ARVINE'S CYCLOPEDIA OF ANECDOTES.

* This work, which is the most extensive and comprehensive collection f anecdotes ever published, cannot fail to become highly popular.” – Salem Gazette.

« They are not Joe Miller jokes, but contain useful historical information, seasoned with the wit and eccentricities of great 'men, with matters calculated to awaken grave reflections and generous sensibilities.” – Journal and Cou -ier, New Haven.

“ This valuable and interesting work, we are satisfied, will meet with universal favor. The anecdotes are stort, pithy, and entertaining; admirably calculated to afford pleasure and profit while spending a leisure hour." — lowell Gazette.

“ A very extensive collection of agreeable anecdotes and bits of reading in relation to subjects connected with literature and art, which are arranged under alphabetical heads, and are so various as to afford most happy illustration to the author, the orator, the teacher, and the conversationalist. A pleasant and useful work, one which will always furnish' a fund of amusement, information, and illustration, without injury to the innocent, and without offence to the moralist.” – Norfolk County Journal.

" It is not a shilly-shally publication, but one of decided merit, involving great research. The anecdotes are classified under their various topics. Herein is the cream of literature, gathered from all sources, far and near." – Ciscisnati Journal and Messenger.

"A vast fund of curious and valuable information. The form of anecdote is one of the most agreeable garts in which knowledge can be clotbed, and the one of which the memory is the most tenacious. Every page of the Cclopædia, therefore, will be found attractive, both on account of the instruction and amusement which it affords." — Ports routh Journal.

" The anecdotes are not only entertaining and instructive, but many of them furnish important information." – Religious Hernld.

“ The book is a well-spring of entertainment, to be drawn from at any moment and for all times, as it comprises the choicest anecdotes of distinguished men, from the remotest period to the present time.” — Bangor Wkig.

** Anecdotes are pleasant to read, and amusing and entertaining to tell, and serve valuable ends often in the ray of illustration. The selection has been carefully made, and nothing low or irreligious has been admitted. It wil prove an admirable family book, and will be useful on the table of the scholar.” – Cincinnati Christian Herald.

" A book that may be purchased for the winter evening amusement of a family, without any fears of moral poisie* - Vermont Chronicle.

* The book will be a valuable one, not only for the young, but for all who have any relish for the delights of literature and art.” – Brattleboro' Eagle.

One of the most valuable and useful works which has been issued from the press in a long time. It should be .n the library of every scholar, and in the hands of every man.” — Neroport Daily Neros.

“It will prove one of the most interesting publications of the day, and will undoubtedly meet with a hearty ra ception throughout the land.” — Baltimore Observer.

“ The work is very neatly printed, prettily illustrated, and furnishes a pleasing variety of good reading. We have always had great confidence in these publishers as caterers for the public taste. We do not recollect baving seen a bad book with their imprint upon it." — Biblical Recorder, N. C.

“This is one of the most entertaining works for desultory reading we have seen, and will no doubt have a very extensive circulation. As a most entertaining table book, we hardly know of anything at once so instructive and amusing.” — Christian Intelligencer, N. Y.

“ The most interesting work of the kind we have ever seen. No one who makes pretensions to literature - as the don't? – should be without a copy.” – Belfast Republican.

“A rare volume, abounding in a rare, copious, and choice selection of anecdotes and facts relating to literature. architecture, poetry, painting, music, and the other arts, and of the most celebrated literary men and artists of all ages and countries." - Westchester Democrat.

"It comprises a great variety of matter, serions and humorous, instructive and entertaining Guard has been placed against the introduction of profane and ribald stories, or whatever might be offensive to good taste and the inoral sensibilities." – Christian Mirror.

“ It is a rich treasury of thought, and wit, and learning, illustrating the characteristics and peculiarities of many of the most distinguished names in the history of literature and the arts." – Christian Obserder, Philadelphie.

“ The range of topics illustrated is very wide, relating to nature, religion, science, and art; furnishing apposite illustrations for the preacher, the orator, the Sabbath school teacher, and the instructors of our common schanis, academies, and college. It mist prove a valuable work for the fireside, as well as for the library, as it is cal. culated to please and edify all classes.” -- Christian Register, Zanesville, Ohio.

“A vast fund of curious and valuable information. The form of anecdote is one of the most agreeable garts in which knowledge can be clothed, and the one of which the memory is the most tenacious. Every page of the Cyclopædia, therefore, will be found attractive, both on account of the instruction and amusement which it funds -- Ereter Neros Letter.

“ It is one of the most interesting publications of the season. One admirable trait of the volume is, that you never meet with any thing quarse or offensive to delicacy; and one great advantage derived from its possession is the insight which it gives into the character of many of the great. We recommend our readers to obtain this book, bem lieving that the amount thus expended will be well spent." - Southern Frii.

“ A beautiful volume, which we wonld not part with for twice the price. To the scholar, the professional ma, or the man of leisure, it will be a treasure.”. Concord Democrat.

“ The most complete collection of anecdotes that has ever been issued from the press. As a volume for referenca this work fills a place bitherto vacant in American and English literature, fumishing on every topic, within the rang of the fine arts, the best and most elegant illustrations." — Claremont Eagle.

“A glance at the copious index will satisfy any one of the value of this book. It is undoubtedly the fullest and hot collection of anecdotes of literature and the fine arts ever published, and deserves a place in every public and prirete library." — New England Farmer.

"We know of no work which in the same space comprises so much valuable information in a form so entenaining, and so well adapted to make an indelille impression upon the mind. It must become a standard Work, and be ranked among the few books which are indispensable to every complete library.” - N: Y. Chronicle.

“ Here is a perfect repository of the most choice and approved specimens of this species of information, selected with the greatest care from all sources, ancient and

modern. The work is replete with such entertainment as is adapted a all grades of readers, the most or least intellectual.” — Methodist Quarterly Magazine.

GOULD AND LINCOLN, PUBLISHERS, Boston

CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

A SELECTION OF THE CHOICEST PRODUCTIONS OF ENGLISH AUTHORS, FROM
THE EARLIEST TO THE PRESENT TIME; CONNECTED BY A CRITICAL

AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.

EDITED BY ROBERT CHAMBERS,

ASSISTED BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS AND OTHER EMINENT GENTLEMEN

Complete in two imperial octavo volumes, of more than fourteen hundred pages of double column letter-press, and upwards of three hundred elegant illustrations.

Price, cloth, $5,00.

The work embraces about one thousand authors, chronologically arranged and classed as Poets, Historians, Dramatists, Philosophers, Metaphysicians, Divines, etc., with choice selections from their writings, connected by a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Narrative; thus presenting a complete view of English Literature, from the earliest to the present time.' Let the reader open where he will, he cannot fail to find matter for profit and delight. The selections are gems - infinite riches in a little room; in the language of another, “A WHOLE English LIBRARY FUSED DOWN INTO ONE CHEAP BOOK!"

The AMERICAN edition of this valuable work is enriched by the addition of fine steel and mezzotint Engravings of the heads of SHAKSPEARE, ADDISON, BYRON; a full-length portrait of DR. JOHNSON, and a beautiful scenic representation of OLIVER Goldsmith and Dr. Johnson. These important and elegant additions, together with superior paper and binding, render the AMERICAN superior to all other editions.

EXTRACTS FROM COMMENDATORY NOTICES. From W. H. Prescott, Author of " Ferdinand and Isabella.” “The plan of the work is very judicious. ... It will put the reader in the proper point of view for surveying the whole ground over which he is travelling. . . . Such readers cannot fail to profit largely by the labors of the critic who has the talent and taste to separate what is really beautiful and worthy of their study from what is superfluous."

“ I concur in the foregoing opinion of Mr. Prescott.” — Edward Everett.

" It will be a useful and popular work, indispensable to the library of a student of English literature.” – Francus Wayland.

“We hail with peculiar pleasure the appearance of this work, and more especially its republication in this country at a price which places it within the reach of a great number of readers." — North American Revicu.

“ This is the most valuable and magnificent contribution to a sound popular literature that this century has brought forth. It fills a place which was before a blank. Without it, English literature, to almost all of our countrymen, educated or uneducated, is an imperfect, broken, disjointed' mass. Every intelligent man, every inquiring inind, every scholar, felt that the foundation was missing. Chambers's Cyclopædia supplies this radical defect. It begins with the beginning; and, step by step, gives to every one, who has tho intellect or taste to enjoy it, a view of Eng. lish literature in all its complete, beautiful, and perfect proportions.” - Onondaga Democrat, N. Y.

“We hope that teachers will avail themselves of an early opportunity to obtain a work so well calculated to impart useful knowledge, with the pleasures and ornaments of the English classics. The work will undoubtedly find a place in our district and other public libraries; yet it should be the vade mecum' of every scholar.” – Teachers' Advocate, Syracuse, N. Y.

“ The design has been well executed by the selection and concentration of some of the best productions of English intellect, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon writers down to those of the present day. No one can give a glance at the work without being struck with its beauty and cheapness.” – Boston Courier.

“We should be glad if any thing we can say would favor this design. The elegance of the execution feasts the eye with beauty, and the whole is suited to refine and elevate the taste. And we might ask, Who can fail to go back to its beginning, and trace his mother tongue from its rude infancy to its present maturity, elegance, and rich Dess?" - Christian Mirror, Portland.

“ This Cyclopædia is executed with great fidelity and tact. We know no work which we can recommend upore highly.” - Neal's Saturday Gazette, Phila.

“ It is a good selection from the most renowned English writers, and has been fitly described as "a whole English library fused down into one cheap book.” The Boston edition combines neatness with cheapness, engraved portraits being given, over and above the illustrations of the English copy." -- N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

“Welcome! more than welcome! It was our good fortune some months ago to obtain a glance at this work, and we have ever since looked with earnestness for its appearance in an American edition.” - New York Recorder.

“ The industry, learning, and ability of Mr. Chambers are securities for the excellence of the work, and we commend it to every man of taste and letters as worthy of his patronage." - New York Observer.

“This is an elegant reprint of the Edinburgh edition, and certainly presents a specimen of typography and engraving of which we may be proud." - Ladies' Repository, Boston.

“ This publication winnows the grain from an interminable mass of literary chaff; and, in this regard, is most welcome to such a labor-saving age as that in which we live. No man of taste should fail of possessing a work which is evidently a classie.” — Morning Signal, Cincinnati.

“ It embodies a large amount of historical and biographical facts, and illustrates more perfectly than any other single book. A work like this cannot fail to prove convenient and interesting to the man of letters; wbile, to the ordinary reader, it opens a store of information which he will not be likely to obtain from any other source. We hopo it may be widely circulated in this country, and contribute something to the cultivation among our people of a tasto for the literature of their mother tongue, and an acquaintance with the character of its best masters.” – Providence Tow nal

GOULD AND LINCOLN, PUBLISHERS. Boston.

CHAMBERS'S CYCLOPAEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

The name of Chambers is alone a sufficient guaranty for the sterling merit of this work, which is designed to bring the best of the English classics within the reach of that numerous class of readers for whose benefit and improve ment these publishers have for many years so successfully exerted themselves. A glance at the table of contenta will satisfy any one of the desirableness of the work. - Utica Daily Gazette.

No scholar will allow himself, for trifling considerations, to be without a work that throws so much light upon the progress the English language has made in improvement. The biographical sketches of those who have enriched our language are invaluable; and afford, by the admirable arrangement of the work, all the facilities for reference which can be desirable. The selections are gems, clearly indicating the style of the author and the character of English literature in the age in which he lived. The embellishments are splendid, and the typographical execution is unsurpassed. It is but an act of justice to commend so excellent a work to the attention of the public. - Teacher's Advocate.

This work will rank with any other of a similar character in the world. It is of the most comprehensive character, embracing in its limits all the distinguished poets, historians, biographers, metaphysicians, divines, philosophers, and dramatists of England. We are highly pleased to see it republished in this country, and in the very respectable manner in which it is done. - New York Saturday Emporium.

LORD BYRON.

We are indebted for a copy of the above magnificent work, complete. During its serial appearance we took frequent occasion to commend it strongly to the notice of our readers; and now that it is finished, we present it "in bulk," with the reassurance of its pe culiar and standard excellence. It is an extensive library in itself, and we would wish it placed on the table of every student of our literature, or reader of taste and leisure. It is by such works as this that society is improved and instructed; and the public owe a debt of gratitude to the liberal publishers, who must have expended a vast sum in its republication. Let its appreciation be commensurate with its worth, and the enterprising gentlemen will be encouraged to go on in well doing. Valuable and extensive as is the work, we are happy to state that it is afforded at the comparatively trifling cost of $5.- Philad. Cour.

This publication winnows the grain from an interminable mass of literary chaff; and, in this regard, is most welcome to such a labor-saving age as that in which we live. No man of taste should fail of pos sessing a work which is evidently a classic. Morsing Signal, Cincinnati.

It is a magnificent work. Like an "old caken bucket," sent down in the "wells of English unde filed," it is bringing up the purest water, with which the people's thirst for knowledge may be delightfully slaked. It is eminently a work for the people, and contains the very best of English literature. It promises to be worthy of the most extended patronage.-Christian Alliance.

This is one of the valuable emanations from the press which distinguish the publications of the present age from all that precede it. A mass of valuable information, incorporated in a condensed form, and issued at a very moder ate rate.-Cincinnati Daily Enquirer.

OF

USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE.

EDITED BY ROBERT CHAMBERS, AUTHOR OF “CHAMBERS'S CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE."

With Elegant Illustrative Engravings.

10 volumes, 16mo. Price, cloth, $7.50 ; sheep, $10.00.

The design of the MISCELLANY is to supply the increasing demand for useful, instructive, and entertaining read. ing, and to bring all the aids of literature to bear on the cultivation of the feelings and understandings of the people,- to impress correct views on important moral and social questions, — suppress every species of strife and savagery, - cheer the lagging and desponding, by the relation of tales drawn from the imagination of popular writers, - rouse the fancy, by descriptions of interesting foreign scenes, - give a zest to every-day occupations, by ballad and lyrical poetry, — in short, to furnish an unobtrusive friend and guide, a lively fireside companion, as far as that object can be attained through the instrumentality of books.

Some idea of the vast popularity to which this work attained in Great Britain, may be gathered from the following statements made by the Messrs. Chambers, in their Edinburgh Journal :

“During the currency of the work, since its commencement three years ago, the weekly impressions have varied from 80,000 to 100,000 ; but, including reprints, which are constantly going on, the average impression of each sheet of 32 pages has been 115,000. Of some sheets, which appear to have been peculiarly popular, the impression has been uj wards of 200,000. The tract, Life of Louis Philippe,' has been put to press thirteen times, and the various impressions have amounted to 280,470. The total number of sheets of the work printed to the present hour is 18,000,000, forming 38,125 reams. The weight of the entire mass printed has been 387 tons. The cost of the work for paper has been £25,776 ($125,000); for printing, £11,545 ($55,000); and for binding, £16,248 ($80,000). The money paid to authors for writing, has, in most instances, been £10 per sheet, or altogether, £1,450 ($7,000); and for wood-engravings the outlay has been about £500. The price paid by the public for the work has been £100,000 ($185,000). Of the general sales, the bulk has been chiefly in volumes. The quantity of volumes done up at each issue has usually filled two wagons; total number of volumes done up, 1,300,000. The larger proportion of these have been disposed of in or from London as a centre.”

The sale of the work in this country has been in equal proportion to that in the British kingdom. It is profusely embellished with illustrations, of which specimens are here given.

It gives us sincere pleasure to notice and commend this series of beautiful and entertaining books. Each of these little volumes is of itself a delightful work - all free from any immoral tendency, and delightfully instructive and entertaining. - American Traveller.

We do not hesitate to recommend it to every lover of refined and solid literature. It is issued in a neat and convenient form, and will be a vast treasury of pleasant reading, and more especially of knowledge, which ought, and we hope will, supplant the sickly and immoral works which have been so widely circulated. — Yeoman's Record.

These beautiful stories, so well adapted to stimulate the aspiring youth to attain distinction in the paths of honor, virtue and usefulness, cannot be too highly praised.

- Commercial Times, New Orl. I am not acquainted with any similar collection in the English language that can compare with for purposes of Instruction or amusement I should rejoice to see that set of books in every house. — Rev. John O. Choules, D. D

A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE READING FOR THE OLD AND THE YOUNG.

This work is considered fully equal to either of the Chambers's other works in interest, and, like them, contains a vast fund of valuable information. Following somewhat the plan of the "Miscellany," it is admirably adapted to the school or the family library, furnishing ample variety for every class of readers, both old and young. Each volume is ornamented with a beautiful illustrated title-page, of which a specimen is here given.

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, withous forcing us to run, walk, or even stand.- Eclectic, Portland.

The Chambers are confessedly the best caterers for popular and useful reading in the world.- Willis' Home Jour. Excellent stories from one of the best sources in the world. Of all the series of cheap books, this promises to be the best.-Bangor Mercury.