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New and Popular Works, published by ROBERT TYAS, 50, Cheapside.

With an Engraved Frontispiece by LANDSEER, and more than Fifty minor Illustrations; price 3s. 6d.

THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS;

A Hand-Book for Visitors.

With cheapness the Publisher has endeavoured to combine utility and elegance in this little volume; and as he is confident much time may be saved by visitors using this guide (either to the Regent's Park or Surrey Gardens), so he trusts that the characteristic anecdotes and historical and descriptive notices it contains, will be found equally amusing and instructive.

"Who ever chaperoned a group of country cousins to the Zoological Gardens without wishing for the assistance of a hand-book? This grand desideratum is at length supplied by Mr. Tyas's exceedingly neat and well-arranged manual for visitors to the Regent's Park and Surrey establishments. In addition to valuable directions how to economise time and trouble, and see the collections to most advantage, the general reader will gain in this little work much information respecting the objects of his curiosity, while the more scientific will find a text-book in the glossary, which is appended to the descriptions of the animals."-Morning Post.

"This is a very happy idea, and one which cannot fail to recompense liberally the party with whom it has originated. It is singular, indeed, that with the exception of a brace of guinea volumes, and those very imperfect, no Guide to the Zoological Gardens should ever before have been compiled. This cheap and beautifully illustrated volume, however, satisfactorily supplies the desideratum. It contains a

catalogue raisonne of all the Animals in the Gardens of the Society, withelaborately engraved wood cuts of the most striking of its attractions."-United Service Gazette.

"This is a useful companion to any Zoological Gardens, and an amusing book for a drawing-room, boudoir, or library."Weekly Dispatch.

"This is an exceedingly useful work, and one which will be duly appreciated by all who visit the Zoological Gardens with it in their hands, as a means of immediate reference, for either information or for a description of the various living creatures comprised in that superb collection of animated wonder. The work abounds with interesting and characteristic anecdotes relative to the birds, beasts, or reptiles contained in the gardens. It will, therefore, be an exceedingly edifying and amusing study for young people, within whose reach the small price of three shillings and sixpence places it. The illustrations are exceedingly well executed; and, on the whole, the work is highly creditable to the publisher and editor."-Monthly Mag.

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"No visitor to the Zoological Gardens should proceed thither without this pleasing little volume, which is written with great simplicity and good taste. It combines a great variety of curious facts in natural history, with much amusing knowledge, interspersed with illustrative anecdotes. The wood cut embellishments are executed with great care, and are admirable likenesses of the different animals,"-Sherwood's Miscellany.

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"This volume is happily conceived, and cleverly executed; nor can any one resort to the interesting scenes to which it professes to be a guide, without being sensibly benefited by the facilities which it affords, not merely containing a catalogue of the numerous animals exhibited, but a plain and accurate account of their habits and nature. The anecdotes inserted with the view of shewing their character in confinement, are such as old and young must like to read, especially when perused in the presence of the specimens themselves.-Monthly Review.

. This Work may be had of all Booksellers in the neighbourhood of the Gardens;
from whom also Tickets may generally be obtained.

Shortly will be published, in Imperial Octavo, price Twopence,

No I.

(TO BE CONTINUED WEEKLY)

OF

SHAKSPERE

FOR THE PEOPLE:

FROM THE

TEXT OF JOHNSON AND STEEVENS:

WITH ANNOTATIONS, AND INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE PLAYS,

BY MANY DISTINGUISHED WRITERS :

AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND AN ESSAY ON HIS WRITINGS,
BY DOUGLAS JERROLD:

ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY

ONE THOUSAND ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD

FROM DESIGNS

BY KENNY MEADOWS.

OBJECT OF THE PROJECTORS.

The purpose of the Projectors of this New Edition of the Works of the WORLD'S POET, is to make the BOOK OF SHAKSPERE literally a household thing; and, whilst its price and mode of publication shall bring it within the means of readers of the humblest fortunes, the novelty of its PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS, with the care bestowed upon its Text, and typographical pretensions, will, it is confidently believed, render it superior to many editions put forth at quadruple its cost: the new resources of mechanical science, and the extraordinary improvement in wood engraving, enabling the Proprietors to diffuse amidst—ay, millions!-those beauties of art, and necessarily those refinements of life, no longer jealously considered as the property of the few, but claimed as the heritage of the many. Time was, when literature and art were to the people

"Bann'd and barr'd, forbidden fare."

Happily, in our day, the triumphs of the mind have vindicated their first and most sacred purpose— that of being ministrant to the moral improvement, and therefore to the highest happiness of all men. Books are no longer the exclusive luxuries of the rich-they are become the necessary food of the poor. It is with this conviction that the Projectors of "SHAKSPERE for the People" commence their grateful labours. In the present great moral struggle-in the present conflict of all that ennobles as of all that debases our common nature- good books may be considered as manna, blessing a hungry multitude. This allowed, what human work so irresistibly addresses itself to human sympathies as the

Continuation of Prospectus of " SHAKSPERE FOR THe People."

writings of Shakspere? Where shall the people find a nobler teacher-from whom shall their nature receive such immortal elevation-where shall they behold such vivid, stirring pictures of the world about them-whence learn (and learning, fear, respect, and love) the wondrous mysteries of the human heart-its powers alike for good or evil? Who shall teach them this with a loftier, a sweeter, a simpler, and a more convincing eloquence than Shakspere? Where shall they see and gather this loveliness and wisdom but in the starry page of HIM, whose genius, surpassing the powers of all men in its strength, is tempered with a charity and sweetness, rendering that strength so universal ?

It is expected that the forthcoming edition of the Poet will command admission to the libraries of the rich, by the peculiar beauty of its Embellishments; whilst, in the room of the artisan, in the cottage of the labourer, the PEOPLE'S SHAKSPERE (such is the proud hope of the Projectors) shall be as a household oracle; a teacher of the best of human wisdom, the sacredness of human rights; the innocent and ready happiness to be found in this life, even for the lowliest; and the crowning lesson of all life's teaching-the necessity and joyfulness of wise content.

THE ILLUSTRATIONS.

Each Play will be illustrated with numerous Engravings on Wood, executed in a style that shall challenge comparison with the most vigorous and most delicate specimens of the art; the Illustrations to consist of compositions in which there will be an attempt to embody the PORTRAITS of SHAKSPERE'S CHARACTERS; an attempt, the result of a long, and it may be honestly said, reverential study of the "many-coloured" subjects to be essayed; together with Landscapes illustrative of the text. Hence, the Work will contain a GALLERY OF SHAKSPERE PORTRAITS AND SHAKSPERE SCENES, executed with that zeal and love for the undertaking, without which there can in no high endeavour be even a promise of success.

THE TEXT AND NOTES.

The Text of Johnson and Steevens will be mainly followed; to which will be appended explanatory Notes, and a Glossary; the Notes from the pens of Writers distinguished by their knowledge and by their reverence of the Author. It is conceived that this most important part of the undertaking may be satisfactorily performed with a due regard to brevity; nothing being more easy, were such the design, than to load Shakspere with even the whole contents of an Encyclopædia.

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

A Life of Shakspere, collected from various sources, and containing the results of various late discoveries, will be WRITTEN FOR THE EDITION; with an Essay on the Plays and Poems. THE PRINTING.

The Work will be confided to the Press of VIZETELLY and Co.; a firm already distinguished for the excellence, beauty, and correctness of its works; and from which a new typographical triumph may be confidently predicted, in the edition of SHAKSPERE FOR THE PEOPLE.

EXTENT OF THE WORK.

It is calculated that each Play will occupy from Four to Six Numbers, but in no instance will exceed Six. An Edition will also be published in Monthly Parts.

LONDON:

ROBERT TYAS, 50, CHEAPSIDE.

J. MENZIES, EDINBURGH: MACHEN AND CO. DUBLIN.

The next two pages are Specimens of this Work.

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Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others.

Alon. Good Boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men.

Boats. I pray now, keep below.

Ant. Where is the master, Boatswain?

Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour; keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient.

Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence: trouble us not.

Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

Datchet mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch, close by the Thames side.

Mrs. Page. You will do it?

Mrs. Ford. I have told them over and over; they lack no direction: Be gone, and come when you are called. [Exeunt SERVANTS.

Mrs. Page. Here comes little Robin.

Enter ROBIN.

Mrs. Ford. How now, my eyas-musket? what news with you?

Rob. My master, Sir John, is come in at your backdoor, Mistress Ford; and requests your company. Mrs. Page. You little Jack-a-lent, have you been true to us?

Rob. Ay, I'll be sworn: My master knows not of your being here; and hath threatened to put me into everlasting liberty, if I tell you of it; for he swears, he'll turn me away.

Mrs. Page. Thou 'rt a good boy; this secresy of thine shall be a tailor to thee, and shall make thee a new doublet and hose.-I'll go hide me.

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Mrs. Ford. Do so:-Go tell thy master, I am alone. Mistress Page, remember you your cue. [Exit ROBIN.

Mrs. Page. I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me. [Exit Mrs. PAGE. Mrs. Ford. Go then: we'll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays.

Enter FALSTAFF.

Fal. Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough; this is the period of my ambition; O this blessed hour!

Mrs. Ford. O sweet Sir John!

Fal. Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate, Mistress Ford. Now shall I sin in my wish: I would thy husband were dead; I'll speak it before the best lord, I would make thee my lady.

Mrs. Ford. I your lady, Sir John! alas, I should be a pitiful lady.

Fal. Let the court of France shew me such another; I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast the right arched bent of the brow, that becomes the ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of Venetian admittance.

Mrs. Ford. A plain kerchief, Sir John: my brows become nothing else; nor that well neither.

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