The Compendium of History, by Mr. M. J. Kerney, has been in my possession several months, and, after a careful reading, I believe it to be a very useful book in the department of study to which it belongs. I take pleasure in recommending it to teachers. J. N. M‘JILTON. Aug. 3, 1846. _Ch. Central High School of Baltimore._ AN ABRIDGMENT OF MURRAY’S ENGLISH GRAMMAR, AND EXERCISE; with Questions, adapted to the use of schools and academies; also, an APPENDIX, containing Rules and Observations for Writing with perspicuity and accuracy. By M. J. Kerney. I have examined the Grammar prepared by Mr. M. J. Kerney, and recommend it as an abridgment of the old standard of Murray, well calculated to advance pupils in their grammatical studies. J. N. M‘JILTON, Aug. 3, 1846. _Ch. Central High School of Baltimore._ “We take particular pleasure in recommending this abridgment to the public. The notes and observations taken from the original are copious and well selected. In point of arrangement, it is superior to any other abridgment of Murray’s Grammar. It has exercises prefixed to each chapter and section throughout the work, also to the rules and notes of syntax. Thus, by combining the grammar and exercise, a very desirable improvement has been effected; the pupil, at every step of his progress, has a practical illustration of the principles inculcated. The questions at the bottom of each page, and at the end of each exercise, will give an increased value to the work, and will be found convenient to the teacher, and useful for the pupil. By their arrangement, and that of the exercises, much of that dryness which scholars usually experience, while committing to memory the rules and notes of grammar, will be removed; the study will become pleasing and interesting. “Besides embracing in a narrow compass all that is important or essential in the original grammar and exercise, this abridgment contains in its appendix several additional matters which will be found highly interesting and useful to the learner: such as the Art of Reasoning, Oratory, Elliptical Phrases, Popular Latin Phrases, with a literal English translation.”――_U. S. C. Magazine._ THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF G. W. BURNAP, author of Lectures to Young Men, Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman, &c. THE PROSE AND POETICAL WRITINGS OF THE MILFORD BARD, with several fine Engravings. BIBLE QUADRUPEDS: The Natural History of the animals mentioned in Scripture. Illustrated with sixteen splendid Engravings. A new and beautiful edition. GEMS OF IRISH ELOQUENCE, WIT AND ANECDOTE. DISCOURSE ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF GEORGE CALVERT, the first Lord Baltimore, made by Hon J. P. Kennedy, before the Maryland Historical Society.