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LARDNER'S

CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA,,

A SERIES OF ORIGINAL WORKS,

SOLD TOGETHER OR SEPARATELY, IN SETS OR SERIES.

Reduced in price to Three Shillings and Sixpence each Volume, cloth lettered.

MESSES. LONGMAN AND CO. having now become the sole proprietors of the CABINET CYCLOPEDIA, have decided on reducing the price of each Volume, bound in cloth and lettered, to THREE SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE.

Complete Sets, in 132 Volumes, bound and lettered, price NINETEEN GUINEAS.

In an article on the declining taste for science, the Quarterly Review remarks,-"It is not easy to devise a cure for such a state of things, but the most obvious remedy is to provide the educated classes with a series of works on popular and practical science, freed from mathematical symbols and technical terms, written in simple and perspicuous language, and illustrated by facts and experiments which are level to the capacity of ordinary minds."

One of the objects of the projectors of the CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA, amongst others, was to provide the general reader with books of the kind pointed out as a desideratum by the writer in the Quarterly Review; and the statement in the Times," that Dr. LARDNER'S CYCLOPÆDIA deserves much commendation, both for its plan and for its selection of persons to carry that comprehensive scheme into execution," has led the proprietors to believe that, by the aid of Sir JOHN HERSCHEL, Sir DAVID BREWSTER, Professor DE MORGAN, Captain Kater, Dr. LARDNER, Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bishop_ THIRLWALL, Mr. THOMAS MOORE, Mr. J. FORSTER, Mr. KEIGHTLEY, Mr. SOUTHEY, Professor POWELL, Mr. G. R. PORTER, Professor HENSLOw, the Rev. the CHAPLAIN-GENERAL (the Rev. G. R. GLEIG), and others, they have been able to produce a collection of books, not on scientific subjects only, which justifies the remark upon the CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA in the Standard, that it is "one of the most valuable contributions that has ever been made to the cause of general knowledge and national education."

The CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA contains Original Works on HISTORY-BIOGRAPHY-LITERATURE-the SCIENCES-ARTS-and MANUFACTURES; and includes contributions from the most Eminent Writers of the age in its various departments. The Sciences and Arts have been treated in a plain and familiar style, adapted to the general reader; and the high rank in Science held by the Authors in this department affords a guarantee for soundness and accuracy. Besides these claims on attention offered by its separate divisions, the entire Series will be found well suited for FAMILIES resident in the COUNTRY, who are not provided with a library; for SCHOOL LIBRARIES; as a CABIN LIBRARY for VESSELS bearing PASSENGERS to distant parts; for the LIBRARIES of MECHANICS' INSTITUTIONS, LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES, the ARMY and the NAVY, and of COLONIAL INSTITUTIONS; as well as for EMIGRANTS.

The separate Works may be recommended as well adapted for REWARD BOOKS in all SCHOOLS and PRIVATE FAMILIES; and, from the convenient size of the Volumes, for the use of TRAVELLERS by RAILWAY and STEAMBOAT.

In an early Prospectus of the CABINET CYCLOPEDIA it was stated that the arrangement and form of the work was such that particular volumes could be re-edited or re-written without disturbing the others. So far as circumstances permitted, this has been carried out; and it is the intention of the Proprietors to bear constantly in view the advance of knowledge, and from time to time to avail themselves in every practicable way of the most recent information.

For a List of the Works composing THE CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA, see page 3 of this

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London: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, and LONGMANS.

'LECTURES AND ADDRESSES

IN AID OF

POPULAR EDUCATION;

INCLUDING

A LECTURE ON THE POETRY OF POPE.

BY

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CARLISLE.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

BIBLIOTHECA

REGIA MONACENSIS.

LONDON:

SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW,
New-street-Square.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS collection of LECTURES and ADDRESSES, delivered by the Earl of Carlisle before Mechanics' Institutions and other Societies of a like nature, is published, with his Lordship's permission, by the Committee of the "Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes."

In Yorkshire, this valuable class of institutions has flourished more than in any other part of the kingdom, owing, in a considerable measure, to the existence of a "Union." which now comprises 120 Institutes, containing about 20,000 members. Of that "Union," and of many of the individual Institutes, the Earl of Carlisle has been one of the earliest, most constant, and most generous friends; he gave them his high sanction and active assistance whilst Member for the West Riding, and did not withdraw it after his removal from the Lower to the Upper House of Parliament.

The LECTURES on "The Poetry of Pope" and on his Lordship's "Travels in America" were spontaneously offered by the Noble Earl to the Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society of Leeds, as the central Institution of Yorkshire, and were delivered to crowded and admiring audiences. The manuscript being presented to the Committee of the "Yorkshire Union," they were published in a cheap form, and many thousand copies were circulated among the Institutes of that and the neighbouring counties. They have also been published in various and large impressions in the United States.

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