gomer, peopling the north and east of Europe on the one hand, and to the descendants of Cush—­under the names of Scythians, Tartars, Goths, and Scots, warlike, wandering tribes, on the other, tracing the migrations of the latter till they drove the Celts westward, and the Rhine forms the boundary between the two nations.  From the Gauls it goes on to the reign of the Franks, Charlemagne, the Carlovingian race, the history of Normandy, and the history of France from the first crusade through its lines of monarchies and its revolutions, to 1848.  The style is clear and forcible, and from the compactness of the work, forming, as it does, a complete chain of events in a most important part of the history of Europe, it will be found interesting and valuable for general readers, or as a text-book in our schools.  It is comprised in 444 pages, 12mo., and contains a chronological index and genealogy of the kings of France.

Want of space prevents us from inserting all the recommendations received:  we however present the names of the following gentlemen, who have given their recommendations to the Histories: 

  SIMEON HART, Jr., Farmington, Conn.
  REV.  D.R.  AUSTIN, Principal of Monmouth Academy, Monson, Mass.
  T.L.  WRIGHT, A.M., Prin.  E. Hartford Classical and English School.
  REV.  N.W.  FISKE, A.M., Professor Amherst College, Mass.
  E.S.  SNELL, A.M., Professor Amherst College, Mass.
  REV.  S. NORTH, Professor Languages, Hamilton College, N.Y.
  W.H.  SCRAM, A.M., Prin.  Classical and English Academy, Troy, N.Y.
  JAMES F. GOULD, Principal of Classical School, Baltimore.
  A.B.  MYERS, Principal of Whitehall,