"The Library of every Englishman will be incomplete without a copy of this truly national work, which will be handed down from generation to generation as an enduring record of an event which excited the wonder of the civilized globe, and formed one of the brightest phases of the present century."--_Mining Journal._
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GRATIS WITH THE "DISPATCH" of SUNDAY next, Jan. 4.--The Subscribers to the "WEEKLY DISPATCH" will be presented with a highly-finished coloured Chart, showing by diagrams and at one view, the number of persons who daily, during a period of five months, visited the Crystal Palace, the amount of money taken at the doors and received from various sources, and other statistics of an interesting character. And on the following Sunday, Jan. 11, the Chart will be given to all Purchasers of the "DISPATCH" who are not regular Subscribers. The Chart, which is surmounted with an engraved view of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, has been prepared by permission of the Royal Commissioners, from designs by Corporals A. GARDENER and J. MACK, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, and revised by a gentleman whose intimate acquaintance with all matters connected with the management must ensure its correctness. Orders may be given to all newsvenders in town and country, or forwarded to Mr. R. J. WOOD, 139. Fleet Street, London.
LONDON LIBRARY, 12. St. James's Square. Patron: His Royal Highness Prince ALBERT.
This Institution now offers to its members a collection of 60,000 volumes, to which additions are constantly making, both in English and foreign literature. A reading room is also open for the use of the members, supplied with the best English and foreign periodicals.
Terms of admission--entrance fee, 6_l._; annual subscription, 2_l._; or entrance fee and life subscription, 26_l._
J. G. COCHRANE, Secretary and Librarian. September, 1851.
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"A better or more valuable work for country book societies, lending libraries, and reading rooms, it is impossible to find within the whole compass of English Literature. Its literary articles are peculiarly sound in principle, and its criticisms liberal but just; whilst its Obituary confers upon it a national importance. We are sure then we cannot do a better service to our friends, and more especially to those connected with institutions like those we have adverted to, than in recommending this work to their support."--_Nottingham Review._