"This volume is likely to meet with as good a reception as any of its
predecessors, for no one can open it without finding something in it
that is at once amusing and instructive. All the information which it
contains is modestly and pleasantly given.... It will be seen that this
volume abounds with diverting and suggestive extracts. It seems to us
particularly well adapted for parochial lending-libraries."—_Saturday
Review._
"Full of odd, quaint, out-of-the-way bits of information upon all
imaginable subjects is this amusing volume, wherein Mr. Timbs discourses
upon domestic, rural, metropolitan, and social life; interesting nooks
of English localities; time-honoured customs, and old-world observances;
and, we need hardly add, Mr. Timbs discourses well and pleasantly upon
all."—_Notes and Queries._
"This is another of those curious repertories of out-of-the-way facts,
to the compilation of which Mr. Timbs appears to have a prescriptive
right. The reader must be at once very well-informed and very difficult
to please who fails to find in _Something for Everybody_ ample materials
both for instruction and amusement."—_Spectator._
"A collection made by a diligent scholar in a long life of literature,
and imparting information in such a manner as to be pleasing to the
young and welcome to the old. Mr. Timbs has published many good books,
but none better or more deserving of popularity than that to which he
has given the appropriate title of _Something for Everybody_."—_London
Review._
"In this volume the author certainly maintains the position which he has
won for himself as a most indefatigable collector and compiler of useful
information, in a form at once clear, accurate, and vastly
entertaining."—_English Churchman._
"A very entertaining volume, full of varied information."—_Builder._
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