"A LIBRARY IN ITSELF."
CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA:
A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE
FOR THE PEOPLE.
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THIS important and elaborate Work, complete im ‘Jen Volumes, contains 27,170 distinct Articles, 8,400 Wood Engravings, and 39 Maps, beautifully printed in Colours. The INnex of subjects
not having headings of their own in the Work is comprehensive and exhaustive, containing some 17,000 references. It includes every subject of any importance that has been /yeidentfaddy mentioned in the ExcycLtorepia, and thus materially contributes towards rendering the Work—-as was origmally intended—
A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL INFORMATION.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Blackwood’s Magazine. Scotsman.
A compendium of Jearned and curians matter widely varied. © A more useful, concise, and correct compendinm of universal .«. The work he (the Lilitor) superimtends is becoming a knowledge it is impossible to conceive. treasury in which such mites of learning brought together form the wealth.
British Quarterly Review.
Nothing is emitted; but everything is reduced to the smallest i dimensions compatible with lucidity... .. We can only in The work before us may he safely pronounced a very satis- | general terms very heartily commend this last and greatest factory production. It ts not to be supposed that we have had — achteyement of the Messrs. Chambers, in providing “ information the lime necessary to acquaint ourselves with a uthe of the for the people,” as almost without defect. contents of the ten handsome super-royal octavo volumes of which it consists, But we have done onr best to submit them to | Spectator, the test of a very searching scrutiny in several disGnct branches of learning. Is ovr object cthnographical or geographical infor- We have not once in an hour's “ dodging” among the misccl- mation—we have here afforded to us the most “extended” | laneous work failed o find the answer to the question proposed range of “observation,” and, literally, by the aid of the ad- | —after all the most popular and most trying test of an eneyely- mirable maps scattered wp and down these volumes, we can | padia. We are, moreover, assured on high professional autho- “survey mankind from China to Fern.” ... When we have | rity that the papers on medicine, anatomy, and physiology are said that the entire Cyclopadia of Messrs. Chambers is equal in | models of accurate condensation, contain “ quite as much as aut- bulk to about half of the #euazy Credapzdia, ovr reacers will | siders can have any need to know,” ... and we can say for exsily infer that it is indeed a perfect storehouse of useful infor- | ourselves that Use accounts of Oriental creeds are, considering mation. In short, there is no branch of information on which it | their length, very remarkable essays, conveying much informa- may nat be consulted with advantage by the worker or general | lion which to the majority of Englishmen will he absolutely
reader. new.
IN TEN VOLUMES, AT £4 10s.
CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA
Is at once the Cheapest and most Comprehensive Work of the kind ever offered to the Public.
W. AND R. CHAMBERS, LONDON AND EDINBURGH.
