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 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 |