The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-06-25

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The Cyclopedia of English Literature
now presented TO the American public, orig
mated in desire to supply the great body
of the people with fund Of reading, derived
from the productions of the most talented
and the most elegant writers in the English
language, 1t is hoped hereby to supplant,
in a measure, the frivolous and corlupIing
productions with which the community is
flooded, and to substitute for them the pith
and marrow ofsubs,onial English Literature,
something that shall prove food for the intel
ect, shall cultivate The taste, and stimulate
the moral sense.
The design has been admirably executed,
by the selection and concentration of the
most exquisite productions of English intel
feet, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon writer's
down to those Of the present day. The Sc
ries of authors commences with Langland
Chaucer, and it continues down 10 cur time.
We have specimens Of their best writings,
headed in The several departments, by Chau-
ter, Shakespeare, Mliton=-by Moore, Bacon
Locke--by Hooker, Taylor, Bauow--by on,
Olsen, johnson, Goldsmith--by RobertAd-
Uume, Gibbou--set in biographi calson,
critical history Of the literature itself. The
whele is embellshed with splendid wood
engravings of the heads of the principal au-
thors, and with the interesting events con
nccted with their history and writings. No
one can givo glance at the work without
being struck with its beauty and choapne S.
The editor Robert Chambers, is distinguished
as the author of several historical works
connected with Scotland, and as joint editor
of Chambers Edinburgh Journal.
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and whose means are limited, such book
must he of unspeakable value'--r whole Eng
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Any man, whatever his vocation or location,
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galaxy of English writer's, serving, but in
more systematic and liberal manner, the pur
pose so long served by Doctor Knox's ''Ele-
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the work In England, it may be stated that no
less than forty thousand copies have been
sold in less than three years; and this almost
without advertising, or being indebted to any
notice in the Literary Reviews.
In addition to the great number of plcto-
rial illustrations given in the English edition,
the American publishers, in confident ex-
pectaton of being femunerated by an extern
sive sale,propose occasionally TO enrich the
numbers by presenting fine steel and mezzo-
tint engravings of the heads of the more emf
nent authors
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