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The Glasgow Mechanics’ Magazine.
New Edition, Revised and Corrected, of the First Series, complete in Five Volumes 8vo., price £2.
From the great sale which this work continued to have, long after the completion of the Series, the proprietors were induced to have the whole of it revised throughout from the commencement. In doing this, the plan they adopted was to exclude any article which appeared of less value to the scientific inquirer, and such as were more of a temporary interest. They are happy to say this has met with the approbation of the public, by a sale unprecedented in the annals of periodical literature. The work should, in fact, be now viewed more in the light of
“A STANDARD BODY OF PRACTICAL SCIENCE,”
which it in reality is, than in that of “a Magazine” of the times, the utility of which, in most cases, lasts but for a day. The most eminent scientific men have contributed to these volumes, and numerous have been the laudatory notices from all quarters, that have appeared of it. Amongst numerous others which might be adduced, they may mention, that the celebrated Dr. Gregory, in his Mathematics for Practical Men, quotes numerous articles from it, and refers his readers to “that useful publication.” Lord Brougham characterises the work as having been “carried on with great spirit;” and he farther adds, that he found it “remarkably full of useful information,” no small recommendation from an authority so high. The Leeds Mercury, under the management of Mr. Baines, M.P., among a host of other Journals which reviewed this work, in noticing it, remarked, “It appears to be conducted by a set of practical men, who understand well what they are about, and who are well calculated to execute the task they have undertaken.”