THE FAMILY CABINET ATLAS, cONSTRUCTED UPON AN ORIGINAL PLAN: Being a Companion to the Encyclopædia Americana, Cabinet Cyclopædia, Family Library, Cabinet Library, &c.

This Atlas comprises, in a volume of the Family Library size, nearly 100 Maps and Tables, which present equal to Fifty Thousand Names of Places; a body of information three times as extensive as that supplied by the generality of Quarto Atlases.

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"This beautiful and most useful little volume," says

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER
RALEGH, with some account of the Period
in which he lived. By Mrs. A. T. THOMSON
With a portrait.

"Such is the outline of a life, which, in Mrs. Thom son's hands, is a mine of interest; from the first page to the last the attention is roused and sustained, arx while we approve the manner, we still more appladd the spirit in which it is executed."-Literary Gazelle.

"In all respects a most appropriate volume for the Cabinet Library. We shall take an opportunity is another notice, to give some of the many interesting passages in the volume that offer themselves for

the Literary Gazette," is a perfect picture of elegance, containing a vast sum of geographical information. A quotation."—N. Y. American. more instructive little present, or a gift better calculated to be long preserved and often referred to, could not be It takes what we are inclined to think, a just, and at "Mrs. Thomson has written a very interesting book offered to favored youth of either sex. Its cheapness, we must add, is another recommendation; for, although this the same time, favorable view of Ralegh, and a ocelegant publication contains 100 beautiful engravings cupied beside with many entertaining and illustrative it is issued at a price that can be no obstacle to its being anecdotes."-Craftsman. procured by every parent and friend to youth."

This Atlas far surpasses any thing of the kind which we have seen, and is made to suit the popular libraries which Dr. Lardner and Mr. Murray are now sending into every family in the empire "-Monthly Review.

"Its very ingenious method of arrangement secures to the geographical student the information for which hitherto he has been obliged to resort to works of the largest dimensions."-Athenæum.

"Presents in a concise but succinct style the variety of incidents connected with the life of the distinguished subject of the memoir."-National Journal.

"The book is unquestionably the best Life of Ralegh that has ever been written."—Album.

"This is a piece of biography which combines the This miniature and beautiful Atlas is likely to super-fascinations of romance with the deeper interest that sede, for general purposes, maps of a more expensive and attaches to historical narrative."-Southern Patriot. elaborate character. It appears to us to answer the double purpose of exercising the attention while it imprints all that is important in Geography on the memoty."-Atlas.

"The workmanship is among the best of the kind we have ever witnessed."-Examiner.

"It contains all the information to be derived from the most expensive and unwieldy Atlas."-York Courant.

By a moment's reference, the exact situation of any place may be found."-Birmingham Journal.

"An excellent little work, engraved with a clearness and correctness which is quite surprising: when complete, travellers will have a system of Geography and a complete Atias, which they may carry in their pocket."Spectator.

This is the most perfect gem of an Atlas which has ever been published."-Bristol Journal.

"It corresponds in size with those popular publications to which it will form so useful an addition-namely, The Family Library,' The Classical Library,' and Cabinet Cyclopædia."-Court Journal.

Nothing could be devised better calculated to impress upon the mind a knowledge of the general principles of geography, than the plan of this publication."-The Warder.

"It will be a crying shame in this age of intellect, if this able and beautiful work be not extensively patronized; but we cannot doubt the success which we feel assured its intrinsic merits must secure to it."—Intelligencer.

"It is scarcely in the nature of things, that a work of so much public service should fail in meeting with that extensive patronage which can alone. remunerate the projectors."-Leeds Intelligencer.

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XIX.-HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND.
XXIII-HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By SIR JAMES of the most eminent men of the present age."—Atlas.
MACKINTOSHI. Vol. III.

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