OPINIONS OF THE FAMILY LIBRARt. 



" The puhlisbers have hitherto fully deserved their daily increasing 

 teputation by the good taste and judgment which have influenced the 

 Belections of works for the Family Library."— ^/6a7i2/ J^aily Advertiser, 

 " The Family Library—A title which, from the valuable and entertain- 

 ing matter the collection contains, as well as from the careful style of its 

 execution, it well deserves. No family, indeed, in which there are chil- 

 dren to be brought up, ought to be without this Library, as it furnishes 

 the readiest resources for that education which ought to accompany or 

 succeed that of the boarding-school or the academy, and is infinitely more 

 conducive than either to the cultivation of the inieWemy— Monthly Review 

 "It is the duly of every person naving a family to put this excellent 

 Library into the hands of his children."— iV. Y. Mercantile Advertiser. 



" It is one of the recommendations of the Family Library, that it em- 

 braces a large circle of interesting matter, of important information and 

 agreeable entertainment, in a concise manner and a cheap form. It is 

 eminently calculated for a popular series— published at a price so low, 

 that persons of the most moderate income may purchase it— combining a 

 matter and a style that the most ordinary mind may comprehend it, at th«» 

 same time that it is calculated to raise the moral and intellectual character 

 of the people." — Constellation. 



" We have repeatedly borne testimony to the utility of this work. It is 

 one of the best that has ever been issued from the American press, and 

 should be in the library of every family desirous of treasuring up useful 

 knowledge." — Boston Statesman- 



" We venture the assertion that there is no publication in the country 

 more suitably adapted to the taste and requirements of the great mass of 

 community, or better calculated to raise the intellectual character of the 

 middUng classes of society, than the Family Library. "—Boston Masonic 

 Mirror. 



" We have so often recommended this enterprising and useftil publica- 

 tion (the Family Library), that we can here only add, that each succes- 

 Bive number appears to confirm its merited popularity."— iV. Y. American. 

 " The little volumes of this series truly comport with their title, and are 

 in themselves a Famdy Library."— xV. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 



"We recommend the whole set of the Family Library as one of the 

 cheapest means of affording pleasing instruction, and imparting a jiroper 

 pride in books, with which we are acquainted."— i/. S. Gazette. 



"It will prove instructing and amusing to all classes. We are pleased 

 lo learn that the works comprising this Library have become, as they 

 faght to be, quite jwpular among the heads of families."— xV. Y. Gazette. 

 "The Family Library is, what its name implies, a collection of various 

 Wiginal works of the best kind, containing reading useful and interesting 

 10 the family circle. It is neatly printed, and should be in every family 

 tb&l can aflbrd it—the price being mcd^raxGy—Neiu-EnglandPattadium. 



" We are pleased to sec that the publishers have obtained sufficient en- 

 eouragement to continue their valuable Family 'Lihrdiry:''-— Baltimore Re- 

 fublican. 



"The Family Library presents, in a compendious and conveaient form> 

 well-written histories of popular men, kingdoms, science^ &c. arranged 

 tnd edited by able writers, and drawn entirely from the most correct ani 

 tccredited authorifies. It is, as it professes to be, a Family Library, from- 

 tvhich, at little expense, a household may prepare ihemselves for a con- ' 

 sideration of those elementary subjects of education and society, without* 

 due acquaintance with which neither man nor woman has claim to be • 

 well bred, or to lake their pfojicr place among those with whom they 

 abide,"— CAariejf Oft Gazette, 



