Both an entertaining and instructive work, as it is a very cheap one.—Puritan Rec.
It cannot but have an extensive circulation.—Albany Express.
Of all the series of cheap books, this promises to be the best.—Bangor Mercury.
If any person wishes to read for amusement or profit, to kill time or improve it, get “Chambers’s Home Book.”—Chicago Times.
The Chambers are confessedly the best caterers for popular and useful reading in the world.—Willis’s Home Journal.
A very entertaining, instructive, and popular work.—N. Y. Commercial.
The articles are of that attractive sort which suits us in moods of indolence when we would linger half way between wakefulness and sleep. They require just thought and activity enough to keep our feet from the land of Nod, without forcing us to run, walk, or even stand.—Eclectic, Portland.
It is just the thing to amuse a leisure hour, and at the same time combines instruction with amusement.—Dover Inquirer.
Messrs. Chambers, of Edinburgh, have become famous wherever the English language is spoken and read, for their interesting and instructive publications. They combine instruction with amusement, and throughout they breathe a spirit of the purest morality.—Chicago Tribune.
CHAMBERS’S REPOSITORY OF INSTRUCTIVE AND AMUSING PAPERS. With Illustrations. An entirely New Series, containing Original Articles. p. 260, 16mo, cloth, per vol. 50 cents.