HISTORICAL LIBRARY,-continued.

DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY, With two elegant Historical Engravings and a Map. 2s.6d.

GERMANY AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE, With three elegant Historical Engravings and a Map. 3s. 6d.

TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, With three elegant Historical Engravings and a Map. 3s. 6d.

THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND RUSSIA, With three elegant Historical Engravings and a Map. 3s. 6d.

HISTORY OF ITALY AND SWITZERLAND, With three elegant Historical Engravings and a Map. 3s. 6d.

HISTORY OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM, With two elegant Historical Engravings and a Map. 2s.6d.

These Histories, which may be had together or separately, will be found of great importance to the following classes of persons.

TO FAMILIES­

As a delightful means of entertainment in those hours which are given to intellectual enjoyment, and as a work calculated to supersede the vicious class of publications called fashionable novels. History furnishes events of far greater interest than any which ever entered into the imagination of the novelist; and Miss Corner has pre­sented them in a way that cannot fail to rivet attention, and, consequently, to increase and strengthen the reader's stock of historical information. It may be observed, too, that in distributing the countries into a series of volumes, several members of a family can be engaged in reading them at the same time: and if an arrangement were made that the readers should confine themselves to chapters embracing the same period of time, a most useful enter­tainment might arise, in each verbally relating the sub­stance of the chapters that had been perused, so that the mind might accustom itself to connect the events of one country with events occurring at the same period in ano­ther. A similar exercise would be found highly useful in schools.

TO THE GENERAL READER­

In furnishing the history of the several states of Europe in a simple and attractive form; and serving also as a 7