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HIS important and elaborate Work, complete iN ten Volumes, contains 27,170 distinct Articles, 3,400 Wood Engravings, and 39 Maps, beautifully printed in Colours. The of subjects not having headings of their own in the Work is comprehensive and exhaustive, containing some 17,000 references. It includes every subject of any importance that has been incidentally mentioned in the, and thus materially contributes towards rendering the Work—as was originally intended—

A compendium of learned and curious matter widely varied The work he (the Editor) superintends is becoming a treasury in which such mites of learning brought together form the wealth.

The work before us may he safely pronounced a very satisfactory production. It is not to be supposed that we have had the time necessary to acquaint ourselves with a tithe of the contents of the ten handsome super-royal octavo volumes of which it consists. But we have done our best to submit them to the test of a very searching scrutiny in several distinct branches of learning. Is our object ethnographical or geographical information—we have here afforded to us the most "extended" range of "observation," and, literally, by the aid of the admirable maps scattered up and down these volumes, we can "survey mankind from China to Peru." When we have said that the entire Cyclopadia of Messrs. Chambers is equal in bulk to about half of the Penny Cyclopaedia, our readers will easily infer that it is indeed a perfect storehouse of useful information. In short, there is no branch of information on which it may not be consulted with advantage by the worker or general reader.

A more useful, concise, and correct compendium of universal knowledge it is impossible to conceive.

Nothing is emitted; but everything is reduced to the smallest dimensions compatible with lucidity We can only in general terms very heartily commend this last and greatest achievement of the Messrs. Chambers, in providing "information for the people," as almost without defect.

We have not once in an hour's "dodging" among the miscellaneous work failed to find the answer to the question proposed—after all the most popular and most trying test of an encyclopdia. We are, moreover, assured on high professional authority that the papers on medicine, anatomy, and physiology are models of accurate condensation, contain "quite as much as outsiders can have any need to know," and we can say for ourselves that Use accounts of Oriental creeds are, considering their length, very remarkable essays, conveying much information which to the majority of Englishmen will he absolutely new.