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«A LIBRARY IN ITSELF.” 
CHAMBERSS ENCYCLOPAIDIA: 
A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE 
PORTE, BE OREE: 
HIS important and elaborate Work, complete in Ten Volumes, contains 27,170 distinct Articles, 
3,400 Wood Engravings, and 39 Maps, beautifully printed in Colours. 
The INpDEx of subjects 
not having headings of their own in the Work is comprehensive and exhaustive, containing some 17,000 
references. 
It includes every subject of any importance that has been ivcédentally mentioned in the 
ENcycLopp14, and thus materially contributes towards rendering the Work—as was originally intended— 
A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL INFORMATION. 
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
Blackwood’s Magazine. 
A compendium of learned and curious matter widely varied. 
«+. The work he (the Editor) superintends is becoming a 
treasury in which such mites of learning brought together form 
the wealth. 
Times. 
The work before us may be safely pronounced a very satis- 
factory production. 
the time necessary to acquaint ourselves with a tithe of the 
contents of the ten handsome super-royal octavo volumes of 
which it consists. But we have done our best to submit them to 
the test of a very searching scrutiny in several distinct branches 
of learning. Is our object ethnographical or geographical infor- 
mation—we have here afforded to us the most “extended” 
range of “observation,” and, literally, by the aid of the ad- 
mirable maps scattered up and down these volumes, we can 
“survey mankind from China to Peru.” . .. When we have 
said that the entire Cyclopzdia.of Messrs. Chambers is equal in 
bulk to about half of the Pexzy Cyclopedia, our readers will 
easily infer that it is indeed a perfect storehouse of useful infor- 
mation. In short, there is no branch of information on which it 
may not be consulted with advantage by the worker or general 
reader. 
Scotsman. 
A more useful, concise, and correct compendium of universal 
knowledge it is impossible to conceive. 
British Quarterly Review. 
Nothing is omitted; but everything is reduced to the smallest 
dimensions compatible with lucidity. .... We can only in 
Tt ie ae A all general terms very heartily commend this last and greatest 
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achievement of the Messrs. Chambers, in providing “ information 
for the people,” as almost without defect. 
Spectator. 
Peery: 
We have not once in an hour’s “ dodging” among the miscel- 
laneous work failed to find the answer to the question proposed 
—after all the most popular and most trying test of an encyclo- 
peedia. We are, moreover, assured on high professional autho- 
rity that the papers on medicine, anatomy, and physiology are 
models of accurate condensation, contain “ quite as much as out- 
siders can have any need to know;” - and we can say for 
ourselves that the accounts of Oriental creeds are, considering 
their length, very remarkable essays, conveying much informa- 
tion which to the majority of Englishmen will be absolutely 
new. 
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