Book of Days.
The Book of Days: A New, Popular, and Interesting Miscellany. Edited by ROBERT CHAMBERS. This work is published in Parts periodically, and is designed to be completed in two, or at the utmost three, volumes. It will consist of—
I. Matters connected with the Church Calendar, including the Popular Festivals, Saints' Days, and other Holidays, with illustrations of Christian antiquities in general.
II. Phenomena connected with the Seasonal Changes.
III. Folk-lore of the United Kingdom: Namely, Popular Notions and Observances connected with times and seasons.
IV. Notable Events, Biographies, and Anecdotes connected with the days of the year.
V. Articles of Popular Archæology, of an entertaining character, tending to illustrate the progress of civilization, manners, literature, and ideas in those kingdoms.
VI. Curious, Fugitive, and Inedited Pieces.
It is the design of this work, while not discouraging the progressive spirit of the age, to temper it with affectionate feelings towards what is poetical and elevated, honest and of good report; while in no way discountenancing great material interests, to evoke an equal activity in those feelings beyond self on which depend remoter but infinitely greater interests. The publishers wish that these volumes should be a repertory of old fireside ideas in general, as well as a means of improvement.
The work will be printed in a new, elegant, and readable type, and will be illustrated with an abundance of wood engravings.