"The 'Outlines of General Knowledge' embrace a great variety of facts
connected with the natural sciences. Even the names of all the divisions
into which the moderns have classified knowledge fill no inconsiderable
space. Add to them the names and height of mountains, and names and
length of rivers, the names of constellations, the names of the chemical
elements, the amount of population of the different kingdoms of the
world, the amount of their respective taxation per head, &c. &c., and the
mere nomenclature seems calculated to fill a tolerably large book. All
this, and more than this, is collected in Mr. Ince's 'Outlines,' and
those not accustomed to the art of the author will wonder how one small
head could carry all he has brought together."--_The Economist._
"Well-digested 'Outlines,' which should be committed to everybody's
memory."--_Sharpe's Magazine._
"A capital book, deserving especial attention."--_Family Friend._
"Contains for its size a remarkable quantity of interesting and
well-arranged information. It would make a valuable present to Sunday
Schools and lending libraries."--_Athenæum._
"A vast amount of condensed information."--_The Rambler._
"Contains a considerable amount of information of a very valuable kind,
on a variety of subjects, that in ordinary routine of education are too
much overlooked, an acquaintance with which is every day becoming more
and more indispensable. They are germs which cannot fail to vegetate in
the mind, to fructify in the head, and eventually to produce a fourfold
reward to him who labours in the acquisition of them."--_Sunday School
Magazine._
"Calculated to instruct anyone of common intelligence on every known
topic of importance, and to start him with a mind stored with the
accumulated learning of 6000 years."--_The Mirror._
"A valuable little publication, full of information in a small compass,
creating an appetite for deeper investigation."--_Bell's Life._
* * * * * *
A NEW SERIES OF PENNY MAPS.
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_Now publishing in Monthly Parts, price only 4½d., or 8½d. coloured (each
Part to contain four Maps)_,
PHILIPS'
PENNY ATLAS OF THE WORLD,
IN A
Series of fifty-two Imperial Quarto Maps, Engraved on Steel,
INCLUDING
FIVE ANCIENT MAPS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS IN ANCIENT HISTORY,
WITH A COPIOUS CONSULTING INDEX OF PLACES.
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