CHAMBERS'S
REPOSITORY
OF
INSTRUCTIVE AND AMUSING TRACTS.
_The First Tract to be issued on the First Saturday of November._
The success which has hitherto attended Messrs Chambers's exertions in
the preparation of a cheap and improving kind of literature, induces
them to announce a new literary periodical, under the title of
REPOSITORY OF INSTRUCTIVE AND AMUSING TRACTS. This Work, to resemble
in some respects the MISCELLANY OF TRACTS completed a few years ago,
will aim at a higher, though not less popular tone, and satisfy, it is
hoped, the new requirements of the day in regard to literary elegance.
In carrying on the undertaking, Messrs CHAMBERS will be assisted by
skilled writers in various departments; and as the whole of the Tracts
will be under their own editorial supervision, they can with
confidence offer the REPOSITORY as a fitting companion to the family
circle. Each of the Tracts will embrace a single subject, varied to
suit different ages and tastes. An important object will be to furnish
innocent entertainment, mingled with correct information and sound
instruction, under the control of good taste, and free, as far as
possible, from controversial matter. The Editors, therefore, trust
that the present Series of Tracts will take as prominent a part as the
former in that department of the great business of educating the
People which is committed to the untrammelled agency of the Press.
The REPOSITORY will consist of a series of Penny Sheets, issued
Weekly; Four to constitute a Monthly Part, at _Fivepence_, and Eight
to form a Two-Monthly Volume, neatly done up in coloured fancy boards,
at _One Shilling_. Where it appears desirable, Wood-engravings will be
introduced. Each Volume will possess a neat engraved Title-page.
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Printed and Published by W. and R. CHAMBERS, High Street, Edinburgh.
Also sold by W. S. ORR, Amen Corner, London; D. N. CHAMBERS, 55 West
Nile Street, Glasgow; and J. M'GLASHAN, 50 Upper Sackville Street,
Dublin.--Advertisements for Monthly Parts are requested to be sent to
MAXWELL, & Co., 31 Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, London, to whom all
applications respecting their insertion must be made.