Excerpt from First Principles of General Knowledge
She is aware that the works of this descrip tion already in circulation are by no means few; but, with some exceptions, they will be found either not simple enough for the junior forms, or else so diffuse that their price renders them unavailable for the use of more advanced pupils. The want of due Classification is also another objection frequently raised against such books - a defect which, in the present one, has been remedied by referring, whenever practi cable,' each particular to its appropriate head, and by omitting whatever is irrelevant or ex traneous.
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