NATURAL HISTORY ADVERTISER. 



19 



POLYMICRIAN LIBRARY 



EDITED Br 



F. C. MEADOWS, M. A. 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, &C. &C. 



ON NOVEMBER 16, 1833, WILL BE PUBLISHED, TO BE 

 CONTINUED IN MONTHLY POCKET V0LU:MES, 

 VOLUME L EMBELLISHED WITH SIXTY PORTRAITS, 

 Engraved on Steel, in the best style of the art, by Lizars, 

 Price 4s. Qd. Morocco Cloth Boards, 

 Also Nos. I to VIII. 

 Each containing Ten Portraits, and Forty-eight pages 

 Letter-press, Price 6d. to be continued Weekly, 



OF 



A GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 



COMPREHENDING NOTICES OF 



THE LIVES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN OF ALL AGES 

 ANT) COUNTRIES, ANCIENT AND MODERN. 



The General Biography, it is expected, will be completed in 

 four or five Volumes, which will thus be enriched with about three 

 hundred beautiful Portraits. 



PROSPECTUS. 



It will be the study of the Publishers of the " Polymicrian 

 Library" to keep pace with the increasing desire for intellectual 

 improvement pervading all classes of society in the present day. 

 At a time when both the Metropolitan and the Provincial press is 

 teeming with unprofitable and frivolous literature, they are desirous 

 to seize upon and direct the popular taste to subjects cfa higher and 

 more substantial character, calculated alike to elevate and sustain 

 the tone of intelligence and moral feeling, and to neutralize the 

 enervating influence of that exclusively light and imaginative reading 

 which obtains among a vast portion of the community. In no way 

 will this ever be more eflfectually accomplished than in such a 

 publication as the present, — steering clear, on the one hand, of the 

 dry abstruseness of works especially devoted to Science and Philoso- 

 phy, and on the other presenting an incentive to read, by blending 

 together the utile et dulce — -the graceful, the agreeable, and 

 the useful of literature. 



Farther the Publishers deem it unnecessary to proceed in recom- 

 mending to the friends of real improvement an undertaking which 



