Books that you may hold readily in your hand are the most useful, after all.—Dr. Johnson.
The above-named series, extending to 173 volumes, comprises a rich and varied collection of works in the several departments of literature, forming a most valuable circle of useful, instructive, and entertaining knowledge, adapted for popular use. The utmost care has been taken, not only to exclude whatever can have an injurious influence on the mind, but to embrace every thing calculated to strengthen the best and most salutary impressions.
No family ought to be without this library, as it furnishes the readiest resources for that education which ought to accompany or succeed that of the boarding-school or the academy, and is infinitely more conducive than either to the cultivation of the intellect.—Monthly Review.
CONTENTS OF THE SERIES.
1, 2, 3.—MILMANʼS HISTORY OF THE JEWS. $1 20.
4, 5.—HISTORY OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 90 cents.
6.—SOUTHEYʼS LIFE OF LORD NELSON. 45 cents.
7.—LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 45 cents.
8, 74.—NATURAL HISTORY OF INSECTS. 90 cents.
9.—GALTʼS LIFE OF LORD BYRON. Portrait, 40 cents.