University of Virginia Library

“The Cabinet Library bids fair to be a series of great value, and is recommended
to public and private libraries, to professional men, and miscellaneous
readers generally. It is beautifully printed, and furnished at a price which will
place it within the reach of all classes of society.”

“The series of instructive, and, in their original form, expensive works,
which these enterprising publishers are now issuing under the title of the
“Cabinet Library,” is a fountain of useful, and almost universal knowledge;
the advantages of which, in forming the opinions, tastes and manners of that
portion of society, to which this varied information is yet new, cannot be too
highly estimated.”

“Messrs. Carey and Lea have commenced a series of publications under the
above title, which are to appear monthly, and which seem likely, from the specimen
before us, to acquire a high degree of popularity, and to afford a mass of
various information and rich entertainment, at once eminently useful and
strongly attractive. The mechanical execution is fine, the paper and typography
excellent.”

“Such is the outline of a life, which, in Mrs. Thomson's hands, is a mine of
interest; from the first page to the last the attention is roused and sustained,
and while we approve the manner, we still more applaud the spirit in which it
is executed.”

—Plants, trees, and stones we note;
Birds, insects, beasts, and rural things.

“We again most strongly recommend this little unpretending volume to the
attention of every lover of nature, and more particularly of our country readers
It will induce them, we are sure, to examine more closely than they have
been accustomed to do, into the objects of animated nature, and such examination
will prove one of the most innocent, and the most satisfactory sources of
gratification and amusement. It is a book that ought to find its way into every
rural drawing-room in the kingdom, and one that may safely be placed in every
lady's boudoir, be her rank and station in life what they may.”

“We think that there are few readers who will not be delighted (we are certain
all will be instructed) by the `Journal of a Naturalist.”'

“This is a most delightful book on the most delightful of all studies. We are
acquainted with no previous work which hears any resemblance to this, except
`White's History of Selborne,' the most fascinating piece of rural writing and
sound English philosophy that ever issued from the press.”

“The author of the volume now before us, has produced one of the most
charming volumes we remember to have seen for a long time.”

“A delightful volume—perhaps the most so—nor less instructive and amusing
—given to Natural History since White's Selborne.”

“The Journal of a Naturalist, being the second number of Carey and Lea's
beautiful edition of the Cabinet Library, is the best treatise on subjects connected
with this train of thought, that we have for a long time perused, and we
are not at all surprised that it should have received so high and flattering encomiums
from the English press generally.”

“Furnishing an interesting and familiar account of the various objects of
animated nature, but calculated to afford both instruction and entertainment.”

“One of the most agreeable works of its kind in the language.”

“It abounds with numerous and curious facts, pleasing illustrations of the
secret operations and economy of nature, and satisfactory displays of the power,
wisdom and goodness, of the great Creator.”

“No history of the events to which it relates can be correct without reference
to its statements.”

“The events detailed in this volume cannot fail to excite an intense interest.”

“The only connected and well authenticated account we have of the spirit-stirring
scenes which preceded the fall of Napoleon. It introduces us into the
cabinets and presence of the allied monarchs. We observe the secret policy of
each individual: we see the course pursued by the wily Bernadotte, the temporizing
Metternich, and the ambitious Alexander. The work deserves a place in
every historical library.”

“We hail with pleasure the appearance of the first volume of the Cabinet
Library.” “The author had singular facilities for obtaining the materials of
his work, and he has introduced us to the movements and measures of cabinets
which have hitherto been hidden from the world.”

“It may be regarded as the most authentic of all the publications which profess
to detail the events of the important campaigns, terminating with that
which secured the capture of the French metropolis.”

“It is in fact the only authentic account of the memorable events to which
it refers.”

“The work deserves a place in every library.”