This is a work of rare merit, and touches many strings of importance with which society is linked together. No work we have ever seen is better calculated to inspire and awaken inventive genius in man than this. Almost every department of human labor is represented, and it contains a large fund of useful information, condensed in a volume, every chapter of which is worth the cost of the book. It would be an act of manifest injustice to the community for any editor to feel an indifference about commending this volume to a reading public.—N.Y. Ch. Herald.
The style is admirable, and the book itself is as full of information as an egg is of meat.—Journal.
As teachers we know no better remuneration, than for them First to buy this book and diligently read it themselves; Second, to teach to their pupils the principles of industrial organization which it contains, and of the facts by which it is illustrated. It is one of the merits of this book that its facts will interest youthful minds and be retained to blossom hereafter into theories of which they are now incapable. Third, endeavor to have a copy procured for the district library, that the parents may read it, and the teachers reap fruit in the present generation.—N.Y. Teacher.
Contains a great amount of information, accompanied with numerous illustrations, rendering it a compendious history of the subjects upon which it treats.—N.Y. Courier and Inquirer.
We commend the work as one of real value and profitable reading.—Rochester American.
This work is a rich repository of valuable information on various subjects, having a bearing on the industrial end social interests of a community.—Puritan Recorder.
MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS; or, The Story of my Education. By Hugh Miller, author of "Old Red Sandstone," "Footprints of the Creator," "My First Impressions of England," etc. 12mo, cloth. $1.25.
"This autobiography is quite worthy of the renowned author. His first attempts at literature, and his career until he stood forth an acknowledged power among the philosophers and ecclesiastical leaders of his native land, are given without egotism, with a power and vivacity which are equally truthful and delightsome."—Presbyterian.
"Hugh Miller is one of the most remarkable men of the age. Having risen from the humble walks of life, and from the employment of a stone-cutter, to the highest rank among scientific men, everything relating to his history possesses an interest which belongs to that of few living men. There is much even in his school-boy days which points to the man as he now is. The book has all the ease and graphic power which in characteristic of his writings."—New York Observer.
"This volume is a book for the ten thousand. It is embellished with an admirable likeness of Hugh Miller, the stone mason—his coat off and his sleeves rolled up—with the implements of labor in hand—his form erect, and his eye bright and piercing. The biography of such a man will interest every reader. It is a living thing—teaching a lesson of self-culture of immense value."—Philadelphia Christian Observer.