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any information on the Animal Kingdom within the 

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These three volumes form vols. 59, 66, and 72 of 

 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, and it may fairly be 

 questioned, whether within so small a compass there 

 exists in the English Language, such a valuable 

 mass of information on the subject of which they 

 treat, so ably explained or so lucidly expressed. 

 They are truly the product of a masterly mind. In 

 the chapter on nomenclature we have given an 

 extract from the second of these volumes, which 

 will convey a very good idea of the style and temper 

 in which Mr. Swainson has treated his subject. 

 The same calm, temperate, yet masterly mode of 

 discussion is carried throughout. The style is 

 remarkably free from those rugged, dark, verbose, 

 scarce intelligible sentences which occasionally dis- 

 figure the writings of even some of our best writers 

 on Natural History ; and at all times preserves an 

 easy flow, and if but seldom sparkling, is always 

 limpid. These volumes are the first of a series by 

 the same author ; and will form a complete sketch of 

 Zoology in all its branches. We believe that there 



