sound knowledge, may be found in natural objects.
The traveller and the historian, the artist and the artisan, offer their various works and productions for the study or recreation of young and old, but they invite attention, for the most part, to the imperfect works of man; and their productions, though valuable in themselves, possess not that attractive interest and unwearying amusement, which is to be found in the contemplation of the perfect works of Nature. But can it be doubted that, in the beautiful and endless variety of Nature’s works, there exists a store of unfailing amusement and instruction, the pursuit of which is sure to form a profitable occupation for the general reader during many a leisure hour, and is also admirably calculated to supersede many of the recreations of the young, which are productive of no useful results?
Of this Series there are already published,—
I.
RECREATIONS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY;
Or, THE EARTH AS IT IS.
By Miss R.M. Zornlin. Foolscap Octavo, with numerous
Illustrations, Maps, &c. 6s.
II.
RECREATIONS IN GEOLOGY;