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The following opinions, selected from highly respectable Journals, will
enable those who are unacquainted with the Family Library to form an
estimate of its merits. Numerous other notices, equally favourable, and
from sources equally respectable, might be presented if deemed necessary.

“The Family Library.—A very excellent, and always entertaining Miscellany.”

—Edinburgh Review, No. 103.

“The Family Library presents, in a compendious and convenient form,
well-written histories of popular men, kingdoms, sciences, &c. arranged
and edited by able writers, and drawn entirely from the most correct and
accredited authorities. It is, as it professes to be, a Family Library, from
which, at little expense, a household may prepare themselves for a consideration
of those elementary subjects of education and society, without a
due acquaintance with which neither man nor woman has claim to be
well bred, or to take their proper place among those with whom they
abide.”

—Charleston Gazette.

“We have repeatedly borne testimony to the utility of this work. It is
one of the best that has ever been issued from the American press, and
should be in the library of every family desirous of treasuring up useful
knowledge.”

—Boston Statesman.

“The Family Library should be in the hands of every person. Thus
far it has treated of subjects interesting to all, condensed in a perspicuous
and agreeable style...... We have so repeatedly spoken of the merits of the
design of this work, and of the able manner in which it is edited, that on
this occasion we will only repeat our conviction, that it is worthy a place
in every library in the country, and will prove one of the most useful as
it is one of the most interesting publications which has ever issued from
the American press.”

—N. Y. Courier & Enquirer.

“The Family Library is, what its name implies, a collection of various
original works of the best kind, containing reading, useful and interesting
to the family circle. It is neatly printed, and should be in every family
that can afford it—the price being moderate.”

—New-England Palladium.

“The Family Library is, in all respects, a valuable work.”

—Pennsylvartia
Inquirer.

“We are pleased to see that the publishers have obtained sufficient encouragement
to continue their valuable Family Library.”

—Baltimore Republican.

“We recommend the whole set of the Family Library as one of the
cheapest means of affording pleasing instruction, and imparting a proper
pride in books, with which we are acquainted.”

—Philadelphia U. S. Gazette.

“It will prove instructing and amusing to all classes. We are pleased
to learn that the works comprising this Library have become, as they
ought to be, quite popular among the heads of Families.”

—N. Y. Gazette:

“It is the duty of every person having a family to put this excellent
Library into the hands of his children.”

—N. Y. Mercantile Advertiser.

“We have so often recommended this enterprising and useful publication
(the Family Library), that we can here only add, that each successive
number appears to confirm its merited popularity.”

—N. Y. American.

“It is so emphatically what it purports to be, that we are anxious to see
it in every family.—It is alike interesting and useful to all classes of
readers.”

—Albany Evening Journal.

“The little volumes of this series truly comport with their title, and are
in themselves a Family Library.”

—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

“We have met with no work more interesting and deservedly popular
than this valuable Family Library.”

—Monthly Repository.

“The plan of the Family Library must be acceptable to the American
reading community.”

—N. Y. Journal of Commerce.

“To all portions of the community the entire series may be warmly
recommended.”

—American Traveller.

“It is a delightful publication.”

—Truth Teller.