TIE INTELLECTUAL OBSERVER. 



JANUARY, 1868. 



THE INTELLECTUAL OBSERVES AND "THE 



STUDENT." 



NOTICE TO OUE BEADERS. 



With the issue of this number of the Intellectual Observer 

 the Twelfth Volume of that Work is completed. We advisedly 

 say Work, because it was our intention from the beginning 1 

 not to produce an ephemeral serial, but a publication of 

 permanent value, consisting of articles on a variety of topics 

 of enduring interest, bringing to a focus many scattered rays 

 of knowledge, and offering to the educated classes, wherever 

 the English language is read or spoken, a record of research 

 and discovery in various departments of human inquiry, which 

 we hoped would not be found unworthy of their enlightened 

 support. 



From our first issue to the present time, the public have 

 appreciated our labours, and awarded to the Intellectual 

 Observer an amount of favour never before bestowed upon 

 any scientific publication taking the same high ground. In 

 addition to a sale in monthly numbers extending to many 

 thousands, there has been a continued demand for volumes 

 and for sets. The public have thus recognized in the Intel- 

 lectual Observer the character we desire to claim for it — that 

 of a permanent Work. 



This success has necessitated the course we now beg to 

 announce — that of bringing our labours to a definite conclusion, 

 with a view to their immediate resumption in another form. 

 With this number the Intellectual Observer completes and 

 closes its career, and^ on the 1st of next month (February, 

 1868), "The Student" will appear as the successor of the 

 Intellectual Observer, continuing the plans carried out in 

 the former publication, with such improvements and additions 

 as the wants of the public and our experience may suggest. 



By this arrangement new subscribers will have the advan- 

 tage of coming in at the beginning of a New Magazine of 

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