They are written in a pleasing style, and are enlivened by numerous characteristic anecdotes. The series will form a very valuable library.
From the Boston Post,
It is an admirable publication for the family and school library. Its topics are interesting and important, and presented in a simple but effective style.
From the Boston Atlas,
Parley's Cabinet Library is worthy of all encouragement. It is cheap not only in promise, but in fact. It is also calculated to exercise a wholesome influence. Like every thing from the same author, it strongly inculcates virtue and religion, and at the same time it arrays truth in a guise so comely and attractive, that it is likely to win many votaries of fiction to companionship with it. There is great need of such works at this time.
| Board of Education, | } |
| City of Rochester, Sept. 2. |
Whereas, the Board of Education have examined a series of books called "Parley's Cabinet Library," now in course of publication by Samuel G. Goodrich, Esq., (the celebrated Peter Parley,) embracing, in the course of twenty volumes, the various subjects of history, biography, geography, the manners and customs of different nations, the condition of the arts, sciences, &c.; and whereas, this Board are satisfied that the same are highly useful to the young: therefore,
Resolved, that we recommend that the same be procured by trustees for the several school libraries, at the earliest practicable period. A true copy of the minutes,
I. F. Mack, Sup't.