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HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

QUESTIONS

FOR THE USE OF YOUNG PEOPLE.

WITH A SELECTION OF

BRITISH AND GENERAL BIOGRAPHY

&c. &c.

BY RICHMAL MANGNALL.

A NEW EDITION

REMODELLED THROUGHOUT, ENLARGED, AND IMPROVED.

LONDON

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS.

1859

Price 4s. 6d.

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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NEW EDITION.

THE rapid progress of events renders it necessary frequently to revise and bring up elementary works to the existing state of knowledge, under the penalty of their becoming obsolete. In former editions of MANGNALL'S Questions, this has been done, as far as it could be done, without incurring the necessity of an almost total typographical reconstruction. But within the last few years political changes have been so numerous, and the progress of discovery so rapid, that the Publishers resolved entirely to reconstruct and reprint the work, in order to give full scope for the introduction of every matter of novelty and importance. With this view, they placed the work in the hands of an editor on whose practical knowledge and experience they could implicitly rely; and no pains or expense has been spared to secure for it a greater degree of public favour than it has even hitherto enjoyed. Besides the necessary additions and alterations that have been made in the various branches and divisions of the

phical improvements have been introduced into this edition. The Questions and Answers have been simplified throughout; each Question and Answer is printed in a separate paragraph; and other changes have been made which, it is hoped, will facilitate the labours both of the teacher and the pupil.

January, 1859.

NOTICE.

A SEQUEL to the present work has been published by Miss CORNER, containing Questions on the History of France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Apostolic See and the Popes.

A new and greatly improved Edition of Miss MANGNALL'S Geography has lately been published.

This Edition has been subjected throughout to an unsparing care in revision. Besides embodying all the most recent and authentic intelligence, great additions have been made in the department of statistics; but perhaps its most valuable feature consists in a copious index of the chief places and names contained in the volume, which thus combines in some measure all the advantages of a gazetteer with those of a systematic work. By means of this index the work will be found to present a condensed view of all places in the world, a knowledge of which is indispensable to all who claim to be well-informed in geographical matters, and, it is hoped, be entitled to the appellation of what the publishers have been desirous to make it a miniature encyclopædia of geography.

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