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ADVICE. 



'F PUBLISH these lectures at present roughly, in the form in which 

 they were delivered, — (necessarily more brief and broken than that 

 which maybe permitted when time is not limited,) — because I know 

 that some of their hearers wished to obtain them for immediate refer- 

 ence. Ultimately, I hope, they will be completed in an illustrated 

 volume, containing at least six lectures, on the Robin, the Swallow, the 

 Chough, the Lark, the Swan, and the Sea-gull. But months pass by me 

 now, like days ; and my work remains only in design. I think it better, 

 therefore, to let the lectures appear separately, with provisional wood- 

 cuts, afterwards to be bettered, or replaced by more finished engravings. 

 The illustrated volume, if ever finished, will cost a guinea ; but these 

 separate lectures a shilling, or, if long, one shilling and sixpence each. 

 The guinea's worth will, perhaps, be the cheaper book in the end ; but 

 I shall be glad if some of my hearers felt interest enough in the subject 

 to prevent their waiting for it. 



The modem vulgarization of the word "advertisement" renders, I 

 think, the use of ' advice ' as above, in the sense of the French ' avis ' 

 (passing into our old English verb ' avise ') on the whole, preferable. 



Brantwood, 

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