* * * * * ► This work, it is confidently believed (from the nature and character of it) will find its way into the hands of every family. LEARY & GETZ, Publishers, _No._ 138 _North Second Street_, _Philadelphia_. * * * * * ROTTECK’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD. MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUSTRATED! THE work now offered to the public is designed to fill up a great chasm in one _most important_ department of literature. To satisfy a want felt, not only by the student, by the man left to himself for an education, but also by the intelligent of all classes of society. It will supply the great mass of the public, who are at present almost necessarily in the dark as to the past world and its destinies, with a complete picture of all the great events relating to the world and to man, from the earliest dawn of history down to the present time; and we indulge the hope that it will satisfy the universal want of a good General History of the World. We have works entitled “Histories of the World,” or “Universal Histories,” it is true; but all of them (we mean those in a small form, and such as are within the reach of the generality of readers) are sadly deficient, ill-selected, and worse arranged: they could not, according to the ideas of the author of this work, be considered, strictly speaking, GENERAL HISTORIES OF THE WORLD. The author of this History is celebrated throughout Europe as a _scholar_, as a _statesman_, and as a _bold defender of liberty_; and this reputation will certainly be an excellent recommendation of his work to the American public. Although born in Germany, educated in its far-famed halls of learning, and breathing a _German_ atmosphere, he is not a German alone; he is a man whom the world may claim. He is no mystic, full of unintelligible, useless theories; but a man devoted to practicable objects, to the welfare of his race, and to pure religion and morality. His History has been extensively circulated in Europe (_in the German_, _French_, _Dutch_, _Swedish_, _and Danish languages_), and is the most popular one that has ever been published. For, although he may be ranked as the first historian of Europe, he has written, not for a particular class, but for people in general. In fine, his History is equally fitted for the _student_, the _merchant_, the _farmer_, the _mechanic_, and the _professional man_. * * * * * THE WORK IS PUBLISHED IN ONE LARGE OCTAVO VOLUME OF OVER 1700 PAGES, Illustrated with 28 Splendid Engravings. ► In order to bring this History within the reach of all classes of readers, the Publishers have been induced to put it at the extremely low price of $3.50 per Copy.