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_In Six Vols. fcap., price 15s. cloth;_
_Or sold in separate volumes, price 2s. 6d. each, viz.:_
GENERAL INFORMATION. FIRST AND SECOND SERIES. 2 vols.
"A remarkably pleasant and instructive little book; a book as full of
information as a pomegranate is full of seed."—_Punch._
CURIOSITIES OF SCIENCE. FIRST AND SECOND SERIES. 2 vols.
"There is not a man of science who would not be arrested by this
book, on matters which he never knew, and on matters which he had
forgotten. At the same time there is not any man out of science who
would find Mr. Timbs’s phalanx of extracts uninteresting or
unintelligible."—_Athenæum._
CURIOSITIES OF HISTORY. 1 vol.
"We can conceive no more amusing book for the drawing-room, or one more
useful for the school-room."—_Art-Journal._
POPULAR ERRORS EXPLAINED. 1 vol.
"A work which ninety-nine persons out of every hundred would take up
whenever it came in their way, and would always learn something
from."—_English Churchman._
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