NEW CHRISTMAS BOOK FOR THE YOUNG.
Just published, in fcap. 8vo. price 5s. handsomely bound, with gilt edges,
THE ILLUSTRATED YEAR BOOK. SECOND SERIES. THE WONDERS, EVENTS, AND DISCOVERIES OF 1850.
EDITED BY JOHN TIMBS.
WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD. Among the Contents of this interesting Volume will be found THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. OCEAN STEAMERS. CHURCH BUILDING. THE KOH-I-NOOR. TROPICAL STORMS. NEPAULESE EMBASSY. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. PANORAMAS. OVERLAND ROUTE. COLOSSAL STATUE OF "BAVARIA." INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, 1851.
"What a treasure in a country house must not such an Encyclopaedia of amusing knowledge afford, when the series has grown to a few volumes. Not only an Encyclopaedia of amusing and useful knowledge, but that which will give to memory a chronological chart of our acquisition of information. This admirable idea is well followed out in the little volume in our hands. The notiore are all clear, full, and satisfactory, and the engravings with which the volume is embellished are every way worthy of the literary part of the work."—Standard.
"The work is well done, and deserves notice as a striking memorial of the chief occurrences of 1850."—Atlas.
"Books such as this are, and will be, the landmarks of social, scientific, mechanical, and moral progress; it extends to nearly four hundred pages of well-condensed matter, illustrated with numerous excellently engraved wood blocks."—Advertiser.