‘A good book for family circles in the long and dreary winter evenings, inasmuch as it will enable the young to pass them away both pleasantly and profitably.’
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Things Not Generally Known Familiarly Explained. A Book for Old and Young. By John Timbs, F.S.A. First Series, Twenty-sixth Thousand; and Second Series, Tenth Thousand. Fcap. 2s. 6d. each, cloth.
‘A remarkably pleasant and instructive little book; a book as full of information as a pomegranate is full of seed.’—Punch.
‘A very amusing miscellany.’—Gentleman’s Magazine.
‘And as instructive as it is amusing.’—Notes and Queries.
Curiosities of Science, Past and Present. By John Timbs, F.S.A. First Series. Second Edition (‘Things Not Generally Known’ in Science.) Fcap. 2s. 6d. cloth.