Recommendations of the Family Library. 



The following opinions, selected from highlj- respectable Journals, will 

 enable those who are unacquainted with the Family Library to form an 

 estimate of its merits. Numerous ether notices, equally favourable, and 

 from sources equally respectable, might be presented if deemed necessary. 



"The Family Library.— Avery excellent, and always entertaining Mis- 

 cellany." — Edinburgh Review, Ao. 103. 



" The Family Library.— We think this series of books entitled to the 

 extensive patronage they have received from the public. The subjects 

 B€lecte<l are, generally, both useful and interesting in themselves, and are 

 treated in a popular and agreeable manner : the style is clear, easy, and 

 flowing, adapted to the taste of general readers, for whom the bonks are 

 designed. The \\Titers are mostly men of high rank in the literary world, 

 and appear to possess the happy talent of blending instruction with 



amusement We hesitate not to commend it to the public as a valuable 



series of works, and worthy a place in every gentleman's library."— J/a^a- 

 zine of Useful aiid Entertaining Knowledge. 



" We take the opportunity again to recommend this valuable series of 

 Tolumes to the public patronage. We know of no mode in which so much 

 entertaining matter may be procured, at so cheap a rate, as in the Family 

 Library."— N. Y. Daily Advertiser. 



" The Family Library should be in the hands of every person. Thus 

 far it has treated of subjects interesting to all, condensed in a persprcuous 



and agreeable style We have so repeatedly spoken of the merits of the 



design of this work, and of the able manner in which it is edited, that on 

 this occasion we will only repeat our conviction, that it is worthy a place 

 in every library in the country, and will prove one of the most useful as 

 it is one of the most interesting publications which has ever issued from 

 the American press."— lY. Y. Courier 6f Enquirer. 



" It is needless at this late period to commend to public attention and 

 encouragement the collection of delightful works now in a course ol jiub 

 Ucation under the appropriate title of the Family Library."— JV. Y. Eve 

 ning Journal. 



" We have repeatedly expressed our unwavering confidence in the 

 merits of this valuable series of popular and instructive books. The 

 Family Library has now reached its sixteenth number, with the increasing 

 lavour of the enlightened American public ; and we have heard of but 

 irm dissenting voice among the periodical and newspaper publishers who 

 h;ive frequently noticed and applauded the plan and the execution of the 

 Family Library. A censure so entirely destitute of reason cannot injure 

 a class of publications pure in sentiment and judicious andtasteOU in 

 composition."— Tfte Cabinet of Religion, ic. 



" The names of the writers employed are a sufficient surety that the 



merit of the Family Library will suflTer no decline."— iV. Y. Evening Post. 



"The Family Librarv is a collection which should be sougnt after by 



every one desirous of procuring the most valuable new works in the 



cheaiwst and most convenient form."— iV. Y. Daily Sentinel. 



"Those who condense and arrange such works for publication, and 

 they also who promulgate them, richly deserve the thanks and patronage 

 of all enlightened communities in the country. The Family Library 

 promises to be a most useful and cheap repository of the most important 



events of profane, ancient, and modern history A series of volumes, 



well conducted, and published with such stirring contents, cannot fail to 

 surpass all drv encvclopcdias, or diffuse and elaborate histories or biogra- 

 phies, miserably translated, and extended to the very stretch of ver- 

 bosity "—Philadelphia Giuettb 



