The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-31 00:00:00

DR. MANTELL'S WONDERS OF GEOLOGY.
NEW EDITION.
This day is published, in 2 Vols., Foolscap Bvo., price 18s., the
Third Edition, of
THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY,
with nearly 100 Additional Engravings, with Coloured
Plates, Sections, &c. &c. Of the large Paper Edition of this
Book, a very limited number was originally printed, and there
are now but very few copies remaining, to secure whice imme-
diate application should be made. This Edition is printed in
2 vols. demy Bvo. on a vellum paper, with proof impressions of
the Plates, price 28s.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
" Many of our readers are doubtless acquainted with the
very valuable Geological Museum which has been formed at
Brighton by D. Mantel', and which bears his name. The
Doctor has rendered another important service to science and
the public, by publishing the series of Lectures delivered by
him, in illustration of his celebrated collection. They explain
in a very pleasing and familiar form, the principles of Geology,
and the wonderful discoveries which have been made in that
science up to the present time.
"For the proficient in this branch of knowledge Dr. Man-
tell's work provides an accurate and complete hand-book,
wherein the chief points of the science are classified and laid
down • and for the general reader the style of the book is so
agreeable, the explanation so clear, and, above all, the subjects
so extraordinarily interesting, that he cannot do better than
purchase and study it,—we cannot,:we think, do him a greater
service than most cordially to recommend him to read it."—
The Times, April 20, 1838.
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" Of this work it is scarcely possible to speak in terms of too
high commendation. It is, in f•et, such a work, as but few
living authors could have written. It forms an admirablo
Manual of Geology, comprised in a series of lectures com-
mencing with the most recent formations, down to the primary
rocks. The whole of these extensive and varied subjects are
arranged with a perspicuity, and treated with a talent, peculiar
to their highly gifted author, whose method and style are as
clear, eloquent, and attractive, as his scientific attAinments are
accurate and profound. The getting up of the work evinces
great care and taste ; it is beautifully printed ; the frontispiece
is by Martin, the painter of Belshazzar's Feast,' and represents
the Country of the Iguanodon,' restored from the geological
discoveries of Dr. Mantell."—Sussex Press, April 2, 1838.
" As a clear and lucid statement of the leading principles
and most important deductions of Geology—as an able genera-
lization of facts of the highest, we might almost say of roman-
tic, interest—in short, as a highly valuable and useful epitome
or encyclopaedia of Geology, we should unhesitatingly recom-
mend Dr. Mantell's work, as superior in many essential parti-
culars to any yet published. Its plan displays that' lucid ar-
rangement and order which so eminently characterized the lec-

tures of the author, and by which he was enabled to make sub-
jects, apparently uninviting, in the highest degree pleasing and
attractive."—Brighton Herald, August 31, 1838.
" The present work, like others of the same author, is dis-
tinguished by a reverent spirit towards the Author of Nature,
who appears to be sometimes forgotten by those who investigate
his works. Dr. Mantell's volumes will leave a happy, moral,
and religious impression upon the minds of the young and in-
quiring; and thus science, in this department, as well as in all
others, will be seen to be the handmaid and ally of revealed reli-
gion."—Ameriean Journal of Science for July, 1838.
. "The author of the beautiful and most interesting work before
us, Dr. Manta, has long been known to the public as the skilful
and indefatigable investigator of the Wealden district of the
south-east of England, the discoverer of those extraordinary
fossil reptiles the Iguanodon and Hylceosaurus, and, above all,
as the founder of that splendid and unique museum at Brighton,
which now bears his name. The lengthened extracts which
we have made attest our sense of the high value and merit of
these volumes, of which we now take our leave, with every
wish that they may attain that extensive circulation for which
they are so well adapted, and which they so eminently deserve."
—Mining Journal and Review for April and May, 1838.
A new era has burst upon us ; and while Astronomy and the
other sciences have not been neglected, that of Geology has
been pursued with an ardour and intensity which could only
have been maintained by the interesting discoveries which the
geologist was daily making in his unprecedently interesting
researches. The admirable volumes before us exhibit the most
prominent of the facts which the labours of the geologist have
already disclosed ; and among the. most successful of these
scientific labourers is the author himself. The Wonders, of
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