With these arrangements and facilities, the publishers flatter
themselves that they shall be able to present to their fellow-citizens
a work of unparalleled merit and cheapness, embracing subjects adapted
to all classes of readers, and forming a body of literature deserving
the praise of having instructed many, and amused all; and above every
other species of eulogy, of being fit to be introduced, without reserve
or exception, by the father of a family to the domestic circle.
Meanwhile, the very low price at which it is charged renders more
extensive patronage necessary for its support and prosecution. The
_immediate_ encouragement, therefore, of those who approve its plan
and execution is respectfully solicited. The work may be obtained in
complete sets, or in separate numbers, from the principal booksellers
throughout the United States.
OPINIONS OF THE FAMILY LIBRARY.
“The publishers have hitherto fully deserved their daily increasing
reputation by the good taste and judgment which have influenced the
selections of works for the Family Library.”—_Albany Daily Advertiser._
“The Family Library—A title which, from the valuable and entertaining
matter the collection contains, as well as from the careful style of
its execution, it well deserves. No family, indeed, in which there
are children to be brought up, ought to be without this Library, as
it furnishes the readiest resources for that education which ought to
accompany or succeed that of the boarding-school or the academy, and
is infinitely more conducive than either to the cultivation of the
intellect.”—_Monthly Review._
“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._
“It is one of the recommendations of the Family Library, that it
embraces a large circle of interesting matter, of important information
and agreeable entertainment, in a concise manner and a cheap form. It
is eminently calculated for a popular series—published at a price so
low, that persons of the most moderate income may purchase it—combining
a matter and a style that the most ordinary mind may comprehend it, at
the same time that it is calculated to raise the moral and intellectual
character of the people.”—_Constellation._
“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._
“We venture the assertion that there is no publication in the country
more suitably adapted to the taste and requirements of the great mass
of community, or better calculated to raise the intellectual character
of the middling classes of society, than the Family Library.”—_Boston
Masonic Mirror._
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