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T HE BOY’S OWN MAGAZINE. Commenced January 1, 
1854. Published in Monthly Parts, price 2d. ; Annual Volumes, 3s. — This 
universal favourite contains all that a Boy should know, and nothing he should 
not. Amongst other interesting and informing contents may be mentioned, as 
having appeared in the current volume : — The Hostelry; or, Four Tales Told in a 
Forest — The Wreck of the Pirate — Normans and Saxons; or, Tales of the Con- 
quest — Reminiscences of a Raven — Broadsword and Single-Stick — Some of the 
Curiosities of English Money — Here a Sheer-Hulk— Remarkable Frosts — The 
Story of the Armada Retold — Nature’s Explorers— The Evil May-day — A Hero’s 
Son — Life of Bernadotte — George Washington — How to Model a Cutter — Diggebe 
Lowe — Gutta Percha — Cricket — The Wild Man of the Woods — Gymnastics — The 
Lamentation for Celin: a Poem — How Fred and Tom went Fishing — William the 
Silent — The Warden of the Cinque Ports — The Stranded Bark and the Life-Boat 
— Conundrums, Charades — Stirring Songs, &c. This partial enumeration of the 
I titles of some of the articles comprised in this Magazine sufficiently indicates the 
absorbing interest of its general contents, as well as its admirable adaptation for 
the reading of boys. 
There are Six Volumes of the Bov’s Own Magazine published, handsomely 
bound in cloth, price 3s. each, and containing the numbers from January to 
December. [The Seventh Volume will be ready early in December.] Covers for 
binding, price 9d. 
T HE BOY’S OWN LIBRARY, commenced May 1, 1861, 
price 6d. Monthly. A Series of Books for Youth. — It is greatly to the credit 
of the rising generation that they turn with scorn from the lighter and grosser 
literature of the day to that which is more in accordance with their own healthful 
sentiments ; and to increase this wholesome preference is the aim of the writers 
whose books will have a place in the Boy’s Own Library. The Library is 
issued in Monthly Parts, price Sixpence each, and contains 48 pages of the finest 
paper, the matter being beautifully printed in a perfectly new type. Each Part 
contains some Twenty Superb Illustrations, engraved by H. Newsom Woods, from 
original designs by the first artists of the day, printed with the text ; and, in 
addition, a Beautifully Coloured Frontispiece, from sketches expressly made for 
the Library, and Printed in Colours by William Dickes. The first volume of the 
series — WILD SPORTS OF THE WORLD (by James Greenwood) — will be 
published early in November, handsomely bound in cloth, price 7 s. 6d. This volume 
will contain 6 maps, showing the habitat of wild animals in every quarter of the 
globe, 10 coloured pictures, 250 engravings, and 500 pages of letter-press. The 
Reviewers of the public press have unanimously declared this book to be the most 
beautiful and useful edition published of all that appertain to the habits, haunts, 
and hunting of the Elephant, Lion, Tiger, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Buffalo, 
Leopard, Panther, Wolf, Horse, Boar, and other denizens of the forest. Covers, Is. 3d. 
B EETON’S dictionary OF UNIVERSAL INFORMA- 
TION. Commenced November 1, 1858. Published in Monthly Parts, at 
3d. Single and 6d. Double Parts, in Annual Volumes, and in One Volume complete. 
— To the comprehensive minuteness, accuracy, and general excellence of this work 
unqualified testimony has been borne by nearly every newspaper and literai-y 
journal in Great Britain and Ireland. It was issued with large professions, but 
these were not made without due consideration ; and we believe there is not one 
Subscriber who has not found Beeton’s Dictionary of Universal Informa- 
tion to be, within the space to which its articles must necessarily be limited, a 
Complete Gazetteer, a Compendium of Biography, an Epitome of Mythology, a Trea- 
sury of Bible Knowledge, and a Chronological Record, with the greatest attainable 
accuracy in the Pronunciation of every Proper Name. Nothing cheaper has ever been 
attempted in England, in Educational and Standard Literature. Annual Volumes 
L, II., and III., handsomely bound in cloth, are now ready; Vols. I. and II., price 
4s. 3d. each ; Vol. III., price 6s. The Complete Work, in Une Volume, price 13s. 6d. 
Covers for binding Vols. I., II., and III., price Is. ; for binding the complete work, 2s, 
