Cloth, Gilt, Price Five Shillings. 



UNIFORM WITH "OUTLINES OF CREATION.' 

 THE 



BOY'S BOOK 



INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION, 



BY ELISHA NOYCE. 



AUTHOR OF " OUTLINES OF CREATION." 



ILLUSTRATED WITH THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE 

 ENGRAVINGS, BY 



THE BEOTHEES DALZIEL. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



Examiner, July 3. 1858. 



' This book contains a brief and very clear summary of information for young 

 readers upon the natural products used in the arts, and the arts by whicn they 

 are converted to Man's use. It tells the main facts that relate to every 

 manufacture, and describes the various kinds of apparatus aud machinery 

 chains, cranks, valves, wheels, steam and other engines, fire-arms, stills, 

 thermometers and barometers, ploughs, thrashing-machines, &c., as well as the 

 more notable kinds of engineering work. To make the brief descriptions as 

 effectual as full ones, they are very freely illustrated with good woodcuts 

 by the Brothers Dalziel. Whatever is described is shown not only by plans and 

 diagrams, but frequently also by little pictures that are very interesting and 

 effective. The illustrations, we should add, are not copies of copies, but new 

 and direct sketches from the things they represent. Among efforts to produce 

 cheap volumes of useful information for the young, we account this o ne of the 

 most successful." 



Art Journal, August. 



" This is just the book to place in the hands of an intelligent boy or girl for 

 why should the useful information it contains be limited to sex ? who desires 

 to know something about those things from which so much of his comfort and 

 enjoyment is derived. Every youth in Prussia, whatever be his condition the 

 prince and the peasant alike is, we believe, compelled by the laws which 

 apply in that country to education, to learn some trade or handicraft. Mr. 

 Noyce's book will serve to initiate every boy in the United Kingdom who 

 reads it, into the theoretical art and mystery of the material and manufacturing 

 world. He divides his teachings into six sections, under the respective heads 

 of Natural Products, Manufactured Products, Products of Skilled Labour, 

 Arts and Trade Processes, Apparatus and Machinery, and Engineering Works, 

 bringing into notice more than one hundred and fifty different subjects. The 

 explanations and descriptions are, as they should be, simple and untechnical, 

 as far as possible ; concise, yet sufficiently demonstrative ; a multum in parvo, 

 to which Messrs. Dalziel's clear and well-executed engravings give great 

 additional value. Such a volume is worth a hundred story-books as a present 

 to the juveniles." 



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