INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING WORKS. 
TALES AND STORIES FROM HISTORY. By 
AGNES STRICKLAND. Two Volumes, with many Engravings. 
The object of these Tales is to impart 
at once instruction and amusement to 
the youthful mind. Each of these 
stories is either founded upon, or con 
nected with, some important event in 
History, and furnishes useful and en- 
tertaining information as to the Man- 
ners and Customs of the peculiar era to 
which it relates. This is conveyed in 
language sufficiently simple to be 
adapted to the comprehension of chil- 
dren at a very early age; but, at the 
same time, it is hoped that the Tales 
will be found interesting to readers at 
a much more advanced period of life. 
These Tales are by no means intended 
to supply the place of History. They 
are, on the contrary, calculated to create 
a taste for that style of reading, by in- 
dulging the juvenile reader with an at- 
tractive portion of its choicest flowers, 
arranged in the tempting form of Stories. 
In addition to this, every Tale is ren- 
dered the vehicle for introducing some 
moral lesson, calculated to improve the 
heart, and to impress the tender mind 
of Childhood with a love of virtue. 
Such being the object of these Tales, 
it is to be hoped that they will be found 
not only essentially useful, but suf- 
ficiently attractive, to the young, as to 
supersede the use of many of the silly 
and pernicious fictions which have 
hitherto, unfortunately, constituted too 
large a proportion of the books pro- 
vided for the use of young people. 
* A FAMILIAR HISTORY of BIRDS : their Nature, 
Habits, and Instincts. By the Rev. EDWARD STANLEY, 
M. A., F. L. S., Rector of Alderley, Cheshire. Two Volumes, 
with many Engravings. 
This work is intended for a class of 
readers to whom mere scientific details 
would be unacceptable, if not unintel- 
ligible. Such therefore have been, as 
much as possible, avoided, and only 
alluded to as inducements to those who 
are interested in the subject, to make 
further progress in so attractive a de- 
partment of Natural History. 
There are few individuals who have 
it not in their power, occasionally, to 
remark the instincts and habits of 
Birds ; and the many anecdotes col- 
lected from the Author’s own observa- 
tion, the information of friends, or vari- 
ous respectable sources, will, it is hoped, 
excite others to register any facts with- 
in their reach, which may illustrate the 
mysterious economy whereby this beau- 
tiful portion of God’s creation is enabled, 
in so many instances, to surpass the 
highest efforts of man’s ingenuity, fore- 
sight, or philosophy. 
WILD ANIMALS. By MARY ROBERTS. Printed 
Uniformly with “ Domesticated Animals, considered with refer- 
ence to Civilization and the Arts.” By the same Writer. 
* DOMESTICATED ANIMALS considered with reference 
to Civilization and the Arts. 
This work will comprise a general sur- 
vey of Domestic Quadrupeds, and the 
purposes they subserve in the great 
economy of nature : their connexion, 
too, with the progress of civilization 
and the arts, with the history of nations, 
and the peculiarities of soil and climate, 
are also specified; those countries which 
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are rendered habitable only by the sub- 
jugation and appropriation of certain 
species, are generally described, with 
the manners and habits of the natives, 
as far as they are associated with the 
history of Domestic Animals. — Intro- 
duction. 
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