One of the most delightful labours of leisure ever seen; not a few of the most beautiful phenomena of nature are here lucidly explained.—Gent. Magazine.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. By the late Rev. Gilbert White, A. M., Fellow of the Oriel College, Oxford; with additions by Sir William Jardine, Bart. F. R. S., E. F. L. S., M. W. S., author of “Illustrations of Ornithology.”
White’s History of Selborne, the most fascinating piece of rural writing and sound English philosophy that has ever issued from the press.—Athenæum.
JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST. With Plates.
——Plants, trees, and stones we note;
Birds, insects, beasts and rural things.
We again most strongly recommend this little unpretending volume to the attention of every lover of nature, and more particularly of our country readers. It will induce them, we are sure, to examine more closely than they have been accustomed to do, into the objects of animated nature, and such examination will prove one of the most innocent, and the most satisfactory sources of gratification and amusement. It is a book that ought to find its way into every rural drawing-room in the kingdom, and one that may safely be placed in every lady’s boudoir, be her rank and station in life what they may.—Quart. Review, No. LXXVIII.
This is a most delightful book on the most delightful of all studies. We are acquainted with no previous work which bears any resemblance to this, except “White’s History of Selborne,” the most fascinating piece of rural writing and sound English philosophy that ever issued from the press.—Athenæum.
THE FAMILY CABINET ATLAS, constructed upon an original plan: being a Companion to the Encyclopædia Americana, Cabinet Cyclopædia, Family Library, Cabinet Library, &c.
[This Atlas comprises, in a volume of the Family Library size, nearly one hundred Maps and Tables, which present equal to fifty thousand names of places; a body of information three times as extensive as that supplied by the generality of Quarto Atlases.]
This beautiful and most useful little volume, says the Literary Gazette, is a perfect picture of elegance, containing a vast sum of geographical information. A more instructive little present, or a gift better calculated to be long preserved and often referred to, could not be offered to favoured youth of either sex. Its cheapness, we must add, is another recommendation; for, although this elegant publication contains one hundred beautiful engravings, it is issued at a price that can be no obstacle to its being procured by every parent and friend to youth.