CHAMBER S'S MISCELLANY 



OF 



USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE 



In ten volumes: Price 510.00. 

 PUBLISHED BY GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN, BOSTON. 



The MISCELLANY is a most entertaining and instructive series of works. Its choice 

 selections, embracing over two hundred subjects and characters in History, Biography, 

 Science, Natural Histoiy, Physiology, Voyages, Travels, Thrilling Narratives, and Ele- 

 gant Fiction, are made "with taste and judgment, and with the highest philanthropic 

 purpose. 



CONTENTS. 



BIOGRAPHY. Louis Philippe. Jean Baptiste Colbert. William Tell. Grace Darling Vol- 

 ney Beckner. James Maxwell. Walter Ruysdael. Horatio Nelson. Robert Bruce. Captain 

 James Cook. William Wallace. Flora Macdouald. Sir Stamford Raffles. The Sister of Rem- 

 brandt. Toussaint L'Overture. George Washington. Intelligent Negroes, Thomas Jenkins; 

 Phillis \Vheatley ; Lott Carey ; Paul Cuffee ; Ignatius Sancho ; Zhinga , Placido, the Cuban Poet 

 William Hutton. Prince Lee Boo. Baron Trenck. Henry IV. Catharine of Russia. John F. Ober- 

 lin. Silvio Pellico. Madam Roland and the Girondins. Christopher Columbus. Peter the Great. 

 John Howard. James Lackington ; Thomas Holcroft ; William Gifford j Noah Worcester ; John 

 Pounds. The E:trick Shepherd. William Penu. John L Burkhardt. James Watt. Alexander 

 Selkirk. Sir Walter Scott. Sir William Jones. John Leyden. Alexander Murray. Alexander 

 U iison. Count Rumford. Eminent Astronomers. Copernicus ; Tycho Brahe ; Galileo ; Kep- 

 ler ; Newton ; Huygens ; Halley ; Ferguson ; Sir William Herschel. 



HISTORY. History of the Slave Trade. History of Poland. The Temperance Movement. 

 The Moors in Spain. The last Earl of Derwentwater. Persecutions in Scotland. William of 

 Oranae and the Netherlands. The Camisards. Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor. Gustavus 

 Adolphus and the Thir:y Years' War History of the Plague in London. The Norman Conquest. 

 Pictures of War Battles, Sieges, etc. Account of the Gipsies. Account of the Highlands. Con- 

 quest of Mexico. The Jews in England. British Conquest of India- The Crusades. The Bas- 

 tile. Pearls, and Pearl Fisheries. 



VOYAGES. Story of Richard Falconer. Byron's Narrative. Life of a Sailor Boy. Ship- 

 wreck of the Medusa. Mutiny of the Bounty. 



SCIENCE. Romance of Geology. Domestic Flower Culture. Curiosities of Vegetation. Nat- 

 ural Magic. Wood Engraving. Wonders of the Microscope. Wonders of the Telescope. Curi- 

 osities of Art, I. Architecture. Curiosities of Art, II. Mechanics. Curiosities of Art, III. 

 Manufactures. Treasures of the Enrth, Mineral. Treasures of the Earth, Metallic. 



NARRATIVES. Tale of the Norfolk Islands. La Rochejaqueiein, and the War in La Vendee. 

 Peter Williamson. Joan of Arc. Annals of the Poor. Slavery in America Vesuvius, Pom- 

 peii and Ilerculaneum. Baptiste Lulli. Cases of Circumstantial Evidence. Heroine of Siberia. 

 Insurrections in Lyons. Excursion to the Oregon. The Little Captive King. Children of the 

 Wilds. Story of Lavelette. Madeira and Teneriffe. The Scottish Adventurers. A Visit to Shet- 

 land Adventures of Robert Drury. The Sculptor of the Black Forest. The Russian Campaign. 

 The Stranger's Visit to Edinburgh African Discoveries. Poor Joe the Kidnapped Boy. The 

 Deserters. Life of a Negro Slave. Story of Jaquard. The Overland Journey to India. Four 

 months in Cape Colony. The Guerilla, a Story of the Peninsula War. 



NATURAL HISTORY. Happy Family of Animals. Anecdotes of Dogs. Anecdotes of the 

 Horse. Anecdotes of the Cat. Anecdotes of the Elephant. Anecdotes of Serpents. Anecdotes 

 of Ants. Anecdotes of Spiders. 



POETRY. My Native Bay, by R. Chambers. The Domestic Affections. The Cotter's Satur- 

 day Night The Chevy Chase. The Beggar's Daughter. Kindness to Animals. The Hermit of 

 Warkwbrth. Ballads. The Love of Flowers. The Ancient Mariner. History of Will and Jean. 

 Heir of Linne. Ballads. Crabbe's Poems. Scott's Poems. Co-wper's Poems. The Child of Elle. 

 Ballads. Selections from American Poets. Selections from Shakspeare. Selections from French 

 and German Poets. Poems on Insects. The Elizabethan Poets. Poems on Birds. Selections from 

 Byron. Songs of Home and Father Land. 



TALES. Time Enough, by Mrs. S. C. Hall. Picciola, or the Prison Flower. Life in the Bush. 

 The Two Beggar Boys. The Widow's Son. Maurice and Genevieve. Journal of a Poor Vicar. 

 Blanche Raymond. The Gold Maker's Village. Passion and Principle. Life Assurance, a familiar 

 dialogue. Mr. Macclarty. It's only a Drop, by Mrs. S. C. Hall. Valentine Duval. The Tintoretto. 

 A S-ory of the Factories. Scottish Traditionary Stories. Traditionary Tales of Tweeddale. Love is 

 Power! Alexander Andrayne. The Village Mayor. The Story of Fritz. The Bird Catcher and his 

 Canary An Account of the Borders. Story of De La Tude. The Three ways of Living. Story of a 



idays. Be Just before you are Generous. The Magic Flute. Why the Sea is Salt. 

 the French. Jim Cronin, by Mrs. Hoare. 



MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS. Keligious Impostors. Hindoo Superstitions. Spectral Illusions. 

 Speculative Manias. The Montyon Prizes. The Employer and Employed. Stories of Aims and Ends. 

 \ n 1, ites of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. Anecdotes of Shoemakers. Anecdo'es of the Early Paint- 

 ers Female Industry and Intrepidity. Woman's Trials in Humble Life. Present to Apprentices 

 Hints to \Vorkmen Manual for Infant Management. Cleanliness, Bathing, and V entilation. \ olun- 

 tary Distortions. Schools of Industry. Fireside Education. Friendly Hints to the Young. English 

 and Scotch Proverbs. 



