University of Virginia Library

“This beautiful and most useful little volume,” says the Literary Gazette,
“is a perfect picture of elegance, containing a vast sum of geographical information.
A more instructive little present, or a gift better calculated to be long
preserved and often referred to, could not be offered to favored youth of either
sex. Its cheapness, we must add, is another recommendation; for, although
this elegant publication contains 100 beautiful engravings, it is issued at a price
that can be no obstacle to its being 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.”

“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.”

“This miniature and beautiful Atlas is likely to supersede, for general purposes,
maps of a more expensive and 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 memory.”

“The workmanship is among the best of the kind we have ever witnessed.”

“It contains all the information to be derived from the most expensive and
unwieldy Atlas.”

“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 Atlas, which they may carry in their pocket.”

“This is the most perfect gem of an Atlas which has ever been published.”

“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.”'

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The plates are beautifully executed; and the geographical student may obtain
in this little work, such is the excellence of its arrangement, as much information
as he could gain by wading through several books of far greater
bulk.”

“We have seldom seen a work so perfect in its arrangement, and so elegant
in its execution.”

“For the accuracy of its delineation, and the extent of the information which
it conveys, it stands without a rival in English topography.”

“The plan of this useful and elegant work may, indeed, be called original.
The style and execution of the Maps are of the first character.”

This work is one of the most useful publications which has yet issued from
the press; it will be an unique and brilliant accession to the library, and a very
useful work to the student in Geography.”

“Its qualifications will render it one of the most popular, highly interesting,
and useful publications of the day.”