Recommendations of the Family Jjihrary. 



TiiK following opinions, sclectptl from highly rpsjwctable .loumalfl, will 

 6nahle those wiio are unaiMiuainteil with the Family I.ihrary to form an 

 estimate of its merits. Numerous other notices, e(inally favourable, and 

 from sources equally respectable, might bepresentetl if deemed necessary. 



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

 cellcny." — td'nbnrgh Rniar, yo. 103. 



" Tlie Family Library.— W'c think this serie.s of books entitled to the 

 extensive patronage ihey have received from the public. The subjects 

 selected are, generally, both useful and interesting in themselves, and are 

 treated in a i»opular and agreeable manner : the style is clear, easy, and 

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

 designed. The writers 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."— il/og^a- 

 2i/ie of I'seful and Entertaining Knowledge. 



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

 volumes 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. "~X Y. Daily Advertiser. 



"The Farnilv Librar\' should be in the hands of every person. Thus 

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



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



design of this work, and of the able manner in w Inch 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 

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

 the American press."— .V. Y. Courier if Enquirer. 



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

 encouragement the collection of delightful works now in a course of pub- 

 lication under the appropriate title of the Fannly Library."- JV. Y. Eve- 

 ning Journal. 



" We have repeatedly expressed our unwavering confidence in the 

 merits of this valuable series of popular and in.structive books. The 

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

 favour of the enlightened American public ; and we liave heard of but 

 one dissenting voice among the periodical and newspaper publishers who 

 have 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 sentmient and judicious and ta.steful in 

 composition."— T^e Cabinet of Religion, Ac. 



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

 merit of the Family Library will suffer no decline."— A'. Y. Evening Post. 



"The Family Librarv is a collection which should be sought arter by 

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

 cheapest 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 ilie 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, 

 weU conducted, and published with such stirrmg contents, cannot lail to 

 surpass all drv en. ydopedias, or diffuse and elaborate histories or biogra- 

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

 )iO»ity.''— Philadelphia Gazette. 



