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This volume embraces a large amount of matter, very pleasantly and clearly arranged. It appears to be free from sectarian prejudices, and aims to give the true historic account of every fact narrated. It is, in the opinion of your committee, a work admirably adapted for use in our schools, generally being short, comprehensive and interesting.

Those parts of the Translation, by Rev. John II. Hunter, which we have examined and compared, appear to be faithfully executed, and to give clearly and forcibly the sense of the original. If the work be published, as we hope it will be, we doubt not it will be extensively used in our schools, and be found interesting to the general reader, and that a valuable object will be accomplished by the Translator, in thus bringing it before the public. Your Committee offer the following resolution.

Resolved.—That the Historical Sketches by M. D. Levi, (Alvarez,) and translated by Rev. John H. Hunter, is, in the judgment of this Association, a work of much excellence, and 4 RECOMMENDATIONS.

well fitted for use in the recitation room; and that we encourage its introduction into the Schools with which we are connectcd.

John Walsh, ...