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788 Critical Notices .
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vals of modern times , is sympathetic terror , aided more or less by various other principles in our natures . " —Pp . 15—19 .
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¦ i < ' i » . ' -. il' ! mmqmm *^*^ , . A&V * * VEL-tr * The Library of Enteri . \ , a v . ¦ taining * Knowledge . Prirts I . and ilI . ~~ T % i ? Memgeries . farts It and V . —Vegetable Substances ' Timber Trees—Fruits .
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Part IV . — The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties . I 2 mo . London : Published under the Superinten - dance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge .
It is the object of this series of publications to combine the interesting with the instructive—to present knowledge in its most attractive dress , and thus to convey a great body of information to those who , from want of time or of the habit of study , are reluctant to acquire it , when offered to their notice in a more didactic and voluminous form . If
we may judge by the five numbers which hare already appeared , the- Society by which they are published are proceeding in the right way to accomplish their object . They here present us with a mass of information , so striking in its details , and so agreeable in its form , that it cannot fail to engage the attention of the most indifferent ; and to furnish a
pleasing source of relaxation to the most cultivated . We remember nothing , indeed , in the whole course of our reading more deeply interesting than the stories qf lions , and tigers , and camels , in " The Menageries "—the formatiou aud the rupture of bogs in «* Timber Trees "and the many anecdotes of distinguished geniuses in " The Pursuit Of Knowledge under Difficulties . " This last is one of
the most hi struct ! ve books that ever was published ; and we have seldom felt so thoroughly ashamed of our own literary indolence , as we did when reading these histories of men who have attained to eminence in the world of science and of letters , in the midst of difficulties , under which common minds or a cominou degree of perseverauee would nave sunk
dismayed . It were useless to quote much of a work which has , we are informed , an average circulation of from 10 ^ 000 to 15 , 000 copies ; yet we cannot Vefiam from transcribing the accbuiit of Ferguson ' s construction of a time piece , as related by the astrouomer himself , as well as the beautiful reflections of the biographer , which follow . ?
* * Having then / says he , * no idea how any time-piece could go but by a weight and a line , I wondered how a watch could go in all positions ; and was sorry that I had never thought of asking Mr . Cantley , who could very easily have informed me . But happening one day
* Of «• The Menageries" 18 , 000 have been sold .
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A * t : tyl .- ^ Tte Fem a le Servant's Ad-^ vis&ry or the Service Instructor . iLoiidbn . Sherwood and Co . , . Much useful information is to be found in this little book , which maybe advantageously placed in the hands of domestics who may require to be taught or Teininded of * Ije duties of their office .
It is perhapsbest calculated for the latter purpose ; as it can hardly be supposed that any servant capable of understanding the various portions of the work can be quite a novice in her employments . It would perhaps be easy , and undoubtedly dea liable in another edition , to make a substitution of easier terms for some
which appear to us too scientific for the readers of a book of this kiud . Few servants lire likely to know what is meant by ' * concretion :, * ' * . *¦ saturation , " ?' criterion , " or " lavatory purposes . " i ^ revision of the work with this vie w , would make it entirely suitable for the purpose designed by the author *
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JisiT * V . — -The Recollections of Jotham Anderson . By the Rev , H . Ware Jun . London . Hunter } Tettlon and Fox . Forrest , Manchester . Pp . 161 . 1829 . Wb introduce this little book to our readers with a strong recommendation to them all to read it . Its design ,
sentiments , and style , are admirable and interesting . Its principal object is to point out the wisdom , and illustrate the beauty , of religions toleration ; but its collateral objects may furnish instruction to those who may need no further convictipn on this head . The simplicity of the story conveys a strong impression that it
ie no fictiou ' its interest is so powerful that we canuot but believe that it is true . It would be an injustice to extract , where all ^ he parts are . so connected as to lose tbeir value when separated . Let our readers , first obtain the work themselves , 'fyfXi : ^? n am troduce it . into every Vestry y ^ fBiry or : Tjract Society where they have influence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1829, page 788, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2578/page/44/
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