THE UNIVERSE 



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OR, THE WONDERS OF CREATION. THE INFINITELY GREAT AND THE INFI- 

 NITELY LITTLE. 



BY F. A. POUCHET, M. D. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



A handsome illustrated gift-book, intended 

 to serve a higher and more useful end than 

 most of the other works which come to our 

 hands. . . . We can honestly commend 

 this work, which is admirably, as it is copi- 

 ously, illustrated. London Times. 



As interesting as the most exciting ro- 

 mance, and a great deal more likely to be 

 remembered to good purpose. Standard. 



The volume and it is a splendid one will 

 serve as a great educator. We have no doubt 

 that it will find what it deserves, popularity 

 among American readers. Saturday Review 

 (London). 



Both the nature and object of this book 

 incline us to a favorable judgment. M. Pou- 

 chet recognizes two ends of a philosopher's 

 mission in our days, to discover and to pop- 

 ularize, to advance science and diffuse it. 

 The end selected in the publication of this 

 work is eminently the latter: a worthy one, 

 surely, than which human nature rightly de- 

 veloped would confess none more noble. But 

 it is seldom that both the inclination and the 

 capacity to effect this are united in the one 

 person. The work now before us is, however, 

 a happy instance of this union. ... A 

 general view of the whole panorama of nature 

 passes, in fact, before the reader's notice in 

 harmonious and comparatively exhaustive ar- 

 rangement. . . . The matter is refreshed 

 throughout by a spirited French style. The 

 Spectator. 



M. Pouchet is well known, and has an 

 established reputation as a naturalist and an 

 original investigator. When, therefore, he 

 descends to the popular, and, as in this vol- 

 ume, emerges from the study in the full even- 

 ing dress of the drawing-room, we know that 

 we are listening to one who has searched and 

 studied for himself. Contemporary Review. 



Anybody of ordinary intelligence can un- 

 derstand it, so simple and so little technical is 



the style; and scarcely any book in French or 

 English is so likely to stimulate in the young 

 an interest in the physical phenomena. 

 Fortnightly Review. 



He touches nothing which he does not 

 adorn ; and science made easy was never 

 more successfully attempted. Edinburgh 

 Scotsman. 



This is just the kind of book fitted to make 

 natural science popular, by writing accurately 

 while writing attractively on the subject. The 

 author has the two great advantages so rarely 

 combined in one pen, that while his book has 

 all the attractiveness of fiction, it is raised on 

 deep strata of scientific fact. It is a picture, 

 and a very graphic one, of the march of sci- 

 ence throughout the great kingdom of nature. 



Morning Post. 



We know of no more attractive book for a 

 beginner, or one more likely to excite to fur- 

 ther study of natural science. It is eminently 

 instructive, and as interesting as "Robinson 

 Crusoe." Land and Water. 



This volume will prove a capital present. 



Athenceum. 



As a present to an intelligent youth blessed 

 with a taste for natural history, it would be 

 difficult to hit upon a more attractive volume. 



Pall Mall Gazette. 



It is really a sterling book, notwithstanding 

 that it attempts an account of all the natural 

 objects which surround us. . . . M. Pou- 

 chet's book, then, is just such a one as might 

 be expected of its author. In accuracy it 

 leaves nothing to be desired. Its scope is im- 

 mense. . . . The style is fresh and vigor- 

 ous, like that of a preacher whose heart is in 

 his sermon, and whose congregation doesn't 

 slumber. In short, the author carries his 

 reader along with him. Popular Science 

 Review. 



H. HALLETT AND COMPANY, Publishers, 

 PORTLAND, MAINE. 



