NA TURE

"A LIBRARY

Nov.

1869

4,

IN ITSELF.

CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE.

THIS

important and elaborate Work, complete in

3,400

Wood

Engravings, and

own

not having headings of their references.

It

includes

Ten Volumes,

contains

distinct

27,170

Articles,

39 Maps, beautifully printed in Colours. The Index of subjects Work is comprehensive and exhaustive, containing some 7,000

in the

every subject

j

of any importance

that

has been

Encyclopedia, and thus materially contributes towards rendering the Work

mentioned

iiicideiitaUy

— as

was

in

the

originally intended

A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL INFORMATION.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Scotsman.

Blackwood's Magazine.

A

compendiuni of learned and curious matter widely varied. , The work he (the Editor) superintends is becoming a treasury in which such mites of learning brought together fonn .

.

A

more useful, concise, and correct compendium of knowledge it is impossible to conceive.

universal

British Quarterly Review.

the wealth.

Times.

Nothing

may be safely pronounced a very satisis not to be supposed that we have had the time necessary to acquaint ourselves with a titlie of the contents of the ten handsome super-royal octavo volumes of which it consists. But we have done our best to submit them to the test of a very searching scrutiny in several distinct branches of learning. Is our object ethnographical or geographical infor" mation we have here afforded to us the most " extended range of "observation," and, literally, by the aid of the admirable maps scattered up and down these volumes, we can " survey mankind from China to Peru." . . When we have said that the entire Cyclopa?dia of Messrs. Chambers is equal in bulk to about half of the Penny Cyilopitiiia, our readers will easily infer that it is indeed a perfect storehouse of useful information. In short, there is no branch of information on which it may not be consulted with advantage by the worker or general The work before us factory production. It

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omitted but everything is reduced to the smallest dimensions compatible with lucidity We can only in general terms very lieartily commend this last and greatest achievement of the Messrs. Chambers, in providing " information for the people," as almost without defect. is

Spectator.

We have not

an hour's " dodging " among the miscellaneous work failed to find the answer to the question proposed after all the most popular and most trying test of an encycloWe are, moreover, assured on high professional authopcedia. rity that the papers on medicine, anatomy, and ]">hysiology are models of accurate condensation, contain "quite as much as outsiders can have any need to know ;" and we can say for once

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ourselves that the accounts of Oriental creeds are, considering their length, very remarkable essays, conveying much information which to the majority of Englishmen ^ill he absolutely

new.

reader.

IN

TEN VOLUMES, AT £^

os.

CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPyEDIA Is

at

once

the

Cheapest

and most Comprehensive Work of to

W. AND

R.

the

kind ever

the Public.

CHAMBERS, LONDON AND EDINBURGH.

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