10 THE FAMILY LIBRARY. 



The annals of Art, and the lives of its followers, though 

 deficient in the spirit-stirring incidents of the warrior and 

 the politician, possess an interest not less attractive. The 

 labours and struggles of genius, the success of perseverance, 

 and the inutility of natural talent separated from prudence, 

 as exemplified in these biographies, will afford a useful 

 moral lesson, at the same time that the perusal of the 

 stories of such lives is a source of pleasure and enter- 

 tainment. 



THE HIST OB Y OF THE JEWS. 



By REV. H. H. MILMAN. Complete in 3 vols. 

 With Original Maps and Woodcuts. 



With the exception of Josephus, we have no historian of 

 the Jews, and he lived at a period too remote and too limited 

 to enable him to do justice to his subject, It is true, many 

 events have been narrated by Eollin, and the authors of the 

 Universal History, and noticed by commentators, but a 

 narrative at once Christian and liberal in its tone, spirited 

 and elegant in its language, and depicting with something 

 like kindred enthusiasm and eloquence, the manners, wars, 

 religion, and policy of the most extraordinary of nations, 

 was still wanting. 



The object of the present work is strictly historical, yet 

 it affords elucidation of many obscure passages in the Old 

 Testament ; avails itself of the casual evidence of heathen 

 writers ; and throws new light on the manners and customs 

 of the " Unchanging East," by references to the ablest 

 modern travellers. 



THE NATUEAL HISTOKY OE INSECTS. 



With very numerous Woodcuts. 2 vds. 



The study of Natural History is at all times pleasing and 

 instructive ; the object on this occasion has been to render- 

 it doubly captivating by a plain and simple style, and by the 

 numerous wood engravings. The extravagant price of books 

 of Natural History has deterred many, and it is no exagge- 

 ration to assert that the information and embellishments 

 contained in these volumes could hardly be purchased in 

 tiny other forai at a cost of less than several pounds. 



