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+THE WORLD'S FAIR
+
+Or, Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851
+
+Describing the Beautiful Inventions and Manufactures Exhibited Therein;
+with Pretty Stories about the People Who Have Made and Sent Them; and
+How They Live When at Home
+
+London: Thomas Dean and Son 35, Threadneedle-Street, and
+Ackermann and Co. 96, Strand.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+What a pretty picture we have in the first title page, of the Great
+Exhibition in Hyde Park! This gigantic structure is built of iron,
+glass, and wood; but as, at a distance, it seems to be made entirely
+of glass, it is called the "Crystal Palace." Does it not look like one
+of those magnificent palaces we read about in fairy tales?
+
+The Great Exhibition is intended to receive and exhibit the most
+beautiful and most ingenious things from every country in the world,
+in order that everybody may become better known to each other than
+they have been, and be joined together in love and trade, like one
+great family; so that we may have no more wicked, terrible battles,
+such as there used to be long ago, when nobody cared who else was
+miserable, so that they themselves were comfortable. Only look at the
+thousands of people who crowd the Park,--all so different looking, and
+so curiously dressed. Grave Turks,--swarthy Spaniards and
+Italians,--East Indian Princes, glistening with gold and
+jewels,--clever French and German workmen, in blue cotton
+blouses,--Chinese gentlemen,--Tartars, Russians, energetic Americans,
+and many more. I wonder what they all think of us, whose habits in
+many things are so different from their own?
+
+And what charming things there are in the Exhibition itself! Fine
+porcelain wares, mirrors, books, statues, perfumes, and many more
+articles from various parts of the world,--beautiful fans, books,
+bronzes, and an infinity of other matters, from France in particular.
+Here is a model in miniature of the Crystal Palace itself, in glass.
+
+Ah! talking of glass, what think you of an enormous French decanter,
+in which three persons, having gotten inside by a ladder, can sit and
+dine off a table a yard in circumference? This is quite an exhibition
+in itself, I think. In another part of the building, we have a
+looking-glass, from Germany, which is the largest that ever was made,
+and is encased in a splendid frame of Dresden china. But here is a
+darling little English steam-engine, so small that you could, after
+wrapping it up in paper, lay it very comfortably inside an
+ordinary-sized walnut-shell, while the plate on which it stands is not
+bigger than a sixpence!
+
+In the very centre of the building, a gigantic crystal fountain
+diffuses a delicious coolness around, its bright clear waters
+sparkling, leaping, and playing, as if in delight and astonishment at
+the splendid and wonderful articles surrounding it. And there are two
+immense statues just beside it, looking mightily pleased with the
+agreeable coolness of the water. But here are two large bronze
+lions;--how terrible they look: they seem almost as if they were going
+to jump at us. There are animals of various kinds in different parts
+of the Exhibition; stags, horses, foxes, birds, cats, and even a
+ferocious-looking tiger.
+
+There is a bundle of nails so diminutive you can hardly see
+them--another bundle of three thousand nails, one thousand gold,
+another silver, and the third iron; so light that the whole weighs
+only three grains,--a French watch, smaller than a fourpenny
+piece,--Hindoo stuffs, so thin you can scarcely feel them, yet are
+made from rejected cotton-husks,--a highly-finished model of a palace,
+from Italy; and a handsome carriage, from Prussia.
+
+But among the curious articles we must notice this imitation of a
+camelia japonica tree in china, with buds, leaves, and blossoms, all
+perfect, which came from Germany;--and that painted oil-cloth from
+Manchester, covered with the most extraordinary mathematical
+ornaments, and which took eleven years to complete, and is worth 500
+guineas. And that table, made of 38,000 pieces of wood, of
+twenty-eight different colours, looking like mosaic, which was sent
+from Switzerland. Nor must we forget to look at this piece of gold, on
+which is engraved "The Lord's Prayer," and is yet so small that a
+common pin-head covers it: that came from Portsmouth. And here is a
+German bed, which being wound up, like a clock, to a certain hour,
+throws the sleeper out on the ground, when the time comes; no lazy
+lie-a-beds with that, I fancy!
+
+But here is an odd contribution, also from Germany; it is--what do you
+think?--a piece of lace, darned, and a fine table napkin, also darned!
+however, don't laugh, until I explain to you the reason _why_ it has
+been mended in this way: an ingenious young lady, wishing to show
+industrious lasses that torn clothes may be made to look as if they
+had not been injured in that manner at all, got a piece of cloth, tore
+it for the purpose, and taking up the stitches neatly, worked thread
+after thread till she had darned it in such a way that nobody could
+tell where it had been torn; she then thought of sending a specimen of
+her industry to the World's Fair.
+
+Here are snuff-boxes made of coal, which have been sent from Woolwich;
+and a beautiful little cannon of agate, from Germany; and two violins,
+worth a great deal of money, which have been contributed from America.
+
+I know that the productions of India will delight you by their beauty
+and ingenuity: the costumes the natives have sent are even prettier
+than those of Turkey, Spain, or Persia, and their gold, silver, and
+mother-of-pearl ornaments, are enchanting; what splendid veils,
+dresses, shawls, carved ivory, and curiosities!
+
+I would have you look very attentively at the contributions from
+India, they are so gorgeous; such superb muslins, baskets, and fans;
+with silks, cotton, cocoa-nuts, roots, woods, and such tempting
+fruits. I always like to see Indian articles, they are so magnificent.
+The persons who have sent these things must have worked very hard, to
+make so many beautiful specimens; but then the poorer people of India
+are exceedingly industrious; they live very simply, eating rice,
+boiled with milk and spices, as their principal food, for it is
+against their religion to touch meat of any kind. They would lead
+rather a sorry life, were it not that their tastes were so extremely
+simple, and their wants so few. A Hindoo village looks more like a
+gipsy encampment, than anything else, and bears a very strange
+appearance to a European, at first.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+However, although the poor people live in this way, the princes and
+nobles lead a far different life; an eastern grandee could formerly do
+anything he chose, even to killing of his wives and slaves, and, only
+I do not wish to frighten you, I could tell you many stories about the
+cruelty of the Indian nobles. They live in great state, and are
+always surrounded by a throng of slaves, and attendants, who wait on
+them as they recline lazily on a pile of the softest cushions, which
+are covered with the skins of beasts, and with silks, velvets, and
+satins. When they go abroad they are carried in what is called a
+palanquin, borne on the shoulders of servants, if they do not choose
+to ride on a horse or an elephant.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Their houses are adorned with the utmost magnificence, while the
+gardens or approaches to them are delightfully cool and refreshing,
+being shaded by fragrant trees, and shrubs, perfumed by the most
+beautiful flowers, and cooled by fountains, playing in marble basins.
+The Indian machinery is very clumsy indeed, and the mills are the
+funniest-looking things imaginable: I must show you an oil-mill.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A very cruel custom prevails in many parts of India, which I know will
+shock you very much: when a Hindoo of rank dies, his widow is laid by
+his side on a pile of faggots, which being set fire to, the poor
+creature is suffocated, or else burnt alive, and they pretend that she
+likes to be so destroyed. The ceremony is called a "Suttee," and is
+conducted with great pomp, all the relations of the woman and her dead
+husband being present, in addition to an immense crowd; before getting
+on the pile, the widow divides all her jewels and ornaments amongst
+her friends. Here is a picture of a widow about to bathe in a
+"consecrated" river, before going to be burnt.
+
+Here are lovely specimens of the manufacture of gold, silver, silk,
+jewellery, and Lebanon horns, from Syria, with seeds, fruits, oils,
+and woods; and even ornaments and marble from Jerusalem! Little did
+the Crusaders of old think, when they were fighting in Jerusalem, and
+the Holy Land, that the Infidels, as they very incorrectly called
+them, would be sending in such a friendly way to England.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What splendid caps, slippers, veils, and perfumes, with such
+picturesque guns and swords, from Turkey! The Turks are a fine,
+handsome race of people, and very grave and sensible, except when they
+are angry, when they grow raging and furious; they are fond of ease;
+and the chief delight of those who can afford it is to sit
+cross-legged on a low couch, drinking coffee, and smokeing a long
+curled pipe, called a _hookah_. They often sit by the side of a canal
+for a whole day, looking at children flying kites. Instead of sitting
+at a table to dine, they put the dishes on a carpet of Turkey leather,
+and sit round it on the floor, eating, with wooden spoons, meat and
+rice stewed together, called _pilau_. They are not allowed to drink
+wine, or eat pork. A favourite diversion with them is playing on a
+kind of lute, and sometimes they amuse themselves with chess,
+draughts, and other games; but their principal amusement, like some of
+my little friends, is to sit and listen to stories, told by men who
+earn their livelihood by relating entertaining tales and romances.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Turks do not undress and go to bed at any time, but being seated
+on a sofa, they smoke till they are sleepy, then laying themselves
+down, their slaves cover them over for the night. The poor people of
+the cities carry water, cakes, loaves, and other things, through the
+streets for a living, or act as buffoons, musicians, tumblers and
+wrestlers, at the Sultan's and other of the rich people's palaces.
+
+They cannot use wheel carriages in Turkey, the streets are so narrow,
+and the pavements in many parts so bad; everything is therefore
+carried by men, horses, mules, and donkeys, which is very
+inconvenient, as the mules and donkeys very often tumble down, and
+throw their burdens right in everybody's way; as for a horse, when
+heavily laden, it takes up the entire road; and when two loaded horses
+meet, the bawling and confusion is dreadful.
+
+The markets in Turkey are called "bazaars," and there you can buy
+almost anything you want; and every trade keeps together in knots of
+shops, different from us, in particular quarters, so that you are not
+obliged to walk all over the bazaar in search of a hat or a pair of
+shoes. In these bazaars, it is customary for a dealer to ask much
+more than he means to take, and for a buyer to offer infinitely less
+than he means to give; it is, therefore, rather difficult to strike a
+bargain, and sometimes several days are occupied chaffering about a
+price.
+
+The Turkish houses, above the ground floors, are usually built of thin
+laths, painted of different gay colours, and the roofs made of tiles,
+so that every few months a terrible fire takes place, and several
+thousand dwellings are burnt down; but the people are so accustomed to
+this that they do not mind it, and look on very contentedly while the
+fire rages, smoking their pipes, and drinking coffee.
+
+The Turks are exceedingly charitable, and not only give alms to the
+sick and poor, but even to travellers and strangers; and some of them
+have exercised their benevolence so far that they have left a sum of
+money for digging wells, and for the support of several cats and dogs.
+A very great trade is carried on from many parts of the world with
+them, as their country is famous for its rich brocades, thick soft
+carpets, mattings, baskets, curiously-wrought gold and silver
+embroidery, and balsams. It is also remarkable for its attar of roses,
+spices, figs, and coffee; all very good things, I dare say, you will
+think.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Some things have been sent from China to our Exhibition; but the
+Chinese people do not seem to care much about it. Indeed, I wonder
+they sent at all, for they consider themselves as the only civilized
+nation in the world, and call China the "Celestial Empire," while they
+imagine that the Emperor is an intimate relation of the Sun, Moon, and
+Stars! They are a very industrious nation, however, and the Emperor
+encourages them by his example. The poor work in every way they can;
+and one of their occupations is carrying about water for sale, as they
+have not water brought by pipes into the houses, as we have here.
+Here is the picture of a Chinese water carrier.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They also make the most elaborately carved ornaments, in wood and
+ivory; their toys and lanterns are celebrated for their ingenuity and
+workmanship. Their fireworks are superior to all those of other
+nations; and they excel in tricks and amusing entertainments. The
+cultivation of tea is universal, and agriculture--which, you know is
+the art of tilling the earth--is held in high esteem; the principal
+products being rice, wheat, yams, potatoes, turnips, and cabbages. The
+dwellings of the peasantry too, are not in villages, as in old
+England, but are scattered through the country; and they have no
+fences, gates, or anything to guard against wild beasts, or robbers.
+The females raise silk-worms, spin cotton, manufacture woollen
+stuffs, and are the only weavers in the empire. The art of printing,
+though done in what I must confess is rather a clumsy manner, is much
+exercised amongst them, and gives employment to many people.
+
+I do not think we should like to dine with a Chinese gentleman, or
+Mandarin, as he would treat us to strange dainties, as--a roast dog, a
+dish of stewed worms, a rat pie; or, perhaps, a bird's-nest. But the
+bird's-nest would be the best of the list, for it is not like the kind
+of bird's-nests which you have seen, but is made, I believe, of the
+spawn of fish, and looks something like isinglass. It is the nest of a
+sort of swallow, is about the size of a goose's egg, and is found in
+caverns along the sea shores; so it is not so bad as it seems at
+first. And the rats are as large and fat as some of our rabbits, being
+fed on fruits and grain, purposely for eating; as also are their dogs,
+for eating.
+
+The people of the "Celestial Empire" are celebrated for their fondness
+for making beautiful gardens; but their houses and gardens are quite
+different from ours.
+
+What a pretty scene! what a delicious cool walk is formed by the grove
+of trees leading to the porcelain tower. And those ladies walking
+towards the boat,--or hobbling, more likely; for the Chinese ladies
+have feet not much larger than your papa's thumb, which is there
+considered a great beauty.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The common women cannot afford to have little feet, as the feet of the
+rich girls are bandaged up in iron shoes, when they are two or three
+years old, to prevent their growing larger. These small feet are
+called "Golden Lilies;" but I am glad no such barbarous custom
+prevails in our own dear country. The Chinese ladies, however, are
+extremely accomplished, and can play on many musical instruments,
+paint, and embroider. The merchants of China are not at all remarkable
+for their honesty, though a few of them are very scrupulous. Many of
+them amass great fortunes.
+
+The Chinese have sent in embroidered shawls, table-covers, teas,
+curious and intricate toys, and specimens of handicraft.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Why, we have even specimens of Russian industry, in the Great
+Exhibition; and very good specimens they are, too. Russia is not such
+a pleasant country, in some respects, as any of those I have been
+telling you of; for in the winter the frost is so severe that many of
+the poor Russians die from cold. The rich wrap themselves up in warm
+furs, and ride in fur-lined sledges, instead of the usual carriages;
+but the poor people are forced to continue working out of doors at
+their various employments, being very careful, however, to cover their
+legs, hands, and head with fur, lest they should be bitten with the
+frost, which sometimes seizes those parts and turns them white. Though
+many of the poor women stand for hours together, washing their linen
+in holes cut in the ice, without getting frozen, yet it often happens
+that coachmen and other servants have been frozen to death in the
+streets at night, while waiting for their masters.
+
+At the end of every year, the Russians keep a long fast, and as soon
+as it is over, lay in their store of winter's provisions, at a market
+held once a-year on the river Neva, which is then frozen over. I
+should like you to see this market, it is so full of gaiety and
+singularity, while the high piles of frozen provisions look so
+picturesque along the ice. The Russians are remarkable for their
+cheerfulness and contentment, and are so fond of singing, that they
+are always enjoying a song when at work. Russian songs are very
+different from ours, and sound rather odd to us.
+
+The food of the common people is black rye bread, sometimes, by way
+of treat, stuffed with onions, carrots, or green corn, and seasoned
+with sweet oil. They use eggs, salt fish, bacon, and mushrooms, of
+which last they have a great plenty. The men are ordinarily dressed in
+loose trousers; short coats of sheep-skin, tied with a sash round
+their waists, and folds of flannel, fastened round with pack-thread,
+on their legs, for stockings. The women are dressed just as oddly, in
+short gowns, and with their hair plaited and hanging down their backs,
+if they are unmarried; or a cap and cotton kerchief round their heads,
+if they are married. The peasants' houses are built of wood, and have
+one or two rooms only; they are miserably furnished, with no beds, as
+the family sleep on benches in summer, while nearly one-fourth of the
+principal apartment is filled by an enormous stove, or rather oven,
+upon which they sleep in winter; for the smoke of which, there is no
+chimney beyond a hole in the wall. I don't think you or I would much
+like to spend a winter in Russia.
+
+Many useful things, you may observe, have come from Spain--cheeses,
+honey, dried fruits, salt, lime, wool, oil, flax, and cotton; with
+guns, swords, and also beautiful ornaments; with some precious
+stones, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. The Spaniards are not either a
+very active or a very cleanly people, but they are exceedingly proud,
+honest, and hospitable; they are skilful workers in woollen and silk
+stuffs, and manufacture sword-blades of a very fine kind; while their
+leather is celebrated for its superiority. They also work beautifully
+in gold and silver; and trade in immense quantities of those oranges
+you like so well, lemons, citrons, grapes, raisins, olives, nuts, and
+wines.
+
+The chief amusement of both high and low is one which neither you nor
+I would be pleased with, I hope, for it is bull-fighting; which cruel
+entertainment they learned from the Moors, who once had possession of
+Spain, and built all the beautiful castles and palaces that are in it.
+The manners of the rich people are merely like those of our own
+gentry, but the common people are very peculiar; and all classes
+delight in playing on the guitar, and singing, both of which they
+perform charmingly. They have also two favourite dances, called a
+fandango, and a bolero, both extremely lively and graceful. The mode
+of conveyance in Spain is by mules, and these beasts are surprisingly
+obedient to their masters, and answer to their own names just like our
+own pet dogs. The tails of the mules are oddly decorated, by cutting
+the hair into stars, flowers, and other fanciful designs.
+
+The villages are mostly mean, and the roads narrow; but Madrid, the
+capital of Spain, is a large city, with long, straight streets, many
+of them cooled by noble fountains. The houses in Madrid are built of
+brick, and even the grandest of them have only lattices, instead of
+glass windows, most of which have, however, handsome balconies,
+supported on columns. In the churches, there are neither pews,
+benches, nor chairs; the ground is covered with matting, on which
+every one kneels together, from the grandee to the beggar. In the
+suburbs there are many woods of evergreen oak, vineyards, olive
+plantations, and orchards of mulberry, plum, and almond trees; and the
+flocks of black sheep and goats, grazing in the country meadows, have
+a pretty effect.
+
+I don't think you would find the Spanish cookery much to your taste;
+for the Spaniards are very fond of rancid butter in their meals, and
+of oil that has a very strong smell and flavour; indeed, when they
+are going to cook anything that requires fat, they lift down the lamp
+from the ceiling, and take out what oil they want. Bread, steeped in
+oil, and occasionally seasoned with vinegar, is the common food of the
+country people. Their favourite wine is that which has a strong taste
+of the leather bottles or casks, in which they keep it; and they will
+hardly eat any thing that has not saffron, pimento, or garlic, in it.
+They have, however, even amongst the poorest, such fine grapes, ripe
+melons, and tempting oranges, as my little readers, I know, have
+seldom tasted. In summer, they use a quantity of ice, which is sold in
+glasses, in the streets, for a trifling sum. In place of candles, the
+poor people have a piece of cane, cut with holes through it, which is
+fixed to the ceiling, and from one of the holes a lamp is hung by a
+hook.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The dress of the lower orders is very pretty indeed, and they
+themselves are mostly tall and handsome, with black hair and eyes, and
+dark sun-burnt complexions. The climate is so warm and balmy, that
+they can grow their fruits in the open air.
+
+Some pretty articles have been sent from Portugal, a country which is
+near Spain, and very like it in all respects. It is a very fine
+country, famous for wine, and oil; and the sheep are much prized for
+their superior wool. The ladies of rank still spin flax from a
+distaff, to show their industry. The peasantry are not very well off;
+their only luxury is tobacco, and their usual fare is bread, made of
+Indian corn, with a salted pilchard, or a head of garlic, to give it a
+relish. They are polite and hospitable; but the people of the towns
+have not the least scruple in stabbing any body that offends them; so
+that it is a dangerous thing to affront them.
+
+What elegant tables, pictures, vases, marbles, statues, shells, woods,
+and perfumes, have been contributed to the Exhibition from Italy.
+Here is a table of a most beautiful material, called pietra dura,
+which took one hundred and twenty years to finish, and came from
+Naples.
+
+Italy has always been celebrated for the beauty of the articles
+manufactured there; and the things it has sent us now are certainly
+worthy of its fame. It is one of the loveliest countries in the world,
+in the spring and autumn, and is ornamented with the richest foliage;
+vines, mulberry, olive, and orange trees; and with high hills and deep
+dales, towns, villas, and villages. The soil is extremely fertile, and
+produces abundance of grain, the finest fruits and vegetables, with
+flax, saffron, and manna. The climate is delightful, except in
+summer, when the weather is dreadfully hot, and the winters are so
+mild, that ice and snow are quite rarities, except in the mountains; I
+wonder what my little-boy friends would do there, for a skate on the
+ice, or a merry game of snow-balls?
+
+Rome, the capital of Italy, is a splendid city, full of the remains of
+ancient temples, pillars, arches, and fountains; but many of them
+sadly ruinous and decayed. There are a great many Jews in it, who are
+forced to live in a particular part, called the _ghetto_, which means
+a place for Jews. The city of Rome and the surrounding country are
+very unwholesome during summer, in consequence of the land not being
+properly drained, as it used to be in the times of the ancient Romans,
+so that it is dangerous to dwell near them at that season of the year.
+The numerous vineyards in Italy, are not divided by hedges, but by
+rows of rather fine trees, the vines clinging in graceful festoons
+from one bough to another. In some parts of the country, there are
+various picturesque corn fields and meadows, bordered by olive trees.
+
+The Italians are not a very industrious people, but they make silk
+stockings, soap, snuff-boxes of the lava of Mount Vesuvius, tables of
+marble, and ornaments of shells, besides gloves and caps of the
+filaments of a kind of muscle, which they get off the rocks, where it
+fixes itself by spinning a web from its own body, like the silk-worm
+or spider. These caps and gloves are actually warmer than those made
+of wool, and are of a fine glossy green colour.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There are a great many beggars, I am sorry to say, in fair Italy, who
+are called _Lazzaroni_, and they live on whatever they can get,
+sleeping under porticos, piazzas, or any place they can find, and are,
+as you may guess, excessively idle, like all other beggars.
+
+There are also hordes of thieves, who are called _Banditti_, and who
+rob people in the most daring manner, for there are very few police.
+But there are also numerous persons who are quite well-behaved, and
+do all they can to earn their bread honestly. Among these is a set of
+men called _Improvisatori_, who tell stories, or repeat verses in the
+streets, and get a good deal of money from those who stop to listen to
+them. It must be very pleasant, on a cool summer evening, to sit under
+some magnificent old portico, listening to some interesting poem, or
+hearing a pretty story related.
+
+Throughout Italy, one of the remarkable customs, is keeping of a grand
+festival, which begins some weeks before Lent, and is called the
+"Carnival;" on this occasion, every place is brilliantly adorned, and
+the people go about singing, dancing, joking, and masquerading. The
+most splendid Carnival is kept at Venice, a remarkable city of Italy,
+built upon a several islands, the sea, which runs every where among
+them, serving the inhabitants for streets.
+
+The Italians are very handsome, and have jet black hair, dark roguish
+eyes, and fine figures. The dress of the lower orders is even prettier
+than the pretty Spanish costume. The men wear high-crowned hats, such
+as you may sometimes have seen on the organ-grinders in the streets of
+London, velveteen jackets, gaiters, and open shirt-collars, loosely
+fastened by a silk ribbon; while the women have short scarlet
+petticoats, and jackets of a darker colour, with exceedingly short
+sleeves, tied with bright ribbon, and their long black hair decorated
+with coloured bows of ribbon, and confined by a silk lace net, which
+falls partly over their shoulders. Instead of sending thieves to
+prison in Italy, they are sent on board the galleys, a large kind of
+rowing vessels, where they are chained to the decks, and obliged to
+endure every species of hardship.
+
+What a number of things the Germans have contributed! Bracelets,
+articles of straw, beautiful household furniture, toys, wire, and many
+other manufactures. Here is a splendid tray of polished amber, with a
+little carriage, made according to a proper model, and a large
+chandelier of amber, capable of holding several thousand lights. There
+is a beautiful cabinet made of a collection of pieces of unpolished
+amber, intended to show the different kinds of that mineral, its
+various forms, its peculiarities, and its varieties. Here is a
+bedstead, worth it is said ten thousand pounds; and the most elegant
+furniture ever seen. And here is a piece of white silk embroidered
+with portraits of our Queen and the Prince of Wales, done in a thin
+kind of thread, called "hair thread."
+
+You know a good deal about Germany itself, I dare say, already; but I
+must tell you something about the Germans themselves. They are grave
+and thoughtful, but highly romantic and full of enthusiasm. Their love
+for their country is most remarkable. All classes in Germany are
+well-educated, and many painters, poets, and musicians, have been born
+among them. The art of printing was first practiced in that country,
+and at present the number of books printed there is immense; while
+every year a book-fair is held at the city of Leipzig. The produce and
+manufactures of Germany are exceedingly numerous, and you see they are
+of great variety, such as clocks, watches, woollens, linens, toys,
+wines, ornamental work in iron and steel, worsteds, and silks. In the
+public walks and gardens, on Sundays, the people assemble in great
+crowds, dressed out in their holiday clothes, while ladies and
+gentlemen walk about without the least restraint among the working
+people.
+
+The chase is a favourite amusement with the nobles and gentlemen, and
+is a sport in which they are lustily joined by the peasantry. The
+immense forests with which the country abounds gives shelter to wild
+boars, wolves, and many other ferocious animals. On grand occasions
+there is held what is called a _battue_, when a number of deer are
+driven into an enclourse, and shot at by the sportsmen. The habits of
+the peasants are extremely simple, but the people are industrious and
+ingenious. The villages and cottages are neat and comfortable. The
+peasants make many pretty toys and ornaments, and bring provisions to
+market from a great distance, in light roomy wheel-barrows, made for
+the purpose. The German people are in general fair, with blue eyes,
+flaxen hair, and full figures; but they do not wear any very peculiar
+dress.
+
+In models of ships, in rosewood furniture, in silver embroidery, and
+silver cups,--besides linens, calicoes, and glass beautifully painted
+for windows; many contributions have been sent in by the Dutch. There
+are also soft thick blankets with scarlet borders, which make one warm
+merely to look at them.
+
+The Dutch people are industrious, and cleanly. The women are the most
+active and nicest house-wives in the world; they scour and brighten,
+and rub not only the furniture and inside of their houses, but the
+outside as well; the houses in Holland, by-the-bye, look like painted
+baby-houses, and are roofed with glossy delft tiles, and the rooms are
+lined with smooth square tiles of delft, and the floors paved with
+marble. The people are never idle in Holland, but are always working
+at a great variety of manufactures, among which are leather, woollen,
+and linen articles,--also, paper, wax, starch, pottery, and tiles.
+Large quantities of gin are likewise made, and this liquor is in
+England called "Hollands" for that reason. Carts are not much used by
+the Dutch; their goods are carried on sledges, very light waggons, and
+boats. The reason of this is, that they are afraid lest the wheels of
+vehicles should injure the foundations of their cities, which are
+generally built on piles of huge trees, driven like stakes into the
+bog beneath. The common people are very humane to their cattle; they
+rub down the cows and oxen, and keep them as clean and sleek as our
+English horses. Canals run through the principal streets, and in
+winter they are frozen over for two or three months, when the whole
+country is like a fair; booths are erected upon the ice, with fires in
+them. The country people skate to market, with milk and vegetables;
+and every kind of sport is seen on the frozen canals. Sledges fly from
+one street to another, gaily decorated, and numberless skaters glide
+about with astonishing swiftness and dexterity. No people skate so
+well as the Dutch.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Holland was once a quagmire, almost covered with water; but by making
+canals higher than the land, and pumping the water out of the fields
+into them, the land was drained. The bogs are numerous, and supply so
+much turf that little else is burned. There are no beggars; and the
+people are in general pretty warmly clothed, and comfortable looking,
+with ruddy faces. The townspeople are dressed almost like the
+Londoners, or Parisians; but the costume of the country folks is
+rather funny. A farmer's wife, when out for a holiday, wears a large
+kind of gipsy hat, like a small umbrella, lined with damask; a close
+jacket with long flaps; and full short thick coloured petticoats. Her
+slippers are yellow, her stockings blue, and her cap is without a
+border, being made to fit her head exactly, and gaily ornamented with
+gold filagree clasps; while her costume is finished by a pair of
+earrings and a necklace. The farmer himself wears a hat without a rim,
+and huge silver buttons on his coat; and keeps whiffing away at his
+pipe, which he is seldom without. The Dutch are most excellent
+gardeners, though they sometimes ruin themselves by their love for
+flowers.
+
+Among the articles that have been sent here from Switzerland, are
+several well worth looking at, they are so wonderfully ingenious. Of
+this kind are two boxes, one of white wood, and the other of brown;
+the white has a lovely Alpine rose, with garlands of flowers upon the
+sides, the rose and lid being cut out of one piece of wood, and so
+beautifully made to imitate nature, that the slightest touch with the
+point of a knife or a needle, makes the leaves move and quiver without
+spoiling the flower. This was made by a Swiss peasant. The people of
+Switzerland are very remarkable for their industry, contentment, and
+ingenuity.
+
+Among the villagers, their chief occupations are the management of
+dairies, and the breeding of cattle; and many of the peasantry make a
+living by hunting the chamois, as the wild goat is called. This is
+rather a dangerous employment, yet the chamois-hunters delight in it;
+they carry a long hook pointed with an iron spike, and with the help
+of this, they leap from rock to rock, over frightful chasms and
+precipices; yet such is their surprising activity, that they are never
+killed. Other peasants earn a livelihood by fattening and preparing
+snails for market; for these creatures are considered a great delicacy
+in many parts of Switzerland. In another part of the country the
+inhabitants almost exclusively follow the trade of watch-making, and
+polishing the crystals and pebbles that are found in the mountains,
+Geneva, a city of Switzerland, is celebrated for the watches that are
+made there.
+
+The women are extremely domestic, delighting in their children; and
+all the Swiss are remarkable for their passionate love of home. In
+every village there is a school, established by the Government for
+the instruction of poor children. The Swiss are the most graceful of
+all peasants, and wear very smart costumes. The men wear large hats,
+and their dress is generally a brown cloth jacket without sleeves, and
+puffed breeches of ticking. The women have short blue petticoats, a
+cherry-coloured boddice, full white sleeves fastened above the elbow,
+and a muslin kerchief thrown round their necks; while their hair is
+plaited, and twisted about their heads. They also wear pretty flat
+straw hats, ornamented with bows of ribbon.
+
+The scenery of Switzerland is of the most charming and romantic
+description; there are towering mountains, craggy rocks, steep
+precipices, with foaming torrents dashing down their sides, and dizzy
+heights, which I should be sorry any of my little friends were looking
+down. But these are delightfully intermixed with beautiful valleys,
+adorned with groves of fir, beech, and chestnut trees; clear lakes,
+rapid rivers, cataracts, and bridges of one arch reaching an immense
+distance from rock to rock. Portions of the mountains are covered with
+villages and scattered cottages; and the inside of the dwellings are
+so neat and look so comfortable, that you could almost wish to live in
+one of them, if you were not told that there is a perpetual danger of
+their being buried under one of the enormous masses of snow that
+frequently roll from the tops of the mountains, and destroy everything
+in their way. These masses are called Avalanches.
+
+Between the summits of the highest of the mountains are valleys of
+ice, frozen into many fantastic shapes, formed by one crust of ice
+growing hard over another; but what is more extraordinary, is that the
+borders of these glaciers, as they are called, are fertile:
+strawberries, wild cherries, nuts, barberries, and mulberries, grow
+there; and goats browse on the most inaccessible parts of the rocks,
+and bound with the most surprising agility from one cliff to another.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Several contributions have been sent by the Prussians and Austrians;
+woollens, minerals, linens, china, and other things.
+
+The Prussians are a very polite and well-educated people, and nowhere
+are there more schools than in their country.
+
+Prussia itself is an extremely pleasant place, and the towns are fine,
+with wide, regular streets, and high antique-looking houses; the
+streets are mostly lined with trees, which look pretty enough while
+their leaves are green, but rather prevent the free circulation of
+air. The Prussian ladies delight in fine clothes, and would be much
+vexed if they were obliged to go out without them. The gentry speak
+French, but the common people talk German. The beautiful Dresden china
+we see at the Exhibition, cames from the town of Dresden.
+
+Austria is a very fine country, and contains a great variety of
+people. The principal artizans are tanners, furriers, boot makers,
+lace workers, and cabinet makers. There are also workers in iron,
+copper, alum, saltpetre, besides many others. The general habits of
+the Austrians are like those of the Germans, so I do not think I need
+tell you anything about them.
+
+The Poles and Hungarians have also sent their industrial productions
+to the Great Exhibition; cloth, lace, furniture, brooms, linens,
+woollens, and other articles. I dare say you have heard a good deal
+lately about the Hungarians, when they were fighting against the
+Austrians and Russians. The Hungarian peasants are very hard-working;
+indeed, they cannot help being so, for as the nobility and gentry are
+not taxed, the poor people are forced to pay all the taxes, besides
+being obliged to give money and provisions to their masters, the Lords
+of the Manor, who, I am sorry to say, are excessively tyrannical. They
+are also compelled to pay tithes to the clergy, the magistrates, and
+the soldiers, and to work for nothing on the public works; against
+which bad laws they fought. Agriculture, and the breeding of cattle,
+are carried on to a considerable extent.
+
+Hungary is occupied by a variety of people, with entirely different
+habits; it contains Frenchmen, Sclavonians, Turks, Jews, Spaniards,
+Gipsies, Germans, and Greeks. The Magyar language, the original
+Hungarian tongue, is spoken by the peasants; but in the cities the
+people mostly use German and French.
+
+The Poles live in a cold, flat, marshy country, in the north of
+Europe. The peasantry are in a miserable state, very dirty and
+frequently drunken; and their land is in a wretched condition.
+
+The Swedish and Danish people have made many things to be exhibited in
+the World's Fair. Sweden is in the north of Europe, and the climate is
+very disagreeable, for it is extremely cold in winter, and intolerably
+hot in summer. The people do not live very luxuriantly; their bread is
+not only black and coarse, but so hard that they are sometimes obliged
+to break it with a hatchet; and this, with dried fish, and salt meat,
+forms the chief part of their food. Yet they are very hardy and
+contented. At Michaelmas, they kill their cattle and salt them, for
+the winter and spring. Their favourite drink is beer, and they delight
+in malt spirits; some of them have tea and coffee. Their houses are
+generally built of wood, and their cottages are made of rough logs;
+the roofs are covered with turf, on which the goats browse. The
+Swedish women do everything that men are employed to do in other
+countries; they plough, sow, and thresh, and work with the
+bricklayers; the country women, as well as the ladies, wear veils to
+shade their faces from the glare of the snow in winter, and from the
+scorching rays of the sun reflected from the barren rocks in summer.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The iron mines of Sweden are exceedingly useful; they furnish great
+quantities of metal, to be exported to England, for the use of our
+steel manufactories. The extensive forests supply numerous pine trees,
+which are cut down and sent to foreign countries, for ship and house
+building; while pitch and tar are made from the sap,--a preparation
+which gives employment to many of the inhabitants.
+
+The Swedes contrive to make things from materials we should throw away
+as good for nothing; they twist rope from hogs'-bristles, horses'
+manes, and the bark of trees; and form bridles of eel-skins. The
+coarse cloth they wear they make themselves, for the women are
+continually busy spinning or weaving. Sweden is the birth-place of the
+famous botanist, Linnæus, and the charming singer, Jenny Lind.
+
+Norway is united to Sweden, but it is still colder in winter and
+hotter in summer. The people live very simply, mostly on milk, cheese,
+and dried fish; and sometimes they have slices of meat, sprinkled with
+salt and dried in the wind. In some parts of the country, the people
+make bread of the bark of the pine tree; and in winter, for want of
+hay, they are obliged to feed their cattle on dried fish. The houses
+are built of wood, and many of the roads are made of the same
+material; while wooden fences are used instead of hedges. The
+Norwegians send metals, minerals, salt, butter, dried fish, and furs,
+to other countries.
+
+Denmark is a very fine country, perfectly level, except a single ridge
+of mountains. Its chief products are grain, tobacco, flax, madder, and
+hops. There are a great many mines, but few manufactures carried on;
+though the Danish gloves are much esteemed. The climate is generally
+rather warm, but very wet. The Danes are mostly well-educated; they
+are like the Swedes in their manners and customs. They have sent many
+specimens of their industry to the Great Exhibition.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Why, who would have thought of seeing Persian and Egyptian
+contributions at the Exhibition?
+
+And such splendid articles as they are! Persia, you know, is a rich
+and fertile country, near Russia, in Asia; but although it has many
+beautiful flowers and fruits, yet is there very little timber; owing
+to which they have no shipping. The Persians delight in fine clothes
+on which they lavish the greater part of their money, and they are
+fonder of scarlet, or crimson, than of any other colour. They are very
+skilful in dyeing, in making silks, shagreen, morocco, gold and silver
+ornaments; and they form excellent swords and weapons. Their commerce
+with Turkey, China, Arabia, and other places, is carried on by means
+of what they call "caravans," which are large companies of merchants,
+who travel together for the sake of security from thieves, by whom
+however, they are often robbed; these companies have frequently more
+than a thousand camels, to carry their luggage and their goods; and in
+consequence of the excessive heat, they are obliged to journey mostly
+in the early morning, and rest during the day. The Persians live
+chiefly on rice, fruit, and coffee, and eat very little meat; they
+luxuriate in baths, and the poorest amongst them endeavour to have a
+horse. They use the Turkish language, and are nearly all Mahometans;
+they used to worship the sun and fire, though very few continue to do
+so still. The Persian ladies never appear in the streets or any other
+public place, without having long veils, in order to conceal their
+faces, as the Turkish ladies do. The Persians are very like the Turks
+in their manners and customs, which I described to you before.
+
+Egypt was, formerly, a mighty empire, and had rich and haughty kings,
+who adorned it with magnificent temples and palaces. I dare say you
+remember what you have read of it in the history of Joseph and his
+brethren, and in that of Moses. It was here that Solomon built his
+magnificent and gorgeous Temple. It is now, however, an exceedingly
+mean country, and is governed by a Turkish Pacha, whose grandfather
+contrived to make himself master of Egypt, as well as of Syria and
+Palestine. The climate of Egypt is excessively hot,--in fact, the
+nights in spring are the only pleasant part of the year. The nights in
+autumn are also very fine,--even delicious; and the rays of the moon
+are so bright that the natives, who sleep in the open air, cover their
+eyes to prevent their being injured by the brilliancy. The greater
+portion of the land is covered with burning sands; but wherever the
+waters of the river Nile have been conducted by canals, and allowed to
+flow over the country, the earth becomes fertile, and fruits thrive
+luxuriantly. There are but few garden flowers, but roses are
+extensively cultivated, the attar of roses forming an article of
+commerce.
+
+There are many valuable minerals found in the earth; and beautiful
+marble, alabaster, salt, alum, and other useful things. The woods,
+marshes, plains, and rivers supply a variety of animals, most of them
+wild and ferocious. It was in Egypt that the Hippopotamus was found.
+The people devote themselves to agriculture, the rearing of bees, and
+poultry; they also carry on an important trade with other countries.
+Most of the Egyptians are strong, of a tawny complexion, and of a gay
+disposition. They luxuriate in water; and esteem it the height of
+enjoyment to sit by a fountain, smoking their pipes; they are
+excessively fond of bathing. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a large
+city, with irregular unpaved streets, and brick houses, with flat
+roofs. There are a good many small manufactories; and some schools, a
+printing-office, and a large library. There are numerous magnificent
+fountains in the city, which are indispensable on account of the
+intense heat; and more than a thousand shops for selling cups of
+coffee, of which the Egyptians are very fond; these coffee shops are
+called _rahwehs_. All along the river Nile the banks show signs of
+industry; cotton, tobacco, and other produce being grown down to the
+water's edge. The Pyramids of Egypt, the time of the building of which
+is not known, are considered one of the wonders of the world.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Greeks have sent some fine stuffs; their silk manufactures are
+really beautiful, and their sculptures and feather-fans are splendid.
+Greece was a famous country long, long ago, in ancient history, but it
+has undergone many sad changes, and was for a long time ruled by the
+Turks. The English, French, and Russians rid it from Turkish hands;
+but its present government is weak and imperfect, for the numerous
+petty chiefs pursue a wicked system of robbery, fighting, and tyranny.
+Indeed, many of these chiefs have fitted out vessels as pirate ships,
+in order to seize and plunder any other vessels weaker than their own
+with which they may fall in. There are, however, many wealthy Greek
+merchants; and a number of rich Jews live in various parts of Greece.
+The Greek people are beautiful and graceful. The women have fine oval
+faces, their eyes are large and dark, their eyebrows and hair are of
+deep shining black, and their complexions are mostly pale. They are
+very splendid in their dresses; the costume of the men is extremely
+like that of the Turks. From having been so long subject, however, to
+their Turkish rulers, the Greeks have become artful and cunning.
+
+The rich ladies and nobles of Greece have fine young slaves to wait
+upon them, and amuse them by singing or dancing. These slaves are
+bought from the Tartars, who steal them from Russia, Circassia, or
+Georgia, and are taken great care of, being taught to embroider, sing,
+dance, and deport themselves with elegance and grace. Their masters or
+mistresses scarcely ever sell them, but when they are tired of them,
+either give them to a friend, or set them free. When they do sell
+them, it is as a punishment for some crime, or for being useless.
+
+There are numerous brigands, or thieves, in Greece, who are divided
+into bands, and rob with the utmost impunity. They manage to hide
+themselves very artfully in the roads where they expect to meet
+travellers, doubling their bodies up behind stones and bushes, or else
+lying flat on their faces on the ground, when they suddenly all start
+up and surround any unfortunate individual who may happen to pass that
+way. There are also honest, industrious people in Greece; and among
+them are the guides, men who show strangers over the curious portions
+of the cities for a trifling sum of money; and there are the cabmen of
+Athens, who are usually very intelligent and well-informed; there are
+a number of cabs in Athens.
+
+The Greek houses have only one story; but there are generally large
+gardens, carefully tended, attached to them. The climate is generally
+mild, but not so much so as formerly, on account of the cutting down
+of the forests. The spring and autumn are delightful; but the summer
+is too hot, and the winter is almost a succession of storm and rain.
+The earth is extremely fertile, and produces corn, wine, and fruits,
+besides the honey and figs you like so much. The people manufacture
+silks and cottons, and export quantities of small raisins, which grow
+very luxuriantly in and about the city of Corinth. Corinth is one of
+the most charming places that you can fancy to yourself, and is
+surrounded by beautiful views and the remains of ancient temples,
+columns, and statues; groves of fine olive trees border the city, and
+the waters of two bays meet near the entrance. The ruins of the
+ancient temples and buildings in Athens, the capital of Greece, are
+still to be seen; but so little do the ignorant and foolish people,
+who have lived in the city in modern times, value these great works,
+that they have for hundreds of years used the greater part of the
+splendid marbles to build their houses, which are only ordinary and
+common-looking.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The inhabitants of Bavaria and Belgium have sent almost numberless
+articles of industry to the Exhibition; furs, lace, machinery, corn,
+books, furniture, and metals.
+
+Belgium was formerly called Flanders, and the people produced superior
+cloth, hats, cutlery, and other useful things, a very great many years
+before the English could make any thing better than the most common
+sort of goods. The Belgians are still celebrated for their ingenuity
+in making toys, lace, cloth, silk, satin, velvet, and other useful
+articles. They are also famous for the culture of flowers, in which
+they excel even the Dutch. Every house has a garden attached, which is
+frequently surrounded by a moat. The country is small, but every part
+of the land is made fertile by the industry of the farmers, of whom
+there are a great number; many of them grow flax, which is woven into
+linen by the women. There is a weekly market for linen, held at Ghent,
+whither the peasantry carry their products for sale, and both men and
+women may be seen standing in two long lines, with benches before
+them.
+
+The farms in Belgium are cultivated with great care and attention, and
+much resemble the market gardens round London; they all have gardens,
+and grow an ample supply of fruit and vegetables. The food of the
+peasants, is rye-bread and milk, for breakfast and supper; potatoes
+and onions, with bacon and beer, for dinner; they eat off pewter; and
+although their fare is simple, it is good and plentiful. Their dress
+is somewhat coarse, but it is neat and clean, the men wear blue linen
+frocks; and the women have printed cotton gowns, linen caps, and
+woollen petticoats.
+
+The towns and villages of Belgium are numerous, and thickly peopled.
+Brussels, the capital, is a fine city, and is celebrated for its
+manufactures, particularly for lace, camlet, and carpets. Ten thousand
+people are employed there in making lace. It is also famous for its
+pottery and porcelain. The other articles made there, are cotton and
+woollen stuffs, silk stockings, and earthenware. The carriages built
+there, are superior to even those of London or Paris; there is a
+specimen of Belgian carriages at the Exhibition.
+
+There are numerous silk manufactories in Brussels; and the beautiful
+linen, called damask, is exported in great quantities. There are
+innumerable breweries, too; for no people in the world are so fond of
+drinking beer as the Belgians. The people carry on a considerable
+trade with foreign countries, by means of the various canals, on which
+a vast number of steam-boats are constantly passing and re-passing.
+
+The upper part of Brussels is magnificent, and has a splendid park
+laid out with shaded walks, and surrounded by the palaces, private
+houses, and public offices; but in the lower part, the streets are
+narrow and crowded, though the market-place is very beautiful. There
+are twenty superb fountains in the city, ornamented with sculpture.
+The Belgians delight in music, and they hold musical festivals every
+year. In the Horticultural Gardens at Ghent, during summer, there are
+several concerts performed in the open air; and even among the
+labouring people, the songs and pieces of music sung together by
+groups of peasants and working people are often delightful to hear;
+for in Belgium, as in Holland, Prussia, and over a great part of
+Germany, even the poorest children are freely taught to sing in
+harmony at school. There are several railways in Belgium, which is a
+very great convenience to travellers. The climate is good; and, in
+winter, snow does not fall deeply.
+
+Bavaria is in Germany also, and is celebrated for its manufactures of
+iron, glass, paper, hardware, clocks, linen, woollen, and fire-arms.
+The people are industrious and careful, excepting in smoking tobacco,
+of which they are very wasteful. Industry is encouraged; and several
+schools have been established for teaching young men agriculture and
+gardening, with the usual branches of education.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We must not forget to see what has come from America. Our Great
+Exhibition has been almost as much talked of there, as it has been at
+home, and an immense number of contributions has been sent from that
+country. Machinery, sculptures, stuffs, carriages, minerals, boots and
+shoes, iron-work, and wines, have been dispatched over to the
+Exhibition.
+
+America was formerly inhabited by numerous tribes of Red Indians,--a
+wild, warlike race,--of whom but few now remain, and those not at all
+civilized; but the greater number of the white people of America are
+the same in their dress, manners, and language, as ourselves.
+
+A large portion of America is called the United States, which is a
+Republic; that is, it is governed by the people themselves, without a
+king, queen, and a royal family; they appoint a President every four
+years. Long ago, the United States belonged to the English, but the
+natives gradually grew more powerful than they had been, and threw off
+all foreign control.
+
+America produces every kind of grain and fruit, as well as spices,
+dye-woods, and balsams. The people export quantities of natural
+productions to Europe, but their manufacturers are not as yet able to
+compete with those of what are called the _old_ countries. The
+principal manufactures are of cotton, woollen, iron, and leather;
+which they exchange with the Red Indians for prepared bark, skins, and
+birds' feathers. Mines abound, particularly for gold and silver; and
+there is abundance of precious stones. The farmers are a very
+industrious and intelligent class, and display much taste and neatness
+in their management.
+
+The finest timber for ship-building is abundant, and easily obtained;
+and there are many excellent harbours. Numerous fishing stations are
+situated along the coasts, and are very valuable; for fishing is
+there a very good employment, and engages many of the natives of the
+Northern States. As these fishermen get accustomed to a sea-faring
+life, and inured to fatigue, they soon become excellent sailors, and
+furnish men for the navy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The whale fishery is also a valuable pursuit, but it requires uncommon
+bravery and skill.--In the United States there are numerous schools
+and academies, wherein the children are educated free.
+
+The rich people in America are free from haughtiness, awkwardness, or
+formality, but they do not display the elegance and refinement of the
+higher classes in England or France. As for the common people, they
+are serious, shrewd, and industrious; but often seem rude and
+uncourtly to strangers, for they wish to show their independance by an
+annoying surliness of behaviour. A great number of turnpike roads,
+railways, canals, and bridges, have been formed, and improve the
+country very much, as you may imagine.
+
+The Americans make works in iron and wood, articles of machinery and
+of husbandry, tanned leather, and dressed skins. They are famous for
+ship-building.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Peru, which is in South America, is a very fine country, and produces
+many useful things, such as tobacco, pepper, jalap, Peruvian bark, and
+indigo.
+
+There are numerous valuable gold and silver mines, which make the
+inhabitants so rich, that at one time, long since, they paved several
+streets with ingots of silver, in proof of their wealth. There are
+whale fisheries on the coasts. Only _one_ specimen of industry has
+been sent from Peru!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mexico is another portion of South America. Its products are numerous,
+but the country suffers much for want of water, though the dew falls
+heavily every night. The soil is rich, and well cultivated, although
+not so carefully as with us. Indian corn is the principal food of the
+natives, and is cultivated so generally, that when the crop fails,
+there is a year of famine. A drink is also made from it, called
+chicha. Sweet potatoes, yams, and quantities of red pepper, together
+with vegetables, and fruits, and tobacco, are grown. A kind of plant,
+called a cacao, is so highly prized that the grains are used for
+money.
+
+For want of streams, of which the country is sadly deficient, the
+mills are mostly worked by animals, and are very inferior; and the
+machinery is so bad, that the cotton is separated from the seed by the
+hands of workpeople. The principal manufactures are cigars, cottons,
+soap, tanned leather, gunpowder, pottery, and hats.
+
+The rich people use a number of silver vessels, and a quantity of
+plate, on account of the want of manufactures of china and glass, so
+that the trade of a silversmith is rather good. Boots, saddles, and
+coaches, are well made: but the furniture, which is mostly of pine and
+cedar, is coarsely and clumsily put together.
+
+The streets of Mexico are rather wide and well paved; the houses
+are ornamental, and the churches and public buildings are
+magnificent.--The rich people pass the greater part of the day on
+their sofas, in darkened rooms; but in the evening, they appear
+arrayed in the most elegant costume, for they are particularly partial
+to parties and brilliant assemblies.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There are numerous beggars, called Leperos, who are very drunken and
+dishonest; but lively, voluble, and extremely civil; though they will
+pick any body's pocket. There are also innumerable Indians, who make
+earthen pots very neatly, and use them instead of iron or copper
+vessels.
+
+You have heard of Canada, which is a part of North America, and all
+that now remains to England of her vast American colonies.--Well, we
+have an enormous canoe from Canada!--I wonder who can have sent that?
+A canoe, as you know, is a kind of boat, which uncivilized people, who
+live near rivers, use. The canoes of Canada are of a very thin
+material, and so light, that the boatmen, in passing overland from one
+river to another, generally carry them on their heads. The canoes are
+mostly covered with bark, the pieces of which are sewed together with
+a particular kind of grass; the bark being usually not more than a
+quarter of an inch in thickness.
+
+The people of Canada, who are called Canadians, are rather
+industrious; they make very fine fans, they hunt, fish, and collect
+sugar from a tree called the Sugar maple. Their houses are built of
+stone, and are plastered, but seldom are higher than one story, except
+in the towns, and are made very warm by means of stoves. The furniture
+is usually made by the Canadians themselves, and is exceedingly
+simple.
+
+The chief article of food is peas soup, with a small piece of pork
+boiled in it, and a dish of thick sour milk. The women and children
+scarcely ever drink other than milk and water, but the men are
+particularly fond of rum.
+
+Winter lasts six months, during which time the greater part of the day
+is devoted to amusement, principally dancing. Most of the women can
+read and write, but the men can hardly do either; and the manners of
+both are very gay and light. There are a few lead mines in Canada, in
+which silver is also found. Their exports are timber, furs, potash,
+grain, and pearl-ash.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Australia has also sent her contributions to the Exhibition. Among
+them are specimens of the skins of animals, dried plants, fine woods,
+and other things.
+
+In Australia, there are scarcely any extensive manufactures, but the
+natives make some useful things, from the various and curious trees
+which abound. For instance, they form the most durable furniture and
+weapons from the casuarina or club tree; they make cloth from the
+finest bark of the paper-mulberry tree, and cord from a peculiar kind
+of flax. There are sago and cocoa trees, which grow to the height of
+one hundred and fifty feet, and are thirty feet round. Figs, lemons,
+oranges, sugar-canes, gum-trees, bread-fruit, and a kind of pepper,
+from which a drink, called ava, is made, are very useful to the
+natives. There are mines of a very rich quality, but they are as yet
+scarcely attended to. The original natives are very idle, and not very
+well off; those who live near the sea shore, catch fish; and those in
+the woods, eat such animals as they can get; or climb up trees, for
+honey, squirrels, and opussums.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The settlers, who are the people who have gone out from England and
+other countries, to dwell there, live in a very comfortable manner;
+they have large farms, with flocks of sheep and herds cattle, fields
+of waving corn, rice, and wheat; pretty huts, or shanties, as they are
+called, and a profusion of the most beautiful plants and creepers. In
+some parts of the country there are thriving towns, with good streets,
+elegant shops, and fine houses, such as there are in London.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+From the West Indies, specimens of industry have also come. Rice,
+fruits, sugar, metals, and plants, are among the contributions.
+
+The West Indians send us sugar rice, currants, raisins, cloves,
+nutmegs, cinnamon, allspice, and mace, for puddings; nice nuts, for
+our little boys and girls; coffee, cocoa, and chocolate, for our
+breakfast and tea; and fine silk, and cotton, for our dresses.
+
+Under the name of the West Indies, there are many countries:--Cuba,
+Jamaica, Hayti, Porto Rico, Barbadoes, and others. In Cuba, are found
+mines of gold, copper, and different other metals; there is a quantity
+of sugar grown there; and the tobacco is finer than that of most other
+islands. The trees are principally ebony, cedar, and mahogany, which
+are hewed down, and sent to foreign countries, to be made into
+furniture of various sorts. Cedar wood is also used to scent clothes
+and papers, on account of its sweet perfume. The Cubans are fond of
+bull-fighting, and of cock-fighting, I am sorry to say. Balls and
+parties are also a favourite and more innocent amusement.
+
+In Jamaica, the principal exercise of industry is in growing sugar,
+indigo, coffee, and ginger. These are cultivated in what are called
+plantations, which are attended to by negroes, who used to be slaves,
+and used to be lashed on to work unnaturally hard with whips; but they
+are now free in all the British colonies, as I hope they will be every
+where, long before any of my little friends, who read this book, may
+die. For not only were men and women kept in a state of slavery, but
+all their dear innocent little children, both little boys and little
+girls were treated as slaves.
+
+The bread-fruit tree is one of the most useful productions of the
+country, it not only supplies food, but other necessaries. Of the
+inner bark is formed a kind of cloth; the wood, which is soft, smooth,
+and of a yellowish colour, serves for the building of boats and
+houses; the leaves are used for wrapping up food; some parts of the
+flowers are good tinder; and the juice, when boiled with cocoa-nut
+oil, is employed for making bird-lime, and as a cement for mending
+earthenware vessels. So you may guess how useful it is to the people
+of Jamaica, and yet it is not a native of the West Indies, but was
+first brought there by English people, within the last seventy or
+eighty years.
+
+Hayti is now a much more flourishing island than it was; the Emperor,
+Faustin Soulouque, does every thing in his power to render it a
+civilized and polite country. He encourages all the arts and
+industrial sciences; and, in his court is kept up the grandeur of a
+great and powerful state; though the Haytians are black people, and
+were for the greater part negro slaves.
+
+Barbadoes is an exceedingly warm country, and is unfortunately liable
+to dreadful hurricanes, which sometimes overthrow whole towns and
+villages. The products are sugar, cotton, ginger, and rum. The tall
+sugar-canes, which grow as high as five or six feet, are set in
+plantations and tended by negroes; and the cotton plants are also
+taken care of by the negroes, who are almost the only persons who can
+work in the open air, on account of the heat. The houses of the
+planters are numerous all over the country; and, with the green hills,
+and the luxuriance of the vegetation, make an extremely picturesque
+scene.
+
+Since slavery has been abolished in our West India islands, schools
+for the children, and chapels for religious worship, have been erected
+at the expense of the negroes; numbers of whom have also become small
+landowners.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What a number of specimens have been despatched to the Exhibition from
+Algeria, Tunis, and the Cape of Good Hope: one, a model of a winged
+head, moulded in fine yellow clay, is really pretty; and the preserved
+fruits have quite a tempting look. And here are some boxes, made of
+most brilliant fancy woods; a few knives, soaps, cigars, herbs, and
+specimens of various woods, in blocks and in polished pieces. Here is
+also opium, paper made from the palm-tree, articles manufactured from
+native woods, with essences, perfumes, and splendid veils, slippers,
+caps, guns, and swords.
+
+Algeria now belongs to France; it was formerly one of the Barbary
+States, in the north of Africa, and many very useful plants and trees
+flourish there; oranges, melons, cucumbers, cabbages, lettuces, and
+artichokes, grow in great luxuriance. The sugar-cane is cultivated
+with success; and everywhere may be seen quantities of white roses,
+from which a sweet essence is extracted. The stems of the vines, which
+the people tend, are sometimes so thick, that a man can hardly put his
+arms round them; and the bunches of grapes are a foot and a-half long.
+Only think of bunches of grapes half a yard long! they must be
+something like those which we read of in the Bible, that were brought
+to Joshua, to show him what a fertile country was the land of Canaan.
+
+Acacia and cork trees grow in the woods of Algeria; the natives obtain
+gum from the acacia. There are many mines, but the Algerines make no
+use of them. The people themselves are strong in body, and of a tawny
+complexion.
+
+Tunis is another of the Barbary States, and contains a great number of
+people,--Moors, Turks, Arabs, Jews, and Christians, merchants and
+slaves. All these carry on a large trade in Morocco leather, linens,
+gold-dust, oil, woollen cloth, lead, ostrich feathers, horses, and
+soap. There are the same variety of vegetable productions that there
+are in Algeria.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Cape of Good Hope is in the south of Africa; it produces fine
+fruits and flowers, grapes, lemons, oranges, and figs, but no nuts.
+The aloe and myrtle grow to a great size, and the almond and wild
+chestnut are very plentiful. There are scarcely any manufactures, but
+the farmers keep immense flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle; and
+there is a vast quantity of fine wool sent every year to England; and
+ships provisions, such as beef, pork, and butter, are supplied to the
+vessels sailing to India, Australia, and many other parts of the
+world; their other chief export is Cape wine.
+
+In some parts of this country are large herds of zebras, antelopes,
+and giraffes, which are usually preyed upon by lions, obliging the
+shepherds to watch their flocks, and the farmers to ride about with
+loaded guns. A strange mode, my little readers will think, of being
+shepherds.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There have been no scarcity of French contributions; rich silks,
+velvets, satins, linens, fruits, woods, herbs, statues, machinery,
+furniture, iron-work, glass, plate, and a heap more of industrial
+products; and such splendid carpets. In the "Arabian Nights'
+Entertainments" we read about the Palaces of Fairies and Genii, with
+the floors covered with the richest carpets, and divans and cushions
+or gorgeous tapestry, and we long to see these carpets in reality; and
+so we shall at the Exhibition, for there are some so magnificent, that
+I do not think the Princess Badroulboudour, or the Fairy Queen Pari
+Banou, ever sat on finer. And charming little models of ships; and
+such beautiful fans. Do you know how many persons it takes to make a
+fan? Fifteen; and although those fans at the Exhibition are each worth
+several guineas, yet, in France, tens of thousands are sold at not
+more than a halfpenny a-piece. The French fan-makers get two shillings
+and six-pence a-day each, for their labour. The people of France are
+our next-door neighbours, almost; and from being our bitterest enemies
+they have now become our most intimate friends, and exchange visits
+constantly with us; steam vessels and railways having made the journey
+one of only a few hours.
+
+Paris is the capital of France, and it is the gayest city in the
+world; there are theatres, balls, processions, feast-days, fairs, and
+more amusements than I can remember. But there are also numbers of
+very poor people, who almost live in the streets, and get food and
+clothing as they best can. Some, who are called cheffoniers, go about
+with a fork and a basket, to pick up pieces of iron, rags, bones, or
+any stray valuables, if they can find them, from holes and corners in
+the streets, and from the dust heaps; others look for the ends of
+cigars, and sell them to be made into pieces of tobacco for the common
+people; and a number, I am very sorry to say, either beg or steal.
+
+Among the peasantry there is a great deal of industry displayed. As
+they are all desirous of having a cottage and some land of their own,
+lads of fifteen or sixteen years of age, hire themselves as labourers
+to the farmers, and receive wages, out of which, and their mode of
+living, they save enough money in a few years, to buy a piece of
+land. If the land is fit for it, they plant it with vines; for the
+vineyards of France yield an abundant harvest, and well repay the
+labour bestowed on them. The French wines are among the finest and
+most expensive in the world.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The cottages of the peasantry are not remarkable for comfort, being
+very rude buildings, frequently having merely a hole in the roof for a
+chimney. They are mostly, however, extremely picturesque, completely
+covered with vines. The wines, called Bourdeaux, Burgundy, and
+Champagne come from France. From the fruit of the olive-trees, which
+grow in vast quantities, a fine clear oil is obtained, and this forms
+a large part of the commerce of the country. The rearing of poultry is
+carried on to a great extent; and most of the eggs sold in London,
+which are used by us at breakfast, for sauces, and for puddings, come
+from France. Most of the cottagers keep one or two small hardy cows,
+which their boys or girls, or old people, are usually leading about by
+a halter, to eat the rank grass in paths or road-ways between the
+fields. Their milk and butter form a good part of the people's food.
+
+In Tours and Lyons, there are numerous manufactories for the most
+superb silks and damasks; some years ago, there were fifteen hundred
+pairs of silk stockings finished each day at Lyons.
+
+The plate-glass of Paris is now much better than that of Venice, which
+was formerly the finest in the world, the plates being of an immense
+size and extraordinary clearness. Their tapestry is beautiful; the
+tapestry of the Gobelin in particular, for it is just like splendid
+painting. Indeed, some of the designs, copied from pictures, surpass
+the originals, in point of beauty and brilliancy. There are many
+specimens of this tapestry at the Exhibition, both in draperies, and
+fitted to pieces of furniture.
+
+The porcelain made at Sevres is exquisitely beautiful, and is used
+for numerous ornamental purposes; vases, tea services, chimney
+ornaments, figures, and other articles. The painted papers, which
+represent various ornaments in painting, sculpture, and architecture,
+serve to employ a great number of people. Watches, cutlery, shoes,
+dresses, bonnets, and jewellery, are also a good source of employment
+among numerous families. All these beautiful things we shall see at
+the Exhibition.
+
+The forests, in France, are very extensive; and as wood is the general
+fuel used, great attention is paid to the growth of the trees. Cattle
+and domestic animals are rather scarce, and the sheep are ill-managed;
+in winter, they are fed on straw and hay, instead of green food, so
+that the French meat is not so good as the English; but they have a
+nice way of dressing it. The country people are very simple in their
+habits and manners, and very frugal in their way of living; they live
+for the most part on black bread, garlic, fruit, and milk. The
+costumes of some of the peasants are exceedingly pretty.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What a many thousand contributions have come from foreign countries,
+yet even a greater number have been sent in from all parts of our own
+dear islands, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Here is a silver
+tea-kettle, manufactured from a fourpenny-piece, by a working man. I
+think that would grace the diminitive tea-table of the Emperor of the
+Lilliputians. And a pair of boat-sculls, made of white ash, and only
+the size of writing-pens, which I dare say, the oars of the King of
+Blefuscan's barge resembled; these, with a magnificent oar, thirty-six
+feet long, are intended as presents for His Royal Highness the Prince
+of Wales.
+
+Here is a scarf, containing twelve miles and a-half of thread, three
+millions four hundred and seventy-five stitches, is nine feet ten
+inches long, three feet wide, and weighs only five ounces and
+a-quarter;--that came from Ireland. Look, too, at that beautifully
+embroidered dress; it came from Ireland, and is worth seventy-five
+guineas.
+
+There are many little models of different buildings; and there is a
+colossal horse and dog; and two gigantic statues; and there is a
+nicely carved oak chair, made by an English ship-carpenter; and here
+are cotton stockings, manufactured so fine, that they look exactly
+like silk. There are also models of carriages, ships and machinery;
+a magnificient epergne of glass, with some large pearls, from Ireland.
+A beautiful piece of sculpture, representing the Scottish games, is
+the most remarkable contribution which has come from Scotland.
+
+The English people are celebrated for their industry and perseverence;
+they manufacture numerous things, and carry on a alrge commerce with
+other countries. The industry of the peasants have made the soil
+produce wheat, barley, rye, oats, beans, potatoes, turnips, hops, hemp
+and flax. Nearly every variety, of vegetables, and a great number of
+fruits, are also grown. There is abundance of timber, which is used
+for many purposes; the oak tree is chiefly employed for building
+ships. The ships of war are called the "wooden walls of England."
+
+The domestic animals are taken great care of; sheep and hogs, when
+killed, are made into mutton, pork, bacon, and ham. The English cheese
+and butter is superior to any other. There are abundance of mineral
+treasures found in various parts of the kingdom; indeed, the English
+people are greatly indebted to the well-worked mines for their wealth.
+At the Exhibition, are several specimens of ores.
+
+In addition to the rich mines, and the vegetable productions, the
+English are celebrated for their superior manufactures, which fame
+they are enabled to enjoy by means of the most ingenious machinery,
+rail roads, and canals, by which they can easily and rapidly send
+their goods, and travel from one part of the country to another.
+Cottons, woollens, linens, silks, iron, jewellery, leather, glass,
+earthenware, paper, and hats, are manufactured in great quantities.
+
+I dare say you would be much amused by a visit to Manchester, in
+Lancashire, where the art of spinning cotton is carried to a high
+perfection. There are more than a hundred and forty cotton factories
+in that city, where men, women, and children, are continually at work,
+minding the machines, which are about twenty thousand in number. When
+you first go into one of these factories, you hear a terrible noise of
+whirling and whizzing, and see an immense number of wheels flying
+round and round.
+
+Halifax and Leeds, in Yorkshire, are the chief places for woollen
+cloth, the manufacture of which employs the greater part of the
+inhabitants. A weekly market is held in Halifax for the sale of
+woollens, in a spacious building called the Piece Hall; but in Leeds,
+the markets are held two days in the week, in the two Cloth Halls.
+
+Staffordshire is famous for earthenware; the reason of this is, that
+there is such an enormous quantity of yellow clay suitable for that
+manufacture, found there. Indeed, there are several towns and villages
+formed into a district called "The Potteries;" and in consequence of
+the innumerable furnaces, which are always blazing, the place looks at
+night as if was on fire. Gloves, lace, and stockings, are mostly made
+in Nottingham, where there are several thousand machines for the
+manufacture of these things.
+
+From Kidderminster, in Worcester, we have very fine carpets; from
+Gloucester, we have cheese and pins; Northampton is celebrated for
+leather; Shrewsbury, for flannel. The great mines are in Cumberland,
+Cornwall, Northumberland, Durham, and Derbyshire. However, if I were
+to tell you of all the places in England, that are famed for
+different manufactures, I am afraid I should both exceed our space,
+and wear out your patience, which I should be sorry to do. So I will
+now tell you something about London.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+London, which you know is the capital of our own dear native land, is
+the greatest commercial city in the world; it has been reckoned that
+the value of the property shipped and unshipped on the river Thames,
+every year, is more than one hundred million pounds. An enormous
+quantity of property is laid in the London Docks, at Wapping; indeed,
+the warehouse for tobacco alone covers a space of nearly five acres,
+while the vaults underneath the ground are more than eighteen acres in
+extent.
+
+More coaches, omnibusses, waggons, vans, and other conveyances, crowd
+the streets of London than any other city in the world. You will,
+perhaps, be a little surprised when I tell you that in one principal
+street, seven thousand vehicles pass to and fro every day. Almost
+every kind of manufacture is carried on in London; silk goods,
+jewellery, clocks, watches, ear-rings, hats, furniture, instruments of
+every kind, porter and ale, with many more that I cannot now remember.
+However, you must not think, from all this, there are no poor people
+in London; for, unfortunately, there are thousands. Some beg, others
+steal, and those who are honest and able to labour, work. But those
+who cannot obtain work are very badly off; and persons die from
+starvation.
+
+The industrial manufactures of Scotland are like those of England; the
+exports are linens, muslins, woollen stuffs, cottons, iron, lead,
+glass, earthenware, leather, and other articles. The chief
+manufacture is linen: but manufactures of stoves, and grates, and
+many other things, from their immense iron works, particularly from
+those of Carron, are also a principal part of the industrial products.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Scotch people are remarkable for their thrift and prudence; the
+lower orders are in general well-educated, and it is the height of
+ambition in a Scottish mechanic, to appear with his family in neat,
+clean dresses, on Sundays and other holidays.
+
+The costume of the Highlanders is very picturesque; the plaid is made
+of woollen stuff, of various colours, with a jacket, and a short
+petticoat called a kilt, which leaves the knees bare; the stockings
+are also a plaid, generally red and white, and do not reach up to the
+knees, but are tied round the legs with scarlet garters. The
+head-dress is a flat blue bonnet, as it is called, ornamented round
+with scarlet and white plaid, and frequently adorned with eagle's
+feathers. The Highland women go without shoes or stockings, and wear
+short petticoats, a plaid jacket, and a plaid scarf.
+
+Most of the Scotch people are intelligent, and so far advanced in
+education, that even the miners in the south have a library, where
+they read, and improve their minds; and yet these poor miners were
+little better than in a state of slavery two hundred years since. The
+favourite musical instrument, with the Scotch, is the bag-pipe; which
+does not, however, sound quite so well to our English ears, as it does
+to theirs. Their national dances are the Highland reel, and fling,
+which they perform with great agility and grace. The sheep and cattle
+are rather small, but give exceedingly good meat; and the sheep, in
+particular, are valued for their fleece, which is almost as fine as
+the best Spanish wool.
+
+Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is, in the new parts of it, a
+fine clean city; the houses in the old town are excessively high, and
+the streets inconvenient; but the streets of the new town are very
+broad, and almost all in straight lines; some of them are a mile long.
+Most of the houses are built of white stone, which sparkles as if it
+was inlaid with diamonds when the sun shines on it.
+
+The manufactures carried on in the city, are mostly cabinet-work,
+furniture, carriages, musical instruments, linens, shawls, silks,
+glass, marble, brass, and iron work. There are also many breweries,
+for Edinburgh has long been celebrated for its ale, large quantities
+of which are sent to London, and other parts of the kingdom, Glasgow,
+which is the principal manufacturing and trading town, contains
+extensive cotton factories.
+
+In many parts of the Highlands, the natives are employed in feeding
+sheep and cattle, for the markets; and in the valleys, and other
+sheltered places, hemp, barley, flax, and potatoes, are cultivated,
+though unfortunately most of the barley is made into whiskey. In the
+more northernly parts the general employment is fishing.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Ireland is a much warmer and more fertile island; it is celebrated, in
+point of industry, for its wool, butter, beef, hides, tallow, cows,
+horses, pigs, sheep, potatoes, wheat, barley, oats, and linen. Linen
+is the chief manufacture. There are numerous mines, from which are
+obtained gold, silver, iron, copper, and lead; all very useful metals,
+I think.
+
+There are also quarries of marble, slate, and freestone; and in
+various parts are found coal and turf. In Ireland, turf is the
+principal fuel used. The brewing of stout, and a strong bittered beer,
+for exportation; and the distilling of whiskey, another strong but
+spirituous drink, are other branches of Irish industry.
+
+Fishing is an important occupation with those peasants who live on the
+sea-shore, and near the rivers or lakes. The making of roads, draining
+bogs, and improving the land, now employ thousands of poor labourers,
+who formerly used to be without any occupation.
+
+The Irish dairies are well-managed and are generally extensive; many
+counties in the south part of the island are occupied almost entirely
+by dairy farms. As many as thirty or forty cows are kept on some of
+them, for butter is the chief produce, and this is sent into England,
+Portugal, and the East and West Indies. Some of the nice butter you
+eat on your bread and rolls comes from Ireland. Sheep and cattle are
+fed in great quantities on large pieces of land devoted to the
+purpose the sheep are large, and have fine wool.
+
+The mud cabin of the Irish peasant is the most miserable cottage you
+can imagine; the walls are formed of clay, which hardens in the
+sunshine, the roof is made of sticks and straw, and the floor is the
+mere damp earth. It has frequently neither door, nor chimney, and
+consists of only one room; the furniture is rarely more than a stump
+bedstead, two or three stools, an iron pot, to boil the potatoes in,
+and a table to eat them from. Generally, there is a small piece of
+land attached to the dwelling, and in this potatoes are grown; the
+peasants of Ireland hardly ever eat anything besides potatoes. When
+they have enough of them to eat, and a little whiskey to drink, the
+poor people are exceedingly jovial and merry; they laugh, sing, and
+joke; and go to weddings, fairs, dances, and what are called in
+Ireland "wakes," which, among the poor, is a kind of laying in state
+before funerals;--but sometimes the crops of potatoes fail, and then
+the unfortunate peasants die by hundreds from hunger. The favourite
+dance of the common people is called a jig.
+
+Dublin, which, I dare say, you know is the capital of Ireland, is an
+elegant city, with fine houses and good streets. The churches, the
+castle, the linen hall, exchange, bank, custom-house, and
+post-office, are all very noble buildings. There are also parks,
+gardens, theatres, canals, and other ornamental places throughout the
+city. From Dublin have been sent models of carriages, specimens of
+metals, slates, and linens, and a model of a house made in granite.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+I have now told you, my dear little friends, a great many stories
+about the industry of all nations, and we have gone through the
+World's Show together. We have seen nearly all the useful and splendid
+things sent to the Great Exhibition from all parts of the world. I
+have told you about Europe, and Asia, Africa, and America; and I must
+soon leave you. But before I go, we must have another look at the
+Exhibition, and one more glance at those few things which we have not
+as yet seen.
+
+We forgot to examine this magnificent chess-board, worth one thousand
+two hundred guineas. You will doubtless wonder why it is such a dear
+board, but your surprise will cease when you observe that the
+"checks," as they are called, are of mother-of-pearl and
+tortoiseshell, while the rim is of beautifully burnished gold, and the
+chessmen are of gold and silver, elaborately wrought, and ornamented
+with the portraits of celebrated historical characters; one of them
+represents the Emperor, Charles the Fifth. I dare say you would like
+to play a game with me on this chess-board. As a companion to this
+beautiful chess-board, is a very elegant colour box, fit for the
+Queen, or the most noble young lady in the land, to use for painting
+with. And here is a model of the town of Liverpool, with several
+thousand little people in the streets; and these figures are so
+exceedingly small, that a thousand of them would fit into an ordinary
+sized pill box.
+
+In contrast to this specimen of a great town in a minute space, we
+have in front of the transept a wonderful clock, which is kept in
+motion by a set of powerful electro magnets, eight in number, on which
+is wound a length of twenty-five thousand feet of copper wire. This
+gigantic time-keeper sets in motion the immense hands on the principal
+dial, which is twenty-four feet in diameter, besides two smaller ones
+which are fixed in front of the galleries, at the east and west ends
+of the building. I am afraid that it would tire you, were I to attempt
+to tell you exactly what electricity is, and must therefore satisfy
+your curiosity, for the present, by letting you know that it is caused
+by the coming in contact of different substances possessing peculiar
+properties, which cause them to vibrate, when they touch.
+
+There is another very curious clock in the Exhibition, which will go
+for a hundred years before requiring to be wound up again; and there
+is one wheel in it which is said would take ten thousand years to go
+round once.
+
+Next there is a case of stuffed birds, which came from Scotland, and
+which we cannot help admiring. There are in this case specimens of all
+the various kinds of birds which are peculiar to Scotland, neatly and
+carefully stuffed; and really they almost look as if they were alive.
+Ah, ah! Mister Eagle, you are not so much to be feared now, I think,
+as you were when you lived in your lofty home in the Highland
+mountains.
+
+And here is another case in which are all the different sorts of
+mother-of-pearl buttons that can be imagined; there is every variety
+of ornament on the buttons, which look exceedingly brilliant.
+
+This immense block of granite, from Scotland, is not quite so pretty,
+though it is, perhaps, more useful; it is twenty feet long, and is a
+piece of the finest kind and colour that could be found. Another very
+useful thing, also from Scotland, is a large lighthouse bell, managed
+so as to ring very loud, to warn any ship that is going too near a
+dangerous rock or shoal, near the lighthouse where the bell may be.
+
+Among the more beautiful specimens of industry, there are several
+elegant vases made of silver, and of a delicate material called
+Parian, which is an imitation of Parian marble; some of them are
+ornamented with blue and gold, and others are ornamented with silver.
+There is also a splendid tea-service, adorned with charming pictures
+of the dear old fables we all know so well,--the "Lion and the Mouse,"
+the "Wolf and the Lamb," the "Dog and the Shadow," and others.
+
+Near the very middle of the building, close by the crystal fountain,
+there are the splendid iron gates from Coalbrookdale, which look very
+magnificent. I fancy Samson would find it rather a difficult matter
+trying to bear off _these_ gates on his back, strong as he was. Close
+by these gates there is a gigantic statue of our good Queen, on
+horseback, which towers high over our heads; and she sits smiling at
+us as if she could see us looking so delighted.
+
+There are several gigantic things at the Exhibition. Here, for one, is
+a monster cake, covered with the most superb ornaments; it is four
+feet high, and weighs about two-hundred and twenty-five pounds. Yonder
+is another monster contribution, an immense map of the busy city of
+Manchester; and there is a huge railway carriage; and still further
+on, there is an iron wire, one mile long. At a little distance stands
+a magnificent bed and bedstead, fit for the Queen to sleep in. It came
+from Edinburgh, and is made mostly of materials which can be produced
+in Scotland. And in this direction, we can see a set of beautiful
+mantelpieces and fenders, from Sheffield, all decorated in the most
+elegant manner. The first mantelpiece we must look at is made of
+cast-iron; the mouldings of the cornice are richly ornamented, and
+supported by little pillars covered with graceful wreaths of
+oak-leaves, while the freize is adorned with a cluster of rich fruit.
+The next mantelpiece is painted white and gold, and has a burnished
+steel grate; while the third is painted blue and gold, and has a
+stove made on a new plan, for it is managed so that its own brightness
+shall help to throw out the heat of the fire in an equal and agreeable
+manner. The fourth and last mantelpiece is painted black, and
+ornamented with ormolu; it contains a polished steel stove. Three
+ormolu fenders, and five bright ones are placed together with the
+mantelpieces; and they certainly make a goodly show. But we must now
+leave them, and go on to see some other wonders.
+
+Here are several most beautiful loo-tables inlaid, and they seem to
+attract a good deal of attention from more than us. You look a little
+puzzled at the word _inlaid_; I think I must explain it to you, by
+telling you that it means pieces of different material let into a
+piece of furniture to ornament it.
+
+There are numerous models of various buildings in the Crystal Palace;
+those of York Cathedral, and Chance's Lighthouse, are particularly
+well made. There is also a model of the Britannia Tubular Bridge; and
+there are models of many of the fine public works of London.
+
+Here is a pair of scissors made in Sheffield, and ornamented in the
+most beautiful way, with a crown for a handle; and yonder are a pair
+of cotton stockings from Ireland, spun so fine that they look exactly
+like silk, and indeed you would be likely to mistake them for silk, if
+you were not told they were merely cotton.
+
+How brilliant this collection of gems looks; how the stones sparkle!
+they have been sent as specimens of the jewels which Ireland produces.
+But here are some pretty English agates; and a huge mass of Irish rock
+crystal, which is very bright and clear. In a compartment, at a little
+distance, we may see a book, bound according to a new method, by which
+the leaves are so firmly placed together, that they would not loosen
+in ten years' time, no matter how the book was tossed about, unless
+they were purposely taken out.
+
+We must now have a look at the machinery department. Firstly, there is
+the great steam-engine that works all the other steam-engines in the
+Exhibition, though, of course, you cannot understand it by looking at
+it; neither can I, although I know so much more than you do. Near it
+is a model of a new agricultural machine for cutting, turning up, and
+making into light mould, the clay of fields, so as to make it ready to
+receive the seeds to be set, without the farmers being obliged to
+plough the earth. There is a machine for making bricks and tiles, so
+that people may, if they like, form those materials for building
+houses cheaper and better than in the usual way. But here is a useful
+machine. It is a measuring machine, by which you could measure to the
+smallest size, even to the hundred-thousandth part of an inch!
+
+Here is a very pretty contribution; it is a model of the house of the
+great play-writer, Shakspeare,--of whom, perhaps, you may have
+heard,--and it is surrounded by figures representing different
+beautiful scenes from Shakspeare's plays. It was made by a workman in
+his leisure time: and it certainly does him credit. It is called the
+Shakspeare Jubilee.
+
+Yonder is another piece of ingenious industry; it is a group of
+figures showing all the various Scotch games; there is one figure
+dancing the Highland fling, another throwing the beam, and all the
+others engaged in similar sports. That came from Scotland, of course.
+
+Let us now go on to look at that splendid design embroidered in gold,
+and intended for a communion cloth. Oh! here it is; does it not look
+beautiful? But here are several lovely specimens of china, and
+earthenware, which would grace the sideboards of the richest house in
+the land, I think. Here is a fine marble font, made of Devonshire
+marble, which is very nicely carved, as well as I can judge. Further
+on, we have some less showy, but more solidly useful articles. Various
+kinds of iron, copper, zinc, lead, silver, and gold ores are
+displayed, with oils, quartz, stones, coal, &c. There are lanterns on
+a new plan, microscopes, barometers, optical and philosophical
+instruments, farming implements, machines for melting metals;--besides
+hundreds of other articles which we cannot stop to notice more
+particularly. There are two or three very interesting models of mines,
+with mining machinery, and plans for improving the air of the mines,
+so as to make the poor miners more comfortable. And there are other
+models of ships, printing presses, looms, and machines for making gas,
+which deserve some degree of attention. There is also a new machine
+for printing cotton on both sides, which will be very useful, as the
+cotton printed with it will be as ornamental on one side as the other.
+
+There are four splendid and very powerful organs, and several
+beautiful piano fortes, in the Exhibition; and there is an accurate
+model of Plymouth Breakwater, with a very very little ship attached to
+it, and all complete, even to the smallest rope ladder. Plymouth
+Breakwater is a vast heap of stones built across the entrance of the
+Sound, so as to leave a passage for ships at each end, but preventing
+the heavy waves of the Atlantic Ocean from dashing into the harbour.
+It has cost more than a million of pounds in money.
+
+Here we have a beautiful writing table for ladies, which is one of the
+most splendid things in the Exhibition, and which came from that land
+of ingenuity and industry, Switzerland. It is made of two kinds of
+wood, white and red, the Swiss national colours; and is cleverly
+managed by machinery, so that by merely pressing a spring, the whole
+contents of the desk is laid before the spectator, while, at the same
+time, a stand for writing on, and a seat, are produced. It is covered
+with figures of men and animals, and with ornaments most exquisitely
+carved; and it is a writing table which the greatest lady in England
+might use.
+
+Along the centre of the aisle, or chief walk, are arranged colossal
+statues, pillars of marble, beautiful fountains, magnificent feathers,
+crystals of alum, crystals of spermaceti oil, specimens of silk
+manufactures, from Spitalfields; and fine cutlery, from Sheffield.
+There is also an immense dome of iron and glass, forty feet high
+which looks very astonishing; and a curious Russian chain bridge,
+which is very ingeniously made. Besides these, we have a gigantic
+telescope, which attracts a great deal of attention from the crowd of
+people who are walking down the aisle.
+
+In the nave there are several beautiful pieces of sculpture. One is a
+colossal group, representing St. Michael conquering Satan; another is
+a figure of the celebrated warrior, Godfrey of Bouillon, mounted on
+horseback; and a third, is an Amazon, who is just about to hurl her
+javelin at a ferocious tiger, who has fastened on the neck and
+shoulders of her frightened horse. Here is also a figure of Mazeppa on
+the wild horse, which is extremely well made, and, perhaps, reminds
+those of my little friends who have seen the play of "Mazeppa" at
+Astley's Amphitheatre, of the scenes where poor Mazeppa was carried
+along on the terrible horse's back, through brambles, thorns, and
+crashing boughs. But what have we here? A grim-looking growling bronze
+lion, from Bavaria, who glares at us as if he would be only too glad
+to eat us up if he were alive, and does not seem at all the kind of
+beast one would like to shake hands, or rather paws, with.
+
+We have a charming representation of Reinecke Fox's adventures, by
+means of stuffed animals, in the German portion of the Exhibition. The
+expression of the different animals is very funny, and makes us laugh
+to almost an inconvenient degree. The first group represents the fox,
+with his rosary in his hand, confessing his sins to the cock, who is
+listening very gravely, and reading him a sermon on his wickedness.
+
+The next group shows the tom-cat, coming to summon Master Reinecke to
+court, to answer the accusations brought against him; the fox sets
+out, and on his way wounds a poor hare, whom he carries with him. But
+we cannot stay to notice all the groups now; only we must just glance
+at the fox lying on the sheep's skin, after his repast, for here
+Master Reinecke's expression shows him to be so well satisfied and
+comfortable that it is very droll.
+
+In the Russian division we may observe a most magnificent pair of
+candlesticks of bronze, gilt, which look exceedingly sparkling and
+brilliant, and are the first objects that meet our eyes as we enter
+the department.
+
+In the transept, at the opposite end to where the gates from
+Coalbrookdale are situated, are another beautiful specimen of
+ornamented gates for a park, in the style of the elegantly wrought
+iron work, made about a hundred and fifty years since, and which adorn
+the entrances to many of the old mansions of England. Some parts of
+these are tastefully gilt, and produce a remarkably pretty effect.
+
+It would take us more than a month to see everything in the Crystal
+Palace, and those who wish to examine all the wonders, must pay
+several visits. But we have, I think, seen enough for the present, and
+will now leave the Exhibition, if you are satisfied. Perhaps, before I
+go, you would like me to describe the ceremony of the opening of our
+Palace of Wonders, by our good Queen? If so, I shall be very happy
+indeed to oblige you, by telling you all I saw on the first of May.
+
+Early in the morning of that day,--soon after dawn,--thousands of
+people in London were wending their way towards Hyde Park; horses
+feet, and carriage-wheels clattered through the streets, and strange
+looking foreigners passed along among the crowd, all eager to see the
+procession.
+
+I dare say you would have been delighted with the grand sight:--first
+there came a long line of splendid carriages, containing various lords
+and ladies, in gorgeous costumes;--diamonds flashing, and feathers
+waving; next came a troop of Life Guards in scarlet coats, bright
+cuirasses, and glittering helmets: they were escorting the Queen's
+carriage, which was followed by a goodly number of other carriages.
+You should have heard how the crowds huzzaed and shouted when they saw
+the Queen, who looked very much pleased, bowing and smiling to her
+people. She entered the building amid the loud cheers and hurras,
+followed by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess
+Royal. After staying a short time in the elegant robing-room, which
+was fitted up in a single night, her Majesty proceeded to her throne,
+between flower stands, and tropical plants, past the Coalbrookdale
+gates, and the fountains and statues with which the centre of the
+palace is adorned. When she appeared, the twenty-five thousand people,
+who were present, rose to welcome her.--Ladies waving their
+handkerchiefs, the gentlemen their hats;--and you may readily guess
+how splendid the scene looked. Even the sun popped out his head from
+the clouds, and poured a flood of golden light in through the
+glittering dome of the transept, to illuminate the brilliant
+spectacle.
+
+As soon as Her Majesty was seated on her throne, one of the organs
+commenced pealing forth the notes of the National Anthem, the choir,
+which was collected for the occasion, singing to the music. After
+this, Prince Albert joined those gentlemen who have directed the
+affairs of the Great Exhibition, and going near to the Queen, read to
+her an account of the Exhibition from the commencement; to which Her
+Majesty answered, when the Prince had finished, that she was much
+pleased with the description of the proceedings, and that she hoped
+the World's Fair would do good to all mankind, by encouraging the arts
+of peace and industry, strengthening the bonds of love between all the
+nations of the earth, and promoting a friendly rivalry among our
+fellow creatures, in the useful exercise of those faculties which have
+been given by GOD for the good and happiness of all mankind.
+
+The Queen having read this answer, the Archbishop of Canterbury
+approached the throne, and offered up a prayer to Heaven, intreating
+the Lord's blessing on the Exhibition; that it might benefit every
+body on earth, making them love and help each other. I hope all that
+heard the prayer, joined in it with heart and soul: and I hope, too,
+that my dear little readers will think of it when they go to the
+Crystal Palace.
+
+At the close of the prayer, the choir sang the Hallelujah chorus, and
+you may form some idea of the effect of this performance, when I tell
+you that all the persons who sing at the Queen's Chapel, at St. Paul's
+Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and St. George's Chapel, Windsor, were
+all singing together, besides part of the band of the Sacred Harmonic
+Society, pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, and many other
+songsters, both foreign and English.
+
+The immensity of the building left scope for the rich volume of sound
+poured forth; and you may imagine what an effect the splendid strains
+had on the feelings of the multitude of spectators. Indeed, one of the
+audience,--a Chinaman, was so excited by the grandeur of the scene,
+and the triumphant music, that he rushed forwards, made his way
+through the crowd of nobles and ladies that surrounded the Queen, and,
+advancing close to Her Majesty, saluted her by a grand salaam, which
+she graciously acknowledged with a smile and a bow. A salaam, you must
+know, is the eastern way of bowing, and consists in bending the head
+until it almost touches the ground.
+
+When the Hallelujah chorus ceased, the procession was formed for the
+Queen to go round the building. First went the heralds, in their
+splendid costumes; then a great number of gentlemen, who were more
+immediately concerned with the Exhibition; after them, the Duke of
+Wellington,--of whom, I dare say you know,--with more gentlemen, and
+the Archbishop of Canterbury; and then the Queen and Prince Albert,
+with the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, both of whom looked
+extremely delighted and astonished with the gorgeous spectacle they
+were viewing. The Royal Family was followed by a number of lords,
+ladies, and attendants, the procession being concluded by heralds.
+
+The train first went to the west end of the nave, on the north side,
+everybody cheering loudly as it passed. The view varied every minute,
+but was always picturesque, and beautiful. Even those persons who were
+most acquainted with the wondrous objects that lay on every side, were
+surprised by the new and charming attractions displayed. The Indian
+collection, and the compartment filled with specimens from the
+colonies, were left behind; the department devoted to sculpture, and
+other finer products of industry, was passed, and the procession moved
+into that portion of the palace which contains the English
+manufacturing products. You might then have caught a glimpse, over the
+heads of the spectators, of the Furniture Court, where the furniture
+is placed; and of the fixed machinery beyond it, the massive iron form
+of each machine looking as much as to say "move me, if you can." Then
+the procession passed the enormous dome of iron and glass, the two
+gigantic statues, the figure of Shakspeare, and the many other objects
+which adorn the centre aisle; leaving behind the furs of bears, and
+other wild animals, hung beneath the galleries, and the carpets which
+lent their brilliant colours to finish the decorations; it reached the
+western entrance, where it was reflected in the immense mirror,
+exhibited at that point. Then, turning round by the model of the
+Liverpool Docks, it was returning on the south side of the nave, when
+the gigantic organ placed there, suddenly hurled forth an immense
+volume of music, which sounded extremely fine: but every one was
+already so much astonished, that I do not think anything more could
+surprise them. At length the procession reached the transept, round
+the south end of which it proceeded, and then swept into the Foreign
+Department of the Exhibition, where great efforts had been made to
+receive it properly. The French had collected together all the
+choicest specimens of their manufactures to grace the foremost part of
+their division; and I am sure you would have admired the tasteful
+manner in which the contributors decorated the collection. Some of the
+other countries, as their exhibitors had sent in their contributions
+sooner than the French, were of course able to make a more
+satisfactory appearance. The two organs, from France and Germany,
+each, in turn, poured forth their music as the procession passed; and
+two or three of the Queen's bands played a march as the pageat moved
+round the eastern end of the building.
+
+At last the procession returned along the north side of the nave, the
+cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs, which had continued all
+the time getting now more joyful than ever; and the Queen returned
+once more to her throne. One of the noblemen, named the Marquis of
+Breadalbane, then called out in a loud tone of voice, that Her Majesty
+declared the Exhibition open; a flourish of trumpets, and a roar of
+cannon, told the people outside that all was now concluded, and the
+Queen, with the royal family and other attendants, left the Crystal
+Palace, the choir again singing the National Anthem.
+
+In order that the workmen and their families, who come to see the
+Exhibition, should live comfortably when they return home again,
+Prince Albert has had a model building erected, with four dwellings,
+or sets of rooms, each containing all the conveniences essential to a
+distinct family-house, with four distinct entrances for the four
+different families, such as he wishes every honest working couple in
+this country, and indeed every honest couple in all parts of the
+world, should possess. And, in order to shew to working men, and to
+builders, and to persons of property who desire to do good, how they
+can usefully assist their fellow creatures to comfortable habitations,
+for the same rent that they now pay for closely-built, unhealthy ones,
+he has erected these four model houses under one roof, each of them
+dry, warm, convenient, fire-proof, and healthy, and yet cheap. They
+are built of very hard hollow bricks, made by machinery, and are
+situate at the corner of the barrack yard, near to the Crystal Palace,
+and will be shown freely to all persons visiting the World's Fair.
+
+Now, boys and girls, good-bye; I know you are sorry to see me going
+away, and you may be certain I am sorry to be obliged to leave you.
+But I hope we shall soon meet again, for I am thinking of coming to
+see you very shortly, to tell you more stories and have another talk
+with you. So, if you say you have been amused, and have learned
+something, by reading these stories, I will pay you another visit
+soon, and tell you something more about other things. But in the mean
+time, let us hope that the suggestions of Prince Albert, the husband
+of our gracious Queen, will do good; and that every body, and every
+nation, may become better, and learn more, and love each other more,
+in consequence of meeting together, in friendship and harmony, at
+
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+
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+SILVER BLOSSOMS TO PRODUCE GOLDEN FRUIT:
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+
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+for a present, in fancy cloth, with gilt edges and sides.
+
+
+STORIES OF THE ELEMENTS:
+Or, the Old Man and his Four Servants; Volcanoes and Earthquakes; the
+Volcanic Island, and the Indian Family.
+
+By MRS. BAKER. With six pages of engravings printed in tint, 1s. 6d.
+cloth, lettered, with richly coloured frontispiece;--or, 1s. sewed,
+with plain frontispiece.
+
+
+SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY; BY THE REV. J. YOUNG, A.M. A pleasing
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+wonderful of the Works of God, as exhibited in Creation, and recorded
+in Scripture.
+
+With numerous engravings, and eight pages of tinted illustrations; 2s.
+6d. handsomely bound in cloth, gilt edges and sides.
+
+
+THE ORPHAN CAPTIVE; OR, CHRISTIAN ENDURANCE; a Tale of the Shipwreck
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+
+With seven pages of elegant plates, 1s. sewed, or 1s. 6d. cloth.
+
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+SCRIPTURE PARABLES, in EASY VERSE, for CHILDREN; WITH AN EXPLANATION
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+
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+lettered, and coloured frontispiece.
+
+THE TWO PARTS, elegantly bound in one handsome volume, gilt edges,
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+
+
+THE VILLAGE SCHOOL: WITH THE HISTORY, AND WHAT BECAME OF, SOME OF ITS
+SCHOLARS.
+
+1s. 6d. cloth, with many engravings, and richly coloured frontispiece;
+or, 1s. sewed, with plain frontispiece.
+
+
+THE WIDOW AND ORPHANS; OR, CHANGES OF LIFE. BY THE REV. J. YOUNG, M.A.
+Author of Perils of Paul Percival, Scripture Natural History, &c.
+
+With seven pages of plates, and vignette title, 1s. sewed; or 1s. 6d.
+bound in cloth, with richly coloured frontispiece.
+
+
+LITTLE STORIES ABOUT PRETTY LITTLE BIRDS. BY THE AUTHOR OF KEEPER'S
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
+STORIES OF THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE WORLD; descriptive of the
+peculiar habits and customs of the Inhabitants of Australia and
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+
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+WHICH IS BEST?
+
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+THE WORLD's FAIR; OR, CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK OF THE GREAT
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+
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+beautiful Articles to be exhibited, and how they live when at
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+and pictorial title-page.
+
+2s. 6d. elegantly bound in cloth.
+
+
+SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS; or, STORIES FOR THE CHILDREN OF ENGLAND; By
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+beautifully printed in lithography.
+
+2s. 6d. elegantly bound in cloth.
+
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+
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+SKETCHES OF LITTLE BOYS; The Well-behaved Little Boy. The Attentive,
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+
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+
+THE THREE BASKETS, Or, THE LITTLE GARDENER, LITTLE PAINTER, AND LITTLE
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+Charles, were occupied during the absence of their Father. By Mrs.
+Burden.
+
+1s. sewed,--Square size, with seven coloured engravings.
+
+
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+Lady of Ninety.
+
+1s. sewed,--Square size, with fifteen coloured engravings.
+
+
+EASY AND INTERESTING HISTORIES, FOR LITTLE FOLKS; BY MISS CORNER,
+Author of the Historical Library, &c.
+
+_Price sixpence each, printed in large type, and embellished with four
+pages of descriptive tinted plates, and sewed in fancy wrappers._
+
+
+THE ANCIENT BRITONS. Describing their Manners and Customs; and how
+they were conquered, and Britain was governed by the Romans. 6d.
+
+
+THE CONQUEST OF THE ROMANS AND BRITONS BY THE SAXONS; and an
+interesting Account of the Saxon Heptarchy, or the Seven Saxon
+Kingdoms in England at one time.
+
+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT. an interesting Narrative. 6d.
+Four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE NORMAN CONQUEST; four pages of illustrations. And the manner in
+which the People of England lived during the Reign of William the
+Conqueror. An interesting Narrative. 6d.
+
+
+ENGLAND, AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE FEUDAL TIMES.
+
+6d. Four pages of Illustrations
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; WITH THE MANNERS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
+IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
+
+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
+CENTURIES.
+
+Showing the Condition of the People, and how they lived and dressed
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+
+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
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+
+Showing the Condition of the People, their modes of life, and how they
+lived and dressed from the Reign of James the Second, to that of Queen
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+
+_These Eight Histories may be had, bound in One Volume, in fancy
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+
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+SIX-PENCE EACH,--SEWED IN FANCY COVERS, PRINTED IN COLORS,
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+SQUIRE GRAY'S FRUIT FEAST.
+
+With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
+the Pretty Tales he gave to them as Prizes.
+
+6d. Fourteen engravings.
+
+
+MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.
+
+A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
+Directions for Playing each Game, and how to Cry the Forfeits.
+
+6d. with appropriate engravings.
+
+
+ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.
+
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
+COUSINS.
+
+Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.
+
+6d. Nineteen engravings.
+
+
+A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.--A Trial of
+Charity.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.
+
+6d. Many engravings.
+
+
+THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.
+
+6d. Sixteen engravings.
+
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+
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+
+
+THE FOUR ELEMENTS:--or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water. Illustrated for
+Little Folks. And the Old English Nursery Rhyme of Simple Simon, set
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+
+Price 1s. plain: or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FIVE SENSES,--Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
+the FOUR SEASONS,--Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Illustrated for
+Little Folks, on Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured
+
+
+THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND, Set to Music, for Little Folks.
+Containing, The Queen of Hearts,--Bye! Baby Bunting,--Who comes here?
+a Grenadier!--Little Boy Blue,--and, The Lion and the Unicorn.
+Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done up in Fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,--the Nursery Alphabet,--the Royal
+Family,--the comparative sizes of Animals,--and a "Morland."
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
+
+An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.
+
+With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.
+
+
+VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.
+
+Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.
+
+
+A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,--from whom all Good Things come--the Lost
+Purse,--Self-will,--the Careless Boy,--the Good Boy,--and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.
+
+Square size, with seven coloured engravings.--1s, in cloth.
+
+
+SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,
+
+About the Lame Boy,--the Sea Shore,--the Cross Boy,--and the Stray
+Child. By Mrs. Burden.
+
+Square size, with seven coloured engravings.--1s. in cloth.
+
+
+LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS: the Letters in
+large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by a number of
+pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.--
+
+In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.
+
+
+GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.
+
+In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.
+
+
+PETER PALLETTE's PICTURES FOR PAINTING: Thirteen Numbers, price 4d.
+each; or bound in 2 vols, 1st series, 2s. 6d. 2nd series, 3s. 6d.
+
+
+WORRET's NEW OUTLINE DRAWING-BOOK;
+
+A series of progressive lessons, by which the principles of the Art,
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+
+3s. the set of six numbers; or 3s. 6d. in cloth.
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+
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+
+BY MISS CORNER,
+
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+
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+
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+
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+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria--the Peers rendering Homage.
+
+"It is important that history meant for young Englishmen should be
+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score."--_British Banner_.
+
+"We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book."--_Academic and Collegiate
+Circular_.
+
+"Miss Corner's England and Wales, we perceive, has just reached
+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book."--_Bent's Literary
+Advertiser_.
+
+"We know no histories more likely to prove useful and agreeable in the
+instruction of children."--_Britannia_.
+
+"The style of the book throughout renders it worthy of the support it
+has secured."--_Gospel Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;
+
+New Edition; Seventh Thousand; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound
+up with Questions on the History, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.--1. St.
+Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles. 2. Lord Thomas
+Fitzgerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII. 3. Entry of James
+II. into Dublin.
+
+"The history before us is well executed."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+"Miss Corner's style of writing will produce habits of
+thinking."--_Morning Advertiser_.
+
+"The Historical facts, always correct, are detailed in plain and
+concise language. This is one of the best class books on Ireland, for
+young people."--_Limerick Standard_.
+
+The beauty of composition throughout the writings of Miss Corner is
+singular and fascinating.--_Sun_.
+
+Miss Corner has acquired a deserved celebrity for the
+singularly-attractive and intelligible manner she has in narrating
+history.--_Critic_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND;
+
+New edition; ninth thousand; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with questions on the history, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a map, and three historical engravings.--1.
+Coronation of the infant King David II. and his Queen, at Scone, 2.
+James V. taking refuge at Sterling Castle. 3. Queen Mary's escape to
+England.
+
+"We sincerely recommend this history as peculiarly suited to the
+meridian of schools."--_Ayr Observer._
+
+"This meritorious work is written in a very easy and agreeeble style,
+perfectly adapted to the capacities of the young persons for whom it
+is intended."--_Times_.
+
+"We have perused this history with much interest, delighted with the
+ease and perspicuity of style, and with the clearness and force of the
+narrative."--_Chronicle_.
+
+"Peculiarly adapted for instructive family reading."--_Caledonian
+Mercury_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ROME;
+
+From accepted English and foreign authorities, as Macpherson's Annals
+of Commerce, Keightley's Roman History, Smith's and Adam's Greek and
+Roman Antiquities; Dr. Arnold, Niebuhr, &c. With questions to each
+chapter, a chronological table, and a map of the Roman Empire; 3_s_.
+6_d_. bound in cloth, lettered.
+
+"Miss Corner's History of Rome will assuredly ere long supersede all
+the Roman histories at present used in schools, it is well written,
+and the historical facts elicited by the learned labours of Niebuhr,
+Arnold, &c, are made to take the place of the fabulous accounts which
+have hitherto passed current as authentic history; at the same time
+the popular early legends are not omitted, but their doubtful nature
+pointed out."--_Westmister Review_.
+
+"An excellent feature in this history is the continual effort to open
+out to the young reader the household life and social customs of the
+Romans, for without this, ancient history can have no reality for
+children."--_Educational Times_.
+
+"Its contents form a correct history of the Roman empire, from its
+beginning."--_Church of England Journal_.
+
+
+THE HISTORIES OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL;
+
+New Edition, Fifth Thousand; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up
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+
+Illustrated with a map, and three historical engravings,--1. Inez De
+Castro entreating the king to save her life. 2. Interview of Columbus
+with Queen Isabella. 3. The Cortez taking the oath of allegiance.
+
+"Miss Corner gives a clear and striking account of the different
+kingdoms that at various times were founded in Spain."--_Edinburgh
+Review_.
+
+"So concise and plain as to be at once adapted to the capacities and
+volatility of young people, while they are useful compendiums for
+adults."--_Times_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF FRANCE;
+
+Tenth Thousand, New Edition, with continuation of events to the
+Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered;
+or bound up with Questions on the History, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,--1. The
+Coronation of Charles VII. 2. A French Tilt, or Tournament. 3.
+Bonaparte's Expedition across the Alps.
+
+"The Writer has borne in mind throughout, that simplicity of style was
+essential to her purpose, and has selected those facts which are best
+adapted to give an idea of the events and the customs of the
+successive ages."--_Baptist Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner appears to be an excellent historian for the school room.
+She narrates with fluency and clearness, and in a concise and lively
+manner, the leading facts, so as to convey the spirit of history, and
+indicate the characteristics of the people and the country, as well as
+the rulers and famous characters."--_Spectator_.
+
+"We look upon Miss Corner's work with great interest, as being
+peculiarly adapted to the minds of young people, and being free from
+that inversion of facts by which history is so often made subservient
+to party purposes."--_Nonconformist_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY;
+
+2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and two elegant Historical
+Engravings.
+
+1. A Norwegian Family listening to the Songs of their Scalds, 2.
+Submission of the Order of Nobles to Frederick III.
+
+"The two chief qualities of a good book are usefulness of subject and
+cleverness of handling, and these requisites Miss Corner's histories
+exhibit in an eminent degree. The frequent intermixtures of government
+between the three countries have indeed tended materially to embarrass
+this portion of European history, but Miss Corner by an accurate
+arrangement of dates, and a judicious connection of events, has set
+every thing in a clear light."--_Post Magazine_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND RUSSIA;
+
+3_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Historical
+Engravings.
+
+1. Assassination of Demetrius. 2. John Cassimer, worn out by
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+Inhabitants of Moscow at the approach of the French army.
+
+"This volume forms one of a series of histories for the use of young
+persons; the present volume is, however, more descriptive than
+historical, which we consider an advantage; the living manners of the
+Poles and Russians being much more instructive and entertaining to
+young English readers."--_Tait's Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has succeeded in compressing into a small compass all the
+leading events of history, without the slightest obscurity, or without
+sinking her book into a dry chronicle of facts."--_Britannia_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE; INCLUDING GREECE,
+SYRIA, AND THE HOLY LAND;
+
+3_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Engravings.
+
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+Officers of State.
+
+"The narrative is so well arranged and so agreeably diversified by
+occasional remarks on individual and national character, as to render
+history attractive even to the very young; and the information is
+conveyed in a style remarkable for its unaffected simplicity and
+clearness."--_Morning Post_.
+
+"The leading features of Turkish manners, laws, and policy, are accurately
+and forcibly pourtrayed, while the narrative is distinguished for
+simplicity, perspicuity, and completeness."--_Conservative Journal_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ITALY AND SWITZERLAND;
+
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+
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+William Tell and the other Swiss Patriots holding their nightly
+meetings.
+
+"Brief, clear, and correct; well adapted for young
+persons."--_Leamington Spa Chronicle_.
+
+"Written with great care and ability."--_John Bull_.
+
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+
+
+THE HISTORY OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM;
+
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+Engravings.
+
+1. Assassination of William of Orange. 2. Admiral Van Tromp shot
+whilst animating his sailors.
+
+"The present, like the proceeding histories from the pen of this
+intelligent lady, is distinguished for its conciseness, elegance of
+expression, and clearness of detail."--_Manchester Times_.
+
+"A condensed mass of knowledge, well put together, and prettily
+illustrated."--_Church and State Gazette_.
+
+"To a pleasing, fluent, narrative style, Miss corner unites a nice
+discrimination, and never suffers matters which sully the mind to
+appear in her pages."--_Surplice_.
+
+"We cannot too strongly recommend these admirable Histories, and we
+feel satisfied that no parent or preceptor can place better works in
+the hands of a youth."--_Academic and Collegiate Circular_.
+
+"Altogether we do not know of a more agreeable or instructive present
+for youth; and each history is illustrated with a map and engravings,
+which considering the price of the work, are of a superior
+description."--_Times_.
+
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+suited to her readers the results of the laborious investigations of
+other scholars."--_Educational Times_.
+
+
+AN ACCURATE HISTORY OF GREECE.
+
+From accepted Authorities, English and Foreign; as Crete's and
+Chambers's Histories of Greece, Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities,
+Thirlwall and Wordsworth's Greece, Smith's Mythology and Biography,
+Annals of Commerce, Library of Useful Knowledge, &c. With Questions to
+each Chapter, a Chronological Table, Index, and a coloured Map of the
+Greek States. Price 3_s_. bound in cloth, lettered.
+
+We have not met with any History of Greece that contains, within the
+same compass, so large an amount of interesting and valuable
+information. Miss Corner writes concisely, perspicuously, and
+sensibly.--_Westley Banner_.
+
+A concise History of Greece, well adapted for Schools.--_Cambridge
+Independent Press_.
+
+This is a very excellent compendium of Grecian History, and such are
+the merits of the Work that we shall not be surprised at its becoming
+a popular educational book.--_The British Mother's Magazine_.
+
+Remarkably clear in its arrangement, while the simple and easy
+style in which it is written, peculiarly fits it for popular
+use, it displays much careful research on the part of its
+Author.--_Englishwoman's Magazine_.
+
+Miss Corner has the art of writing so as to be understood by youthful
+readers.--_London Literary Journal_.
+
+By far the best introductory School History of Greece we have ever
+seen.--_British Banner_.
+
+A combination of simplicity of narrative, with comprehensiveness of
+detail, admirably adapted for the use of the School-room.--_Douglas
+Jerrald's Weekly News_.
+
+With feminine delicacy, Miss Corner omits what should be omitted,
+giving meanwhile a narrative of the broad character and features that
+mark the progress of a nation.--_Express, Evening Paper_.
+
+The results of the best modern scholarship are here given.--_Leader_.
+
+Miss Corner's Histories require no recommendation of ours to bring
+them into notice. This Volume, her History of Greece, is written with
+great clearness and fluency, the fabulous tales which disfigure so
+many professedly authentic histories of the Greeks are discarded. We
+cordially recommend this work for the School-room, or family
+circle.--_Gospel Herald_.
+
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+
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+
+
+THE VILLAGE SCHOOL: WITH THE HISTORY, AND WHAT BECAME OF, SOME OF ITS
+SCHOLARS.
+
+1s. 6d. cloth, with many engravings, and richly coloured frontispiece;
+or, 1s. sewed, with plain frontispiece.
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+THE WIDOW AND ORPHANS; OR, CHANGES OF LIFE.
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+BY THE REV. J. YOUNG, M.A. Author of Perils of Paul Percival.
+Scripture Natural History, &c.
+
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+
+
+LITTLE STORIES ABOUT PRETTY LITTLE BIRDS.
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+
+
+STORIES OF THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE WORLD;
+
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+Australia and Polynesia,--Omoko, King of Africa,--the Elephant, and
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+
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+
+An entertaining Little Book, for Little Ladies and Little Gentlemen.
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+WHICH IS BEST?
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+
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+
+2s. 6d. elegantly bound in cloth.
+
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+
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+
+1s. sewed,--or 1s. 6d. bound in cloth, lettered.
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+SKETCHES OF LITTLE BOYS;
+
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+
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+SKETCHES OF LITTLE GIRLS;
+
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+
+1s. sewed,--Square size, with seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+THE THREE BASKETS, Or, THE LITTLE GARDENER, LITTLE PAINTER, AND LITTLE
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+
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+occupied during the absence of their Father. By Mrs. Burden.
+
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+DAME WIGGINS OF LEE, AND HER WONDERFUL CATS;
+
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+
+1s. sewed,--Square size, with fifteen coloured engravings.
+
+
+EASY AND INTERESTING HISTORIES, FOR LITTLE FOLKS;
+
+BY MISS CORNER, Author of the Historical Library, &c.
+
+_Price sixpence each, printed in large type, and embellished with four
+pages of descriptive tinted plates, and sewed in fancy wrappers._
+
+
+THE ANCIENT BRITONS.
+
+Describing their Manners and Customs; and how they were conquered, and
+Britain was governed by the Romans. 6d.
+
+
+THE CONQUEST OF THE ROMANS AND BRITONS BY THE SAXONS; and an
+interesting Account of the Saxon Heptarchy, or the Seven Saxon
+Kingdoms in England at one time.
+
+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT.
+
+an interesting Narrative. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE NORMAN CONQUEST; four pages of illustrations.
+
+And the manner in which the People of England lived during the Reign
+of William the Conqueror. An interesting Narrative. 6d.
+
+
+ENGLAND, AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE FEUDAL TIMES.
+
+6d. Four pages of Illustrations
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; WITH THE MANNERS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
+IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
+
+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
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+
+Showing the Condition of the People, and how they lived and dressed
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+Third. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
+CENTURIES.
+
+Showing the Condition of the People, their modes of life, and how they
+lived and dressed from the Reign of James the Second, to that of Queen
+Victoria. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
+
+_These Eight Histories may be had, bound in One Volume, in fancy
+cloth, gilt sides and edges, suitable for a present, price 8s. 6d._
+
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+SIX-PENCE EACH,--SEWED IN FANCY COVERS, PRINTED IN COLORS,
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+SQUIRE GRAY'S FRUIT FEAST.
+
+With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
+the Pretty Tales he gave to them as Prizes.
+
+6d. Fourteen engravings.
+
+
+MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.
+
+A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
+Directions for Playing each Game, and how to Cry the Forfeits.
+
+6d. with appropriate engravings.
+
+
+ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.
+
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
+COUSINS.
+
+Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.
+
+6d. Nineteen engravings.
+
+
+A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.--A Trial of
+Charity.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.
+
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.
+
+6d. Many engravings.
+
+
+THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.
+
+6d. Sixteen engravings.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
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+
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+THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE GLOBE:--Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and
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+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FOUR ELEMENTS:--or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water.
+
+Illustrated for Little Folks. And the Old English Nursery Rhyme of
+Simple Simon, set to Music. On Five Large Plates; and done up in a
+fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FIVE SENSES,--Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
+the FOUR SEASONS,--Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Illustrated for
+Little Folks, on Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured
+
+
+THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND,
+
+Set to Music, for Little Folks. Containing, The Queen of Hearts,--Bye!
+Baby Bunting,--Who comes here? a Grenadier!--Little Boy Blue,--and,
+The Lion and the Unicorn. Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done
+up in Fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,--the Nursery Alphabet,--the Royal
+Family.--the comparative sizes of Animals,--and a "Morland."
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
+
+An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.
+
+With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.
+
+
+VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.
+
+Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.
+
+
+A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,--from whom all Good Things come--the Lost
+Purse,--Self-will,--the Careless Boy,--the Good Boy,--and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.
+
+Square size, with seven coloured engravings.--1s. in cloth.
+
+
+SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,
+
+About the Lame Boy,--the Sea Shore,--the Cross Boy,--and the Stray
+Child. By Mrs. Burden.
+
+Square size, with seven coloured engravings.--1s. in cloth.
+
+
+LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS:
+
+the Letters in large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by
+a number of pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.--
+
+In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.
+
+
+GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.
+
+In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.
+
+
+PETER PALLETTE'S PICTURES FOR PAINTING:
+
+Thirteen Numbers, price 4d. each; or bound in 2 vols, 1st series, 2s.
+6d. 2nd series, 3s. 6d.
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+
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+EVERY CHILD'S DRAWING-BOOK; Easy and familiar Subjects by HEATH and
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+
+
+MY AUNT'S BALL; an ALPHABET; shewing who were there,--what they
+had,--and how they behaved themselves--with twenty-four engravings,
+
+
+A PRINCE AND HIS THREE GIFTS; how he used his three gifts; and about a
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+
+
+STORY OF LITTLE JOEY, who came up to London a poor little boy, and
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+
+
+TALES OF THE MONTHS AND SEASONS: and what we see and enjoy all the
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+THE MOUSE AND HER SONS; a rural tale;--with eight coloured
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+UNCLE BUNCLE's DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR COCK ROBIN, AND THE TRIAL OF
+THE SPARROW FOR SHOOTING HIM. With seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORY ABOUT MASTER NOBODY, and his many wonderful
+exploits. 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's VISIT TO LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN, the best little Boy that
+ever was seen: with 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's TWO LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN, and the means by which
+they became rich. Seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's ALPHABET OF OBJECTS. Embellished with many coloured
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+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW A, B, C. With fourteen pretty and appropriate
+coloured pictures.
+
+
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+
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+
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+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; A NEW AND POPULAR MULTIPLICATION
+TABLE: With fourteen coloured pictures of the Procession by Land and
+Water.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's STORY ABOUT THE SICK LITTLE ROBIN, AND HIS KIND LITTLE
+NURSE JENNY WREN. With seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's STORIES ABOUT LITTLE PETER's VISIT TO THE FARM. With
+seven coloured engravings.
+
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+=CORNER'S HISTORICAL LIBRARY,=
+
+FOR
+
+YOUTH, SCHOOLS, AND FAMILIES:
+
+PUBLISHED BY DEAN & SON, 35, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON:
+
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+
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+A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION IN EUROPE,
+
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+from designs by Franklin, Jones, and Gilbert; and an Accurate Map to
+each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered;_
+
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+DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:
+
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+
+NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND DOMESTIC HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.
+
+BY MISS CORNER,
+
+_Author of "Questions on the History of Europe," a Sequel to
+Mangnall's Historical Questions, &c. &c._
+
+The object of these works,--peculiarly suited to schools and
+families,--is to furnish the reader with a faithful history of each
+nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion,
+laws, customs, national characteristics, and domestic habits of the
+people, in the various periods of their history.
+
+In writing these elementary treatises, one especial object has been
+kept in view--that of adapting them to the capacities of young people
+and occasional readers: by this means, while they embrace information
+and entertainment for all, they attract the rising generation, by
+simplicity of language, and clearness of detail, and render
+comparatively easy the attainment of a knowledge of the leading events
+of history.
+
+The many high encomiums awarded to these works by the public press,
+and the very considerable acceptance they have met with in schools and
+families, are proofs that the efforts of the author to render
+historical knowledge pleasing, and easy of attainment, are not
+unappreciated by those to whom the care of the rising generation is
+entrusted.
+
+
+THESE SERIES OF HISTORIES, BY MISS CORNER, COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND;
+
+A New Edition; with Chronological Table; Twentieth Thousand; 3_s_.
+_6d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up with Questions on the History,
+4_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and five Historical Engravings,--1. Rowena
+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria--the Peers rendering Homage.
+
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+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score."--_British Banner_.
+
+"We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book."--_Academic and Collegiate
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+
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+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book."--_Bent's Literary
+Advertiser_.
+
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+instruction of children."--_Britannia_.
+
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+has secured."--_Gospel Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;
+
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+AN ACCURATE HISTORY OF GREECE.
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+
+A concise History of Greece, well adapted for Schools.--_Cambridge
+Independent Press._
+
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+
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+Author.--_Englishwoman's Magazine._
+
+Miss Corner has the art of writing so as to be understood by youthful
+readers.--_London Literary Journal._
+
+By far the best introductory School History of Greece we have ever
+seen.--_The British Banner._
+
+A combination of simplicity of narrative, with comprehensiveness of
+detail, admirably adapted for the use of the School-room.--_Douglas
+Jerrald's Weekly News._
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+giving meanwhile a narrative of the broad character and features that
+mark the progress of a nation.--_Express, Evening Paper._
+
+The results of the best modern scholarship are here given.--_Leader_.
+
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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, The World's Fair, by Anonymous</h1>
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+          Images of the original pages are available through the Florida
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+<h1>THE<br />
+WORLD'S FAIR;</h1>
+<h3>OR,<br />
+CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK<br />
+OF THE<br />
+GREAT EXHIBITION<br />
+OF 1851.</h3>
+
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+
+<a name='Page1'></a>
+<h1>THE<br />
+WORLD'S FAIR;</h1>
+<h3>OR,<br />
+CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK<br />
+OF THE<br />
+GREAT EXHIBITION<br />
+OF 1851.</h3>
+<br />
+<br />
+<h3>DESCRIBING THE<br />
+BEAUTIFUL INVENTIONS AND MANUFACTURES<br />
+EXHIBITED THEREIN;<br />
+<br />
+WITH<br />
+<br />
+PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE PEOPLE<br />
+WHO HAVE MADE AND SENT THEM;<br />
+AND<br />
+HOW THEY LIVE WHEN AT HOME.</h3>
+<br />
+<br />
+<h6>LONDON:<br />
+THOMAS DEAN AND SON 35, THREADNEEDLE-STREET, AND<br />
+ACKERMANN AND CO. 96, STRAND.</h6>
+
+<hr />
+
+<a name='Page2'></a><a name='Page3'></a>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>THE WORLD'S FAIR;</h2>
+<h4>OR,</h4>
+<h3>CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK</h3>
+<h4>OF THE</h4>
+<h3>GREAT EXHIBITION.</h3>
+<br />
+
+<a href="images/p003-w.png">
+<img align="left" src="images/p003-ws.png" width="60" height="59"
+alt="W" /></a>
+<p>What a pretty picture we have in the first title page, of the Great
+Exhibition in Hyde Park! This gigantic structure is built of iron,
+glass, and wood; but as, at a distance, it seems to be made entirely
+of glass, it is called the &quot;Crystal Palace.&quot; Does it not look like one
+of those magnificent palaces we read about in fairy tales?</p>
+
+<p>The Great Exhibition is intended to receive and exhibit the most
+beautiful and most ingenious things from every country in the world,
+in order that everybody may become better known to each other than
+they have been, and be joined together in love and trade, like one
+great family; so that we may have no more wicked, terrible battles,
+such as there used to be long ago, when nobody cared who else was<a name='Page4'></a>
+miserable, so that they themselves were comfortable. Only look at the
+thousands of people who crowd the Park,&mdash;all so different looking, and
+so curiously dressed. Grave Turks,&mdash;swarthy Spaniards and
+Italians,&mdash;East Indian Princes, glistening with gold and
+jewels,&mdash;clever French and German workmen, in blue cotton
+blouses,&mdash;Chinese gentlemen,&mdash;Tartars, Russians, energetic Americans,
+and many more. I wonder what they all think of us, whose habits in
+many things are so different from their own?</p>
+
+<p>And what charming things there are in the Exhibition itself! Fine
+porcelain wares, mirrors, books, statues, perfumes, and many more
+articles from various parts of the world,&mdash;beautiful fans, books,
+bronzes, and an infinity of other matters, from France in particular.
+Here is a model in miniature of the Crystal Palace itself, in glass.</p>
+
+<p>Ah! talking of glass, what think you of an enormous French decanter,
+in which three persons, having gotten inside by a ladder, can sit and
+dine off a table a yard in circumference? This is quite an exhibition
+in itself, I think. In another part of the building, we have a
+looking-glass, from Germany, which is the largest that ever was made,
+and is encased in a splendid frame of Dresden china. But here is a
+darling little English steam-engine, so small that you could, after
+wrapping it up in paper, lay it very comfortably inside an<a name='Page5'></a>
+ordinary-sized walnut-shell, while the plate on which it stands is not
+bigger than a sixpence!</p>
+
+<p>In the very centre of the building, a gigantic crystal fountain
+diffuses a delicious coolness around, its bright clear waters
+sparkling, leaping, and playing, as if in delight and astonishment at
+the splendid and wonderful articles surrounding it. And there are two
+immense statues just beside it, looking mightily pleased with the
+agreeable coolness of the water. But here are two large bronze
+lions;&mdash;how terrible they look: they seem almost as if they were going
+to jump at us. There are animals of various kinds in different parts
+of the Exhibition; stags, horses, foxes, birds, cats, and even a
+ferocious-looking tiger.</p>
+
+<p>There is a bundle of nails so diminutive you can hardly see
+them&mdash;another bundle of three thousand nails, one thousand gold,
+another silver, and the third iron; so light that the whole weighs
+only three grains,&mdash;a French watch, smaller than a fourpenny
+piece,&mdash;Hindoo stuffs, so thin you can scarcely feel them, yet are
+made from rejected cotton-husks,&mdash;a highly-finished model of a palace,
+from Italy; and a handsome carriage, from Prussia.</p>
+
+<p>But among the curious articles we must notice this imitation of a
+camelia japonica tree in china, <a name='Page6'></a>with buds, leaves, and blossoms, all
+perfect, which came from Germany;&mdash;and that painted oil-cloth from
+Manchester, covered with the most extraordinary mathematical
+ornaments, and which took eleven years to complete, and is worth 500
+guineas. And that table, made of 38,000 pieces of wood, of
+twenty-eight different colours, looking like mosaic, which was sent
+from Switzerland. Nor must we forget to look at this piece of gold, on
+which is engraved &quot;The Lord's Prayer,&quot; and is yet so small that a
+common pin-head covers it: that came from Portsmouth. And here is a
+German bed, which being wound up, like a clock, to a certain hour,
+throws the sleeper out on the ground, when the time comes; no lazy
+lie-a-beds with that, I fancy!</p>
+
+<p>But here is an odd contribution, also from Germany; it is&mdash;what do you
+think?&mdash;a piece of lace, darned, and a fine table napkin, also darned!
+however, don't laugh, until I explain to you the reason <i>why</i> it has
+been mended in this way: an ingenious young lady, wishing to show
+industrious lasses that torn clothes may be made to look as if they
+had not been injured in that manner at all, got a piece of cloth, tore
+it for the purpose, and taking up the stitches neatly, worked thread
+after thread till she had darned it <a name='Page7'></a>in such a way that nobody could
+tell where it had been torn; she then thought of sending a specimen of
+her industry to the World's Fair.</p>
+
+<p>Here are snuff-boxes made of coal, which have been sent from Woolwich;
+and a beautiful little cannon of agate, from Germany; and two violins,
+worth a great deal of money, which have been contributed from America.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p007-i.png">
+<img align="left" src="images/p007-is.png" width="60" height="63"
+alt="I" /></a>
+<p>I know that the productions of India will delight you by their beauty
+and ingenuity: the costumes the natives have sent are even prettier
+than those of Turkey, Spain, or Persia, and their gold, silver, and
+mother-of-pearl ornaments, are enchanting; what splendid veils,
+dresses, shawls, carved ivory, and curiosities!</p>
+
+<p>I would have you look very attentively at the contributions from
+India, they are so gorgeous; such superb muslins, baskets, and fans;
+with silks, cotton, cocoa-nuts, roots, woods, and such tempting
+fruits. I always like to see Indian articles, they are so magnificent.
+The persons who have sent these things must have worked very hard, to
+make so many beautiful specimens; but then the poorer people of India
+are exceedingly industrious; they live very simply, eating rice,
+boiled with milk <a name='Page8'></a>and spices, as their principal food, for it is
+against their religion to touch meat of any kind. They would lead
+rather a sorry life, were it not that their tastes were so extremely
+simple, and their wants so few. A Hindoo village looks more like a
+gipsy encampment, than anything else, and bears a very strange
+appearance to a European, at first.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p008.jpg">
+<img src="images/p008s.jpg" width="200" height="156"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>However, although the poor people live in this way, the princes and
+nobles lead a far different life; an eastern grandee could formerly do
+anything he chose, even to killing of his wives and slaves, and, only
+I do not wish to frighten you, I could tell you many stories about the
+cruelty of <a name='Page9'></a>the Indian nobles. They live in great state, and are
+always surrounded by a throng of slaves, and attendants, who wait on
+them as they recline lazily on a pile of the softest cushions, which
+are covered with the skins of beasts, and with silks, velvets, and
+satins. When they go abroad they are carried in what is called a
+palanquin, borne on the shoulders of servants, if they do not choose
+to ride on a horse or an elephant.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p009.jpg">
+<img src="images/p009s.jpg" width="267" height="121"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+
+<p>Their houses are adorned with the utmost magnificence, while the
+gardens or approaches to them are delightfully cool and refreshing,
+being shaded by fragrant trees, and shrubs, perfumed by the most
+beautiful flowers, and cooled by fountains, playing in marble basins.
+The Indian machinery is very clumsy indeed, and the mills are the
+funniest-looking things imaginable: I must show you an oil-mill.</p><a name='Page10'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p010.jpg">
+<img src="images/p010s.jpg" width="190" height="137"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+
+<p>A very cruel custom prevails in many parts of India, which I know will
+shock you very much: when a Hindoo of rank dies, his widow is laid by
+his side on a pile of faggots, which being set fire to, the poor
+creature is suffocated, or else burnt alive, and they pretend that she
+likes to be so destroyed. The ceremony is called a &quot;Suttee,&quot; and is
+conducted with great pomp, all the relations of the woman and her dead
+husband being present, in addition to an immense crowd; before getting
+on the pile, the widow divides all her jewels and ornaments amongst
+her friends. Here is a picture of a widow about to bathe in a
+&quot;consecrated&quot; river, before going to be burnt.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p011.jpg">
+<img src="images/p011s.jpg" width="200" height="153"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Here are lovely specimens of the manufacture of gold, silver, silk,
+jewellery, and Lebanon horns, from Syria, with seeds, fruits, oils,
+and woods; <a name='Page11'></a>and even ornaments and marble from Jerusalem! Little did
+the Crusaders of old think, when they were fighting in Jerusalem, and
+the Holy Land, that the Infidels, as they very incorrectly called
+them, would be sending in such a friendly way to England.</p>
+
+<p>What splendid caps, slippers, veils, and perfumes, with such
+picturesque guns and swords, from Turkey! The Turks are a fine,
+handsome race of people, and very grave and sensible, except when they
+are angry, when they grow raging and furious; they are fond of ease;
+and the chief delight of those who can afford it is to sit
+cross-legged <a name='Page12'></a>on a low couch, drinking coffee, and smokeing a long
+curled pipe, called a <i>hookah</i>. They often sit by the side of a canal
+for a whole day, looking at children flying kites. Instead of sitting
+at a table to dine, they put the dishes on a carpet of Turkey leather,
+and sit round it on the floor, eating, with wooden spoons, meat and
+rice stewed together, called <i>pilau</i>. They are not allowed to drink
+wine, or eat pork. A favourite diversion with them is playing on a
+kind of lute, and sometimes they amuse themselves with chess,
+draughts, and other games; but their principal amusement, like some of
+my little friends, is to sit and listen <a name='Page13'></a>to stories, told by men who
+earn their livelihood by relating entertaining tales and romances.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p012.jpg">
+<img src="images/p012s.jpg" width="200" height="140"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The Turks do not undress and go to bed at any time, but being seated
+on a sofa, they smoke till they are sleepy, then laying themselves
+down, their slaves cover them over for the night. The poor people of
+the cities carry water, cakes, loaves, and other things, through the
+streets for a living, or act as buffoons, musicians, tumblers and
+wrestlers, at the Sultan's and other of the rich people's palaces.</p>
+
+<p>They cannot use wheel carriages in Turkey, the streets are so narrow,
+and the pavements in many parts so bad; everything is therefore
+carried by men, horses, mules, and donkeys, which is very
+inconvenient, as the mules and donkeys very often tumble down, and
+throw their burdens right in everybody's way; as for a horse, when
+heavily laden, it takes up the entire road; and when two loaded horses
+meet, the bawling and confusion is dreadful.</p>
+
+<p>The markets in Turkey are called &quot;bazaars,&quot; and there you can buy
+almost anything you want; and every trade keeps together in knots of
+shops, different from us, in particular quarters, so that you are not
+obliged to walk all over the bazaar in search of a hat or a pair of
+shoes. In these bazaars, <a name='Page14'></a>it is customary for a dealer to ask much
+more than he means to take, and for a buyer to offer infinitely less
+than he means to give; it is, therefore, rather difficult to strike a
+bargain, and sometimes several days are occupied chaffering about a
+price.</p>
+
+<p>The Turkish houses, above the ground floors, are usually built of thin
+laths, painted of different gay colours, and the roofs made of tiles,
+so that every few months a terrible fire takes place, and several
+thousand dwellings are burnt down; but the people are so accustomed to
+this that they do not mind it, and look on very contentedly while the
+fire rages, smoking their pipes, and drinking coffee.</p>
+
+<p>The Turks are exceedingly charitable, and not only give alms to the
+sick and poor, but even to travellers and strangers; and some of them
+have exercised their benevolence so far that they have left a sum of
+money for digging wells, and for the support of several cats and dogs.
+A very great trade is carried on from many parts of the world with
+them, as their country is famous for its rich brocades, thick soft
+carpets, mattings, baskets, curiously-wrought gold and silver
+embroidery, and balsams. It is also remarkable for its attar of roses,
+spices, figs, and coffee; all very good things, I dare say, you will
+think.</p><a name='Page15'></a>
+
+<a href="images/p015-s.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p015-ss.jpg" width="63" height="64"
+alt="S" /></a>
+
+<p>Some things have been sent from China to our Exhibition; but the
+Chinese people do not seem to care much about it. Indeed, I wonder
+they sent at all, for they consider themselves as the only civilized
+nation in the world, and call China the &quot;Celestial Empire,&quot; while they
+imagine that the Emperor is an intimate relation of the Sun, Moon, and
+Stars! They are a very industrious nation, however, and the Emperor
+encourages them by his example. The poor work in every way they can;
+and one of their occupations is carrying about water for sale, as they
+have not water brought by pipes into the houses, as we <a name='Page16'></a>have here.
+Here is the picture of a Chinese water carrier.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p015.jpg">
+<img src="images/p015s.jpg" width="200" height="138"
+alt="Chinese Water Carrier" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>They also make the most elaborately carved ornaments, in wood and
+ivory; their toys and lanterns are celebrated for their ingenuity and
+workmanship. Their fireworks are superior to all those of other
+nations; and they excel in tricks and amusing entertainments. The
+cultivation of tea is universal, and agriculture&mdash;which, you know is
+the art of tilling the earth&mdash;is held in high esteem; the principal
+products being rice, wheat, yams, potatoes, turnips, and cabbages. The
+dwellings of the peasantry too, are not in villages, as in old
+England, but are scattered through the country; and they have no
+fences, gates, or anything to guard against wild beasts, or robbers.
+The females raise silk-worms, spin cotton, manufacture <a name='Page17'></a>woollen
+stuffs, and are the only weavers in the empire. The art of printing,
+though done in what I must confess is rather a clumsy manner, is much
+exercised amongst them, and gives employment to many people.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p016.jpg">
+<img src="images/p016s.jpg" width="185" height="187"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>I do not think we should like to dine with a Chinese gentleman, or
+Mandarin, as he would treat us to strange dainties, as&mdash;a roast dog, a
+dish of stewed worms, a rat pie; or, perhaps, a bird's-nest. But the
+bird's-nest would be the best of the list, for it is not like the kind
+of bird's-nests which you have seen, but is made, I believe, of the
+spawn of fish, and looks something like isinglass. It is the nest of a
+sort of swallow, is about the size of a goose's egg, and is found in
+caverns along the sea shores; so it is not so bad as it seems at
+first. And the rats are as large and fat as some of our rabbits, being
+fed on fruits and grain, purposely for eating; as also are their dogs,
+for eating.</p>
+
+<p>The people of the &quot;Celestial Empire&quot; are celebrated for their fondness
+for making beautiful gardens; but their houses and gardens are quite
+different from ours.</p>
+
+<p>What a pretty scene! what a delicious cool walk is formed by the grove
+of trees leading to the porcelain tower. And those ladies walking
+towards the boat,&mdash;or hobbling, more likely; for <a name='Page18'></a>the Chinese ladies
+have feet not much larger than your papa's thumb, which is there
+considered a great beauty.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p018.jpg">
+<img src="images/p018s.jpg" width="200" height="148"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The common women cannot afford to have little feet, as the feet of the
+rich girls are bandaged up in iron shoes, when they are two or three
+years old, to prevent their growing larger. These small feet are
+called &quot;Golden Lilies;&quot; but I am glad no such barbarous custom
+prevails in our own dear country. The Chinese ladies, however, are
+extremely accomplished, and can play on many musical instruments,
+paint, and embroider. The merchants of China are not at all remarkable
+for <a name='Page19'></a>their honesty, though a few of them are very scrupulous. Many of
+them amass great fortunes.</p>
+
+<p>The Chinese have sent in embroidered shawls, table-covers, teas,
+curious and intricate toys, and specimens of handicraft.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p019-w.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p019-ws.jpg" width="77" height="76"
+alt="W" /></a>
+
+<p>Why, we have even specimens of Russian industry, in the Great
+Exhibition; and very good specimens they are, too. Russia is not such
+a pleasant country, in some respects, as any of those I have been
+telling you of; for in the winter the frost is so severe that many of
+the poor Russians die from cold.<a name='Page20'></a> The rich wrap themselves up in warm
+furs, and ride in fur-lined sledges, instead of the usual carriages;
+but the poor people are forced to continue working out of doors at
+their various employments, being very careful, however, to cover their
+legs, hands, and head with fur, lest they should be bitten with the
+frost, which sometimes seizes those parts and turns them white. Though
+many of the poor women stand for hours together, washing their linen
+in holes cut in the ice, without getting frozen, yet it often happens
+that coachmen and other servants have been frozen to death in the
+streets at night, while waiting for their masters.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p019.jpg">
+<img src="images/p019s.jpg" width="200" height="140"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>At the end of every year, the Russians keep a long fast, and as soon
+as it is over, lay in their store of winter's provisions, at a market
+held once a-year on the river Neva, which is then frozen over. I
+should like you to see this market, it is so full of gaiety and
+singularity, while the high piles of frozen provisions look so
+picturesque along the ice. The Russians are remarkable for their
+cheerfulness and contentment, and are so fond of singing, that they
+are always enjoying a song when at work. Russian songs are very
+different from ours, and sound rather odd to us.</p>
+
+<p>The food of the common people is black rye <a name='Page21'></a>bread, sometimes, by way
+of treat, stuffed with onions, carrots, or green corn, and seasoned
+with sweet oil. They use eggs, salt fish, bacon, and mushrooms, of
+which last they have a great plenty. The men are ordinarily dressed in
+loose trousers; short coats of sheep-skin, tied with a sash round
+their waists, and folds of flannel, fastened round with pack-thread,
+on their legs, for stockings. The women are dressed just as oddly, in
+short gowns, and with their hair plaited and hanging down their backs,
+if they are unmarried; or a cap and cotton kerchief round their heads,
+if they are married. The peasants' houses are built of wood, and have
+one or two rooms only; they are miserably furnished, with no beds, as
+the family sleep on benches in summer, while nearly one-fourth of the
+principal apartment is filled by an enormous stove, or rather oven,
+upon which they sleep in winter; for the smoke of which, there is no
+chimney beyond a hole in the wall. I don't think you or I would much
+like to spend a winter in Russia.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p021-m.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p021-ms.jpg" width="60" height="51"
+alt="M" /></a>
+
+<p>Many useful things, you may observe, have come from Spain&mdash;cheeses,
+honey, dried fruits, salt, lime, wool, oil, flax, and cotton; with
+guns, swords, and also <a name='Page22'></a>beautiful ornaments; with some precious
+stones, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. The Spaniards are not either a
+very active or a very cleanly people, but they are exceedingly proud,
+honest, and hospitable; they are skilful workers in woollen and silk
+stuffs, and manufacture sword-blades of a very fine kind; while their
+leather is celebrated for its superiority. They also work beautifully
+in gold and silver; and trade in immense quantities of those oranges
+you like so well, lemons, citrons, grapes, raisins, olives, nuts, and
+wines.</p>
+
+<p>The chief amusement of both high and low is one which neither you nor
+I would be pleased with, I hope, for it is bull-fighting; which cruel
+entertainment they learned from the Moors, who once had possession of
+Spain, and built all the beautiful castles and palaces that are in it.
+The manners of the rich people are merely like those of our own
+gentry, but the common people are very peculiar; and all classes
+delight in playing on the guitar, and singing, both of which they
+perform charmingly. They have also two favourite dances, called a
+fandango, and a bolero, both extremely lively and graceful. The mode
+of conveyance in Spain is by mules, and these beasts are surprisingly
+obedient to their masters, and answer to their own names just like our
+own pet dogs. The tails of <a name='Page23'></a>the mules are oddly decorated, by cutting
+the hair into stars, flowers, and other fanciful designs.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p023-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p023-ts.jpg" width="80" height="139"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The villages are mostly mean, and the roads narrow; but Madrid, the
+capital of Spain, is a large city, with long, straight streets, many
+of them cooled by noble fountains. The houses in Madrid are built of
+brick, and even the grandest of them have only lattices, instead of
+glass windows, most of which have, however, handsome balconies,
+supported on columns. In the churches, there are neither pews,
+benches, nor chairs; the ground is covered with matting, on which
+every one kneels together, from the grandee to the beggar. In the
+suburbs there are many woods of evergreen oak, vineyards, olive
+plantations, and orchards of mulberry, plum, and almond trees; and the
+flocks of black sheep and goats, grazing in the country meadows, have
+a pretty effect.</p>
+
+<p>I don't think you would find the Spanish cookery much to your taste;
+for the Spaniards are very fond of rancid butter in their meals, and
+of oil that has a very strong smell and flavour; indeed, <a name='Page24'></a>when they
+are going to cook anything that requires fat, they lift down the lamp
+from the ceiling, and take out what oil they want. Bread, steeped in
+oil, and occasionally seasoned with vinegar, is the common food of the
+country people. Their favourite wine is that which has a strong taste
+of the leather bottles or casks, in which they keep it; and they will
+hardly eat any thing that has not saffron, pimento, or garlic, in it.
+They have, however, even amongst the poorest, such fine grapes, ripe
+melons, and tempting oranges, as my little readers, I know, have
+seldom tasted. In summer, they use a quantity of ice, which is sold in
+glasses, in the streets, for a trifling sum. In <a name='Page25'></a>place of candles, the
+poor people have a piece of cane, cut with holes through it, which is
+fixed to the ceiling, and from one of the holes a lamp is hung by a
+hook.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p024.jpg">
+<img src="images/p024s.jpg" width="200" height="135"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The dress of the lower orders is very pretty indeed, and they
+themselves are mostly tall and handsome, with black hair and eyes, and
+dark sun-burnt complexions. The climate is so warm and balmy, that
+they can grow their fruits in the open air.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p025-s.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p025-ss.jpg" width="40" height="52"
+alt="S" /></a>
+
+<p>Some pretty articles have been sent from Portugal, a country which is
+near Spain, and very like it in all respects. It is a very fine
+country, famous for wine, and oil; and the sheep are much prized for
+their superior wool. The ladies of rank still spin flax from a
+distaff, to show their industry. The peasantry are not very well off;
+their only luxury is tobacco, and their usual fare is bread, made of
+Indian corn, with a salted pilchard, or a head of garlic, to give it a
+relish. They are polite and hospitable; but the people of the towns
+have not the least scruple in stabbing any body that offends them; so
+that it is a dangerous thing to affront them.</p>
+
+<p>What elegant tables, pictures, vases, marbles, statues, shells, woods,
+and perfumes, have been <a name='Page26'></a>contributed to the Exhibition from Italy.
+Here is a table of a most beautiful material, called pietra dura,
+which took one hundred and twenty years to finish, and came from
+Naples.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p026-i.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p026-is.jpg" width="100" height="147"
+alt="I" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Italy has always been celebrated for the beauty of the articles
+manufactured there; and the things it has sent us now are certainly
+worthy of its fame. It is one of the loveliest countries in the world,
+in the spring and autumn, and is ornamented with the richest foliage;
+vines, mulberry, olive, and orange trees; and with high hills and deep
+dales, towns, villas, and villages. The soil is extremely fertile, and
+produces abundance of grain, the finest fruits and vegetables, with
+flax, <a name='Page27'></a>saffron, and manna. The climate is delightful, except in
+summer, when the weather is dreadfully hot, and the winters are so
+mild, that ice and snow are quite rarities, except in the mountains; I
+wonder what my little-boy friends would do there, for a skate on the
+ice, or a merry game of snow-balls?</p>
+
+<p>Rome, the capital of Italy, is a splendid city, full of the remains of
+ancient temples, pillars, arches, and fountains; but many of them
+sadly ruinous and decayed. There are a great many Jews in it, who are
+forced to live in a particular part, called the <i>ghetto</i>, which means
+a place for Jews. The city of Rome and the surrounding country are
+very unwholesome during summer, in consequence of the land not being
+properly drained, as it used to be in the times of the ancient Romans,
+so that it is dangerous to dwell near them at that season of the year.
+The numerous vineyards in Italy, are not divided by hedges, but by
+rows of rather fine trees, the vines clinging in graceful festoons
+from one bough to another. In some parts of the country, there are
+various picturesque corn fields and meadows, bordered by olive trees.</p>
+
+<p>The Italians are not a very industrious people, but they make silk
+stockings, soap, snuff-boxes of <a name='Page28'></a>the lava of Mount Vesuvius, tables of
+marble, and ornaments of shells, besides gloves and caps of the
+filaments of a kind of muscle, which they get off the rocks, where it
+fixes itself by spinning a web from its own body, like the silk-worm
+or spider. These caps and gloves are actually warmer than those made
+of wool, and are of a fine glossy green colour.</p>
+
+<p>There are a great many beggars, I am sorry to say, in fair Italy, who
+are called <i>Lazzaroni</i>, and they live on whatever they can get,
+sleeping under porticos, piazzas, or any place they can find, and are,
+as you may guess, excessively idle, like all other beggars.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p028-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p028-ts.jpg" width="100" height="145"
+alt="T" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>There are also hordes of thieves, who are called <i>Banditti</i>, and who
+rob people in the most daring manner, for there are very few police.
+But there are also <a name='Page29'></a>numerous persons who are quite well-behaved, and
+do all they can to earn their bread honestly. Among these is a set of
+men called <i>Improvisatori</i>, who tell stories, or repeat verses in the
+streets, and get a good deal of money from those who stop to listen to
+them. It must be very pleasant, on a cool summer evening, to sit under
+some magnificent old portico, listening to some interesting poem, or
+hearing a pretty story related.</p>
+<br />
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p029-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p029-ts.jpg" width="100" height="138"
+alt="T" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Throughout Italy, one of the remarkable customs, is keeping of a grand
+festival, which begins some weeks before Lent, and is called the
+&quot;Carnival;&quot; on this occasion, every place is brilliantly adorned, and
+the people go about singing, dancing, joking, and masquerading. The
+most splendid Carnival is kept at Venice, a remarkable city of Italy,
+<a name='Page30'></a>built upon a several islands, the sea, which runs every where among
+them, serving the inhabitants for streets.</p>
+
+<p>The Italians are very handsome, and have jet black hair, dark roguish
+eyes, and fine figures. The dress of the lower orders is even prettier
+than the pretty Spanish costume. The men wear high-crowned hats, such
+as you may sometimes have seen on the organ-grinders in the streets of
+London, velveteen jackets, gaiters, and open shirt-collars, loosely
+fastened by a silk ribbon; while the women have short scarlet
+petticoats, and jackets of a darker colour, with exceedingly short
+sleeves, tied with bright ribbon, and their long black hair decorated
+with coloured bows of ribbon, and confined by a silk lace net, which
+falls partly over their shoulders. Instead of sending thieves to
+prison in Italy, they are sent on board the galleys, a large kind of
+rowing vessels, where they are chained to the decks, and obliged to
+endure every species of hardship.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p030-w.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p030-ws.jpg" width="50" height="48"
+alt="W" /></a>
+
+<p>What a number of things the Germans have contributed! Bracelets,
+articles of straw, beautiful household furniture, toys, wire, and many
+other manufactures. Here is a splendid tray of polished amber, with a
+little carriage, made <a name='Page31'></a>according to a proper model, and a large
+chandelier of amber, capable of holding several thousand lights. There
+is a beautiful cabinet made of a collection of pieces of unpolished
+amber, intended to show the different kinds of that mineral, its
+various forms, its peculiarities, and its varieties. Here is a
+bedstead, worth it is said ten thousand pounds; and the most elegant
+furniture ever seen. And here is a piece of white silk embroidered
+with portraits of our Queen and the Prince of Wales, done in a thin
+kind of thread, called &quot;hair thread.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>You know a good deal about Germany itself, I dare say, already; but I
+must tell you something about the Germans themselves. They are grave
+and thoughtful, but highly romantic and full of enthusiasm. Their love
+for their country is most remarkable. All classes in Germany are
+well-educated, and many painters, poets, and musicians, have been born
+among them. The art of printing was first practiced in that country,
+and at present the number of books printed there is immense; while
+every year a book-fair is held at the city of Leipzig. The produce and
+manufactures of Germany are exceedingly numerous, and you see they are
+of great variety, such as clocks, watches, woollens, linens, toys,
+wines, ornamental work in iron and steel, worsteds, and silks. In the
+public walks <a name='Page32'></a>and gardens, on Sundays, the people assemble in great
+crowds, dressed out in their holiday clothes, while ladies and
+gentlemen walk about without the least restraint among the working
+people.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p032-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p032-ts.jpg" width="100" height="136"
+alt="T" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The chase is a favourite amusement with the nobles and gentlemen, and
+is a sport in which they are lustily joined by the peasantry. The
+immense forests with which the country abounds gives shelter to wild
+boars, wolves, and many other ferocious animals. On grand occasions
+there is held what is called a <i>battue</i>, when a number of deer are
+driven into an enclourse, and shot at by the sportsmen. The habits of
+the peasants are extremely simple, but the people are industrious and
+ingenious. The villages and cottages are neat and comfortable. The
+peasants make many pretty toys and ornaments, and bring provisions to
+market from a great distance, in light roomy wheel-barrows, made for
+the purpose. The<a name='Page33'></a> German people are in general fair, with blue eyes,
+flaxen hair, and full figures; but they do not wear any very peculiar
+dress.</p><br />
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p033-i.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p033-is.jpg" width="100" height="82"
+alt="I" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>In models of ships, in rosewood furniture, in silver embroidery, and
+silver cups,&mdash;besides linens, calicoes, and glass beautifully painted
+for windows; many contributions have been sent in by the Dutch. There
+are also soft thick blankets with scarlet borders, which make one warm
+merely to look at them.</p>
+
+<p>The Dutch people are industrious, and cleanly. The women are the most
+active and nicest house-wives in the world; they scour and brighten,
+and rub not only the furniture and inside of their houses, but the
+outside as well; the houses in Holland, by-the-bye, look like painted
+baby-houses, and are roofed with glossy delft tiles, and the rooms are
+lined with smooth square tiles of delft, and the floors paved with
+marble. The people are never idle in Holland, but are always working
+at a great variety of manufactures, among which are leather, woollen,
+and linen <a name='Page34'></a>articles,&mdash;also, paper, wax, starch, pottery, and tiles.
+Large quantities of gin are likewise made, and this liquor is in
+England called &quot;Hollands&quot; for that reason. Carts are not much used by
+the Dutch; their goods are carried on sledges, very light waggons, and
+boats. The reason of this is, that they are afraid lest the wheels of
+vehicles should injure the foundations of their cities, which are
+generally built on piles of huge trees, driven like stakes into the
+bog beneath. The common people are very humane to their cattle; they
+rub down the cows and oxen, and keep them as clean and sleek as our
+English horses. Canals run through the principal streets, and in
+winter they <a name='Page35'></a>are frozen over for two or three months, when the whole
+country is like a fair; booths are erected upon the ice, with fires in
+them. The country people skate to market, with milk and vegetables;
+and every kind of sport is seen on the frozen canals. Sledges fly from
+one street to another, gaily decorated, and numberless skaters glide
+about with astonishing swiftness and dexterity. No people skate so
+well as the Dutch.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p034.jpg">
+<img src="images/p034s.jpg" width="200" height="135"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Holland was once a quagmire, almost covered with water; but by making
+canals higher than the land, and pumping the water out of the fields
+into them, the land was drained. The bogs are numerous, and supply so
+much turf that little else is burned. There are no beggars; and the
+people are in general pretty warmly clothed, and comfortable looking,
+with ruddy faces. The townspeople are dressed almost like the
+Londoners, or Parisians; but the costume of the country folks is
+rather funny. A farmer's wife, when out for a holiday, wears a large
+kind of gipsy hat, like a small umbrella, lined with damask; a close
+jacket with long flaps; and full short thick coloured petticoats. Her
+slippers are yellow, her stockings blue, and her cap is without a
+border, being made to fit her head exactly, and gaily ornamented with
+gold filagree clasps; while her costume is finished <a name='Page36'></a>by a pair of
+earrings and a necklace. The farmer himself wears a hat without a rim,
+and huge silver buttons on his coat; and keeps whiffing away at his
+pipe, which he is seldom without. The Dutch are most excellent
+gardeners, though they sometimes ruin themselves by their love for
+flowers.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p036-a.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p036-as.jpg" width="100" height="156"
+alt="A" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Among the articles that have been sent here from Switzerland, are
+several well worth looking at, they are so wonderfully ingenious. Of
+this kind are two boxes, one of white wood, and the other of brown;
+the white has a lovely Alpine rose, with garlands of flowers upon the
+sides, the rose and lid being cut out of one piece of wood, and so
+beautifully made to imitate nature, that the slightest touch with the
+point of a knife or a needle, makes the leaves move and quiver without
+<a name='Page37'></a>spoiling the flower. This was made by a Swiss peasant. The people of
+Switzerland are very remarkable for their industry, contentment, and
+ingenuity.</p>
+
+<p>Among the villagers, their chief occupations are the management of
+dairies, and the breeding of cattle; and many of the peasantry make a
+living by hunting the chamois, as the wild goat is called. This is
+rather a dangerous employment, yet the chamois-hunters delight in it;
+they carry a long hook pointed with an iron spike, and with the help
+of this, they leap from rock to rock, over frightful chasms and
+precipices; yet such is their surprising activity, that they are never
+killed. Other peasants earn a livelihood by fattening and preparing
+snails for market; for these creatures are considered a great delicacy
+in many parts of Switzerland. In another part of the country the
+inhabitants almost exclusively follow the trade of watch-making, and
+polishing the crystals and pebbles that are found in the mountains,
+Geneva, a city of Switzerland, is celebrated for the watches that are
+made there.</p>
+
+<p>The women are extremely domestic, delighting in their children; and
+all the Swiss are remarkable for their passionate love of home. In
+every village there is a school, established by the Government <a name='Page38'></a>for
+the instruction of poor children. The Swiss are the most graceful of
+all peasants, and wear very smart costumes. The men wear large hats,
+and their dress is generally a brown cloth jacket without sleeves, and
+puffed breeches of ticking. The women have short blue petticoats, a
+cherry-coloured boddice, full white sleeves fastened above the elbow,
+and a muslin kerchief thrown round their necks; while their hair is
+plaited, and twisted about their heads. They also wear pretty flat
+straw hats, ornamented with bows of ribbon.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p038-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p038-ts.jpg" width="50" height="119"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The scenery of Switzerland is of the most charming and romantic
+description; there are towering mountains, craggy rocks, steep
+precipices, with foaming torrents dashing down their sides, and dizzy
+heights, which I should be sorry any of my little friends were looking
+down. But these are delightfully intermixed with beautiful valleys,
+adorned with groves of fir, beech, and chestnut trees; clear lakes,
+rapid rivers, cataracts, and bridges of one arch reaching an immense
+distance from rock to rock. Portions of the mountains are covered with
+villages and scattered cottages; and the inside of the dwellings <a name='Page39'></a>are
+so neat and look so comfortable, that you could almost wish to live in
+one of them, if you were not told that there is a perpetual danger of
+their being buried under one of the enormous masses of snow that
+frequently roll from the tops of the mountains, and destroy everything
+in their way. These masses are called Avalanches.</p>
+
+<p>Between the summits of the highest of the mountains are valleys of
+ice, frozen into many fantastic shapes, formed by one crust of ice
+growing hard over another; but what is more extraordinary, is that the
+borders of these glaciers, as they are called, are fertile:
+strawberries, wild cherries, nuts, barberries, and mulberries, grow
+there; and goats browse on the most inaccessible parts of the rocks,
+and bound with the most surprising agility from one cliff to another.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p039.jpg">
+<img src="images/p039s.jpg" width="200" height="136"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<a name='Page40'></a>
+<a href="images/p040-s.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p040-ss.jpg" width="60" height="54"
+alt="S" /></a>
+
+<p>Several contributions have been sent by the Prussians and Austrians;
+woollens, minerals, linens, china, and other things.</p>
+
+<p>The Prussians are a very polite and well-educated people, and nowhere
+are there more schools than in their country.</p>
+
+<p>Prussia itself is an extremely pleasant place, and the towns are fine,
+with wide, regular streets, and high antique-looking houses; the
+streets are mostly lined with trees, which look pretty enough while
+their leaves are green, but rather prevent the free circulation of
+air. The Prussian ladies delight in fine clothes, and would be much
+vexed if they were obliged to go out without them. The gentry speak
+French, but the common people talk German. The beautiful Dresden china
+we see at the Exhibition, cames from the town of Dresden.</p>
+
+<p>Austria is a very fine country, and contains a great variety of
+people. The principal artizans are tanners, furriers, boot makers,
+lace workers, and cabinet makers. There are also workers in iron,
+copper, alum, saltpetre, besides many others. The general habits of
+the Austrians are like those of the Germans, so I do not think I need
+tell you anything about them.</p><a name='Page41'></a>
+
+<a href="images/p041-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p041-ts.jpg" width="60" height="62"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The Poles and Hungarians have also sent their industrial productions
+to the Great Exhibition; cloth, lace, furniture, brooms, linens,
+woollens, and other articles. I dare say you have heard a good deal
+lately about the Hungarians, when they were fighting against the
+Austrians and Russians. The Hungarian peasants are very hard-working;
+indeed, they cannot help being so, for as the nobility and gentry are
+not taxed, the poor people are forced to pay all the taxes, besides
+being obliged to give money and provisions to their masters, the Lords
+of the Manor, who, I am sorry to say, are excessively tyrannical. They
+are also compelled to pay tithes to the clergy, the magistrates, and
+the soldiers, and to work for nothing on the public works; against
+which bad laws they fought. Agriculture, and the breeding of cattle,
+are carried on to a considerable extent.</p>
+
+<p>Hungary is occupied by a variety of people, with entirely different
+habits; it contains Frenchmen, Sclavonians, Turks, Jews, Spaniards,
+Gipsies, Germans, and Greeks. The Magyar language, the original
+Hungarian tongue, is spoken by the peasants; but in the cities the
+people mostly use German and French.</p><a name='Page42'></a>
+
+<a href="images/p042-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p042-ts.jpg" width="50" height="41"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The Poles live in a cold, flat, marshy country, in the north of
+Europe. The peasantry are in a miserable state, very dirty and
+frequently drunken; and their land is in a wretched condition.</p>
+
+<p>The Swedish and Danish people have made many things to be exhibited in
+the World's Fair. Sweden is in the north of Europe, and the climate is
+very disagreeable, for it is extremely cold in winter, and intolerably
+hot in summer. The people do not live very luxuriantly; their bread is
+not only black and coarse, but so hard that they are sometimes obliged
+to break it with a hatchet; and this, with dried fish, and salt meat,
+forms the chief part of their food. Yet they are very hardy and
+contented. At Michaelmas, they kill their cattle and salt them, for
+the winter and spring. Their favourite drink is beer, and they delight
+in malt spirits; some of them have tea and coffee. Their houses are
+generally built of wood, and their cottages are made of rough logs;
+the roofs are covered with turf, on which the goats browse. The
+Swedish women do everything that men are employed to do in other
+countries; they plough, sow, and thresh, and work with the
+bricklayers; the country women, as well as the <a name='Page43'></a>ladies, wear veils to
+shade their faces from the glare of the snow in winter, and from the
+scorching rays of the sun reflected from the barren rocks in summer.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p043.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p043s.jpg" width="100" height="158"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The iron mines of Sweden are exceedingly useful; they furnish great
+quantities of metal, to be exported to England, for the use of our
+steel manufactories. The extensive forests supply numerous pine trees,
+which are cut down and sent to foreign countries, for ship and house
+building; while pitch and tar are made from the sap,&mdash;a preparation
+which gives employment to many of the inhabitants.</p>
+
+<p>The Swedes contrive to make things from materials we should throw away
+as good for nothing; they twist rope from hogs'-bristles, horses'
+manes, and the bark of trees; and form bridles of eel-skins. The
+coarse cloth they wear they make <a name='Page44'></a>themselves, for the women are
+continually busy spinning or weaving. Sweden is the birth-place of the
+famous botanist, Linn&aelig;us, and the charming singer, Jenny Lind.</p>
+
+<p>Norway is united to Sweden, but it is still colder in winter and
+hotter in summer. The people live very simply, mostly on milk, cheese,
+and dried fish; and sometimes they have slices of meat, sprinkled with
+salt and dried in the wind. In some parts of the country, the people
+make bread of the bark of the pine tree; and in winter, for want of
+hay, they are obliged to feed their cattle on dried fish. The houses
+are built of wood, and many of the roads are made of the same
+material; while wooden fences are used instead of hedges. The
+Norwegians send metals, minerals, salt, butter, dried fish, and furs,
+to other countries.</p>
+
+<p>Denmark is a very fine country, perfectly level, except a single ridge
+of mountains. Its chief products are grain, tobacco, flax, madder, and
+hops. There are a great many mines, but few manufactures carried on;
+though the Danish gloves are much esteemed. The climate is generally
+rather warm, but very wet. The Danes are mostly well-educated; they
+are like the Swedes in their manners and customs. They have sent many
+specimens of their industry to the Great Exhibition.</p><a name='Page45'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p045-w.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p045-ws.jpg" width="100" height="143"
+alt="W" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Why, who would have thought of seeing Persian and Egyptian
+contributions at the Exhibition?</p>
+
+<p>And such splendid articles as they are! Persia, you know, is a rich
+and fertile country, near Russia, in Asia; but although it has many
+beautiful flowers and fruits, yet is there very little timber; owing
+to which they have no shipping. The Persians delight in fine clothes
+on which they lavish the greater part of their money, and they are
+fonder of scarlet, or crimson, than of any other colour. They are very
+skilful in dyeing, in making silks, shagreen, morocco, gold and silver
+ornaments; and they form excellent swords and weapons. Their commerce
+with Turkey, China, Arabia, and other places, is carried on by means
+of what they call &quot;caravans,&quot; which are <a name='Page46'></a>large companies of merchants,
+who travel together for the sake of security from thieves, by whom
+however, they are often robbed; these companies have frequently more
+than a thousand camels, to carry their luggage and their goods; and in
+consequence of the excessive heat, they are obliged to journey mostly
+in the early morning, and rest during the day. The Persians live
+chiefly on rice, fruit, and coffee, and eat very little meat; they
+luxuriate in baths, and the poorest amongst them endeavour to have a
+horse. They use the Turkish language, and are nearly all Mahometans;
+they used to worship the sun and fire, though very few continue to do
+so still. The Persian ladies never appear in the streets or any other
+public place, without having long veils, in order to conceal their
+faces, as the Turkish ladies do. The Persians are very like the Turks
+in their manners and customs, which I described to you before.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p046-e.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p046-es.jpg" width="60" height="64"
+alt="E" /></a>
+
+<p>Egypt was, formerly, a mighty empire, and had rich and haughty kings,
+who adorned it with magnificent temples and palaces. I dare say you
+remember what you have read of it in the history of Joseph and his
+brethren, and in that of Moses. It was here that Solomon built his
+magnificent <a name='Page47'></a>and gorgeous Temple. It is now, however, an exceedingly
+mean country, and is governed by a Turkish Pacha, whose grandfather
+contrived to make himself master of Egypt, as well as of Syria and
+Palestine. The climate of Egypt is excessively hot,&mdash;in fact, the
+nights in spring are the only pleasant part of the year. The nights in
+autumn are also very fine,&mdash;even delicious; and the rays of the moon
+are so bright that the natives, who sleep in the open air, cover their
+eyes to prevent their being injured by the brilliancy. The greater
+portion of the land is covered with burning sands; but wherever the
+waters of the river Nile have been conducted by canals, and allowed to
+flow over the country, the earth becomes fertile, and fruits thrive
+luxuriantly. There are but few garden flowers, but roses are
+extensively cultivated, the attar of roses forming an article of
+commerce.</p>
+
+<p>There are many valuable minerals found in the earth; and beautiful
+marble, alabaster, salt, alum, and other useful things. The woods,
+marshes, plains, and rivers supply a variety of animals, most of them
+wild and ferocious. It was in Egypt that the Hippopotamus was found.
+The people devote themselves to agriculture, the rearing of bees, and
+poultry; they also carry on an important trade with other countries.
+Most of the Egyptians <a name='Page48'></a>are strong, of a tawny complexion, and of a gay
+disposition. They luxuriate in water; and esteem it the height of
+enjoyment to sit by a fountain, smoking their pipes; they are
+excessively fond of bathing. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a large
+city, with irregular unpaved streets, and brick houses, with flat
+roofs. There are a good many small manufactories; and some schools, a
+printing-office, and a large library. There are numerous magnificent
+fountains in the city, which are indispensable on account of the
+intense heat; and more than a thousand shops for selling cups of
+coffee, of which the Egyptians are very fond; these coffee shops are
+called <i>rahwehs</i>. All along the river Nile the banks show signs of
+industry; cotton, tobacco, and other produce being grown down to the
+water's edge. The Pyramids of Egypt, the time of the building of which
+is not known, are considered one of the wonders of the world.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<a href="images/p048-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p048-ts.jpg" width="60" height="63"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The Greeks have sent some fine stuffs; their silk manufactures are
+really beautiful, and their sculptures and feather-fans are splendid.
+Greece was a famous country long, long ago, in ancient history, but it
+has undergone many sad changes, and was for a long time ruled by the
+Turks. The<a name='Page49'></a> English, French, and Russians rid it from Turkish hands;
+but its present government is weak and imperfect, for the numerous
+petty chiefs pursue a wicked system of robbery, fighting, and tyranny.
+Indeed, many of these chiefs have fitted out vessels as pirate ships,
+in order to seize and plunder any other vessels weaker than their own
+with which they may fall in. There are, however, many wealthy Greek
+merchants; and a number of rich Jews live in various parts of Greece.
+The Greek people are beautiful and graceful. The women have fine oval
+faces, their eyes are large and dark, their eyebrows and hair are of
+deep shining black, and their complexions are mostly pale. They are
+very splendid in their dresses; the costume of the men is extremely
+like that of the Turks. From having been so long subject, however, to
+their Turkish rulers, the Greeks have become artful and cunning.</p>
+
+<p>The rich ladies and nobles of Greece have fine young slaves to wait
+upon them, and amuse them by singing or dancing. These slaves are
+bought from the Tartars, who steal them from Russia, Circassia, or
+Georgia, and are taken great care of, being taught to embroider, sing,
+dance, and deport themselves with elegance and grace. Their masters or
+mistresses scarcely ever sell <a name='Page50'></a>them, but when they are tired of them,
+either give them to a friend, or set them free. When they do sell
+them, it is as a punishment for some crime, or for being useless.</p>
+
+<p>There are numerous brigands, or thieves, in Greece, who are divided
+into bands, and rob with the utmost impunity. They manage to hide
+themselves very artfully in the roads where they expect to meet
+travellers, doubling their bodies up behind stones and bushes, or else
+lying flat on their faces on the ground, when they suddenly all start
+up and surround any unfortunate individual who may happen to pass that
+way. There are also honest, industrious people in Greece; and among
+them are the guides, men who show strangers over the curious portions
+of the cities for a trifling sum of money; and there are the cabmen of
+Athens, who are usually very intelligent and well-informed; there are
+a number of cabs in Athens.</p>
+
+<p>The Greek houses have only one story; but there are generally large
+gardens, carefully tended, attached to them. The climate is generally
+mild, but not so much so as formerly, on account of the cutting down
+of the forests. The spring and autumn are delightful; but the summer
+is too hot, and the winter is almost a succession of <a name='Page51'></a>storm and rain.
+The earth is extremely fertile, and produces corn, wine, and fruits,
+besides the honey and figs you like so much. The people manufacture
+silks and cottons, and export quantities of small raisins, which grow
+very luxuriantly in and about the city of Corinth. Corinth is one of
+the most charming places that you can fancy to yourself, and is
+surrounded by beautiful views and the remains of ancient temples,
+columns, and statues; groves of fine olive trees border the city, and
+the waters of two bays meet near the entrance. The ruins of the
+ancient temples and buildings in Athens, the capital of Greece, are
+still to be seen; but so little do the ignorant and foolish people,
+who have lived in the city in modern times, value these great works,
+that they have for hundreds of years used the greater part of the
+splendid marbles to build their houses, which are only ordinary and
+common-looking.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p051.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p051s.jpg" width="100" height="91"
+alt="" /></a>
+
+<p>The inhabitants of Bavaria and Belgium have sent almost numberless
+articles of industry to the Exhibition; furs, lace, machinery, corn,
+books, furniture, and metals.</p><a name='Page52'></a>
+
+<p>Belgium was formerly called Flanders, and the people produced superior
+cloth, hats, cutlery, and other useful things, a very great many years
+before the English could make any thing better than the most common
+sort of goods. The Belgians are still celebrated for their ingenuity
+in making toys, lace, cloth, silk, satin, velvet, and other useful
+articles. They are also famous for the culture of flowers, in which
+they excel even the Dutch. Every house has a garden attached, which is
+frequently surrounded by a moat. The country is small, but every part
+of the land is made fertile by the industry of the farmers, of whom
+there are a great number; many of them grow flax, which is woven into
+linen by the women. There is a weekly market for linen, held at Ghent,
+whither the peasantry carry their products for sale, and both men and
+women may be seen standing in two long lines, with benches before
+them.</p>
+
+<p>The farms in Belgium are cultivated with great care and attention, and
+much resemble the market gardens round London; they all have gardens,
+and grow an ample supply of fruit and vegetables. The food of the
+peasants, is rye-bread and milk, for breakfast and supper; potatoes
+and onions, with bacon and beer, for dinner; they eat off pewter; and
+although their fare is simple, it is good <a name='Page53'></a>and plentiful. Their dress
+is somewhat coarse, but it is neat and clean, the men wear blue linen
+frocks; and the women have printed cotton gowns, linen caps, and
+woollen petticoats.</p>
+
+<p>The towns and villages of Belgium are numerous, and thickly peopled.
+Brussels, the capital, is a fine city, and is celebrated for its
+manufactures, particularly for lace, camlet, and carpets. Ten thousand
+people are employed there in making lace. It is also famous for its
+pottery and porcelain. The other articles made there, are cotton and
+woollen stuffs, silk stockings, and earthenware. The carriages built
+there, are superior to even those of London or Paris; there is a
+specimen of Belgian carriages at the Exhibition.</p>
+
+<p>There are numerous silk manufactories in Brussels; and the beautiful
+linen, called damask, is exported in great quantities. There are
+innumerable breweries, too; for no people in the world are so fond of
+drinking beer as the Belgians. The people carry on a considerable
+trade with foreign countries, by means of the various canals, on which
+a vast number of steam-boats are constantly passing and re-passing.</p>
+
+<p>The upper part of Brussels is magnificent, and has a splendid park
+laid out with shaded walks, and surrounded by the palaces, private
+houses, <a name='Page54'></a>and public offices; but in the lower part, the streets are
+narrow and crowded, though the market-place is very beautiful. There
+are twenty superb fountains in the city, ornamented with sculpture.
+The Belgians delight in music, and they hold musical festivals every
+year. In the Horticultural Gardens at Ghent, during summer, there are
+several concerts performed in the open air; and even among the
+labouring people, the songs and pieces of music sung together by
+groups of peasants and working people are often delightful to hear;
+for in Belgium, as in Holland, Prussia, and over a great part of
+Germany, even the poorest children are freely taught to sing in
+harmony at school. There are several railways in Belgium, which is a
+very great convenience to travellers. The climate is good; and, in
+winter, snow does not fall deeply.</p>
+
+<p>Bavaria is in Germany also, and is celebrated for its manufactures of
+iron, glass, paper, hardware, clocks, linen, woollen, and fire-arms.
+The people are industrious and careful, excepting in smoking tobacco,
+of which they are very wasteful. Industry is encouraged; and several
+schools have been established for teaching young men agriculture and
+gardening, with the usual branches of education.</p><a name='Page55'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p055.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p055s.jpg" width="100" height="127"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>We must not forget to see what has come from America. Our Great
+Exhibition has been almost as much talked of there, as it has been at
+home, and an immense number of contributions has been sent from that
+country. Machinery, sculptures, stuffs, carriages, minerals, boots and
+shoes, iron-work, and wines, have been dispatched over to the
+Exhibition.</p>
+
+<p>America was formerly inhabited by numerous tribes of Red Indians,&mdash;a
+wild, warlike race,&mdash;of whom but few now remain, and those not at all
+civilized; but the greater number of the white <a name='Page56'></a>people of America are
+the same in their dress, manners, and language, as ourselves.</p>
+
+<p>A large portion of America is called the United States, which is a
+Republic; that is, it is governed by the people themselves, without a
+king, queen, and a royal family; they appoint a President every four
+years. Long ago, the United States belonged to the English, but the
+natives gradually grew more powerful than they had been, and threw off
+all foreign control.</p>
+
+<p>America produces every kind of grain and fruit, as well as spices,
+dye-woods, and balsams. The people export quantities of natural
+productions to Europe, but their manufacturers are not as yet able to
+compete with those of what are called the <i>old</i> countries. The
+principal manufactures are of cotton, woollen, iron, and leather;
+which they exchange with the Red Indians for prepared bark, skins, and
+birds' feathers. Mines abound, particularly for gold and silver; and
+there is abundance of precious stones. The farmers are a very
+industrious and intelligent class, and display much taste and neatness
+in their management.</p>
+
+<p>The finest timber for ship-building is abundant, and easily obtained;
+and there are many excellent harbours. Numerous fishing stations are
+situated along the coasts, and are very valuable; for fishing <a name='Page57'></a>is
+there a very good employment, and engages many of the natives of the
+Northern States. As these fishermen get accustomed to a sea-faring
+life, and inured to fatigue, they soon become excellent sailors, and
+furnish men for the navy.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p057.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p057s.jpg" width="100" height="132"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+
+<p>The whale fishery is also a valuable pursuit, but it requires uncommon
+bravery and skill.&mdash;In the United States there are numerous schools
+and academies, wherein the children are educated free.</p>
+
+<p>The rich people in America are free from haughtiness, awkwardness, or
+formality, but they do not display the elegance and refinement of the
+higher classes in England or France. As for the common people, they
+are serious, shrewd, and industrious; but often seem rude and
+uncourtly to strangers, for they wish to show their independance by an
+annoying surliness of behaviour. A great number of turnpike roads,
+railways, canals, <a name='Page58'></a>and bridges, have been formed, and improve the
+country very much, as you may imagine.</p>
+
+<p>The Americans make works in iron and wood, articles of machinery and
+of husbandry, tanned leather, and dressed skins. They are famous for
+ship-building.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p058.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p058s.jpg" width="60" height="91"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Peru, which is in South America, is a very fine country, and produces
+many useful things, such as tobacco, pepper, jalap, Peruvian bark, and
+indigo.</p>
+
+<p>There are numerous valuable gold and silver mines, which make the
+inhabitants so rich, that at one time, long since, they paved several
+streets with ingots of silver, in proof of their wealth. There are
+whale fisheries on the coasts. Only <i>one</i> specimen of industry has
+been sent from Peru!</p>
+<br />
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center>
+<a href="images/p058m.jpg">
+<img src="images/p058ms.jpg" width="100" height="67"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+<a name='Page59'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p059.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p059s.jpg" width="60" height="79"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Mexico is another portion of South America. Its products are numerous,
+but the country suffers much for want of water, though the dew falls
+heavily every night. The soil is rich, and well cultivated, although
+not so carefully as with us. Indian corn is the principal food of the
+natives, and is cultivated so generally, that when the crop fails,
+there is a year of famine. A drink is also made from it, called
+chicha. Sweet potatoes, yams, and quantities of red pepper, together
+with vegetables, and fruits, and tobacco, are grown. A kind of plant,
+called a cacao, is so highly prized that the grains are used for
+money.</p>
+
+<p>For want of streams, of which the country is sadly deficient, the
+mills are mostly worked by animals, and are very inferior; and the
+machinery is so bad, that the cotton is separated from the seed by the
+hands of workpeople. The principal manufactures are cigars, cottons,
+soap, tanned leather, gunpowder, pottery, and hats.</p>
+
+<p>The rich people use a number of silver vessels, and a quantity of
+plate, on account of the want of <a name='Page60'></a>manufactures of china and glass, so
+that the trade of a silversmith is rather good. Boots, saddles, and
+coaches, are well made: but the furniture, which is mostly of pine and
+cedar, is coarsely and clumsily put together.</p>
+
+<p>The streets of Mexico are rather wide and well paved; the houses
+are ornamental, and the churches and public buildings are
+magnificent.&mdash;The rich people pass the greater part of the day on
+their sofas, in darkened rooms; but in the evening, they appear
+arrayed in the most elegant costume, for they are particularly partial
+to parties and brilliant assemblies.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p060.jpg">
+<img src="images/p060s.jpg" width="200" height="82"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>There are numerous beggars, called Leperos, who are very drunken and
+dishonest; but lively, voluble, and extremely civil; though they will
+pick any body's pocket. There are also innumerable Indians, who make
+earthen pots very neatly, and use them instead of iron or copper
+vessels.</p><a name='Page61'></a>
+
+<a href="images/p061-y.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p061-ys.jpg" width="60" height="70"
+alt="Y" /></a>
+
+<p>You have heard of Canada, which is a part of North America, and all
+that now remains to England of her vast American colonies.&mdash;Well, we
+have an enormous canoe from Canada!&mdash;I wonder who can have sent that?
+A canoe, as you know, is a kind of boat, which uncivilized people, who
+live near rivers, use. The canoes of Canada are of a very thin
+material, and so light, that the boatmen, in passing overland from one
+river to another, generally carry them on their heads. The canoes are
+mostly covered with bark, the pieces of which are sewed together with
+a particular kind of grass; the bark being usually not more than a
+quarter of an inch in thickness.</p>
+
+<p>The people of Canada, who are called Canadians, are rather
+industrious; they make very fine fans, they hunt, fish, and collect
+sugar from a tree called the Sugar maple. Their houses are built of
+stone, and are plastered, but seldom are higher than one story, except
+in the towns, and are made very warm by means of stoves. The furniture
+is usually made by the Canadians themselves, and is exceedingly
+simple.</p>
+
+<p>The chief article of food is peas soup, with a small piece of pork
+boiled in it, and a dish of thick sour milk. The women and children
+<a name='Page62'></a>scarcely ever drink other than milk and water, but the men are
+particularly fond of rum.</p>
+
+<p>Winter lasts six months, during which time the greater part of the day
+is devoted to amusement, principally dancing. Most of the women can
+read and write, but the men can hardly do either; and the manners of
+both are very gay and light. There are a few lead mines in Canada, in
+which silver is also found. Their exports are timber, furs, potash,
+grain, and pearl-ash.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p062.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p062s.jpg" width="100" height="77"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Australia has also sent her contributions to the Exhibition. Among
+them are specimens of the skins of animals, dried plants, fine woods,
+and other things.</p>
+
+<p>In Australia, there are scarcely any extensive manufactures, but the
+natives make some useful things, from the various and curious trees
+which abound. For instance, they form the most durable furniture and
+weapons from the casuarina or club tree; they make cloth from the
+finest bark of the paper-mulberry tree, and cord from a <a name='Page63'></a>peculiar kind
+of flax. There are sago and cocoa trees, which grow to the height of
+one hundred and fifty feet, and are thirty feet round. Figs, lemons,
+oranges, sugar-canes, gum-trees, bread-fruit, and a kind of pepper,
+from which a drink, called ava, is made, are very useful to the
+natives. There are mines of a very rich quality, but they are as yet
+scarcely attended to. The original natives are very idle, and not very
+well off; those who live near the sea shore, catch fish; and those in
+the woods, eat such animals as they can get; or climb up trees, for
+honey, squirrels, and opussums.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p063.jpg">
+<img src="images/p063s.jpg" width="200" height="95"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The settlers, who are the people who have gone out from England and
+other countries, to dwell there, live in a very comfortable manner;
+they have large farms, with flocks of sheep and herds cattle, fields
+of waving corn, rice, and wheat; pretty huts, or shanties, as they are
+called, and a profusion of the most beautiful plants and creepers.<a name='Page64'></a> In
+some parts of the country there are thriving towns, with good streets,
+elegant shops, and fine houses, such as there are in London.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p064.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p064s.jpg" width="60" height="110"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>From the West Indies, specimens of industry have also come. Rice,
+fruits, sugar, metals, and plants, are among the contributions.</p>
+
+<p>The West Indians send us sugar rice, currants, raisins, cloves,
+nutmegs, cinnamon, allspice, and mace, for puddings; nice nuts, for
+our little boys and girls; coffee, cocoa, and chocolate, for our
+breakfast and tea; and fine silk, and cotton, for our dresses.</p>
+
+<p>Under the name of the West Indies, there are many countries:&mdash;Cuba,
+Jamaica, Hayti, Porto Rico, Barbadoes, and others. In Cuba, are found
+mines of gold, copper, and different other metals; there is a quantity
+of sugar grown there; and the tobacco is finer than that of most other
+islands. The trees are principally ebony, cedar, and mahogany, which
+are hewed down, and sent to foreign countries, to be made into
+furniture of various sorts. Cedar wood is also used to scent clothes
+and papers, on account of its sweet perfume.<a name='Page65'></a> The Cubans are fond of
+bull-fighting, and of cock-fighting, I am sorry to say. Balls and
+parties are also a favourite and more innocent amusement.</p>
+
+<p>In Jamaica, the principal exercise of industry is in growing sugar,
+indigo, coffee, and ginger. These are cultivated in what are called
+plantations, which are attended to by negroes, who used to be slaves,
+and used to be lashed on to work unnaturally hard with whips; but they
+are now free in all the British colonies, as I hope they will be every
+where, long before any of my little friends, who read this book, may
+die. For not only were men and women kept in a state of slavery, but
+all their dear innocent little children, both little boys and little
+girls were treated as slaves.</p>
+
+<p>The bread-fruit tree is one of the most useful productions of the
+country, it not only supplies food, but other necessaries. Of the
+inner bark is formed a kind of cloth; the wood, which is soft, smooth,
+and of a yellowish colour, serves for the building of boats and
+houses; the leaves are used for wrapping up food; some parts of the
+flowers are good tinder; and the juice, when boiled with cocoa-nut
+oil, is employed for making bird-lime, and as a cement for mending
+earthenware vessels. So you may guess how useful it is to the people
+<a name='Page66'></a>of Jamaica, and yet it is not a native of the West Indies, but was
+first brought there by English people, within the last seventy or
+eighty years.</p>
+
+<p>Hayti is now a much more flourishing island than it was; the Emperor,
+Faustin Soulouque, does every thing in his power to render it a
+civilized and polite country. He encourages all the arts and
+industrial sciences; and, in his court is kept up the grandeur of a
+great and powerful state; though the Haytians are black people, and
+were for the greater part negro slaves.</p>
+
+<p>Barbadoes is an exceedingly warm country, and is unfortunately liable
+to dreadful hurricanes, which sometimes overthrow whole towns and
+villages. The products are sugar, cotton, ginger, and rum. The tall
+sugar-canes, which grow as high as five or six feet, are set in
+plantations and tended by negroes; and the cotton plants are also
+taken care of by the negroes, who are almost the only persons who can
+work in the open air, on account of the heat. The houses of the
+planters are numerous all over the country; and, with the green hills,
+and the luxuriance of the vegetation, make an extremely picturesque
+scene.</p>
+
+<p>Since slavery has been abolished in our West India islands, schools
+for the children, and chapels for religious worship, have been erected
+at the expense <a name='Page67'></a>of the negroes; numbers of whom have also become small
+landowners.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p067.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p067s.jpg" width="100" height="137"
+alt="W" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>What a number of specimens have been despatched to the Exhibition from
+Algeria, Tunis, and the Cape of Good Hope: one, a model of a winged
+head, moulded in fine yellow clay, is really pretty; and the preserved
+fruits have quite a tempting look. And here are some boxes, made of
+most brilliant fancy woods; a few knives, soaps, cigars, herbs, and
+specimens of various woods, in blocks and in polished pieces. Here is
+also opium, paper made from the palm-tree, articles manufactured from
+native woods, with essences, perfumes, and splendid veils, slippers,
+caps, guns, and swords.</p>
+
+<p>Algeria now belongs to France; it was formerly one of the Barbary
+States, in the north of Africa, and many very useful plants and <a name='Page68'></a>trees
+flourish there; oranges, melons, cucumbers, cabbages, lettuces, and
+artichokes, grow in great luxuriance. The sugar-cane is cultivated
+with success; and everywhere may be seen quantities of white roses,
+from which a sweet essence is extracted. The stems of the vines, which
+the people tend, are sometimes so thick, that a man can hardly put his
+arms round them; and the bunches of grapes are a foot and a-half long.
+Only think of bunches of grapes half a yard long! they must be
+something like those which we read of in the Bible, that were brought
+to Joshua, to show him what a fertile country was the land of Canaan.</p>
+
+<p>Acacia and cork trees grow in the woods of Algeria; the natives obtain
+gum from the acacia. There are many mines, but the Algerines make no
+use of them. The people themselves are strong in body, and of a tawny
+complexion.</p>
+
+<p>Tunis is another of the Barbary States, and contains a great number of
+people,&mdash;Moors, Turks, Arabs, Jews, and Christians, merchants and
+slaves. All these carry on a large trade in Morocco leather, linens,
+gold-dust, oil, woollen cloth, lead, ostrich feathers, horses, and
+soap. There are the same variety of vegetable productions that there
+are in Algeria.</p><a name='Page69'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p069.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p069s.jpg" width="100" height="131"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The Cape of Good Hope is in the south of Africa; it produces fine
+fruits and flowers, grapes, lemons, oranges, and figs, but no nuts.
+The aloe and myrtle grow to a great size, and the almond and wild
+chestnut are very plentiful. There are scarcely any manufactures, but
+the farmers keep immense flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle; and
+there is a vast quantity of fine wool sent every year to England; and
+ships provisions, such as beef, pork, and butter, are supplied to the
+vessels sailing to India, Australia, and many other parts of the
+world; their other chief export is Cape wine.</p>
+
+<p>In some parts of this country are large herds of zebras, antelopes,
+and giraffes, which are usually preyed upon by lions, obliging the
+shepherds to watch their flocks, and the farmers to ride about with
+loaded guns. A strange mode, my little readers will think, of being
+shepherds.</p><a name='Page70'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p070.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p070s.jpg" width="60" height="118"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>There have been no scarcity of French contributions; rich silks,
+velvets, satins, linens, fruits, woods, herbs, statues, machinery,
+furniture, iron-work, glass, plate, and a heap more of industrial
+products; and such splendid carpets. In the &quot;Arabian Nights'
+Entertainments&quot; we read about the Palaces of Fairies and Genii, with
+the floors covered with the richest carpets, and divans and cushions
+or gorgeous tapestry, and we long to see these carpets in reality; and
+so we shall at the Exhibition, for there are some so magnificent, that
+I do not think the Princess Badroulboudour, or the Fairy Queen Pari
+Banou, ever sat on finer. And charming little models of ships; and
+such beautiful fans. Do you know how many persons it takes to make a
+fan? Fifteen; and although those fans at the Exhibition are each worth
+several guineas, yet, in France, tens of thousands are sold at not
+more than a halfpenny a-piece. The French fan-makers get two shillings
+and six-pence a-day each, for their labour.<a name='Page71'></a> The people of France are
+our next-door neighbours, almost; and from being our bitterest enemies
+they have now become our most intimate friends, and exchange visits
+constantly with us; steam vessels and railways having made the journey
+one of only a few hours.</p>
+
+<p>Paris is the capital of France, and it is the gayest city in the
+world; there are theatres, balls, processions, feast-days, fairs, and
+more amusements than I can remember. But there are also numbers of
+very poor people, who almost live in the streets, and get food and
+clothing as they best can. Some, who are called cheffoniers, go about
+with a fork and a basket, to pick up pieces of iron, rags, bones, or
+any stray valuables, if they can find them, from holes and corners in
+the streets, and from the dust heaps; others look for the ends of
+cigars, and sell them to be made into pieces of tobacco for the common
+people; and a number, I am very sorry to say, either beg or steal.</p>
+
+<p>Among the peasantry there is a great deal of industry displayed. As
+they are all desirous of having a cottage and some land of their own,
+lads of fifteen or sixteen years of age, hire themselves as labourers
+to the farmers, and receive wages, out of which, and their mode of
+living, they save <a name='Page72'></a>enough money in a few years, to buy a piece of
+land. If the land is fit for it, they plant it with vines; for the
+vineyards of France yield an abundant harvest, and well repay the
+labour bestowed on them. The French wines are among the finest and
+most expensive in the world.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p072.jpg">
+<img src="images/p072s.jpg" width="200" height="143"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The cottages of the peasantry are not remarkable for comfort, being
+very rude buildings, frequently having merely a hole in the roof for a
+chimney. They are mostly, however, extremely picturesque, completely
+covered with vines. The wines, called Bourdeaux, Burgundy, and
+Champagne come from France. From the fruit of the olive-trees, which
+grow in vast quantities, a fine <a name='Page73'></a>clear oil is obtained, and this forms
+a large part of the commerce of the country. The rearing of poultry is
+carried on to a great extent; and most of the eggs sold in London,
+which are used by us at breakfast, for sauces, and for puddings, come
+from France. Most of the cottagers keep one or two small hardy cows,
+which their boys or girls, or old people, are usually leading about by
+a halter, to eat the rank grass in paths or road-ways between the
+fields. Their milk and butter form a good part of the people's food.</p>
+
+<p>In Tours and Lyons, there are numerous manufactories for the most
+superb silks and damasks; some years ago, there were fifteen hundred
+pairs of silk stockings finished each day at Lyons.</p>
+
+<p>The plate-glass of Paris is now much better than that of Venice, which
+was formerly the finest in the world, the plates being of an immense
+size and extraordinary clearness. Their tapestry is beautiful; the
+tapestry of the Gobelin in particular, for it is just like splendid
+painting. Indeed, some of the designs, copied from pictures, surpass
+the originals, in point of beauty and brilliancy. There are many
+specimens of this tapestry at the Exhibition, both in draperies, and
+fitted to pieces of furniture.</p>
+
+<p>The porcelain made at Sevres is exquisitely <a name='Page74'></a>beautiful, and is used
+for numerous ornamental purposes; vases, tea services, chimney
+ornaments, figures, and other articles. The painted papers, which
+represent various ornaments in painting, sculpture, and architecture,
+serve to employ a great number of people. Watches, cutlery, shoes,
+dresses, bonnets, and jewellery, are also a good source of employment
+among numerous families. All these beautiful things we shall see at
+the Exhibition.</p>
+
+<p>The forests, in France, are very extensive; and as wood is the general
+fuel used, great attention is paid to the growth of the trees. Cattle
+and domestic animals are rather scarce, and the sheep are ill-managed;
+in winter, they are fed on straw and hay, instead of green food, so
+that the French meat is not so good as the English; but they have a
+nice way of dressing it. The country people are very simple in their
+habits and manners, and very frugal in their way of living; they live
+for the most part on black bread, garlic, fruit, and milk. The
+costumes of some of the peasants are exceedingly pretty.</p><a name='Page75'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p075-w.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p075-ws.jpg" width="100" height="134"
+alt="W" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>What a many thousand contributions have come from foreign countries,
+yet even a greater number have been sent in from all parts of our own
+dear islands, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Here is a silver
+tea-kettle, manufactured from a fourpenny-piece, by a working man. I
+think that would grace the diminitive tea-table of the Emperor of the
+Lilliputians. And a pair of boat-sculls, made of white ash, and only
+the size of writing-pens, which I dare say, the oars of the King of
+Blefuscan's barge resembled; these, with a magnificent oar, thirty-six
+feet long, are intended as presents for His Royal Highness the Prince
+of Wales.</p>
+
+<p>Here is a scarf, containing twelve miles and a-half of thread, three
+millions four hundred and seventy-five stitches, is nine feet ten
+inches long, three feet wide, and weighs only five ounces and
+a-quarter;&mdash;that came from Ireland. Look, too, <a name='Page76'></a>at that beautifully
+embroidered dress; it came from Ireland, and is worth seventy-five
+guineas.</p>
+
+<p>There are many little models of different buildings; and there is a
+colossal horse and dog; and two gigantic statues; and there is a
+nicely carved oak chair, made by an English ship-carpenter; and here
+are cotton stockings, manufactured so fine, that they look exactly
+like silk. There are also models of carriages, ships and machinery;
+a magnificient epergne of glass, with some large pearls, from Ireland.
+A beautiful piece of sculpture, representing the Scottish games, is
+the most remarkable contribution which has come from Scotland.</p>
+
+<p>The English people are celebrated for their industry and perseverence;
+they manufacture numerous things, and carry on a alrge commerce with
+other countries. The industry of the peasants have made the soil
+produce wheat, barley, rye, oats, beans, potatoes, turnips, hops, hemp
+and flax. Nearly every variety, of vegetables, and a great number of
+fruits, are also grown. There is abundance of timber, which is used
+for many purposes; the oak tree is chiefly employed for building
+ships. The ships of war are called the "wooden walls of England."</p>
+
+<p>The domestic animals are taken great care of;
+<a name='Page77'></a>sheep and hogs, when killed, are made into
+mutton, pork, bacon, and ham. The English cheese and butter is
+superior to any other. There are abundance of mineral treasures found
+in various parts of the kingdom; indeed, the English people are
+greatly indebted to the well-worked mines for their wealth. At the
+Exhibition, are several specimens of ores.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to the rich mines, and the vegetable productions, the
+English are celebrated for their superior manufactures, which fame
+they are enabled to enjoy by means of the most ingenious machinery,
+rail roads, and canals, by which they can easily and rapidly send
+their goods, and travel from one part of the country to another.
+Cottons, woollens, linens, silks, iron, jewellery, leather, glass,
+earthenware, paper, and hats, are manufactured in great quantities.</p>
+
+<p>I dare say you would be much amused by a visit to Manchester, in
+Lancashire, where the art of spinning cotton is carried to a high
+perfection. There are more than a hundred and forty cotton factories
+in that city, where men, women, and children, are continually at work,
+minding the machines, which are about twenty thousand in number. When
+you first go into one of these factories, you hear a terrible noise of
+whirling <a name='Page78'></a>and whizzing, and see an immense number of wheels flying
+round and round.</p>
+
+<p>Halifax and Leeds, in Yorkshire, are the chief places for woollen
+cloth, the manufacture of which employs the greater part of the
+inhabitants. A weekly market is held in Halifax for the sale of
+woollens, in a spacious building called the Piece Hall; but in Leeds,
+the markets are held two days in the week, in the two Cloth Halls.</p>
+
+<p>Staffordshire is famous for earthenware; the reason of this is, that
+there is such an enormous quantity of yellow clay suitable for that
+manufacture, found there. Indeed, there are several towns and villages
+formed into a district called &quot;The Potteries;&quot; and in consequence of
+the innumerable furnaces, which are always blazing, the place looks at
+night as if was on fire. Gloves, lace, and stockings, are mostly made
+in Nottingham, where there are several thousand machines for the
+manufacture of these things.</p>
+
+<p>From Kidderminster, in Worcester, we have very fine carpets; from
+Gloucester, we have cheese and pins; Northampton is celebrated for
+leather; Shrewsbury, for flannel. The great mines are in Cumberland,
+Cornwall, Northumberland, Durham, and Derbyshire. However, if I were
+to tell you of all the places in England, that <a name='Page79'></a>are famed for
+different manufactures, I am afraid I should both exceed our space,
+and wear out your patience, which I should be sorry to do. So I will
+now tell you something about London.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p079.jpg">
+<img src="images/p079s.jpg" width="160" height="182"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>London, which you know is the capital of our own dear native land, is
+the greatest commercial city in the world; it has been reckoned that
+the value of the property shipped and unshipped on the river Thames,
+every year, is more than one hundred million pounds. An enormous
+quantity of property is laid in the London Docks, at Wapping; indeed,
+the warehouse for tobacco alone <a name='Page80'></a>covers a space of nearly five acres,
+while the vaults underneath the ground are more than eighteen acres in
+extent.</p>
+
+<p>More coaches, omnibusses, waggons, vans, and other conveyances, crowd
+the streets of London than any other city in the world. You will,
+perhaps, be a little surprised when I tell you that in one principal
+street, seven thousand vehicles pass to and fro every day. Almost
+every kind of manufacture is carried on in London; silk goods,
+jewellery, clocks, watches, ear-rings, hats, furniture, instruments of
+every kind, porter and ale, with many more that I cannot now remember.
+However, you must not think, from all this, there are no poor people
+in London; for, unfortunately, there are thousands. Some beg, others
+steal, and those who are honest and able to labour, work. But those
+who cannot obtain work are very badly off; and persons die from
+starvation.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p080.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p080s.jpg" width="60" height="69"
+alt="T" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The industrial manufactures of Scotland are like those of England; the
+exports are linens, muslins, woollen stuffs, cottons, iron, lead,
+glass, earthenware, leather, and other articles. The chief
+<a name='Page81'></a>manufacture is linen: but manufactures of stoves, and grates, and
+many other things, from their immense iron works, particularly from
+those of Carron, are also a principal part of the industrial products.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p081.jpg">
+<img src="images/p081s.jpg" width="200" height="139"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The Scotch people are remarkable for their thrift and prudence; the
+lower orders are in general well-educated, and it is the height of
+ambition in a Scottish mechanic, to appear with his family in neat,
+clean dresses, on Sundays and other holidays.</p>
+
+<p>The costume of the Highlanders is very picturesque; the plaid is made
+of woollen stuff, of <a name='Page82'></a>various colours, with a jacket, and a short
+petticoat called a kilt, which leaves the knees bare; the stockings
+are also a plaid, generally red and white, and do not reach up to the
+knees, but are tied round the legs with scarlet garters. The
+head-dress is a flat blue bonnet, as it is called, ornamented round
+with scarlet and white plaid, and frequently adorned with eagle's
+feathers. The Highland women go without shoes or stockings, and wear
+short petticoats, a plaid jacket, and a plaid scarf.</p>
+
+<p>Most of the Scotch people are intelligent, and so far advanced in
+education, that even the miners in the south have a library, where
+they read, and improve their minds; and yet these poor miners were
+little better than in a state of slavery two hundred years since. The
+favourite musical instrument, with the Scotch, is the bag-pipe; which
+does not, however, sound quite so well to our English ears, as it does
+to theirs. Their national dances are the Highland reel, and fling,
+which they perform with great agility and grace. The sheep and cattle
+are rather small, but give exceedingly good meat; and the sheep, in
+particular, are valued for their fleece, which is almost as fine as
+the best Spanish wool.</p>
+
+<p>Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is, in the <a name='Page83'></a>new parts of it, a
+fine clean city; the houses in the old town are excessively high, and
+the streets inconvenient; but the streets of the new town are very
+broad, and almost all in straight lines; some of them are a mile long.
+Most of the houses are built of white stone, which sparkles as if it
+was inlaid with diamonds when the sun shines on it.</p>
+
+<p>The manufactures carried on in the city, are mostly cabinet-work,
+furniture, carriages, musical instruments, linens, shawls, silks,
+glass, marble, brass, and iron work. There are also many breweries,
+for Edinburgh has long been celebrated for its ale, large quantities
+of which are sent to London, and other parts of the kingdom, Glasgow,
+which is the principal manufacturing and trading town, contains
+extensive cotton factories.</p>
+
+<p>In many parts of the Highlands, the natives are employed in feeding
+sheep and cattle, for the markets; and in the valleys, and other
+sheltered places, hemp, barley, flax, and potatoes, are cultivated,
+though unfortunately most of the barley is made into whiskey. In the
+more northernly parts the general employment is fishing.</p>
+
+<img align="left" src="images/p083-i.jpg" width="50" height="115"
+alt="I" />
+
+<p>Ireland is a much warmer and more fertile island; it is celebrated, in
+point of industry, for its wool, butter, beef, hides, tallow, cows,
+<a name='Page84'></a>horses, pigs, sheep, potatoes, wheat, barley, oats, and linen. Linen
+is the chief manufacture. There are numerous mines, from which are
+obtained gold, silver, iron, copper, and lead; all very useful metals,
+I think.</p>
+
+<p>There are also quarries of marble, slate, and freestone; and in
+various parts are found coal and turf. In Ireland, turf is the
+principal fuel used. The brewing of stout, and a strong bittered beer,
+for exportation; and the distilling of whiskey, another strong but
+spirituous drink, are other branches of Irish industry.</p>
+
+<p>Fishing is an important occupation with those peasants who live on the
+sea-shore, and near the rivers or lakes. The making of roads, draining
+bogs, and improving the land, now employ thousands of poor labourers,
+who formerly used to be without any occupation.</p>
+
+<p>The Irish dairies are well-managed and are generally extensive; many
+counties in the south part of the island are occupied almost entirely
+by dairy farms. As many as thirty or forty cows are kept on some of
+them, for butter is the chief produce, and this is sent into England,
+Portugal, and the East and West Indies. Some of the nice butter you
+eat on your bread and rolls comes from Ireland. Sheep and cattle are
+fed in great quantities <a name='Page85'></a>on large pieces of land devoted to the
+purpose the sheep are large, and have fine wool.</p>
+
+<p>The mud cabin of the Irish peasant is the most miserable cottage you
+can imagine; the walls are formed of clay, which hardens in the
+sunshine, the roof is made of sticks and straw, and the floor is the
+mere damp earth. It has frequently neither door, nor chimney, and
+consists of only one room; the furniture is rarely more than a stump
+bedstead, two or three stools, an iron pot, to boil the potatoes in,
+and a table to eat them from. Generally, there is a small piece of
+land attached to the dwelling, and in this potatoes are grown; the
+peasants of Ireland hardly ever eat anything besides potatoes. When
+they have enough of them to eat, and a little whiskey to drink, the
+poor people are exceedingly jovial and merry; they laugh, sing, and
+joke; and go to weddings, fairs, dances, and what are called in
+Ireland &quot;wakes,&quot; which, among the poor, is a kind of laying in state
+before funerals;&mdash;but sometimes the crops of potatoes fail, and then
+the unfortunate peasants die by hundreds from hunger. The favourite
+dance of the common people is called a jig.</p>
+
+<p>Dublin, which, I dare say, you know is the capital of Ireland, is an
+elegant city, with fine houses and good streets. The churches, the
+<a name='Page86'></a>castle, the linen hall, exchange, bank, custom-house, and
+post-office, are all very noble buildings. There are also parks,
+gardens, theatres, canals, and other ornamental places throughout the
+city. From Dublin have been sent models of carriages, specimens of
+metals, slates, and linens, and a model of a house made in granite.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p086.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p086s.jpg" width="100" height="134"
+alt="I" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>I have now told you, my dear little friends, a great many stories
+about the industry of all nations, and we have gone through the
+World's Show together. We have seen nearly all the useful and splendid
+things sent to the Great Exhibition from all parts of the world. I
+have told you about Europe, and Asia, Africa, and America; and I must
+soon leave you. But before I go, we must have another look at the
+Exhibition, and one <a name='Page87'></a>more glance at those few things which we have not
+as yet seen.</p>
+
+<p>We forgot to examine this magnificent chess-board, worth one thousand
+two hundred guineas. You will doubtless wonder why it is such a dear
+board, but your surprise will cease when you observe that the
+&quot;checks,&quot; as they are called, are of mother-of-pearl and
+tortoiseshell, while the rim is of beautifully burnished gold, and the
+chessmen are of gold and silver, elaborately wrought, and ornamented
+with the portraits of celebrated historical characters; one of them
+represents the Emperor, Charles the Fifth. I dare say you would like
+to play a game with me on this chess-board. As a companion to this
+beautiful chess-board, is a very elegant colour box, fit for the
+Queen, or the most noble young lady in the land, to use for painting
+with. And here is a model of the town of Liverpool, with several
+thousand little people in the streets; and these figures are so
+exceedingly small, that a thousand of them would fit into an ordinary
+sized pill box.</p>
+
+<p>In contrast to this specimen of a great town in a minute space, we
+have in front of the transept a wonderful clock, which is kept in
+motion by a set of powerful electro magnets, eight in number, on which
+is wound a length of twenty-five thousand <a name='Page88'></a>feet of copper wire. This
+gigantic time-keeper sets in motion the immense hands on the principal
+dial, which is twenty-four feet in diameter, besides two smaller ones
+which are fixed in front of the galleries, at the east and west ends
+of the building. I am afraid that it would tire you, were I to attempt
+to tell you exactly what electricity is, and must therefore satisfy
+your curiosity, for the present, by letting you know that it is caused
+by the coming in contact of different substances possessing peculiar
+properties, which cause them to vibrate, when they touch.</p>
+
+<p>There is another very curious clock in the Exhibition, which will go
+for a hundred years before requiring to be wound up again; and there
+is one wheel in it which is said would take ten thousand years to go
+round once.</p>
+
+<p>Next there is a case of stuffed birds, which came from Scotland, and
+which we cannot help admiring. There are in this case specimens of all
+the various kinds of birds which are peculiar to Scotland, neatly and
+carefully stuffed; and really they almost look as if they were alive.
+Ah, ah! Mister Eagle, you are not so much to be feared now, I think,
+as you were when you lived in your lofty home in the Highland
+mountains.</p>
+
+<p>And here is another case in which are all the <a name='Page89'></a>different sorts of
+mother-of-pearl buttons that can be imagined; there is every variety
+of ornament on the buttons, which look exceedingly brilliant.</p>
+
+<p>This immense block of granite, from Scotland, is not quite so pretty,
+though it is, perhaps, more useful; it is twenty feet long, and is a
+piece of the finest kind and colour that could be found. Another very
+useful thing, also from Scotland, is a large lighthouse bell, managed
+so as to ring very loud, to warn any ship that is going too near a
+dangerous rock or shoal, near the lighthouse where the bell may be.</p>
+
+<p>Among the more beautiful specimens of industry, there are several
+elegant vases made of silver, and of a delicate material called
+Parian, which is an imitation of Parian marble; some of them are
+ornamented with blue and gold, and others are ornamented with silver.
+There is also a splendid tea-service, adorned with charming pictures
+of the dear old fables we all know so well,&mdash;the &quot;Lion and the Mouse,&quot;
+the &quot;Wolf and the Lamb,&quot; the &quot;Dog and the Shadow,&quot; and others.</p>
+
+<p>Near the very middle of the building, close by the crystal fountain,
+there are the splendid iron gates from Coalbrookdale, which look very
+magnificent. I fancy Samson would find it rather a difficult matter
+trying to bear off <i>these</i> gates on <a name='Page90'></a>his back, strong as he was. Close
+by these gates there is a gigantic statue of our good Queen, on
+horseback, which towers high over our heads; and she sits smiling at
+us as if she could see us looking so delighted.</p>
+
+<p>There are several gigantic things at the Exhibition. Here, for one, is
+a monster cake, covered with the most superb ornaments; it is four
+feet high, and weighs about two-hundred and twenty-five pounds. Yonder
+is another monster contribution, an immense map of the busy city of
+Manchester; and there is a huge railway carriage; and still further
+on, there is an iron wire, one mile long. At a little distance stands
+a magnificent bed and bedstead, fit for the Queen to sleep in. It came
+from Edinburgh, and is made mostly of materials which can be produced
+in Scotland. And in this direction, we can see a set of beautiful
+mantelpieces and fenders, from Sheffield, all decorated in the most
+elegant manner. The first mantelpiece we must look at is made of
+cast-iron; the mouldings of the cornice are richly ornamented, and
+supported by little pillars covered with graceful wreaths of
+oak-leaves, while the freize is adorned with a cluster of rich fruit.
+The next mantelpiece is painted white and gold, and has a burnished
+steel grate; while the third <a name='Page91'></a>is painted blue and gold, and has a
+stove made on a new plan, for it is managed so that its own brightness
+shall help to throw out the heat of the fire in an equal and agreeable
+manner. The fourth and last mantelpiece is painted black, and
+ornamented with ormolu; it contains a polished steel stove. Three
+ormolu fenders, and five bright ones are placed together with the
+mantelpieces; and they certainly make a goodly show. But we must now
+leave them, and go on to see some other wonders.</p>
+
+<p>Here are several most beautiful loo-tables inlaid, and they seem to
+attract a good deal of attention from more than us. You look a little
+puzzled at the word <i>inlaid</i>; I think I must explain it to you, by
+telling you that it means pieces of different material let into a
+piece of furniture to ornament it.</p>
+
+<p>There are numerous models of various buildings in the Crystal Palace;
+those of York Cathedral, and Chance's Lighthouse, are particularly
+well made. There is also a model of the Britannia Tubular Bridge; and
+there are models of many of the fine public works of London.</p>
+
+<p>Here is a pair of scissors made in Sheffield, and ornamented in the
+most beautiful way, with a crown for a handle; and yonder are a pair
+of <a name='Page92'></a>cotton stockings from Ireland, spun so fine that they look exactly
+like silk, and indeed you would be likely to mistake them for silk, if
+you were not told they were merely cotton.</p>
+
+<p>How brilliant this collection of gems looks; how the stones sparkle!
+they have been sent as specimens of the jewels which Ireland produces.
+But here are some pretty English agates; and a huge mass of Irish rock
+crystal, which is very bright and clear. In a compartment, at a little
+distance, we may see a book, bound according to a new method, by which
+the leaves are so firmly placed together, that they would not loosen
+in ten years' time, no matter how the book was tossed about, unless
+they were purposely taken out.</p>
+
+<p>We must now have a look at the machinery department. Firstly, there is
+the great steam-engine that works all the other steam-engines in the
+Exhibition, though, of course, you cannot understand it by looking at
+it; neither can I, although I know so much more than you do. Near it
+is a model of a new agricultural machine for cutting, turning up, and
+making into light mould, the clay of fields, so as to make it ready to
+receive the seeds to be set, without the farmers being obliged to
+plough the earth. There is <a name='Page93'></a>a machine for making bricks and tiles, so
+that people may, if they like, form those materials for building
+houses cheaper and better than in the usual way. But here is a useful
+machine. It is a measuring machine, by which you could measure to the
+smallest size, even to the hundred-thousandth part of an inch!</p>
+
+<p>Here is a very pretty contribution; it is a model of the house of the
+great play-writer, Shakspeare,&mdash;of whom, perhaps, you may have
+heard,&mdash;and it is surrounded by figures representing different
+beautiful scenes from Shakspeare's plays. It was made by a workman in
+his leisure time: and it certainly does him credit. It is called the
+Shakspeare Jubilee.</p>
+
+<p>Yonder is another piece of ingenious industry; it is a group of
+figures showing all the various Scotch games; there is one figure
+dancing the Highland fling, another throwing the beam, and all the
+others engaged in similar sports. That came from Scotland, of course.</p>
+
+<p>Let us now go on to look at that splendid design embroidered in gold,
+and intended for a communion cloth. Oh! here it is; does it not look
+beautiful? But here are several lovely specimens of china, and
+earthenware, which would grace the sideboards of the richest house in
+the <a name='Page94'></a>land, I think. Here is a fine marble font, made of Devonshire
+marble, which is very nicely carved, as well as I can judge. Further
+on, we have some less showy, but more solidly useful articles. Various
+kinds of iron, copper, zinc, lead, silver, and gold ores are
+displayed, with oils, quartz, stones, coal, &amp;c. There are lanterns on
+a new plan, microscopes, barometers, optical and philosophical
+instruments, farming implements, machines for melting metals;&mdash;besides
+hundreds of other articles which we cannot stop to notice more
+particularly. There are two or three very interesting models of mines,
+with mining machinery, and plans for improving the air of the mines,
+so as to make the poor miners more comfortable. And there are other
+models of ships, printing presses, looms, and machines for making gas,
+which deserve some degree of attention. There is also a new machine
+for printing cotton on both sides, which will be very useful, as the
+cotton printed with it will be as ornamental on one side as the other.</p>
+
+<p>There are four splendid and very powerful organs, and several
+beautiful piano fortes, in the Exhibition; and there is an accurate
+model of Plymouth Breakwater, with a very very little ship attached to
+it, and all complete, even to the <a name='Page95'></a>smallest rope ladder. Plymouth
+Breakwater is a vast heap of stones built across the entrance of the
+Sound, so as to leave a passage for ships at each end, but preventing
+the heavy waves of the Atlantic Ocean from dashing into the harbour.
+It has cost more than a million of pounds in money.</p>
+
+<p>Here we have a beautiful writing table for ladies, which is one of the
+most splendid things in the Exhibition, and which came from that land
+of ingenuity and industry, Switzerland. It is made of two kinds of
+wood, white and red, the Swiss national colours; and is cleverly
+managed by machinery, so that by merely pressing a spring, the whole
+contents of the desk is laid before the spectator, while, at the same
+time, a stand for writing on, and a seat, are produced. It is covered
+with figures of men and animals, and with ornaments most exquisitely
+carved; and it is a writing table which the greatest lady in England
+might use.</p>
+
+<p>Along the centre of the aisle, or chief walk, are arranged colossal
+statues, pillars of marble, beautiful fountains, magnificent feathers,
+crystals of alum, crystals of spermaceti oil, specimens of silk
+manufactures, from Spitalfields; and fine cutlery, from Sheffield.
+There is also an immense <a name='Page96'></a>dome of iron and glass, forty feet high
+which looks very astonishing; and a curious Russian chain bridge,
+which is very ingeniously made. Besides these, we have a gigantic
+telescope, which attracts a great deal of attention from the crowd of
+people who are walking down the aisle.</p>
+
+<p>In the nave there are several beautiful pieces of sculpture. One is a
+colossal group, representing St. Michael conquering Satan; another is
+a figure of the celebrated warrior, Godfrey of Bouillon, mounted on
+horseback; and a third, is an Amazon, who is just about to hurl her
+javelin at a ferocious tiger, who has fastened on the neck and
+shoulders of her frightened horse. Here is also a figure of Mazeppa on
+the wild horse, which is extremely well made, and, perhaps, reminds
+those of my little friends who have seen the play of &quot;Mazeppa&quot; at
+Astley's Amphitheatre, of the scenes where poor Mazeppa was carried
+along on the terrible horse's back, through brambles, thorns, and
+crashing boughs. But what have we here? A grim-looking growling bronze
+lion, from Bavaria, who glares at us as if he would be only too glad
+to eat us up if he were alive, and does not seem at all the kind of
+beast one would like to shake hands, or rather paws, with.</p><a name='Page97'></a>
+
+<p>We have a charming representation of Reinecke Fox's adventures, by
+means of stuffed animals, in the German portion of the Exhibition. The
+expression of the different animals is very funny, and makes us laugh
+to almost an inconvenient degree. The first group represents the fox,
+with his rosary in his hand, confessing his sins to the cock, who is
+listening very gravely, and reading him a sermon on his wickedness.</p>
+
+<p>The next group shows the tom-cat, coming to summon Master Reinecke to
+court, to answer the accusations brought against him; the fox sets
+out, and on his way wounds a poor hare, whom he carries with him. But
+we cannot stay to notice all the groups now; only we must just glance
+at the fox lying on the sheep's skin, after his repast, for here
+Master Reinecke's expression shows him to be so well satisfied and
+comfortable that it is very droll.</p>
+
+<p>In the Russian division we may observe a most magnificent pair of
+candlesticks of bronze, gilt, which look exceedingly sparkling and
+brilliant, and are the first objects that meet our eyes as we enter
+the department.</p>
+
+<p>In the transept, at the opposite end to where the gates from
+Coalbrookdale are situated, are another beautiful specimen of
+ornamented gates <a name='Page98'></a>for a park, in the style of the elegantly wrought
+iron work, made about a hundred and fifty years since, and which adorn
+the entrances to many of the old mansions of England. Some parts of
+these are tastefully gilt, and produce a remarkably pretty effect.</p>
+
+<p>It would take us more than a month to see everything in the Crystal
+Palace, and those who wish to examine all the wonders, must pay
+several visits. But we have, I think, seen enough for the present, and
+will now leave the Exhibition, if you are satisfied. Perhaps, before I
+go, you would like me to describe the ceremony of the opening of our
+Palace of Wonders, by our good Queen? If so, I shall be very happy
+indeed to oblige you, by telling you all I saw on the first of May.</p>
+
+<p>Early in the morning of that day,&mdash;soon after dawn,&mdash;thousands of
+people in London were wending their way towards Hyde Park; horses
+feet, and carriage-wheels clattered through the streets, and strange
+looking foreigners passed along among the crowd, all eager to see the
+procession.</p>
+
+<p>I dare say you would have been delighted with the grand sight:&mdash;first
+there came a long line of splendid carriages, containing various lords
+and ladies, in gorgeous costumes;&mdash;diamonds <a name='Page99'></a>flashing, and feathers
+waving; next came a troop of Life Guards in scarlet coats, bright
+cuirasses, and glittering helmets: they were escorting the Queen's
+carriage, which was followed by a goodly number of other carriages.
+You should have heard how the crowds huzzaed and shouted when they saw
+the Queen, who looked very much pleased, bowing and smiling to her
+people. She entered the building amid the loud cheers and hurras,
+followed by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess
+Royal. After staying a short time in the elegant robing-room, which
+was fitted up in a single night, her Majesty proceeded to her throne,
+between flower stands, and tropical plants, past the Coalbrookdale
+gates, and the fountains and statues with which the centre of the
+palace is adorned. When she appeared, the twenty-five thousand people,
+who were present, rose to welcome her.&mdash;Ladies waving their
+handkerchiefs, the gentlemen their hats;&mdash;and you may readily guess
+how splendid the scene looked. Even the sun popped out his head from
+the clouds, and poured a flood of golden light in through the
+glittering dome of the transept, to illuminate the brilliant
+spectacle.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Her Majesty was seated on her throne, one of the organs
+commenced pealing <a name='Page100'></a>forth the notes of the National Anthem, the choir,
+which was collected for the occasion, singing to the music. After
+this, Prince Albert joined those gentlemen who have directed the
+affairs of the Great Exhibition, and going near to the Queen, read to
+her an account of the Exhibition from the commencement; to which Her
+Majesty answered, when the Prince had finished, that she was much
+pleased with the description of the proceedings, and that she hoped
+the World's Fair would do good to all mankind, by encouraging the arts
+of peace and industry, strengthening the bonds of love between all the
+nations of the earth, and promoting a friendly rivalry among our
+fellow creatures, in the useful exercise of those faculties which have
+been given by GOD for the good and happiness of all mankind.</p>
+
+<p>The Queen having read this answer, the Archbishop of Canterbury
+approached the throne, and offered up a prayer to Heaven, intreating
+the Lord's blessing on the Exhibition; that it might benefit every
+body on earth, making them love and help each other. I hope all that
+heard the prayer, joined in it with heart and soul: and I hope, too,
+that my dear little readers will think of it when they go to the
+Crystal Palace.</p>
+
+<p>At the close of the prayer, the choir sang the<a name='Page101'></a> Hallelujah chorus, and
+you may form some idea of the effect of this performance, when I tell
+you that all the persons who sing at the Queen's Chapel, at St. Paul's
+Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and St. George's Chapel, Windsor, were
+all singing together, besides part of the band of the Sacred Harmonic
+Society, pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, and many other
+songsters, both foreign and English.</p>
+
+<p>The immensity of the building left scope for the rich volume of sound
+poured forth; and you may imagine what an effect the splendid strains
+had on the feelings of the multitude of spectators. Indeed, one of the
+audience,&mdash;a Chinaman, was so excited by the grandeur of the scene,
+and the triumphant music, that he rushed forwards, made his way
+through the crowd of nobles and ladies that surrounded the Queen, and,
+advancing close to Her Majesty, saluted her by a grand salaam, which
+she graciously acknowledged with a smile and a bow. A salaam, you must
+know, is the eastern way of bowing, and consists in bending the head
+until it almost touches the ground.</p>
+
+<p>When the Hallelujah chorus ceased, the procession was formed for the
+Queen to go round the building. First went the heralds, in their
+<a name='Page102'></a>splendid costumes; then a great number of gentlemen, who were more
+immediately concerned with the Exhibition; after them, the Duke of
+Wellington,&mdash;of whom, I dare say you know,&mdash;with more gentlemen, and
+the Archbishop of Canterbury; and then the Queen and Prince Albert,
+with the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, both of whom looked
+extremely delighted and astonished with the gorgeous spectacle they
+were viewing. The Royal Family was followed by a number of lords,
+ladies, and attendants, the procession being concluded by heralds.</p>
+
+<p>The train first went to the west end of the nave, on the north side,
+everybody cheering loudly as it passed. The view varied every minute,
+but was always picturesque, and beautiful. Even those persons who were
+most acquainted with the wondrous objects that lay on every side, were
+surprised by the new and charming attractions displayed. The Indian
+collection, and the compartment filled with specimens from the
+colonies, were left behind; the department devoted to sculpture, and
+other finer products of industry, was passed, and the procession moved
+into that portion of the palace which contains the English
+manufacturing products. You might then have caught a glimpse, over the
+heads of the spectators, <a name='Page103'></a>of the Furniture Court, where the furniture
+is placed; and of the fixed machinery beyond it, the massive iron form
+of each machine looking as much as to say &quot;move me, if you can.&quot; Then
+the procession passed the enormous dome of iron and glass, the two
+gigantic statues, the figure of Shakspeare, and the many other objects
+which adorn the centre aisle; leaving behind the furs of bears, and
+other wild animals, hung beneath the galleries, and the carpets which
+lent their brilliant colours to finish the decorations; it reached the
+western entrance, where it was reflected in the immense mirror,
+exhibited at that point. Then, turning round by the model of the
+Liverpool Docks, it was returning on the south side of the nave, when
+the gigantic organ placed there, suddenly hurled forth an immense
+volume of music, which sounded extremely fine: but every one was
+already so much astonished, that I do not think anything more could
+surprise them. At length the procession reached the transept, round
+the south end of which it proceeded, and then swept into the Foreign
+Department of the Exhibition, where great efforts had been made to
+receive it properly. The French had collected together all the
+choicest specimens of their manufactures to grace the foremost part of
+their division; <a name='Page104'></a>and I am sure you would have admired the tasteful
+manner in which the contributors decorated the collection. Some of the
+other countries, as their exhibitors had sent in their contributions
+sooner than the French, were of course able to make a more
+satisfactory appearance. The two organs, from France and Germany,
+each, in turn, poured forth their music as the procession passed; and
+two or three of the Queen's bands played a march as the pageat moved
+round the eastern end of the building.</p>
+
+<p>At last the procession returned along the north side of the nave, the
+cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs, which had continued all
+the time getting now more joyful than ever; and the Queen returned
+once more to her throne. One of the noblemen, named the Marquis of
+Breadalbane, then called out in a loud tone of voice, that Her Majesty
+declared the Exhibition open; a flourish of trumpets, and a roar of
+cannon, told the people outside that all was now concluded, and the
+Queen, with the royal family and other attendants, left the Crystal
+Palace, the choir again singing the National Anthem.</p>
+
+<p>In order that the workmen and their families, who come to see the
+Exhibition, should live comfortably when they return home again,
+Prince<a name='Page105'></a> Albert has had a model building erected, with four dwellings,
+or sets of rooms, each containing all the conveniences essential to a
+distinct family-house, with four distinct entrances for the four
+different families, such as he wishes every honest working couple in
+this country, and indeed every honest couple in all parts of the
+world, should possess. And, in order to shew to working men, and to
+builders, and to persons of property who desire to do good, how they
+can usefully assist their fellow creatures to comfortable habitations,
+for the same rent that they now pay for closely-built, unhealthy ones,
+he has erected these four model houses under one roof, each of them
+dry, warm, convenient, fire-proof, and healthy, and yet cheap. They
+are built of very hard hollow bricks, made by machinery, and are
+situate at the corner of the barrack yard, near to the Crystal Palace,
+and will be shown freely to all persons visiting the World's Fair.</p>
+
+<p>Now, boys and girls, good-bye; I know you are sorry to see me going
+away, and you may be certain I am sorry to be obliged to leave you.
+But I hope we shall soon meet again, for I am thinking of coming to
+see you very shortly, to tell you more stories and have another talk
+with you. So, if you say you have been amused, and have <a name='Page106'></a>learned
+something, by reading these stories, I will pay you another visit
+soon, and tell you something more about other things. But in the mean
+time, let us hope that the suggestions of Prince Albert, the husband
+of our gracious Queen, will do good; and that every body, and every
+nation, may become better, and learn more, and love each other more,
+in consequence of meeting together, in friendship and harmony, at</p>
+<br />
+
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+<p class="ads">THE CONQUEST OF THE ROMANS AND BRITONS BY THE SAXONS; and an
+interesting Account of the Saxon Heptarchy, or the Seven Saxon
+Kingdoms in England at one time.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. With four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT. an interesting Narrative. 6d.
+Four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE NORMAN CONQUEST; four pages of illustrations. And the manner in
+which the People of England lived during the Reign of William the
+Conqueror. An interesting Narrative. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ENGLAND, AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE FEUDAL TIMES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Four pages of Illustrations</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; WITH THE MANNERS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
+IN THE MIDDLE AGES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. With four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
+CENTURIES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Showing the Condition of the People, and how they lived and dressed
+during the Reign of Henry the Seventh, to the death of William the
+Third. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
+CENTURIES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Showing the Condition of the People, their modes of life, and how they
+lived and dressed from the Reign of James the Second, to that of Queen
+Victoria. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.</p>
+
+<h4><i>These Eight Histories may be had, bound in One Volume, in fancy
+cloth, gilt sides and edges, suitable for a present, price 8s. 6d.</i></h4>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<br />
+
+<h3>PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE,</h3>
+
+<h4>SIX-PENCE EACH,&mdash;SEWED IN FANCY COVERS, PRINTED IN COLORS,</h4>
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+
+<p class="ads">SQUIRE GRAY'S FRUIT FEAST.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
+the Pretty Tales he gave to them as Prizes.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fourteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
+Directions for Playing each Game, and how to Cry the Forfeits.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. with appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<a name='Page112'></a>
+<p class="ads">ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
+COUSINS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Nineteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.&mdash;A Trial of
+Charity.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Many engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Sixteen engravings.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">NURSERY PICTURE BOOKS,&mdash;in illustrated covers.
+<i>size 4to. royal,&mdash;five sheets of coloured plates in each book.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE GLOBE:&mdash;Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and
+Polynesia or Australia. Illustrated for Little Folks, on Five Large
+Plates: and done up in a fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FOUR ELEMENTS:&mdash;or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water. Illustrated for
+Little Folks. And the Old English Nursery Rhyme of Simple Simon, set
+to Music. On Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain: or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FIVE SENSES,&mdash;Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
+the FOUR SEASONS,&mdash;Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Illustrated for
+Little Folks, on Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND, Set to Music, for Little Folks.
+Containing, The Queen of Hearts,&mdash;Bye! Baby Bunting,&mdash;Who comes here?
+a Grenadier!&mdash;Little Boy Blue,&mdash;and, The Lion and the Unicorn.
+Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done up in Fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,&mdash;the Nursery Alphabet,&mdash;the Royal
+Family,&mdash;the comparative sizes of Animals,&mdash;and a &quot;Morland.&quot;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p><a name='Page113'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,&mdash;from whom all Good Things come&mdash;the Lost
+Purse,&mdash;Self-will,&mdash;the Careless Boy,&mdash;the Good Boy,&mdash;and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with seven coloured engravings.&mdash;1s, in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">About the Lame Boy,&mdash;the Sea Shore,&mdash;the Cross Boy,&mdash;and the Stray
+Child. By Mrs. Burden.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with seven coloured engravings.&mdash;1s. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS: the Letters in
+large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by a number of
+pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PETER PALLETTE's PICTURES FOR PAINTING: Thirteen Numbers, price 4d.
+each; or bound in 2 vols, 1st series, 2s. 6d. 2nd series, 3s. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">WORRET's NEW OUTLINE DRAWING-BOOK;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A series of progressive lessons, by which the principles of the Art,
+as applied to figure, ornamental, and mechanical Drawing, may be
+easily and correctly acquired.&mdash;ON STONE, BY W. HEATH.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3s. the set of six numbers; or 3s. 6d. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">EVERY CHILD'S DRAWING-BOOK; Easy and familiar Subjects by HEATH and
+BARFOOT. In Seven Progressive Numbers.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. the set.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">YOUNG ARTIST'S DRAWING-BOOK of EASY SUBJECTS, in Lithography and Ink.
+By BARFOOT and HEATH. In 13 Numbers.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. the set.</p><a name='Page114'></a>
+<br />
+
+<h3>GRANDPAPA EASY'S COLOURED</h3>
+
+<h4>ORIGINAL AND SPLENDID PICTORIAL TOY BOOKS,</h4>
+
+<h5>SIX-PENCE EACH. SIZE, LARGE OCTAVO SUPER-ROYAL.</h5>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S LITTLE PIG'S RAMBLE FROM HOME. Embellished with eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's LAUGHABLE STORY ABOUT TOM PEPPER. With twenty
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's TWO SISTERS; OR, WHO WOULD NOT BE INDUSTRIOUS? Eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's 'LITTLE GENTLEMAN,'&mdash;GENERAL TOM THUMB. With eight
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's NEW MOTHER GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGGS. Eight coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's LADY GOLIGHTLY AND HER COUSINS THE GRASSHOPPERS. With
+nine coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's NEW STORY OF THE LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING FOR
+THE CROWN. Eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's PRETTY POETRY, ABOUT TREES, FRUITS, and FLOWERS. With
+twenty-seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's JACKO's MERRY METHOD OF LEARNING THE PENCE TABLE.
+Eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's PRETTY POETICAL SPELLING BOOK. Twenty-eight coloured
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. Embellished with fourteen
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's MARQUIS OF CARABAS; OR, NEW PUSS IN BOOTS. With
+fifteen coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's AMUSING ADDITION; A NEW POETICAL NUMBER BOOK. Sixteen
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's COCK ROBIN ALIVE AND WELL AGAIN; with seven coloured
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+
+<p class="ads"><i>All Six-pence each,&mdash;with handsome Coloured Engravings.</i></p><a name='Page115'></a>
+<br />
+
+<h3>GRANDMAMMA EASY'S COLOURED</h3>
+
+<h4>ORIGINAL AND SPLENDID PICTORIAL TOY BOOKS,</h4>
+
+<h5>SIX-PENCE EACH.&mdash;SIZE, LARGE OCTAVO SUPER ROYAL.</h5>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORIES ABOUT THE ALPHABET. With twenty-six
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's MERRY MULTIPLICATION. With seventeen coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORY ABOUT OLD DADDY LONGLEGS. Illustrated with
+eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORY ABOUT LITTLE JACK HORNER. With eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's MICHAELMAS DAY, OR, FATE OF POOR MOLLY GOOSEY. Eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's ALDERMAN's FEAST: A NEW ALPHABET. Illustrated with
+eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF LONDON. With
+twelve coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's WONDERS OF A TOY-SHOP. Embellished with eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORY OF THE QUEEN OF HEARTS. With eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORY ABOUT LITTLE TOM THUMB AND HIS MOTHER.
+Eight coloured plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE ELEPHANT. Embellished with
+eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE CAMEL. With nine coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's TRAVELS OF LITTLE MATTY MACARONI. With nine coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's DAME BANTRY AND HER CAT; A HUMOUROUS TALE; with
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads"><i>All Six-pence each,&mdash;with handsome Coloured Engravings.</i></p><a name='Page116'></a>
+<br />
+
+<h3>NEW SERIES OF ORIGINAL PICTORIAL TOY BOOKS.</h3>
+
+<h4>SIX-PENCE EACH, WITH SPLENDID COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.</h4>
+
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+
+<h3>COUSIN HONEYCOMB'S</h3>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING MULTIPLICATION; illustrated and explained, in twenty
+appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING SUBSTRACTION; rendered easy and plain by twenty-three
+appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING DIVISION, made familiar to the opening mind, by twenty-three
+appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING PENCE TABLE; in a new, easy, and pleasing manner; with fifteen
+appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">RAILWAY ALPHABET, shewing all that can be seen in Railway travelling,
+exhibited in twenty-four engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ALPHABET OF TRADES; exhibiting the working of the several trades, in
+forty-one descriptive engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">NEW ROYAL A, B, C, AND SPELLING-BOOK, in a new and familiar manner:
+with twenty-six pretty engravings, and twenty-six large ornamental
+coloured letters.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PLEASING POPULAR RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY, or, the sayings and singings
+of infancy, in a new dress; ornamented with twenty-six humourous
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PLEASING POPULAR NURSERY RIDDLES, AND PUZZLES; upon the same plan as
+the above; thirty engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">MY AUNT'S BALL; an ALPHABET; shewing who were there,&mdash;what they
+had,&mdash;and how they behaved themselves,&mdash;with twenty-four engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A PRINCE AND HIS THREE GIFTS; how he used his three gifts; and about a
+good and beautiful lady; with eight large engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORY OF LITTLE JOEY, who came up to London a poor little boy, and
+afterwards became a great man;&mdash;with ten engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TALES OF THE MONTHS AND SEASONS: and what we see and enjoy all the
+year round; with twelve engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE MOUSE AND HER SONS; a rural tale;&mdash;with eight coloured
+engravings.</p><a name='Page117'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>UNCLE BUNCLE'S ORIGINAL TOY BOOKS,</h3>
+
+<h4>SIX-PENCE EACH.</h4>
+
+<h4>EMBELLISHED WITH LARGE APPROPRIATE COLORED ENGRAVINGS, AND IN FANCY
+COVERS.</h4>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR COCK ROBIN, AND THE TRIAL OF
+THE SPARROW FOR SHOOTING HIM. With seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORY ABOUT MASTER NOBODY, and his many wonderful
+exploits. 7 coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's VISIT TO LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN, the best little Boy that
+ever was seen, with 7 coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's TWO LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN, and the means by which
+they became rich. Seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's ALPHABET OF OBJECTS. Embellished with many coloured
+plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW A, B, C. With fourteen pretty and appropriate
+coloured pictures.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS. Seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's COMICAL BOYS, With fourteen coloured plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT BIRDS, Seven coloured pictures.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; A NEW AND POPULAR MULTIPLICATION
+TABLE: With fourteen coloured pictures of the Procession by Land and
+Water.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's STORY ABOUT THE SICK LITTLE ROBIN, AND HIS KIND LITTLE
+NURSE JENNY WREN. With seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's STORIES ABOUT LITTLE PETER's VISIT TO THE FARM. With
+seven coloured engravings.</p><a name='Page118'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>CORNER'S HISTORICAL LIBRARY,</h3>
+
+<h5>FOR</h5>
+
+<h4>YOUTH, SCHOOLS, AND FAMILIES:</h4>
+
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+
+<h5>COMPRISING</h5>
+<br />
+
+<h4>A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION IN EUROPE,</h4>
+
+<h5><i>Uniformly printed, each Country in a separate Volume; with
+Illustrations from Historical Subjects, elegantly engraven on Steel,
+from designs by Franklin, Jones, and Gilbert; and an Accurate Map to
+each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered</i>;</h5>
+
+<h4>COMMENCING WITH THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF AUTHENTIC RECORD, AND BROUGHT
+DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:</h4>
+
+<h4>ACCURATELY POURTRAYING THE NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND DOMESTIC
+HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.</h4>
+
+<h3>BY MISS CORNER,</h3>
+
+<h5><i>Author of &quot;Questions on the History of Europe,&quot; a Sequel to
+Mangnall's Historical Questions, &amp;c. &amp;c.</i></h5>
+
+<p>The object of these Works,&mdash;peculiarly suited to Schools and
+Families,&mdash;is to furnish the reader with a faithful History of each
+Nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion,
+laws, customs, national characteristics, and domestic habits of the
+people, in the various periods of their History.</p>
+
+<p>In writing these elementary treatises, one especial object has been
+kept in view&mdash;that of adapting them to the capacities of young people
+and occasional readers: by this means, while they embrace information
+and entertainment for all, they attract the rising generation, by
+simplicity of language, and clearness of detail, and render
+comparatively easy the attainment of a knowledge of the leading events
+of History.</p>
+
+<p>The many high encomiums awarded to these works by the Public Press,
+and the very considerable acceptance they have met with in Schools and
+Families, are proofs that the efforts of the Author to render
+historical knowledge pleasing, and easy of attainment, are not
+unappreciated by those to whom the care of the rising generation is
+entrusted.</p><a name='Page119'></a>
+<br />
+
+<h5>THESE SERIES OF HISTORIES, BY MISS CORNER, COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:</h5>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A New Edition; with Chronological Table; Twentieth Thousand; 3<i>s</i>.
+6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; or bound up with Questions on the History,
+4<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and five Historical Engravings,&mdash;1. Rowena
+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria&mdash;the Peers rendering Homage.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;It is important that history meant for young Englishmen should be
+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score.&quot;&mdash;<i>British Banner</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Academic and Collegiate
+Circular</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's England and Wales, we perceive, has just reached
+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Bent's Literary
+Advertiser</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We know no histories more likely to prove useful and agreeable in the
+instruction of children.&quot;&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The style of the book throughout renders it worthy of the support it
+has secured.&quot;&mdash;<i>Gospel Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New Edition; Seventh Thousand; 2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; or bound
+up with Questions on the History, 3<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.&mdash;1. St.
+Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles. 2. Lord Thomas
+Fitzgerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII. 3. Entry of James
+II. into Dublin.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The history before us is well executed.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's style of writing will produce habits of
+thinking.&quot;&mdash;<i>Morning Advertiser</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The Historical facts, always correct, are detailed in plain and
+concise language. This is one of the best class books on Ireland, for
+young people.&quot;&mdash;<i>Limerick Standard</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The beauty of composition throughout the writings of Miss Corner is
+singular and fascinating.&mdash;<i>Sun</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner has acquired a deserved celebrity for the
+singularly-attractive and intelligible manner she has in narrating
+history.&mdash;<i>Critic</i>.</p><a name='Page120'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND;</p>
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+James V. taking refuge at Sterling Castle. 3. Queen Mary's escape to
+England.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We sincerely recommend this history as peculiarly suited to the
+meridian of schools.&quot;&mdash;<i>Ayr Observer.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;This meritorious work is written in a very easy and agreeeble style,
+perfectly adapted to the capacities of the young persons for whom it
+is intended.&quot;&mdash;<i>Times</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We have perused this history with much interest, delighted with the
+ease and perspicuity of style, and with the clearness and force of the
+narrative.&quot;&mdash;<i>Chronicle</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Peculiarly adapted for instructive family reading.&quot;&mdash;<i>Caledonian
+Mercury</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ROME;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">From accepted English and foreign authorities, as Macpherson's Annals
+of Commerce, Keightley's Roman History, Smith's and Adam's Greek and
+Roman Antiquities; Dr. Arnold, Niebuhr, &amp;c. With questions to each
+chapter, a chronological table, and a map of the Roman Empire; 3<i>s</i>.
+6<i>d</i>. bound in cloth, lettered.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's History of Rome will assuredly ere long supersede all
+the Roman histories at present used in schools, it is well written,
+and the historical facts elicited by the learned labours of Niebuhr,
+Arnold, &amp;c., are made to take the place of the fabulous accounts which
+have hitherto passed current as authentic history; at the same time
+the popular early legends are not omitted, but their doubtful nature
+pointed out.&quot;&mdash;<i>Westmister Review</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;An excellent feature in this history is the continual effort to open
+out to the young reader the household life and social customs of the
+Romans, for without this, ancient history can have no reality for
+children.&quot;&mdash;<i>Educational Times</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Its contents form a correct history of the Roman empire, from its
+beginning.&quot;&mdash;<i>Church of England Journal</i>.</p>
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+Castro entreating the king to save her life. 2. Interview of Columbus
+with Queen Isabella. 3. The Cortez taking the oath of allegiance.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner gives a clear and striking account of the different
+kingdoms that at various times were founded in Spain.&quot;&mdash;<i>Edinburgh
+Review</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;So concise and plain as to be at once adapted to the capacities and
+volatility of young people, while they are useful compendiums for
+adults.&quot;&mdash;<i>Times</i>.</p><a name='Page121'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF FRANCE;</p>
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+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,&mdash;1. The
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+Bonaparte's Expedition across the Alps.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The Writer has borne in mind throughout, that simplicity of style was
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+adapted to give an idea of the events and the customs of the
+successive ages.&quot;&mdash;<i>Baptist Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner appears to be an excellent historian for the school room.
+She narrates with fluency and clearness, and in a concise and lively
+manner, the leading facts, so as to convey the spirit of history, and
+indicate the characteristics of the people and the country, as well as
+the rulers and famous characters.&quot;&mdash;<i>Spectator</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We look upon Miss Corner's work with great interest, as being
+peculiarly adapted to the minds of young people, and being free from
+that inversion of facts by which history is so often made subservient
+to party purposes.&quot;&mdash;<i>Nonconformist</i>.</p>
+<br />
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+Submission of the Order of Nobles to Frederick III.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The two chief qualities of a good book are usefulness of subject and
+cleverness of handling, and these requisites Miss Corner's histories
+exhibit in an eminent degree. The frequent intermixtures of government
+between the three countries have indeed tended materially to embarrass
+this portion of European history, but Miss Corner by an accurate
+arrangement of dates, and a judicious connection of events, has set
+every thing in a clear light.&quot;&mdash;<i>Post Magazine</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND RUSSIA;</p>
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+misfortune, resigning his crown to the Diet. 3. Flight of the
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+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;This volume forms one of a series of histories for the use of young
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+Poles and Russians being much more instructive and entertaining to
+young English readers.&quot;&mdash;<i>Tait's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner has succeeded in compressing into a small compass all the
+leading events of history, without the slightest obscurity, or without
+sinking her book into a dry chronicle of facts.&quot;&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p><a name='Page122'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE; INCLUDING GREECE,
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+Officers of State.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The narrative is so well arranged and so agreeably diversified by
+occasional remarks on individual and national character, as to render
+history attractive even to the very young; and the information is
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+
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+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Brief, clear, and correct; well adapted for young
+persons.&quot;&mdash;<i>Leamington Spa Chronicle</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Written with great care and ability.&quot;&mdash;<i>John Bull</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;A very useful educational book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
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+
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+<p class="ads2">&quot;A condensed mass of knowledge, well put together, and prettily
+illustrated.&quot;&mdash;<i>Church and State Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;To a pleasing, fluent, narrative style, Miss corner unites a nice
+discrimination, and never suffers matters which sully the mind to
+appear in her pages.&quot;&mdash;<i>Surplice</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We cannot too strongly recommend these admirable Histories, and we
+feel satisfied that no parent or preceptor can place better works in
+the hands of a youth.&quot;&mdash;<i>Academic and Collegiate Circular</i>.</p><a name='Page123'></a>
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AN ACCURATE HISTORY OF GREECE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">From accepted Authorities, English and Foreign; as Crete's and
+Chambers's Histories of Greece, Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities,
+Thirlwall and Wordsworth's Greece, Smith's Mythology and Biography,
+Annals of Commerce, Library of Useful Knowledge, &amp;c. With Questions to
+each Chapter, a Chronological Table, Index, and a coloured Map of the
+Greek States. Price 3<i>s</i>. bound in cloth, lettered.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">We have not met with any History of Greece that contains, within the
+same compass, so large an amount of interesting and valuable
+information. Miss Corner writes concisely, perspicuously, and
+sensibly.&mdash;<i>Westley Banner</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A concise History of Greece, well adapted for Schools.&mdash;<i>Cambridge
+Independent Press</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">This is a very excellent compendium of Grecian History, and such are
+the merits of the Work that we shall not be surprised at its becoming
+a popular educational book.&mdash;<i>The British Mother's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Remarkably clear in its arrangement, while the simple and easy
+style in which it is written, peculiarly fits it for popular
+use, it displays much careful research on the part of its
+Author.&mdash;<i>Englishwoman's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner has the art of writing so as to be understood by youthful
+readers.&mdash;<i>London Literary Journal</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By far the best introductory School History of Greece we have ever
+seen.&mdash;<i>British Banner</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A combination of simplicity of narrative, with comprehensiveness of
+detail, admirably adapted for the use of the School-room.&mdash;<i>Douglas
+Jerrald's Weekly News</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With feminine delicacy, Miss Corner omits what should be omitted,
+giving meanwhile a narrative of the broad character and features that
+mark the progress of a nation.&mdash;<i>Express, Evening Paper</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The results of the best modern scholarship are here given.&mdash;<i>Leader</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner's Histories require no recommendation of ours to bring
+them into notice. This Volume, her History of Greece, is written with
+great clearness and fluency, the fabulous tales which disfigure so
+many professedly authentic histories of the Greeks are discarded. We
+cordially recommend this work for the School-room, or family
+circle.&mdash;<i>Gospel Herald</i>.</p><a name='Page124'></a>
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+
+<p class="ads">2 ADORATION OF THE MAGI. And when they saw the young child with Mary
+his mother, they fell down, and worshipped him. Matthew, ii. 11.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">3 CHRIST DISPUTING WITH THE DOCTORS. They found him in the temple,
+sitting in the midst of the doctors both hearing them, and asking them
+questions. Luke, ii, 46.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">4 THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST. The heavens were opened unto him, and he saw
+the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him, Matt.
+iii. 16.</p><a name='Page127'></a>
+<br />
+
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+unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.
+Mark, x, 14.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">6 CHRIST HEALING THE BLIND. Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight:
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">7 THE RAISING OF LAZARUS. He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come
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+
+<p class="ads">8 THE WIDOW'S MITE. This poor widow hath cast more in, than all they
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+had. Mark, xii. 43.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">9 CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. Many spread their garments in the
+way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed them in the
+way. Mark, xi. 8.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">10 THE LAST SUPPER. This do in remembrance of me. Luke, xxii. 19.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">11 PETER DENYING CHRIST. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter,
+and Peter remembered the words of the Lord, Before the cock crows,
+thou shalt deny me thrice. And he wept bitterly Luke, xxii, 61.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">12 CHRIST BEFORE PILATE. Pilate asked him, Answerest thou nothing?
+behold how many things they witness against thee. Mark, xv. 4.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">13 TAKING DOWN FROM THE CROSS. When Joseph had taken the body, he
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+Matthew, xxvii. 59.</p>
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+
+<p class="ads2">The set, bound together, 3s. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE CHILD's OWN SCRAP BOOK OF PICTURES, BY PETER PALETTE. Seven parts,
+coloured; 4to size. 6d. each; or The set, bound together, 4s.</p><a name='Page128'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>JUVENILE WORKS.</h3>
+
+<h4>PUBLISHED BY THOMAS DEAN AND SON, THREADNEEDLE-STREET.</h4>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FIRST HISTORY OF ENGLAND THAT SHOULD BE PLACED IN THE HANDS OF A
+CHILD. By MISS CORNER, Author of the Play Grammar, Every Child's
+History of England, Scripture Parables, &amp;c. Containing,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">An interesting description of the Ancient Britons, and their
+civilization by the Romans; the Conquest of the Romans and Britons by
+the Saxons; the Life and Times of Alfred the Great; the Norman
+Conquest; the Feudal Times; the Manners and Condition of the People of
+England in the Middle Ages; in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
+and Nineteenth Centuries, to the present time.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Printed in large type; with twenty-five pages of illustrations. 3s.
+6d. bound, suitable for a present, in blue cloth, gilt edges; Or, in
+Eight Parts, 6d. each, stitched in fancy wrappers.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">EVERY CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND: WITH A MAP, AND QUESTIONS TO EACH
+CHAPTER.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Particularly suited for Children, and for Home, or Infant School
+Reading. By Miss CORNER, Author of the Play Grammar,&mdash;Scripture
+Parables, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed; or with the map coloured, 1s. 6d. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PAPA AND MAMMA'S EASY LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY; OR, THE ELEMENTS OF
+GEOGRAPHY, IN A NEW AND ATTRACTIVE FORM.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By ANNE MARIA SARGEANT, Author of Bible Geography, &amp;c. Embellished
+with many Illustrations: and intended as a companion to Miss Corner's
+Play Grammar.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. stitched, or 1s. 6d. bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GUIDE TO USEFUL KNOWLEDGE: BY CHARLES BUTLER.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Containing, in the popular form of an easy and familiar Catechism, the
+newest and most useful information connected with the Arts, Sciences,
+and the various Phenomena of Nature. For the use of Schools and
+Families.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Fourth edition, corrected. 1s. 6d. bound in cloth.</p><a name='Page129'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GUIDE TO GEOGRAPHY: BY CHARLES BUTLER.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A new, pleasing, and concise description of the five great divisions
+of the globe: the empires, kingdoms, and states, into which they are
+divided; and the natural, mineral, and vegetable productions of the
+several countries; with the numbers, and the manners and customs of
+their inhabitants.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New edition, corrected, 1s. 6d. bound in cloth;&mdash;or, with Seven
+Glyphographic Maps, and the use of the globes, 2s. bound.</p>
+
+<p class="ads">THE PLAY GRAMMAR; OR, THE ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR EXPLAINED IN SHORT AND
+EASY GAMES. By MISS CORNER. 1s. 6d. cloth lettered, with richly
+coloured frontispiece, and numerous engravings on wood; or, 1s. sewed
+in fancy covers, with plain frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">CHRISTMAS BERRIES AND DAISY CHAINS, FOR THE YOUNG AND GOOD. A
+collection of pleasing and instructive tales in poetry and prose,
+adapted to the youthful mind. By the author of Spring Flowers and
+Summer Blossoms, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Printed in large type; with eight pages of tinted
+illustrations. Price 2s. 6d. bound in fancy cloth, gilt edges and
+sides, suitable for a present.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SILVER BLOSSOMS TO PRODUCE GOLDEN FRUIT: Being golden keys to the good
+old proverbs, in interesting tales. By the author of Spring Flowers
+and Summer Blossoms, Christmas Berries, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With eight pages of tinted illustrations. Price 2s. 6d. bound suitably
+for a present, in fancy cloth, with gilt edges and sides.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORIES OF THE ELEMENTS: Or, the Old Man and his Four Servants;
+Volcanoes and Earthquakes; the Volcanic Island, and the Indian Family.
+By MRS. BAKER. With six pages of engravings printed in tint, 1s. 6d.
+cloth, lettered, with richly coloured frontispiece;&mdash;or, 1s. sewed,
+with plain frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY; BY THE REV. J. YOUNG, A.M. A pleasing
+description of the nature and habits of the most interesting and
+wonderful of the works of God, as exhibited in creation, and recorded
+in scripture. With numerous engravings, and eight pages of tinted
+illustrations; 2s. 6d. handsomely bound in cloth, gilt edges and
+sides.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE ORPHAN CAPTIVE; OR, CHRISTIAN ENDURANCE; A tale of the shipwreck
+and captivity of an ambassador's daughter. By Miss J. Strickland. With
+seven pages of elegant plates, 1s. sewed, or Is. 6d. cloth.</p><a name='Page130'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SCRIPTURE PARABLES, in EASY VERSE, for CHILDREN; WITH AN EXPLANATION
+OF EACH PARABLE, IN PROSE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By the Author of Ruth and Naomi,&mdash;the Widow's Cruise of Oil,&mdash;Isaac
+and Rebekah, &amp;c. Illustrated with eight pages of beautiful plates, and
+twenty engravings on wood.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. 6d. cloth lettered, with richly coloured frontispiece; or, 1s.
+sewed, in fancy covers, with plain frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TALES OF SPRING FLOWERS AND SUMMER BLOSSOMS; FOR THE YOUNG AND GOOD:
+About Snow-drops,&mdash;the Wall-flower,&mdash;and Cowslips and Primroses.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With six pages of illustrations, 1s. sewed&mdash;or 1s. 6d. bound in cloth,
+lettered, and coloured frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">MORE TALES OF SPRING FLOWERS AND SUMMER BLOSSOMS; FOR THE YOUNG AND
+GOOD:</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">About Hare Bells,&mdash;the Bee Orchis,&mdash;White Violets,&mdash;Water
+Lilies,&mdash;Wild Roses,&mdash;and Wood Anemonies.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With six pages of illustrations, 1s. sewed;&mdash;or 1s. 6d. in cloth,
+lettered, and coloured frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads2">THE TWO PARTS, elegantly bound in one handsome volume, gilt edges,
+with eleven pages of tinted illustrations, 2s. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE VILLAGE SCHOOL: WITH THE HISTORY, AND WHAT BECAME OF, SOME OF ITS
+SCHOLARS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. 6d. cloth, with many engravings, and richly coloured frontispiece;
+or, 1s. sewed, with plain frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE WIDOW AND ORPHANS; OR, CHANGES OF LIFE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">BY THE REV. J. YOUNG, M.A. Author of Perils of Paul Percival.
+Scripture Natural History, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With seven pages of plates, and vignette title, 1s. sewed; or 1s. 6d.
+bound in cloth, with richly coloured frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">LITTLE STORIES ABOUT PRETTY LITTLE BIRDS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">BY THE AUTHOR OF KEEPER'S TRAVELS, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With seven pages of plates, and vignette title, 1s. sewed; or, with
+coloured frontispiece, 1s. 6d. bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">LITTLE TALES FOR THE NURSERY; AMUSING AND INSTRUCTIVE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By the Author of 'Sketches of Little Girls,' 'Little Boys,' &amp;c. With
+many illustrations.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. 6d. cloth lettered, and richly coloured frontispiece; or, 1s.
+sewed, with plain frontispiece.</p><a name='Page131'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORIES OF THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE WORLD;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">descriptive of the peculiar habits and customs of the Inhabitants of
+Australia and Polynesia,&mdash;Omoko, King of Africa,&mdash;the Elephant, and
+the Little Dog of Siam,&mdash;the American Slave Trade,&mdash;and Europe, or,
+English Freedom.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With neat vignettes, and six tinted engravings 1s. sewed.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORIES OF THE FIVE SENSES; OR, WHICH IS BEST?</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">An entertaining Little Book, for Little Ladies and Little Gentlemen.
+Vignette illustrations, and six tinted engravings, 1s. sewed.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">WHICH IS BEST?</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Or, Stories about the Five Senses, and the Five Divisions of the Globe
+With sixteen illustrations 2s. 6d. fancy cloth, gilt edges.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE WORLD'S FAIR; OR, CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK OF THE GREAT
+EXHIBITION OF 1851.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Describing the beautiful Inventions and Manufactures exhibited there;
+with pretty stories about the People who have made and sent those
+beautiful Articles to be exhibited, and how they live when at
+home.&mdash;Embellished with numerous elegant engravings, a frontispiece,
+and pictorial title-page.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">2s. 6d. elegantly bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS; or, STORIES FOR THE CHILDREN OF ENGLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By M.E.T. author of &quot;Silver Blossoms to produce Golden
+Fruit.&quot;&mdash;Embellished with illustrative engravings, and eight pages of
+plates, beautifully printed in lithography.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">2s. 6d. elegantly bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ILLUSTRATED JUVENILE KEEPSAKE OF AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION. With
+upwards of sixty engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed,&mdash;or 1s. 6d. bound in cloth, lettered.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SKETCHES OF LITTLE BOYS;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The Well-behaved Little Boy. The Attentive, Inattentive, Covetous
+Dilatory, Exact, Quarrelsome, and Good Little Boy. By S. Lovechild.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed,&mdash;Square size, with seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SKETCHES OF LITTLE GIRLS;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The Good-natured Little Girl, the Thoughtless, the Vain, the Orderly,
+the Slovenly, the Snappish, the Persevering, the Forward, the Modest,
+and the Awkward, Little Girl. By Solomon Lovechild.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed,&mdash;Square size, with seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE THREE BASKETS, Or, THE LITTLE GARDENER, LITTLE PAINTER, AND LITTLE
+CARPENTER</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Describing how, and in what manner, Henry, Richard, and Charles, were
+occupied during the absence of their Father. By Mrs. Burden.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed,&mdash;Square size, with seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">DAME WIGGINS OF LEE, AND HER WONDERFUL CATS;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A humorous tale, about the worthy old Dame and her Seven whiskered
+favourites: written by a Lady of Ninety.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed,&mdash;Square size, with fifteen coloured engravings.</p><a name='Page132'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">EASY AND INTERESTING HISTORIES, FOR LITTLE FOLKS;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">BY MISS CORNER, Author of the Historical Library, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2"><i>Price sixpence each, printed in large type, and embellished with four
+pages of descriptive tinted plates, and sewed in fancy wrappers.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE ANCIENT BRITONS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Describing their Manners and Customs; and how they were conquered, and
+Britain was governed by the Romans. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE CONQUEST OF THE ROMANS AND BRITONS BY THE SAXONS; and an
+interesting Account of the Saxon Heptarchy, or the Seven Saxon
+Kingdoms in England at one time.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. With four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">an interesting Narrative. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE NORMAN CONQUEST; four pages of illustrations.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">And the manner in which the People of England lived during the Reign
+of William the Conqueror. An interesting Narrative. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ENGLAND, AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE FEUDAL TIMES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Four pages of Illustrations</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; WITH THE MANNERS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
+IN THE MIDDLE AGES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. With four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
+CENTURIES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Showing the Condition of the People, and how they lived and dressed
+during the Reign of Henry the Seventh, to the death of William the
+Third. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
+CENTURIES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Showing the Condition of the People, their modes of life, and how they
+lived and dressed from the Reign of James the Second, to that of Queen
+Victoria. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.</p>
+
+<p class="ads"><i>These Eight Histories may be had, bound in One Volume, in fancy
+cloth, gilt sides and edges, suitable for a present, price 8s. 6d.</i></p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">SIX-PENCE EACH,&mdash;SEWED IN FANCY COVERS, PRINTED IN COLORS,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2"><i>Each embellished with numerous Engravings on wood.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SQUIRE GRAY'S FRUIT FEAST.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
+the Pretty Tales he gave to them as Prizes.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fourteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
+Directions for Playing each Game, and how to Cry the Forfeits.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. with appropriate engravings.</p><a name='Page133'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
+COUSINS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Nineteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.&mdash;A Trial of
+Charity.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Many engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Sixteen engravings.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">NURSERY PICTURE BOOKS,&mdash;in illustrated covers,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2"><i>size 4to. royal,&mdash;five sheets of coloured plates in each book.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE GLOBE:&mdash;Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and
+Polynesia or Australia. Illustrated for Little Folks, on Five Large
+Plates: and done up in a fancy cover,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FOUR ELEMENTS:&mdash;or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated for Little Folks. And the Old English Nursery Rhyme of
+Simple Simon, set to Music. On Five Large Plates; and done up in a
+fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FIVE SENSES,&mdash;Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
+the FOUR SEASONS,&mdash;Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Illustrated for
+Little Folks, on Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Set to Music, for Little Folks. Containing, The Queen of Hearts,&mdash;Bye!
+Baby Bunting,&mdash;Who comes here? a Grenadier!&mdash;Little Boy Blue,&mdash;and,
+The Lion and the Unicorn. Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done
+up in Fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,&mdash;the Nursery Alphabet,&mdash;the Royal
+Family.&mdash;the comparative sizes of Animals,&mdash;and a &quot;Morland.&quot;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p><a name='Page134'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,&mdash;from whom all Good Things come&mdash;the Lost
+Purse,&mdash;Self-will,&mdash;the Careless Boy,&mdash;the Good Boy,&mdash;and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with seven coloured engravings.&mdash;1s. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">About the Lame Boy,&mdash;the Sea Shore,&mdash;the Cross Boy,&mdash;and the Stray
+Child. By Mrs. Burden.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with seven coloured engravings.&mdash;1s. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS:</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">the Letters in large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by
+a number of pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PETER PALLETTE'S PICTURES FOR PAINTING:</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Thirteen Numbers, price 4d. each; or bound in 2 vols, 1st series, 2s.
+6d. 2nd series, 3s. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">WORRET's NEW OUTLINE DRAWING-BOOK;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A series of progressive lessons, by which the principles of the Art,
+as applied to figure, ornamental, and mechanical Drawing, may be
+easily and correctly acquired.&mdash;ON STONE, BY W. HEATH.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3s. the set of six numbers; or 3s. 6d. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">EVERY CHILD'S DRAWING-BOOK; Easy and familiar Subjects by HEATH and
+BARFOOT. In Seven Progressive Numbers.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. the set.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">YOUNG ARTIST'S DRAWING-BOOK of EASY SUBJECTS, in Lithography and Ink.
+By BARFOOT and HEATH. In 13 Numbers.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. the set.</p><a name='Page135'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>GRANDPAPA EASY'S COLOURED</h3>
+
+<h4>ORIGINAL AND SPLENDID PICTORIAL TOY BOOKS, SIX-PENCE EACH. SIZE, LARGE
+OCTAVO SUPER-ROYAL.</h4>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S LITTLE PIG'S RAMBLE FROM HOME. Embellished with eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S LAUGHABLE STORY ABOUT TOM PEPPER. With twenty
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S TWO SISTERS; OR, WHO WOULD NOT BE INDUSTRIOUS? Eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S 'LITTLE GENTLEMAN,'&mdash;GENERAL TOM THUMB. With eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S NEW MOTHER GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGGS. Eight coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S LADY GOLIGHTLY AND HER COUSINS THE GRASSHOPPERS; With
+nine coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
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+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S PRETTY POETRY, ABOUT TREES, FRUITS, and FLOWERS. With
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+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S JACKO's MERRY METHOD OF LEARNING THE PENCE TABLE.
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+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S PRETTY POETICAL SPELLING BOOK. Twenty-eight coloured
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+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S MERRY MULTIPLICATION. With seventeen coloured
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+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORY ABOUT OLD DADDY LONGLEGS. Illustrated with
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+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORY ABOUT LITTLE JACK HORNER. With eight
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+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S ALDERMAN's FEAST: A NEW ALPHABET. Illustrated with
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+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF LONDON. With
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+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S WONDERS OF A TOY-SHOP. Embellished with eight
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+
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING DIVISION, made familiar to the opening mind, by twenty-three
+appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING PENCE TABLE; in a new, easy, and pleasing manner; with fifteen
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">RAILWAY ALPHABET, shewing all that can be seen in Railway travelling,
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+<br />
+
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+<br />
+
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+<br />
+
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+<br />
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+had,&mdash;and how they behaved themselves&mdash;with twenty-four engravings,</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A PRINCE AND HIS THREE GIFTS; how he used his three gifts; and about a
+good and beautiful lady; with eight large engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORY OF LITTLE JOEY, who came up to London a poor little boy, and
+afterwards became a great man;&mdash;with ten engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TALES OF THE MONTHS AND SEASONS: and what we see and enjoy all the
+year round; with twelve engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE MOUSE AND HER SONS; a rural tale;&mdash;with eight coloured
+engravings.</p><a name='Page138'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>UNCLE BUNCLE'S ORIGINAL TOY BOOKS,</h3>
+
+<h5>SIX-PENCE EACH.</h5>
+
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+
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR COCK ROBIN, AND THE TRIAL OF
+THE SPARROW FOR SHOOTING HIM. With seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORY ABOUT MASTER NOBODY, and his many wonderful
+exploits. 7 coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's VISIT TO LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN, the best little Boy that
+ever was seen: with 7 coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's TWO LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN, and the means by which
+they became rich. Seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's ALPHABET OF OBJECTS. Embellished with many coloured
+plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW A, B, C. With fourteen pretty and appropriate
+coloured pictures.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS. Seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's COMICAL BOYS, With fourteen coloured plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT BIRDS, Seven coloured pictures.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; A NEW AND POPULAR MULTIPLICATION
+TABLE: With fourteen coloured pictures of the Procession by Land and
+Water.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's STORY ABOUT THE SICK LITTLE ROBIN, AND HIS KIND LITTLE
+NURSE JENNY WREN. With seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's STORIES ABOUT LITTLE PETER's VISIT TO THE FARM. With
+seven coloured engravings.</p><a name='Page139'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>CORNER'S HISTORICAL LIBRARY,</h3>
+
+<h5>FOR</h5>
+
+<h5>YOUTH, SCHOOLS, AND FAMILIES:</h5>
+
+<h5>PUBLISHED BY DEAN &amp; SON, 35, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON:</h5>
+
+<h5>COMPRISING</h5>
+<br />
+
+<h5>A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION IN EUROPE,</h5>
+
+<p class="ads"><i>Uniformly printed, each country in a separate volume; with
+illustrations from Historical Subjects, elegantly engraven on Steel,
+from designs by Franklin, Jones, and Gilbert; and an Accurate Map to
+each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered;</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads">COMMENCING WITH THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF AUTHENTIC RECORD, AND BROUGHT
+DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:</p>
+
+<p class="ads">ACCURATELY POURTRAYING THE</p>
+
+<p class="ads">NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND DOMESTIC HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads">BY MISS CORNER,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2"><i>Author of &quot;Questions on the History of Europe,&quot; a Sequel to
+Mangnall's Historical Questions, &amp;c. &amp;c.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The object of these works,&mdash;peculiarly suited to schools and
+families,&mdash;is to furnish the reader with a faithful history of each
+nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion,
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+people, in the various periods of their history.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In writing these elementary treatises, one especial object has been
+kept in view&mdash;that of adapting them to the capacities of young people
+and occasional readers: by this means, while they embrace information
+and entertainment for all, they attract the rising generation, by
+simplicity of language, and clearness of detail, and render
+comparatively easy the attainment of a knowledge of the leading events
+of history.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The many high encomiums awarded to these works by the public press,
+and the very considerable acceptance they have met with in schools and
+families, are proofs that the efforts of the author to render
+historical knowledge pleasing, and easy of attainment, are not
+unappreciated by those to whom the care of the rising generation is
+entrusted.</p><a name='Page140'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THESE SERIES OF HISTORIES, BY MISS CORNER, COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A New Edition; with Chronological Table; Twentieth Thousand; 3<i>s</i>.
+<i>6d</i>. cloth, lettered; or bound up with Questions on the History,
+4<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and five Historical Engravings,&mdash;1. Rowena
+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria&mdash;the Peers rendering Homage.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;It is important that history meant for young Englishmen should be
+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score.&quot;&mdash;<i>British Banner</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Academic and Collegiate
+Circular</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's England and Wales, we perceive, has just reached
+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Bent's Literary
+Advertiser</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We know no histories more likely to prove useful and agreeable in the
+instruction of children.&quot;&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The style of the book throughout renders it worthy of the support it
+has secured.&quot;&mdash;<i>Gospel Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New Edition; Seventh Thousand; <i>2s. 6d.</i> cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with Questions on the History, 3<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.&mdash;1. St.
+Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles. 2. Lord Thomas
+Fitzgerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII. 3. Entry of James
+II. into Dublin.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The history before us is well executed.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's style of writing will produce habits of
+thinking.&quot;&mdash;<i>Morning Advertiser</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The Historical facts, always correct, are detailed in plain and
+concise language. This is one of the best class books on Ireland, for
+young people.&quot;&mdash;<i>Limerick Standard</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The beauty of composition throughout the writings of Miss Corner is
+singular and fascinating.&mdash;<i>Sun</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner has acquired a deserved celebrity for the
+singularly-attractive and intelligible manner she has in narrating
+history.&mdash;<i>Critic</i>.</p><a name='Page141'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New Edition; Ninth Thousand; 2s. 6d. cloth, lettered; or bound up with
+Questions on the History, 3s.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.&mdash;1.
+Coronation of the Infant King David II. and his Queen, at Scone. 2.
+James V. taking refuge at Sterling Castle. 3. Queen Mary's Escape to
+England.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We sincerely recommend this history as peculiarly suited to the
+meridian of schools.&quot;&mdash;<i>Ayr Observer.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;This meritorious work is written in a very easy and agreeeble style,
+perfectly adapted to the capacities of the young persons for whom it
+is intended.&quot;&mdash;<i>Times</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We have perused this history with much interest, delighted with the
+ease and perspicuity of style, and with the clearness and force of the
+narrative.&quot;&mdash;<i>Edinburgh Chronicle.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Peculiarly adapted for instructive family reading.&quot;&mdash;<i>Caledonian
+Mercury.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ROME;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">From accepted English and Foreign authorities, as Macpherson's Annals
+of Commerce, Keightley's Roman History, Smith's and Adam's Greek and
+Roman Antiquities; Dr. Arnold, Niebuhr, &amp;c. With Questions to each
+Chapter, a Chronological Table, and a Map of the Roman Empire; 3s. 6d.
+bound in cloth, lettered.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's History of Rome will assuredly ere long supersede all
+the Roman histories at present used in schools, it is well written,
+and the historical facts elicited by the learned labours of Niebuhr,
+Arnold, &amp;c., are made to take the place of the fabulous accounts which
+have hitherto passed current as authentic history; at the same time
+the popular early legends are not omitted, but their doubtful nature
+pointed out.&quot;&mdash;<i>Westmister Review.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;An excellent feature in this history is the continual effort to open
+out to the young reader the household life and social customs of the
+Romans, for without this, ancient history can have no reality for
+children.&quot;&mdash;<i>Educational Times.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Its contents form a correct history of the Roman empire, from its
+beginning.&quot;&mdash;<i>Church of England Journal.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORIES OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New Edition, Fifth Thousand; 2s. 6d. cloth, lettered; or bound up with
+Questions on the Histories, 3s.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,&mdash;1. Inez De
+Castro entreating the King to save her life. 2. Interview of Columbus
+with Queen Isabella. 3. The Cortez taking the Oath of Allegiance.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner gives a clear and striking account of the different
+kingdoms that at various times were founded in Spain.&quot;&mdash;<i>Edinburgh
+Review.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;So concise and plain as to be at once adapted to the capacities and
+volatility of young people, while they are useful compendiums for
+adults.&quot;&mdash;<i>Times</i>.</p><a name='Page142'></a>
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF FRANCE;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Tenth Thousand, New Edition, with continuation of events to the
+Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; 2<i>s</i> 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; or
+bound up with Questions on the History, 3<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,&mdash;1. The
+Coronation of Charles VII. 2. A French Tilt, or Tournament. 3.
+Bonaparte's Expedition across the Alps.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The Writer has borne in mind throughout, that simplicity of style was
+essential to her purpose, and has selected those facts which are best
+adapted to give an idea of the events and the customs of the
+successive ages.&quot;&mdash;<i>Baptist Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner appears to be an excellent historian for the school room.
+She narrates with fluency and clearness, and in a concise and lively
+manner, the leading facts, so as to convey the spirit of history, and
+indicate the characteristics of the people and the country, as well as
+the rulers and famous characters.&quot;&mdash;<i>Spectator</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We look upon Miss Corner's work with great interest, as being
+peculiarly adapted to the minds of young people, and being free from
+that inversion of facts by which history is so often made subservient
+to party purposes.&quot;&mdash;<i>Nonconformist</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and two elegant Historical
+Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. A Norwegian Family listening to the Songs of their Scalds, 2.
+Submission of the Order of Nobles to Frederick III.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The two chief qualities of a good book are usefulness of subject and
+cleverness of handling, and these requisites Miss Corner's histories
+exhibit in an eminent degree. The frequent intermixtures of government
+between the three countries have indeed tended materially to embarrass
+this portion of European history, but Miss Corner by an accurate
+arrangement of dates, and a judicious connection of events, has set
+every thing in a clear light.&quot;&mdash;<i>Post Magazine.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND RUSSIA;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Historical
+Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. Assassination of Demetrius. 2. John Cassimer, worn out by
+misfortune, resigning his crown to the Diet. 3. Flight of the
+Inhabitants of Moscow at the approach of the French army.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;This volume forms one of a series of histories for the use of young
+persons; the present volume is, however, more descriptive than
+historical, which we consider an advantage; the living manners of the
+Poles and Russians being much more instructive and entertaining to
+young English readers.&quot;&mdash;<i>Tait's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner has succeeded in compressing into a small compass all the
+leading events of history, without the slightest obscurity, or without
+sinking her book into a dry chronicle of facts.&quot;&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p><a name='Page143'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE; INCLUDING GREECE, SYRIA,
+AND THE HOLY LAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. Selim II., receiving the Ambassadors of Maximilian, Emperor of
+Germany. 2. Mahomet expounding the Koran at Medina. 5. Reschid Pacha
+reading the Hatti Scheriff of 1839 to the Ambassadors and Great
+Officers of State.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The narrative is so well arranged and so agreeably diversified by
+occasional remarks on individual and national character, as to render
+history attractive even to the very young; and the information is
+conveyed in a style remarkable for its unaffected simplicity and
+clearness.&quot;&mdash;<i>Morning Post.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The leading features of Turkish manners, laws, and policy, are
+accurately and forcibly pourtrayed, while the narrative is
+distinguished for simplicity, perspicuity, and completeness.&quot;
+<i>Conservative Journal.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ITALY AND SWITZERLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Historical
+Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. Pope Martin V, riding through the streets of Rome, the Emperor and
+Elector leading his Horse. 2. Massaniello haranguing the Populace. 3.
+William Tell and the other Swiss Patriots holding their nightly
+meetings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Brief, clear, and correct; well adapted for young
+persons.&quot;&mdash;<i>Leamington Spa Chronicle.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Written with great care and ability.&quot;&mdash;<i>John Bull.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;A very useful educational book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered, with a Map, and two elegant Historical
+Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. Assassination of William of Orange. 2. Admiral Van Tromp shot
+whilst animating his sailors.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The present, like the preceeding histories from the pen of this
+intelligent lady, is distinguished for its conciseness, elegance of
+expression, and clearness of detail.&quot;&mdash;<i>Manchester Times.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;A condensed mass of knowledge, well put together, and prettily
+illustrated.&quot;&mdash;<i>Church and State Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;To a pleasing, fluent, narrative style, Miss corner unites a nice
+discrimination, and never suffers matters which sully the mind to
+appear in her pages.&quot;&mdash;<i>Surplice</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We cannot too strongly recommend these admirable Histories, and we
+feel satisfied that no parent or preceptor can place better works in
+the hands of a youth.&quot;&mdash;<i>Academic and Collegiate Circular.</i></p><a name='Page144'></a>
+
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+<p class="ads">1 ANGELS APPEARING TO THE SHEPHERDS. And the angel said unto
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+<p class="ads">13 TAKING DOWN FROM THE CROSS. When Joseph had taken the body, he
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+THE WORLD'S FAIR
+
+Or, Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851
+
+Describing the Beautiful Inventions and Manufactures Exhibited Therein;
+with Pretty Stories about the People Who Have Made and Sent Them; and
+How They Live When at Home
+
+London: Thomas Dean and Son 35, Threadneedle-Street, and
+Ackermann and Co. 96, Strand.
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+
+What a pretty picture we have in the first title page, of the Great
+Exhibition in Hyde Park! This gigantic structure is built of iron,
+glass, and wood; but as, at a distance, it seems to be made entirely
+of glass, it is called the "Crystal Palace." Does it not look like one
+of those magnificent palaces we read about in fairy tales?
+
+The Great Exhibition is intended to receive and exhibit the most
+beautiful and most ingenious things from every country in the world,
+in order that everybody may become better known to each other than
+they have been, and be joined together in love and trade, like one
+great family; so that we may have no more wicked, terrible battles,
+such as there used to be long ago, when nobody cared who else was
+miserable, so that they themselves were comfortable. Only look at the
+thousands of people who crowd the Park,--all so different looking, and
+so curiously dressed. Grave Turks,--swarthy Spaniards and
+Italians,--East Indian Princes, glistening with gold and
+jewels,--clever French and German workmen, in blue cotton
+blouses,--Chinese gentlemen,--Tartars, Russians, energetic Americans,
+and many more. I wonder what they all think of us, whose habits in
+many things are so different from their own?
+
+And what charming things there are in the Exhibition itself! Fine
+porcelain wares, mirrors, books, statues, perfumes, and many more
+articles from various parts of the world,--beautiful fans, books,
+bronzes, and an infinity of other matters, from France in particular.
+Here is a model in miniature of the Crystal Palace itself, in glass.
+
+Ah! talking of glass, what think you of an enormous French decanter,
+in which three persons, having gotten inside by a ladder, can sit and
+dine off a table a yard in circumference? This is quite an exhibition
+in itself, I think. In another part of the building, we have a
+looking-glass, from Germany, which is the largest that ever was made,
+and is encased in a splendid frame of Dresden china. But here is a
+darling little English steam-engine, so small that you could, after
+wrapping it up in paper, lay it very comfortably inside an
+ordinary-sized walnut-shell, while the plate on which it stands is not
+bigger than a sixpence!
+
+In the very centre of the building, a gigantic crystal fountain
+diffuses a delicious coolness around, its bright clear waters
+sparkling, leaping, and playing, as if in delight and astonishment at
+the splendid and wonderful articles surrounding it. And there are two
+immense statues just beside it, looking mightily pleased with the
+agreeable coolness of the water. But here are two large bronze
+lions;--how terrible they look: they seem almost as if they were going
+to jump at us. There are animals of various kinds in different parts
+of the Exhibition; stags, horses, foxes, birds, cats, and even a
+ferocious-looking tiger.
+
+There is a bundle of nails so diminutive you can hardly see
+them--another bundle of three thousand nails, one thousand gold,
+another silver, and the third iron; so light that the whole weighs
+only three grains,--a French watch, smaller than a fourpenny
+piece,--Hindoo stuffs, so thin you can scarcely feel them, yet are
+made from rejected cotton-husks,--a highly-finished model of a palace,
+from Italy; and a handsome carriage, from Prussia.
+
+But among the curious articles we must notice this imitation of a
+camelia japonica tree in china, with buds, leaves, and blossoms, all
+perfect, which came from Germany;--and that painted oil-cloth from
+Manchester, covered with the most extraordinary mathematical
+ornaments, and which took eleven years to complete, and is worth 500
+guineas. And that table, made of 38,000 pieces of wood, of
+twenty-eight different colours, looking like mosaic, which was sent
+from Switzerland. Nor must we forget to look at this piece of gold, on
+which is engraved "The Lord's Prayer," and is yet so small that a
+common pin-head covers it: that came from Portsmouth. And here is a
+German bed, which being wound up, like a clock, to a certain hour,
+throws the sleeper out on the ground, when the time comes; no lazy
+lie-a-beds with that, I fancy!
+
+But here is an odd contribution, also from Germany; it is--what do you
+think?--a piece of lace, darned, and a fine table napkin, also darned!
+however, don't laugh, until I explain to you the reason _why_ it has
+been mended in this way: an ingenious young lady, wishing to show
+industrious lasses that torn clothes may be made to look as if they
+had not been injured in that manner at all, got a piece of cloth, tore
+it for the purpose, and taking up the stitches neatly, worked thread
+after thread till she had darned it in such a way that nobody could
+tell where it had been torn; she then thought of sending a specimen of
+her industry to the World's Fair.
+
+Here are snuff-boxes made of coal, which have been sent from Woolwich;
+and a beautiful little cannon of agate, from Germany; and two violins,
+worth a great deal of money, which have been contributed from America.
+
+I know that the productions of India will delight you by their beauty
+and ingenuity: the costumes the natives have sent are even prettier
+than those of Turkey, Spain, or Persia, and their gold, silver, and
+mother-of-pearl ornaments, are enchanting; what splendid veils,
+dresses, shawls, carved ivory, and curiosities!
+
+I would have you look very attentively at the contributions from
+India, they are so gorgeous; such superb muslins, baskets, and fans;
+with silks, cotton, cocoa-nuts, roots, woods, and such tempting
+fruits. I always like to see Indian articles, they are so magnificent.
+The persons who have sent these things must have worked very hard, to
+make so many beautiful specimens; but then the poorer people of India
+are exceedingly industrious; they live very simply, eating rice,
+boiled with milk and spices, as their principal food, for it is
+against their religion to touch meat of any kind. They would lead
+rather a sorry life, were it not that their tastes were so extremely
+simple, and their wants so few. A Hindoo village looks more like a
+gipsy encampment, than anything else, and bears a very strange
+appearance to a European, at first.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+However, although the poor people live in this way, the princes and
+nobles lead a far different life; an eastern grandee could formerly do
+anything he chose, even to killing of his wives and slaves, and, only
+I do not wish to frighten you, I could tell you many stories about the
+cruelty of the Indian nobles. They live in great state, and are
+always surrounded by a throng of slaves, and attendants, who wait on
+them as they recline lazily on a pile of the softest cushions, which
+are covered with the skins of beasts, and with silks, velvets, and
+satins. When they go abroad they are carried in what is called a
+palanquin, borne on the shoulders of servants, if they do not choose
+to ride on a horse or an elephant.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Their houses are adorned with the utmost magnificence, while the
+gardens or approaches to them are delightfully cool and refreshing,
+being shaded by fragrant trees, and shrubs, perfumed by the most
+beautiful flowers, and cooled by fountains, playing in marble basins.
+The Indian machinery is very clumsy indeed, and the mills are the
+funniest-looking things imaginable: I must show you an oil-mill.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A very cruel custom prevails in many parts of India, which I know will
+shock you very much: when a Hindoo of rank dies, his widow is laid by
+his side on a pile of faggots, which being set fire to, the poor
+creature is suffocated, or else burnt alive, and they pretend that she
+likes to be so destroyed. The ceremony is called a "Suttee," and is
+conducted with great pomp, all the relations of the woman and her dead
+husband being present, in addition to an immense crowd; before getting
+on the pile, the widow divides all her jewels and ornaments amongst
+her friends. Here is a picture of a widow about to bathe in a
+"consecrated" river, before going to be burnt.
+
+Here are lovely specimens of the manufacture of gold, silver, silk,
+jewellery, and Lebanon horns, from Syria, with seeds, fruits, oils,
+and woods; and even ornaments and marble from Jerusalem! Little did
+the Crusaders of old think, when they were fighting in Jerusalem, and
+the Holy Land, that the Infidels, as they very incorrectly called
+them, would be sending in such a friendly way to England.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What splendid caps, slippers, veils, and perfumes, with such
+picturesque guns and swords, from Turkey! The Turks are a fine,
+handsome race of people, and very grave and sensible, except when they
+are angry, when they grow raging and furious; they are fond of ease;
+and the chief delight of those who can afford it is to sit
+cross-legged on a low couch, drinking coffee, and smokeing a long
+curled pipe, called a _hookah_. They often sit by the side of a canal
+for a whole day, looking at children flying kites. Instead of sitting
+at a table to dine, they put the dishes on a carpet of Turkey leather,
+and sit round it on the floor, eating, with wooden spoons, meat and
+rice stewed together, called _pilau_. They are not allowed to drink
+wine, or eat pork. A favourite diversion with them is playing on a
+kind of lute, and sometimes they amuse themselves with chess,
+draughts, and other games; but their principal amusement, like some of
+my little friends, is to sit and listen to stories, told by men who
+earn their livelihood by relating entertaining tales and romances.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Turks do not undress and go to bed at any time, but being seated
+on a sofa, they smoke till they are sleepy, then laying themselves
+down, their slaves cover them over for the night. The poor people of
+the cities carry water, cakes, loaves, and other things, through the
+streets for a living, or act as buffoons, musicians, tumblers and
+wrestlers, at the Sultan's and other of the rich people's palaces.
+
+They cannot use wheel carriages in Turkey, the streets are so narrow,
+and the pavements in many parts so bad; everything is therefore
+carried by men, horses, mules, and donkeys, which is very
+inconvenient, as the mules and donkeys very often tumble down, and
+throw their burdens right in everybody's way; as for a horse, when
+heavily laden, it takes up the entire road; and when two loaded horses
+meet, the bawling and confusion is dreadful.
+
+The markets in Turkey are called "bazaars," and there you can buy
+almost anything you want; and every trade keeps together in knots of
+shops, different from us, in particular quarters, so that you are not
+obliged to walk all over the bazaar in search of a hat or a pair of
+shoes. In these bazaars, it is customary for a dealer to ask much
+more than he means to take, and for a buyer to offer infinitely less
+than he means to give; it is, therefore, rather difficult to strike a
+bargain, and sometimes several days are occupied chaffering about a
+price.
+
+The Turkish houses, above the ground floors, are usually built of thin
+laths, painted of different gay colours, and the roofs made of tiles,
+so that every few months a terrible fire takes place, and several
+thousand dwellings are burnt down; but the people are so accustomed to
+this that they do not mind it, and look on very contentedly while the
+fire rages, smoking their pipes, and drinking coffee.
+
+The Turks are exceedingly charitable, and not only give alms to the
+sick and poor, but even to travellers and strangers; and some of them
+have exercised their benevolence so far that they have left a sum of
+money for digging wells, and for the support of several cats and dogs.
+A very great trade is carried on from many parts of the world with
+them, as their country is famous for its rich brocades, thick soft
+carpets, mattings, baskets, curiously-wrought gold and silver
+embroidery, and balsams. It is also remarkable for its attar of roses,
+spices, figs, and coffee; all very good things, I dare say, you will
+think.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Some things have been sent from China to our Exhibition; but the
+Chinese people do not seem to care much about it. Indeed, I wonder
+they sent at all, for they consider themselves as the only civilized
+nation in the world, and call China the "Celestial Empire," while they
+imagine that the Emperor is an intimate relation of the Sun, Moon, and
+Stars! They are a very industrious nation, however, and the Emperor
+encourages them by his example. The poor work in every way they can;
+and one of their occupations is carrying about water for sale, as they
+have not water brought by pipes into the houses, as we have here.
+Here is the picture of a Chinese water carrier.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They also make the most elaborately carved ornaments, in wood and
+ivory; their toys and lanterns are celebrated for their ingenuity and
+workmanship. Their fireworks are superior to all those of other
+nations; and they excel in tricks and amusing entertainments. The
+cultivation of tea is universal, and agriculture--which, you know is
+the art of tilling the earth--is held in high esteem; the principal
+products being rice, wheat, yams, potatoes, turnips, and cabbages. The
+dwellings of the peasantry too, are not in villages, as in old
+England, but are scattered through the country; and they have no
+fences, gates, or anything to guard against wild beasts, or robbers.
+The females raise silk-worms, spin cotton, manufacture woollen
+stuffs, and are the only weavers in the empire. The art of printing,
+though done in what I must confess is rather a clumsy manner, is much
+exercised amongst them, and gives employment to many people.
+
+I do not think we should like to dine with a Chinese gentleman, or
+Mandarin, as he would treat us to strange dainties, as--a roast dog, a
+dish of stewed worms, a rat pie; or, perhaps, a bird's-nest. But the
+bird's-nest would be the best of the list, for it is not like the kind
+of bird's-nests which you have seen, but is made, I believe, of the
+spawn of fish, and looks something like isinglass. It is the nest of a
+sort of swallow, is about the size of a goose's egg, and is found in
+caverns along the sea shores; so it is not so bad as it seems at
+first. And the rats are as large and fat as some of our rabbits, being
+fed on fruits and grain, purposely for eating; as also are their dogs,
+for eating.
+
+The people of the "Celestial Empire" are celebrated for their fondness
+for making beautiful gardens; but their houses and gardens are quite
+different from ours.
+
+What a pretty scene! what a delicious cool walk is formed by the grove
+of trees leading to the porcelain tower. And those ladies walking
+towards the boat,--or hobbling, more likely; for the Chinese ladies
+have feet not much larger than your papa's thumb, which is there
+considered a great beauty.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The common women cannot afford to have little feet, as the feet of the
+rich girls are bandaged up in iron shoes, when they are two or three
+years old, to prevent their growing larger. These small feet are
+called "Golden Lilies;" but I am glad no such barbarous custom
+prevails in our own dear country. The Chinese ladies, however, are
+extremely accomplished, and can play on many musical instruments,
+paint, and embroider. The merchants of China are not at all remarkable
+for their honesty, though a few of them are very scrupulous. Many of
+them amass great fortunes.
+
+The Chinese have sent in embroidered shawls, table-covers, teas,
+curious and intricate toys, and specimens of handicraft.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Why, we have even specimens of Russian industry, in the Great
+Exhibition; and very good specimens they are, too. Russia is not such
+a pleasant country, in some respects, as any of those I have been
+telling you of; for in the winter the frost is so severe that many of
+the poor Russians die from cold. The rich wrap themselves up in warm
+furs, and ride in fur-lined sledges, instead of the usual carriages;
+but the poor people are forced to continue working out of doors at
+their various employments, being very careful, however, to cover their
+legs, hands, and head with fur, lest they should be bitten with the
+frost, which sometimes seizes those parts and turns them white. Though
+many of the poor women stand for hours together, washing their linen
+in holes cut in the ice, without getting frozen, yet it often happens
+that coachmen and other servants have been frozen to death in the
+streets at night, while waiting for their masters.
+
+At the end of every year, the Russians keep a long fast, and as soon
+as it is over, lay in their store of winter's provisions, at a market
+held once a-year on the river Neva, which is then frozen over. I
+should like you to see this market, it is so full of gaiety and
+singularity, while the high piles of frozen provisions look so
+picturesque along the ice. The Russians are remarkable for their
+cheerfulness and contentment, and are so fond of singing, that they
+are always enjoying a song when at work. Russian songs are very
+different from ours, and sound rather odd to us.
+
+The food of the common people is black rye bread, sometimes, by way
+of treat, stuffed with onions, carrots, or green corn, and seasoned
+with sweet oil. They use eggs, salt fish, bacon, and mushrooms, of
+which last they have a great plenty. The men are ordinarily dressed in
+loose trousers; short coats of sheep-skin, tied with a sash round
+their waists, and folds of flannel, fastened round with pack-thread,
+on their legs, for stockings. The women are dressed just as oddly, in
+short gowns, and with their hair plaited and hanging down their backs,
+if they are unmarried; or a cap and cotton kerchief round their heads,
+if they are married. The peasants' houses are built of wood, and have
+one or two rooms only; they are miserably furnished, with no beds, as
+the family sleep on benches in summer, while nearly one-fourth of the
+principal apartment is filled by an enormous stove, or rather oven,
+upon which they sleep in winter; for the smoke of which, there is no
+chimney beyond a hole in the wall. I don't think you or I would much
+like to spend a winter in Russia.
+
+Many useful things, you may observe, have come from Spain--cheeses,
+honey, dried fruits, salt, lime, wool, oil, flax, and cotton; with
+guns, swords, and also beautiful ornaments; with some precious
+stones, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. The Spaniards are not either a
+very active or a very cleanly people, but they are exceedingly proud,
+honest, and hospitable; they are skilful workers in woollen and silk
+stuffs, and manufacture sword-blades of a very fine kind; while their
+leather is celebrated for its superiority. They also work beautifully
+in gold and silver; and trade in immense quantities of those oranges
+you like so well, lemons, citrons, grapes, raisins, olives, nuts, and
+wines.
+
+The chief amusement of both high and low is one which neither you nor
+I would be pleased with, I hope, for it is bull-fighting; which cruel
+entertainment they learned from the Moors, who once had possession of
+Spain, and built all the beautiful castles and palaces that are in it.
+The manners of the rich people are merely like those of our own
+gentry, but the common people are very peculiar; and all classes
+delight in playing on the guitar, and singing, both of which they
+perform charmingly. They have also two favourite dances, called a
+fandango, and a bolero, both extremely lively and graceful. The mode
+of conveyance in Spain is by mules, and these beasts are surprisingly
+obedient to their masters, and answer to their own names just like our
+own pet dogs. The tails of the mules are oddly decorated, by cutting
+the hair into stars, flowers, and other fanciful designs.
+
+The villages are mostly mean, and the roads narrow; but Madrid, the
+capital of Spain, is a large city, with long, straight streets, many
+of them cooled by noble fountains. The houses in Madrid are built of
+brick, and even the grandest of them have only lattices, instead of
+glass windows, most of which have, however, handsome balconies,
+supported on columns. In the churches, there are neither pews,
+benches, nor chairs; the ground is covered with matting, on which
+every one kneels together, from the grandee to the beggar. In the
+suburbs there are many woods of evergreen oak, vineyards, olive
+plantations, and orchards of mulberry, plum, and almond trees; and the
+flocks of black sheep and goats, grazing in the country meadows, have
+a pretty effect.
+
+I don't think you would find the Spanish cookery much to your taste;
+for the Spaniards are very fond of rancid butter in their meals, and
+of oil that has a very strong smell and flavour; indeed, when they
+are going to cook anything that requires fat, they lift down the lamp
+from the ceiling, and take out what oil they want. Bread, steeped in
+oil, and occasionally seasoned with vinegar, is the common food of the
+country people. Their favourite wine is that which has a strong taste
+of the leather bottles or casks, in which they keep it; and they will
+hardly eat any thing that has not saffron, pimento, or garlic, in it.
+They have, however, even amongst the poorest, such fine grapes, ripe
+melons, and tempting oranges, as my little readers, I know, have
+seldom tasted. In summer, they use a quantity of ice, which is sold in
+glasses, in the streets, for a trifling sum. In place of candles, the
+poor people have a piece of cane, cut with holes through it, which is
+fixed to the ceiling, and from one of the holes a lamp is hung by a
+hook.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The dress of the lower orders is very pretty indeed, and they
+themselves are mostly tall and handsome, with black hair and eyes, and
+dark sun-burnt complexions. The climate is so warm and balmy, that
+they can grow their fruits in the open air.
+
+Some pretty articles have been sent from Portugal, a country which is
+near Spain, and very like it in all respects. It is a very fine
+country, famous for wine, and oil; and the sheep are much prized for
+their superior wool. The ladies of rank still spin flax from a
+distaff, to show their industry. The peasantry are not very well off;
+their only luxury is tobacco, and their usual fare is bread, made of
+Indian corn, with a salted pilchard, or a head of garlic, to give it a
+relish. They are polite and hospitable; but the people of the towns
+have not the least scruple in stabbing any body that offends them; so
+that it is a dangerous thing to affront them.
+
+What elegant tables, pictures, vases, marbles, statues, shells, woods,
+and perfumes, have been contributed to the Exhibition from Italy.
+Here is a table of a most beautiful material, called pietra dura,
+which took one hundred and twenty years to finish, and came from
+Naples.
+
+Italy has always been celebrated for the beauty of the articles
+manufactured there; and the things it has sent us now are certainly
+worthy of its fame. It is one of the loveliest countries in the world,
+in the spring and autumn, and is ornamented with the richest foliage;
+vines, mulberry, olive, and orange trees; and with high hills and deep
+dales, towns, villas, and villages. The soil is extremely fertile, and
+produces abundance of grain, the finest fruits and vegetables, with
+flax, saffron, and manna. The climate is delightful, except in
+summer, when the weather is dreadfully hot, and the winters are so
+mild, that ice and snow are quite rarities, except in the mountains; I
+wonder what my little-boy friends would do there, for a skate on the
+ice, or a merry game of snow-balls?
+
+Rome, the capital of Italy, is a splendid city, full of the remains of
+ancient temples, pillars, arches, and fountains; but many of them
+sadly ruinous and decayed. There are a great many Jews in it, who are
+forced to live in a particular part, called the _ghetto_, which means
+a place for Jews. The city of Rome and the surrounding country are
+very unwholesome during summer, in consequence of the land not being
+properly drained, as it used to be in the times of the ancient Romans,
+so that it is dangerous to dwell near them at that season of the year.
+The numerous vineyards in Italy, are not divided by hedges, but by
+rows of rather fine trees, the vines clinging in graceful festoons
+from one bough to another. In some parts of the country, there are
+various picturesque corn fields and meadows, bordered by olive trees.
+
+The Italians are not a very industrious people, but they make silk
+stockings, soap, snuff-boxes of the lava of Mount Vesuvius, tables of
+marble, and ornaments of shells, besides gloves and caps of the
+filaments of a kind of muscle, which they get off the rocks, where it
+fixes itself by spinning a web from its own body, like the silk-worm
+or spider. These caps and gloves are actually warmer than those made
+of wool, and are of a fine glossy green colour.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There are a great many beggars, I am sorry to say, in fair Italy, who
+are called _Lazzaroni_, and they live on whatever they can get,
+sleeping under porticos, piazzas, or any place they can find, and are,
+as you may guess, excessively idle, like all other beggars.
+
+There are also hordes of thieves, who are called _Banditti_, and who
+rob people in the most daring manner, for there are very few police.
+But there are also numerous persons who are quite well-behaved, and
+do all they can to earn their bread honestly. Among these is a set of
+men called _Improvisatori_, who tell stories, or repeat verses in the
+streets, and get a good deal of money from those who stop to listen to
+them. It must be very pleasant, on a cool summer evening, to sit under
+some magnificent old portico, listening to some interesting poem, or
+hearing a pretty story related.
+
+Throughout Italy, one of the remarkable customs, is keeping of a grand
+festival, which begins some weeks before Lent, and is called the
+"Carnival;" on this occasion, every place is brilliantly adorned, and
+the people go about singing, dancing, joking, and masquerading. The
+most splendid Carnival is kept at Venice, a remarkable city of Italy,
+built upon a several islands, the sea, which runs every where among
+them, serving the inhabitants for streets.
+
+The Italians are very handsome, and have jet black hair, dark roguish
+eyes, and fine figures. The dress of the lower orders is even prettier
+than the pretty Spanish costume. The men wear high-crowned hats, such
+as you may sometimes have seen on the organ-grinders in the streets of
+London, velveteen jackets, gaiters, and open shirt-collars, loosely
+fastened by a silk ribbon; while the women have short scarlet
+petticoats, and jackets of a darker colour, with exceedingly short
+sleeves, tied with bright ribbon, and their long black hair decorated
+with coloured bows of ribbon, and confined by a silk lace net, which
+falls partly over their shoulders. Instead of sending thieves to
+prison in Italy, they are sent on board the galleys, a large kind of
+rowing vessels, where they are chained to the decks, and obliged to
+endure every species of hardship.
+
+What a number of things the Germans have contributed! Bracelets,
+articles of straw, beautiful household furniture, toys, wire, and many
+other manufactures. Here is a splendid tray of polished amber, with a
+little carriage, made according to a proper model, and a large
+chandelier of amber, capable of holding several thousand lights. There
+is a beautiful cabinet made of a collection of pieces of unpolished
+amber, intended to show the different kinds of that mineral, its
+various forms, its peculiarities, and its varieties. Here is a
+bedstead, worth it is said ten thousand pounds; and the most elegant
+furniture ever seen. And here is a piece of white silk embroidered
+with portraits of our Queen and the Prince of Wales, done in a thin
+kind of thread, called "hair thread."
+
+You know a good deal about Germany itself, I dare say, already; but I
+must tell you something about the Germans themselves. They are grave
+and thoughtful, but highly romantic and full of enthusiasm. Their love
+for their country is most remarkable. All classes in Germany are
+well-educated, and many painters, poets, and musicians, have been born
+among them. The art of printing was first practiced in that country,
+and at present the number of books printed there is immense; while
+every year a book-fair is held at the city of Leipzig. The produce and
+manufactures of Germany are exceedingly numerous, and you see they are
+of great variety, such as clocks, watches, woollens, linens, toys,
+wines, ornamental work in iron and steel, worsteds, and silks. In the
+public walks and gardens, on Sundays, the people assemble in great
+crowds, dressed out in their holiday clothes, while ladies and
+gentlemen walk about without the least restraint among the working
+people.
+
+The chase is a favourite amusement with the nobles and gentlemen, and
+is a sport in which they are lustily joined by the peasantry. The
+immense forests with which the country abounds gives shelter to wild
+boars, wolves, and many other ferocious animals. On grand occasions
+there is held what is called a _battue_, when a number of deer are
+driven into an enclourse, and shot at by the sportsmen. The habits of
+the peasants are extremely simple, but the people are industrious and
+ingenious. The villages and cottages are neat and comfortable. The
+peasants make many pretty toys and ornaments, and bring provisions to
+market from a great distance, in light roomy wheel-barrows, made for
+the purpose. The German people are in general fair, with blue eyes,
+flaxen hair, and full figures; but they do not wear any very peculiar
+dress.
+
+In models of ships, in rosewood furniture, in silver embroidery, and
+silver cups,--besides linens, calicoes, and glass beautifully painted
+for windows; many contributions have been sent in by the Dutch. There
+are also soft thick blankets with scarlet borders, which make one warm
+merely to look at them.
+
+The Dutch people are industrious, and cleanly. The women are the most
+active and nicest house-wives in the world; they scour and brighten,
+and rub not only the furniture and inside of their houses, but the
+outside as well; the houses in Holland, by-the-bye, look like painted
+baby-houses, and are roofed with glossy delft tiles, and the rooms are
+lined with smooth square tiles of delft, and the floors paved with
+marble. The people are never idle in Holland, but are always working
+at a great variety of manufactures, among which are leather, woollen,
+and linen articles,--also, paper, wax, starch, pottery, and tiles.
+Large quantities of gin are likewise made, and this liquor is in
+England called "Hollands" for that reason. Carts are not much used by
+the Dutch; their goods are carried on sledges, very light waggons, and
+boats. The reason of this is, that they are afraid lest the wheels of
+vehicles should injure the foundations of their cities, which are
+generally built on piles of huge trees, driven like stakes into the
+bog beneath. The common people are very humane to their cattle; they
+rub down the cows and oxen, and keep them as clean and sleek as our
+English horses. Canals run through the principal streets, and in
+winter they are frozen over for two or three months, when the whole
+country is like a fair; booths are erected upon the ice, with fires in
+them. The country people skate to market, with milk and vegetables;
+and every kind of sport is seen on the frozen canals. Sledges fly from
+one street to another, gaily decorated, and numberless skaters glide
+about with astonishing swiftness and dexterity. No people skate so
+well as the Dutch.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Holland was once a quagmire, almost covered with water; but by making
+canals higher than the land, and pumping the water out of the fields
+into them, the land was drained. The bogs are numerous, and supply so
+much turf that little else is burned. There are no beggars; and the
+people are in general pretty warmly clothed, and comfortable looking,
+with ruddy faces. The townspeople are dressed almost like the
+Londoners, or Parisians; but the costume of the country folks is
+rather funny. A farmer's wife, when out for a holiday, wears a large
+kind of gipsy hat, like a small umbrella, lined with damask; a close
+jacket with long flaps; and full short thick coloured petticoats. Her
+slippers are yellow, her stockings blue, and her cap is without a
+border, being made to fit her head exactly, and gaily ornamented with
+gold filagree clasps; while her costume is finished by a pair of
+earrings and a necklace. The farmer himself wears a hat without a rim,
+and huge silver buttons on his coat; and keeps whiffing away at his
+pipe, which he is seldom without. The Dutch are most excellent
+gardeners, though they sometimes ruin themselves by their love for
+flowers.
+
+Among the articles that have been sent here from Switzerland, are
+several well worth looking at, they are so wonderfully ingenious. Of
+this kind are two boxes, one of white wood, and the other of brown;
+the white has a lovely Alpine rose, with garlands of flowers upon the
+sides, the rose and lid being cut out of one piece of wood, and so
+beautifully made to imitate nature, that the slightest touch with the
+point of a knife or a needle, makes the leaves move and quiver without
+spoiling the flower. This was made by a Swiss peasant. The people of
+Switzerland are very remarkable for their industry, contentment, and
+ingenuity.
+
+Among the villagers, their chief occupations are the management of
+dairies, and the breeding of cattle; and many of the peasantry make a
+living by hunting the chamois, as the wild goat is called. This is
+rather a dangerous employment, yet the chamois-hunters delight in it;
+they carry a long hook pointed with an iron spike, and with the help
+of this, they leap from rock to rock, over frightful chasms and
+precipices; yet such is their surprising activity, that they are never
+killed. Other peasants earn a livelihood by fattening and preparing
+snails for market; for these creatures are considered a great delicacy
+in many parts of Switzerland. In another part of the country the
+inhabitants almost exclusively follow the trade of watch-making, and
+polishing the crystals and pebbles that are found in the mountains,
+Geneva, a city of Switzerland, is celebrated for the watches that are
+made there.
+
+The women are extremely domestic, delighting in their children; and
+all the Swiss are remarkable for their passionate love of home. In
+every village there is a school, established by the Government for
+the instruction of poor children. The Swiss are the most graceful of
+all peasants, and wear very smart costumes. The men wear large hats,
+and their dress is generally a brown cloth jacket without sleeves, and
+puffed breeches of ticking. The women have short blue petticoats, a
+cherry-coloured boddice, full white sleeves fastened above the elbow,
+and a muslin kerchief thrown round their necks; while their hair is
+plaited, and twisted about their heads. They also wear pretty flat
+straw hats, ornamented with bows of ribbon.
+
+The scenery of Switzerland is of the most charming and romantic
+description; there are towering mountains, craggy rocks, steep
+precipices, with foaming torrents dashing down their sides, and dizzy
+heights, which I should be sorry any of my little friends were looking
+down. But these are delightfully intermixed with beautiful valleys,
+adorned with groves of fir, beech, and chestnut trees; clear lakes,
+rapid rivers, cataracts, and bridges of one arch reaching an immense
+distance from rock to rock. Portions of the mountains are covered with
+villages and scattered cottages; and the inside of the dwellings are
+so neat and look so comfortable, that you could almost wish to live in
+one of them, if you were not told that there is a perpetual danger of
+their being buried under one of the enormous masses of snow that
+frequently roll from the tops of the mountains, and destroy everything
+in their way. These masses are called Avalanches.
+
+Between the summits of the highest of the mountains are valleys of
+ice, frozen into many fantastic shapes, formed by one crust of ice
+growing hard over another; but what is more extraordinary, is that the
+borders of these glaciers, as they are called, are fertile:
+strawberries, wild cherries, nuts, barberries, and mulberries, grow
+there; and goats browse on the most inaccessible parts of the rocks,
+and bound with the most surprising agility from one cliff to another.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Several contributions have been sent by the Prussians and Austrians;
+woollens, minerals, linens, china, and other things.
+
+The Prussians are a very polite and well-educated people, and nowhere
+are there more schools than in their country.
+
+Prussia itself is an extremely pleasant place, and the towns are fine,
+with wide, regular streets, and high antique-looking houses; the
+streets are mostly lined with trees, which look pretty enough while
+their leaves are green, but rather prevent the free circulation of
+air. The Prussian ladies delight in fine clothes, and would be much
+vexed if they were obliged to go out without them. The gentry speak
+French, but the common people talk German. The beautiful Dresden china
+we see at the Exhibition, cames from the town of Dresden.
+
+Austria is a very fine country, and contains a great variety of
+people. The principal artizans are tanners, furriers, boot makers,
+lace workers, and cabinet makers. There are also workers in iron,
+copper, alum, saltpetre, besides many others. The general habits of
+the Austrians are like those of the Germans, so I do not think I need
+tell you anything about them.
+
+The Poles and Hungarians have also sent their industrial productions
+to the Great Exhibition; cloth, lace, furniture, brooms, linens,
+woollens, and other articles. I dare say you have heard a good deal
+lately about the Hungarians, when they were fighting against the
+Austrians and Russians. The Hungarian peasants are very hard-working;
+indeed, they cannot help being so, for as the nobility and gentry are
+not taxed, the poor people are forced to pay all the taxes, besides
+being obliged to give money and provisions to their masters, the Lords
+of the Manor, who, I am sorry to say, are excessively tyrannical. They
+are also compelled to pay tithes to the clergy, the magistrates, and
+the soldiers, and to work for nothing on the public works; against
+which bad laws they fought. Agriculture, and the breeding of cattle,
+are carried on to a considerable extent.
+
+Hungary is occupied by a variety of people, with entirely different
+habits; it contains Frenchmen, Sclavonians, Turks, Jews, Spaniards,
+Gipsies, Germans, and Greeks. The Magyar language, the original
+Hungarian tongue, is spoken by the peasants; but in the cities the
+people mostly use German and French.
+
+The Poles live in a cold, flat, marshy country, in the north of
+Europe. The peasantry are in a miserable state, very dirty and
+frequently drunken; and their land is in a wretched condition.
+
+The Swedish and Danish people have made many things to be exhibited in
+the World's Fair. Sweden is in the north of Europe, and the climate is
+very disagreeable, for it is extremely cold in winter, and intolerably
+hot in summer. The people do not live very luxuriantly; their bread is
+not only black and coarse, but so hard that they are sometimes obliged
+to break it with a hatchet; and this, with dried fish, and salt meat,
+forms the chief part of their food. Yet they are very hardy and
+contented. At Michaelmas, they kill their cattle and salt them, for
+the winter and spring. Their favourite drink is beer, and they delight
+in malt spirits; some of them have tea and coffee. Their houses are
+generally built of wood, and their cottages are made of rough logs;
+the roofs are covered with turf, on which the goats browse. The
+Swedish women do everything that men are employed to do in other
+countries; they plough, sow, and thresh, and work with the
+bricklayers; the country women, as well as the ladies, wear veils to
+shade their faces from the glare of the snow in winter, and from the
+scorching rays of the sun reflected from the barren rocks in summer.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The iron mines of Sweden are exceedingly useful; they furnish great
+quantities of metal, to be exported to England, for the use of our
+steel manufactories. The extensive forests supply numerous pine trees,
+which are cut down and sent to foreign countries, for ship and house
+building; while pitch and tar are made from the sap,--a preparation
+which gives employment to many of the inhabitants.
+
+The Swedes contrive to make things from materials we should throw away
+as good for nothing; they twist rope from hogs'-bristles, horses'
+manes, and the bark of trees; and form bridles of eel-skins. The
+coarse cloth they wear they make themselves, for the women are
+continually busy spinning or weaving. Sweden is the birth-place of the
+famous botanist, Linnæus, and the charming singer, Jenny Lind.
+
+Norway is united to Sweden, but it is still colder in winter and
+hotter in summer. The people live very simply, mostly on milk, cheese,
+and dried fish; and sometimes they have slices of meat, sprinkled with
+salt and dried in the wind. In some parts of the country, the people
+make bread of the bark of the pine tree; and in winter, for want of
+hay, they are obliged to feed their cattle on dried fish. The houses
+are built of wood, and many of the roads are made of the same
+material; while wooden fences are used instead of hedges. The
+Norwegians send metals, minerals, salt, butter, dried fish, and furs,
+to other countries.
+
+Denmark is a very fine country, perfectly level, except a single ridge
+of mountains. Its chief products are grain, tobacco, flax, madder, and
+hops. There are a great many mines, but few manufactures carried on;
+though the Danish gloves are much esteemed. The climate is generally
+rather warm, but very wet. The Danes are mostly well-educated; they
+are like the Swedes in their manners and customs. They have sent many
+specimens of their industry to the Great Exhibition.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Why, who would have thought of seeing Persian and Egyptian
+contributions at the Exhibition?
+
+And such splendid articles as they are! Persia, you know, is a rich
+and fertile country, near Russia, in Asia; but although it has many
+beautiful flowers and fruits, yet is there very little timber; owing
+to which they have no shipping. The Persians delight in fine clothes
+on which they lavish the greater part of their money, and they are
+fonder of scarlet, or crimson, than of any other colour. They are very
+skilful in dyeing, in making silks, shagreen, morocco, gold and silver
+ornaments; and they form excellent swords and weapons. Their commerce
+with Turkey, China, Arabia, and other places, is carried on by means
+of what they call "caravans," which are large companies of merchants,
+who travel together for the sake of security from thieves, by whom
+however, they are often robbed; these companies have frequently more
+than a thousand camels, to carry their luggage and their goods; and in
+consequence of the excessive heat, they are obliged to journey mostly
+in the early morning, and rest during the day. The Persians live
+chiefly on rice, fruit, and coffee, and eat very little meat; they
+luxuriate in baths, and the poorest amongst them endeavour to have a
+horse. They use the Turkish language, and are nearly all Mahometans;
+they used to worship the sun and fire, though very few continue to do
+so still. The Persian ladies never appear in the streets or any other
+public place, without having long veils, in order to conceal their
+faces, as the Turkish ladies do. The Persians are very like the Turks
+in their manners and customs, which I described to you before.
+
+Egypt was, formerly, a mighty empire, and had rich and haughty kings,
+who adorned it with magnificent temples and palaces. I dare say you
+remember what you have read of it in the history of Joseph and his
+brethren, and in that of Moses. It was here that Solomon built his
+magnificent and gorgeous Temple. It is now, however, an exceedingly
+mean country, and is governed by a Turkish Pacha, whose grandfather
+contrived to make himself master of Egypt, as well as of Syria and
+Palestine. The climate of Egypt is excessively hot,--in fact, the
+nights in spring are the only pleasant part of the year. The nights in
+autumn are also very fine,--even delicious; and the rays of the moon
+are so bright that the natives, who sleep in the open air, cover their
+eyes to prevent their being injured by the brilliancy. The greater
+portion of the land is covered with burning sands; but wherever the
+waters of the river Nile have been conducted by canals, and allowed to
+flow over the country, the earth becomes fertile, and fruits thrive
+luxuriantly. There are but few garden flowers, but roses are
+extensively cultivated, the attar of roses forming an article of
+commerce.
+
+There are many valuable minerals found in the earth; and beautiful
+marble, alabaster, salt, alum, and other useful things. The woods,
+marshes, plains, and rivers supply a variety of animals, most of them
+wild and ferocious. It was in Egypt that the Hippopotamus was found.
+The people devote themselves to agriculture, the rearing of bees, and
+poultry; they also carry on an important trade with other countries.
+Most of the Egyptians are strong, of a tawny complexion, and of a gay
+disposition. They luxuriate in water; and esteem it the height of
+enjoyment to sit by a fountain, smoking their pipes; they are
+excessively fond of bathing. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a large
+city, with irregular unpaved streets, and brick houses, with flat
+roofs. There are a good many small manufactories; and some schools, a
+printing-office, and a large library. There are numerous magnificent
+fountains in the city, which are indispensable on account of the
+intense heat; and more than a thousand shops for selling cups of
+coffee, of which the Egyptians are very fond; these coffee shops are
+called _rahwehs_. All along the river Nile the banks show signs of
+industry; cotton, tobacco, and other produce being grown down to the
+water's edge. The Pyramids of Egypt, the time of the building of which
+is not known, are considered one of the wonders of the world.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Greeks have sent some fine stuffs; their silk manufactures are
+really beautiful, and their sculptures and feather-fans are splendid.
+Greece was a famous country long, long ago, in ancient history, but it
+has undergone many sad changes, and was for a long time ruled by the
+Turks. The English, French, and Russians rid it from Turkish hands;
+but its present government is weak and imperfect, for the numerous
+petty chiefs pursue a wicked system of robbery, fighting, and tyranny.
+Indeed, many of these chiefs have fitted out vessels as pirate ships,
+in order to seize and plunder any other vessels weaker than their own
+with which they may fall in. There are, however, many wealthy Greek
+merchants; and a number of rich Jews live in various parts of Greece.
+The Greek people are beautiful and graceful. The women have fine oval
+faces, their eyes are large and dark, their eyebrows and hair are of
+deep shining black, and their complexions are mostly pale. They are
+very splendid in their dresses; the costume of the men is extremely
+like that of the Turks. From having been so long subject, however, to
+their Turkish rulers, the Greeks have become artful and cunning.
+
+The rich ladies and nobles of Greece have fine young slaves to wait
+upon them, and amuse them by singing or dancing. These slaves are
+bought from the Tartars, who steal them from Russia, Circassia, or
+Georgia, and are taken great care of, being taught to embroider, sing,
+dance, and deport themselves with elegance and grace. Their masters or
+mistresses scarcely ever sell them, but when they are tired of them,
+either give them to a friend, or set them free. When they do sell
+them, it is as a punishment for some crime, or for being useless.
+
+There are numerous brigands, or thieves, in Greece, who are divided
+into bands, and rob with the utmost impunity. They manage to hide
+themselves very artfully in the roads where they expect to meet
+travellers, doubling their bodies up behind stones and bushes, or else
+lying flat on their faces on the ground, when they suddenly all start
+up and surround any unfortunate individual who may happen to pass that
+way. There are also honest, industrious people in Greece; and among
+them are the guides, men who show strangers over the curious portions
+of the cities for a trifling sum of money; and there are the cabmen of
+Athens, who are usually very intelligent and well-informed; there are
+a number of cabs in Athens.
+
+The Greek houses have only one story; but there are generally large
+gardens, carefully tended, attached to them. The climate is generally
+mild, but not so much so as formerly, on account of the cutting down
+of the forests. The spring and autumn are delightful; but the summer
+is too hot, and the winter is almost a succession of storm and rain.
+The earth is extremely fertile, and produces corn, wine, and fruits,
+besides the honey and figs you like so much. The people manufacture
+silks and cottons, and export quantities of small raisins, which grow
+very luxuriantly in and about the city of Corinth. Corinth is one of
+the most charming places that you can fancy to yourself, and is
+surrounded by beautiful views and the remains of ancient temples,
+columns, and statues; groves of fine olive trees border the city, and
+the waters of two bays meet near the entrance. The ruins of the
+ancient temples and buildings in Athens, the capital of Greece, are
+still to be seen; but so little do the ignorant and foolish people,
+who have lived in the city in modern times, value these great works,
+that they have for hundreds of years used the greater part of the
+splendid marbles to build their houses, which are only ordinary and
+common-looking.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The inhabitants of Bavaria and Belgium have sent almost numberless
+articles of industry to the Exhibition; furs, lace, machinery, corn,
+books, furniture, and metals.
+
+Belgium was formerly called Flanders, and the people produced superior
+cloth, hats, cutlery, and other useful things, a very great many years
+before the English could make any thing better than the most common
+sort of goods. The Belgians are still celebrated for their ingenuity
+in making toys, lace, cloth, silk, satin, velvet, and other useful
+articles. They are also famous for the culture of flowers, in which
+they excel even the Dutch. Every house has a garden attached, which is
+frequently surrounded by a moat. The country is small, but every part
+of the land is made fertile by the industry of the farmers, of whom
+there are a great number; many of them grow flax, which is woven into
+linen by the women. There is a weekly market for linen, held at Ghent,
+whither the peasantry carry their products for sale, and both men and
+women may be seen standing in two long lines, with benches before
+them.
+
+The farms in Belgium are cultivated with great care and attention, and
+much resemble the market gardens round London; they all have gardens,
+and grow an ample supply of fruit and vegetables. The food of the
+peasants, is rye-bread and milk, for breakfast and supper; potatoes
+and onions, with bacon and beer, for dinner; they eat off pewter; and
+although their fare is simple, it is good and plentiful. Their dress
+is somewhat coarse, but it is neat and clean, the men wear blue linen
+frocks; and the women have printed cotton gowns, linen caps, and
+woollen petticoats.
+
+The towns and villages of Belgium are numerous, and thickly peopled.
+Brussels, the capital, is a fine city, and is celebrated for its
+manufactures, particularly for lace, camlet, and carpets. Ten thousand
+people are employed there in making lace. It is also famous for its
+pottery and porcelain. The other articles made there, are cotton and
+woollen stuffs, silk stockings, and earthenware. The carriages built
+there, are superior to even those of London or Paris; there is a
+specimen of Belgian carriages at the Exhibition.
+
+There are numerous silk manufactories in Brussels; and the beautiful
+linen, called damask, is exported in great quantities. There are
+innumerable breweries, too; for no people in the world are so fond of
+drinking beer as the Belgians. The people carry on a considerable
+trade with foreign countries, by means of the various canals, on which
+a vast number of steam-boats are constantly passing and re-passing.
+
+The upper part of Brussels is magnificent, and has a splendid park
+laid out with shaded walks, and surrounded by the palaces, private
+houses, and public offices; but in the lower part, the streets are
+narrow and crowded, though the market-place is very beautiful. There
+are twenty superb fountains in the city, ornamented with sculpture.
+The Belgians delight in music, and they hold musical festivals every
+year. In the Horticultural Gardens at Ghent, during summer, there are
+several concerts performed in the open air; and even among the
+labouring people, the songs and pieces of music sung together by
+groups of peasants and working people are often delightful to hear;
+for in Belgium, as in Holland, Prussia, and over a great part of
+Germany, even the poorest children are freely taught to sing in
+harmony at school. There are several railways in Belgium, which is a
+very great convenience to travellers. The climate is good; and, in
+winter, snow does not fall deeply.
+
+Bavaria is in Germany also, and is celebrated for its manufactures of
+iron, glass, paper, hardware, clocks, linen, woollen, and fire-arms.
+The people are industrious and careful, excepting in smoking tobacco,
+of which they are very wasteful. Industry is encouraged; and several
+schools have been established for teaching young men agriculture and
+gardening, with the usual branches of education.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We must not forget to see what has come from America. Our Great
+Exhibition has been almost as much talked of there, as it has been at
+home, and an immense number of contributions has been sent from that
+country. Machinery, sculptures, stuffs, carriages, minerals, boots and
+shoes, iron-work, and wines, have been dispatched over to the
+Exhibition.
+
+America was formerly inhabited by numerous tribes of Red Indians,--a
+wild, warlike race,--of whom but few now remain, and those not at all
+civilized; but the greater number of the white people of America are
+the same in their dress, manners, and language, as ourselves.
+
+A large portion of America is called the United States, which is a
+Republic; that is, it is governed by the people themselves, without a
+king, queen, and a royal family; they appoint a President every four
+years. Long ago, the United States belonged to the English, but the
+natives gradually grew more powerful than they had been, and threw off
+all foreign control.
+
+America produces every kind of grain and fruit, as well as spices,
+dye-woods, and balsams. The people export quantities of natural
+productions to Europe, but their manufacturers are not as yet able to
+compete with those of what are called the _old_ countries. The
+principal manufactures are of cotton, woollen, iron, and leather;
+which they exchange with the Red Indians for prepared bark, skins, and
+birds' feathers. Mines abound, particularly for gold and silver; and
+there is abundance of precious stones. The farmers are a very
+industrious and intelligent class, and display much taste and neatness
+in their management.
+
+The finest timber for ship-building is abundant, and easily obtained;
+and there are many excellent harbours. Numerous fishing stations are
+situated along the coasts, and are very valuable; for fishing is
+there a very good employment, and engages many of the natives of the
+Northern States. As these fishermen get accustomed to a sea-faring
+life, and inured to fatigue, they soon become excellent sailors, and
+furnish men for the navy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The whale fishery is also a valuable pursuit, but it requires uncommon
+bravery and skill.--In the United States there are numerous schools
+and academies, wherein the children are educated free.
+
+The rich people in America are free from haughtiness, awkwardness, or
+formality, but they do not display the elegance and refinement of the
+higher classes in England or France. As for the common people, they
+are serious, shrewd, and industrious; but often seem rude and
+uncourtly to strangers, for they wish to show their independance by an
+annoying surliness of behaviour. A great number of turnpike roads,
+railways, canals, and bridges, have been formed, and improve the
+country very much, as you may imagine.
+
+The Americans make works in iron and wood, articles of machinery and
+of husbandry, tanned leather, and dressed skins. They are famous for
+ship-building.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Peru, which is in South America, is a very fine country, and produces
+many useful things, such as tobacco, pepper, jalap, Peruvian bark, and
+indigo.
+
+There are numerous valuable gold and silver mines, which make the
+inhabitants so rich, that at one time, long since, they paved several
+streets with ingots of silver, in proof of their wealth. There are
+whale fisheries on the coasts. Only _one_ specimen of industry has
+been sent from Peru!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mexico is another portion of South America. Its products are numerous,
+but the country suffers much for want of water, though the dew falls
+heavily every night. The soil is rich, and well cultivated, although
+not so carefully as with us. Indian corn is the principal food of the
+natives, and is cultivated so generally, that when the crop fails,
+there is a year of famine. A drink is also made from it, called
+chicha. Sweet potatoes, yams, and quantities of red pepper, together
+with vegetables, and fruits, and tobacco, are grown. A kind of plant,
+called a cacao, is so highly prized that the grains are used for
+money.
+
+For want of streams, of which the country is sadly deficient, the
+mills are mostly worked by animals, and are very inferior; and the
+machinery is so bad, that the cotton is separated from the seed by the
+hands of workpeople. The principal manufactures are cigars, cottons,
+soap, tanned leather, gunpowder, pottery, and hats.
+
+The rich people use a number of silver vessels, and a quantity of
+plate, on account of the want of manufactures of china and glass, so
+that the trade of a silversmith is rather good. Boots, saddles, and
+coaches, are well made: but the furniture, which is mostly of pine and
+cedar, is coarsely and clumsily put together.
+
+The streets of Mexico are rather wide and well paved; the houses
+are ornamental, and the churches and public buildings are
+magnificent.--The rich people pass the greater part of the day on
+their sofas, in darkened rooms; but in the evening, they appear
+arrayed in the most elegant costume, for they are particularly partial
+to parties and brilliant assemblies.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There are numerous beggars, called Leperos, who are very drunken and
+dishonest; but lively, voluble, and extremely civil; though they will
+pick any body's pocket. There are also innumerable Indians, who make
+earthen pots very neatly, and use them instead of iron or copper
+vessels.
+
+You have heard of Canada, which is a part of North America, and all
+that now remains to England of her vast American colonies.--Well, we
+have an enormous canoe from Canada!--I wonder who can have sent that?
+A canoe, as you know, is a kind of boat, which uncivilized people, who
+live near rivers, use. The canoes of Canada are of a very thin
+material, and so light, that the boatmen, in passing overland from one
+river to another, generally carry them on their heads. The canoes are
+mostly covered with bark, the pieces of which are sewed together with
+a particular kind of grass; the bark being usually not more than a
+quarter of an inch in thickness.
+
+The people of Canada, who are called Canadians, are rather
+industrious; they make very fine fans, they hunt, fish, and collect
+sugar from a tree called the Sugar maple. Their houses are built of
+stone, and are plastered, but seldom are higher than one story, except
+in the towns, and are made very warm by means of stoves. The furniture
+is usually made by the Canadians themselves, and is exceedingly
+simple.
+
+The chief article of food is peas soup, with a small piece of pork
+boiled in it, and a dish of thick sour milk. The women and children
+scarcely ever drink other than milk and water, but the men are
+particularly fond of rum.
+
+Winter lasts six months, during which time the greater part of the day
+is devoted to amusement, principally dancing. Most of the women can
+read and write, but the men can hardly do either; and the manners of
+both are very gay and light. There are a few lead mines in Canada, in
+which silver is also found. Their exports are timber, furs, potash,
+grain, and pearl-ash.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Australia has also sent her contributions to the Exhibition. Among
+them are specimens of the skins of animals, dried plants, fine woods,
+and other things.
+
+In Australia, there are scarcely any extensive manufactures, but the
+natives make some useful things, from the various and curious trees
+which abound. For instance, they form the most durable furniture and
+weapons from the casuarina or club tree; they make cloth from the
+finest bark of the paper-mulberry tree, and cord from a peculiar kind
+of flax. There are sago and cocoa trees, which grow to the height of
+one hundred and fifty feet, and are thirty feet round. Figs, lemons,
+oranges, sugar-canes, gum-trees, bread-fruit, and a kind of pepper,
+from which a drink, called ava, is made, are very useful to the
+natives. There are mines of a very rich quality, but they are as yet
+scarcely attended to. The original natives are very idle, and not very
+well off; those who live near the sea shore, catch fish; and those in
+the woods, eat such animals as they can get; or climb up trees, for
+honey, squirrels, and opussums.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The settlers, who are the people who have gone out from England and
+other countries, to dwell there, live in a very comfortable manner;
+they have large farms, with flocks of sheep and herds cattle, fields
+of waving corn, rice, and wheat; pretty huts, or shanties, as they are
+called, and a profusion of the most beautiful plants and creepers. In
+some parts of the country there are thriving towns, with good streets,
+elegant shops, and fine houses, such as there are in London.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+From the West Indies, specimens of industry have also come. Rice,
+fruits, sugar, metals, and plants, are among the contributions.
+
+The West Indians send us sugar rice, currants, raisins, cloves,
+nutmegs, cinnamon, allspice, and mace, for puddings; nice nuts, for
+our little boys and girls; coffee, cocoa, and chocolate, for our
+breakfast and tea; and fine silk, and cotton, for our dresses.
+
+Under the name of the West Indies, there are many countries:--Cuba,
+Jamaica, Hayti, Porto Rico, Barbadoes, and others. In Cuba, are found
+mines of gold, copper, and different other metals; there is a quantity
+of sugar grown there; and the tobacco is finer than that of most other
+islands. The trees are principally ebony, cedar, and mahogany, which
+are hewed down, and sent to foreign countries, to be made into
+furniture of various sorts. Cedar wood is also used to scent clothes
+and papers, on account of its sweet perfume. The Cubans are fond of
+bull-fighting, and of cock-fighting, I am sorry to say. Balls and
+parties are also a favourite and more innocent amusement.
+
+In Jamaica, the principal exercise of industry is in growing sugar,
+indigo, coffee, and ginger. These are cultivated in what are called
+plantations, which are attended to by negroes, who used to be slaves,
+and used to be lashed on to work unnaturally hard with whips; but they
+are now free in all the British colonies, as I hope they will be every
+where, long before any of my little friends, who read this book, may
+die. For not only were men and women kept in a state of slavery, but
+all their dear innocent little children, both little boys and little
+girls were treated as slaves.
+
+The bread-fruit tree is one of the most useful productions of the
+country, it not only supplies food, but other necessaries. Of the
+inner bark is formed a kind of cloth; the wood, which is soft, smooth,
+and of a yellowish colour, serves for the building of boats and
+houses; the leaves are used for wrapping up food; some parts of the
+flowers are good tinder; and the juice, when boiled with cocoa-nut
+oil, is employed for making bird-lime, and as a cement for mending
+earthenware vessels. So you may guess how useful it is to the people
+of Jamaica, and yet it is not a native of the West Indies, but was
+first brought there by English people, within the last seventy or
+eighty years.
+
+Hayti is now a much more flourishing island than it was; the Emperor,
+Faustin Soulouque, does every thing in his power to render it a
+civilized and polite country. He encourages all the arts and
+industrial sciences; and, in his court is kept up the grandeur of a
+great and powerful state; though the Haytians are black people, and
+were for the greater part negro slaves.
+
+Barbadoes is an exceedingly warm country, and is unfortunately liable
+to dreadful hurricanes, which sometimes overthrow whole towns and
+villages. The products are sugar, cotton, ginger, and rum. The tall
+sugar-canes, which grow as high as five or six feet, are set in
+plantations and tended by negroes; and the cotton plants are also
+taken care of by the negroes, who are almost the only persons who can
+work in the open air, on account of the heat. The houses of the
+planters are numerous all over the country; and, with the green hills,
+and the luxuriance of the vegetation, make an extremely picturesque
+scene.
+
+Since slavery has been abolished in our West India islands, schools
+for the children, and chapels for religious worship, have been erected
+at the expense of the negroes; numbers of whom have also become small
+landowners.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What a number of specimens have been despatched to the Exhibition from
+Algeria, Tunis, and the Cape of Good Hope: one, a model of a winged
+head, moulded in fine yellow clay, is really pretty; and the preserved
+fruits have quite a tempting look. And here are some boxes, made of
+most brilliant fancy woods; a few knives, soaps, cigars, herbs, and
+specimens of various woods, in blocks and in polished pieces. Here is
+also opium, paper made from the palm-tree, articles manufactured from
+native woods, with essences, perfumes, and splendid veils, slippers,
+caps, guns, and swords.
+
+Algeria now belongs to France; it was formerly one of the Barbary
+States, in the north of Africa, and many very useful plants and trees
+flourish there; oranges, melons, cucumbers, cabbages, lettuces, and
+artichokes, grow in great luxuriance. The sugar-cane is cultivated
+with success; and everywhere may be seen quantities of white roses,
+from which a sweet essence is extracted. The stems of the vines, which
+the people tend, are sometimes so thick, that a man can hardly put his
+arms round them; and the bunches of grapes are a foot and a-half long.
+Only think of bunches of grapes half a yard long! they must be
+something like those which we read of in the Bible, that were brought
+to Joshua, to show him what a fertile country was the land of Canaan.
+
+Acacia and cork trees grow in the woods of Algeria; the natives obtain
+gum from the acacia. There are many mines, but the Algerines make no
+use of them. The people themselves are strong in body, and of a tawny
+complexion.
+
+Tunis is another of the Barbary States, and contains a great number of
+people,--Moors, Turks, Arabs, Jews, and Christians, merchants and
+slaves. All these carry on a large trade in Morocco leather, linens,
+gold-dust, oil, woollen cloth, lead, ostrich feathers, horses, and
+soap. There are the same variety of vegetable productions that there
+are in Algeria.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Cape of Good Hope is in the south of Africa; it produces fine
+fruits and flowers, grapes, lemons, oranges, and figs, but no nuts.
+The aloe and myrtle grow to a great size, and the almond and wild
+chestnut are very plentiful. There are scarcely any manufactures, but
+the farmers keep immense flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle; and
+there is a vast quantity of fine wool sent every year to England; and
+ships provisions, such as beef, pork, and butter, are supplied to the
+vessels sailing to India, Australia, and many other parts of the
+world; their other chief export is Cape wine.
+
+In some parts of this country are large herds of zebras, antelopes,
+and giraffes, which are usually preyed upon by lions, obliging the
+shepherds to watch their flocks, and the farmers to ride about with
+loaded guns. A strange mode, my little readers will think, of being
+shepherds.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There have been no scarcity of French contributions; rich silks,
+velvets, satins, linens, fruits, woods, herbs, statues, machinery,
+furniture, iron-work, glass, plate, and a heap more of industrial
+products; and such splendid carpets. In the "Arabian Nights'
+Entertainments" we read about the Palaces of Fairies and Genii, with
+the floors covered with the richest carpets, and divans and cushions
+or gorgeous tapestry, and we long to see these carpets in reality; and
+so we shall at the Exhibition, for there are some so magnificent, that
+I do not think the Princess Badroulboudour, or the Fairy Queen Pari
+Banou, ever sat on finer. And charming little models of ships; and
+such beautiful fans. Do you know how many persons it takes to make a
+fan? Fifteen; and although those fans at the Exhibition are each worth
+several guineas, yet, in France, tens of thousands are sold at not
+more than a halfpenny a-piece. The French fan-makers get two shillings
+and six-pence a-day each, for their labour. The people of France are
+our next-door neighbours, almost; and from being our bitterest enemies
+they have now become our most intimate friends, and exchange visits
+constantly with us; steam vessels and railways having made the journey
+one of only a few hours.
+
+Paris is the capital of France, and it is the gayest city in the
+world; there are theatres, balls, processions, feast-days, fairs, and
+more amusements than I can remember. But there are also numbers of
+very poor people, who almost live in the streets, and get food and
+clothing as they best can. Some, who are called cheffoniers, go about
+with a fork and a basket, to pick up pieces of iron, rags, bones, or
+any stray valuables, if they can find them, from holes and corners in
+the streets, and from the dust heaps; others look for the ends of
+cigars, and sell them to be made into pieces of tobacco for the common
+people; and a number, I am very sorry to say, either beg or steal.
+
+Among the peasantry there is a great deal of industry displayed. As
+they are all desirous of having a cottage and some land of their own,
+lads of fifteen or sixteen years of age, hire themselves as labourers
+to the farmers, and receive wages, out of which, and their mode of
+living, they save enough money in a few years, to buy a piece of
+land. If the land is fit for it, they plant it with vines; for the
+vineyards of France yield an abundant harvest, and well repay the
+labour bestowed on them. The French wines are among the finest and
+most expensive in the world.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The cottages of the peasantry are not remarkable for comfort, being
+very rude buildings, frequently having merely a hole in the roof for a
+chimney. They are mostly, however, extremely picturesque, completely
+covered with vines. The wines, called Bourdeaux, Burgundy, and
+Champagne come from France. From the fruit of the olive-trees, which
+grow in vast quantities, a fine clear oil is obtained, and this forms
+a large part of the commerce of the country. The rearing of poultry is
+carried on to a great extent; and most of the eggs sold in London,
+which are used by us at breakfast, for sauces, and for puddings, come
+from France. Most of the cottagers keep one or two small hardy cows,
+which their boys or girls, or old people, are usually leading about by
+a halter, to eat the rank grass in paths or road-ways between the
+fields. Their milk and butter form a good part of the people's food.
+
+In Tours and Lyons, there are numerous manufactories for the most
+superb silks and damasks; some years ago, there were fifteen hundred
+pairs of silk stockings finished each day at Lyons.
+
+The plate-glass of Paris is now much better than that of Venice, which
+was formerly the finest in the world, the plates being of an immense
+size and extraordinary clearness. Their tapestry is beautiful; the
+tapestry of the Gobelin in particular, for it is just like splendid
+painting. Indeed, some of the designs, copied from pictures, surpass
+the originals, in point of beauty and brilliancy. There are many
+specimens of this tapestry at the Exhibition, both in draperies, and
+fitted to pieces of furniture.
+
+The porcelain made at Sevres is exquisitely beautiful, and is used
+for numerous ornamental purposes; vases, tea services, chimney
+ornaments, figures, and other articles. The painted papers, which
+represent various ornaments in painting, sculpture, and architecture,
+serve to employ a great number of people. Watches, cutlery, shoes,
+dresses, bonnets, and jewellery, are also a good source of employment
+among numerous families. All these beautiful things we shall see at
+the Exhibition.
+
+The forests, in France, are very extensive; and as wood is the general
+fuel used, great attention is paid to the growth of the trees. Cattle
+and domestic animals are rather scarce, and the sheep are ill-managed;
+in winter, they are fed on straw and hay, instead of green food, so
+that the French meat is not so good as the English; but they have a
+nice way of dressing it. The country people are very simple in their
+habits and manners, and very frugal in their way of living; they live
+for the most part on black bread, garlic, fruit, and milk. The
+costumes of some of the peasants are exceedingly pretty.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What a many thousand contributions have come from foreign countries,
+yet even a greater number have been sent in from all parts of our own
+dear islands, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Here is a silver
+tea-kettle, manufactured from a fourpenny-piece, by a working man. I
+think that would grace the diminitive tea-table of the Emperor of the
+Lilliputians. And a pair of boat-sculls, made of white ash, and only
+the size of writing-pens, which I dare say, the oars of the King of
+Blefuscan's barge resembled; these, with a magnificent oar, thirty-six
+feet long, are intended as presents for His Royal Highness the Prince
+of Wales.
+
+Here is a scarf, containing twelve miles and a-half of thread, three
+millions four hundred and seventy-five stitches, is nine feet ten
+inches long, three feet wide, and weighs only five ounces and
+a-quarter;--that came from Ireland. Look, too, at that beautifully
+embroidered dress; it came from Ireland, and is worth seventy-five
+guineas.
+
+There are many little models of different buildings; and there is a
+colossal horse and dog; and two gigantic statues; and there is a
+nicely carved oak chair, made by an English ship-carpenter; and here
+are cotton stockings, manufactured so fine, that they look exactly
+like silk. There are also models of carriages, ships and machinery;
+a magnificient epergne of glass, with some large pearls, from Ireland.
+A beautiful piece of sculpture, representing the Scottish games, is
+the most remarkable contribution which has come from Scotland.
+
+The English people are celebrated for their industry and perseverence;
+they manufacture numerous things, and carry on a alrge commerce with
+other countries. The industry of the peasants have made the soil
+produce wheat, barley, rye, oats, beans, potatoes, turnips, hops, hemp
+and flax. Nearly every variety, of vegetables, and a great number of
+fruits, are also grown. There is abundance of timber, which is used
+for many purposes; the oak tree is chiefly employed for building
+ships. The ships of war are called the "wooden walls of England."
+
+The domestic animals are taken great care of; sheep and hogs, when
+killed, are made into mutton, pork, bacon, and ham. The English cheese
+and butter is superior to any other. There are abundance of mineral
+treasures found in various parts of the kingdom; indeed, the English
+people are greatly indebted to the well-worked mines for their wealth.
+At the Exhibition, are several specimens of ores.
+
+In addition to the rich mines, and the vegetable productions, the
+English are celebrated for their superior manufactures, which fame
+they are enabled to enjoy by means of the most ingenious machinery,
+rail roads, and canals, by which they can easily and rapidly send
+their goods, and travel from one part of the country to another.
+Cottons, woollens, linens, silks, iron, jewellery, leather, glass,
+earthenware, paper, and hats, are manufactured in great quantities.
+
+I dare say you would be much amused by a visit to Manchester, in
+Lancashire, where the art of spinning cotton is carried to a high
+perfection. There are more than a hundred and forty cotton factories
+in that city, where men, women, and children, are continually at work,
+minding the machines, which are about twenty thousand in number. When
+you first go into one of these factories, you hear a terrible noise of
+whirling and whizzing, and see an immense number of wheels flying
+round and round.
+
+Halifax and Leeds, in Yorkshire, are the chief places for woollen
+cloth, the manufacture of which employs the greater part of the
+inhabitants. A weekly market is held in Halifax for the sale of
+woollens, in a spacious building called the Piece Hall; but in Leeds,
+the markets are held two days in the week, in the two Cloth Halls.
+
+Staffordshire is famous for earthenware; the reason of this is, that
+there is such an enormous quantity of yellow clay suitable for that
+manufacture, found there. Indeed, there are several towns and villages
+formed into a district called "The Potteries;" and in consequence of
+the innumerable furnaces, which are always blazing, the place looks at
+night as if was on fire. Gloves, lace, and stockings, are mostly made
+in Nottingham, where there are several thousand machines for the
+manufacture of these things.
+
+From Kidderminster, in Worcester, we have very fine carpets; from
+Gloucester, we have cheese and pins; Northampton is celebrated for
+leather; Shrewsbury, for flannel. The great mines are in Cumberland,
+Cornwall, Northumberland, Durham, and Derbyshire. However, if I were
+to tell you of all the places in England, that are famed for
+different manufactures, I am afraid I should both exceed our space,
+and wear out your patience, which I should be sorry to do. So I will
+now tell you something about London.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+London, which you know is the capital of our own dear native land, is
+the greatest commercial city in the world; it has been reckoned that
+the value of the property shipped and unshipped on the river Thames,
+every year, is more than one hundred million pounds. An enormous
+quantity of property is laid in the London Docks, at Wapping; indeed,
+the warehouse for tobacco alone covers a space of nearly five acres,
+while the vaults underneath the ground are more than eighteen acres in
+extent.
+
+More coaches, omnibusses, waggons, vans, and other conveyances, crowd
+the streets of London than any other city in the world. You will,
+perhaps, be a little surprised when I tell you that in one principal
+street, seven thousand vehicles pass to and fro every day. Almost
+every kind of manufacture is carried on in London; silk goods,
+jewellery, clocks, watches, ear-rings, hats, furniture, instruments of
+every kind, porter and ale, with many more that I cannot now remember.
+However, you must not think, from all this, there are no poor people
+in London; for, unfortunately, there are thousands. Some beg, others
+steal, and those who are honest and able to labour, work. But those
+who cannot obtain work are very badly off; and persons die from
+starvation.
+
+The industrial manufactures of Scotland are like those of England; the
+exports are linens, muslins, woollen stuffs, cottons, iron, lead,
+glass, earthenware, leather, and other articles. The chief
+manufacture is linen: but manufactures of stoves, and grates, and
+many other things, from their immense iron works, particularly from
+those of Carron, are also a principal part of the industrial products.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Scotch people are remarkable for their thrift and prudence; the
+lower orders are in general well-educated, and it is the height of
+ambition in a Scottish mechanic, to appear with his family in neat,
+clean dresses, on Sundays and other holidays.
+
+The costume of the Highlanders is very picturesque; the plaid is made
+of woollen stuff, of various colours, with a jacket, and a short
+petticoat called a kilt, which leaves the knees bare; the stockings
+are also a plaid, generally red and white, and do not reach up to the
+knees, but are tied round the legs with scarlet garters. The
+head-dress is a flat blue bonnet, as it is called, ornamented round
+with scarlet and white plaid, and frequently adorned with eagle's
+feathers. The Highland women go without shoes or stockings, and wear
+short petticoats, a plaid jacket, and a plaid scarf.
+
+Most of the Scotch people are intelligent, and so far advanced in
+education, that even the miners in the south have a library, where
+they read, and improve their minds; and yet these poor miners were
+little better than in a state of slavery two hundred years since. The
+favourite musical instrument, with the Scotch, is the bag-pipe; which
+does not, however, sound quite so well to our English ears, as it does
+to theirs. Their national dances are the Highland reel, and fling,
+which they perform with great agility and grace. The sheep and cattle
+are rather small, but give exceedingly good meat; and the sheep, in
+particular, are valued for their fleece, which is almost as fine as
+the best Spanish wool.
+
+Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is, in the new parts of it, a
+fine clean city; the houses in the old town are excessively high, and
+the streets inconvenient; but the streets of the new town are very
+broad, and almost all in straight lines; some of them are a mile long.
+Most of the houses are built of white stone, which sparkles as if it
+was inlaid with diamonds when the sun shines on it.
+
+The manufactures carried on in the city, are mostly cabinet-work,
+furniture, carriages, musical instruments, linens, shawls, silks,
+glass, marble, brass, and iron work. There are also many breweries,
+for Edinburgh has long been celebrated for its ale, large quantities
+of which are sent to London, and other parts of the kingdom, Glasgow,
+which is the principal manufacturing and trading town, contains
+extensive cotton factories.
+
+In many parts of the Highlands, the natives are employed in feeding
+sheep and cattle, for the markets; and in the valleys, and other
+sheltered places, hemp, barley, flax, and potatoes, are cultivated,
+though unfortunately most of the barley is made into whiskey. In the
+more northernly parts the general employment is fishing.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Ireland is a much warmer and more fertile island; it is celebrated, in
+point of industry, for its wool, butter, beef, hides, tallow, cows,
+horses, pigs, sheep, potatoes, wheat, barley, oats, and linen. Linen
+is the chief manufacture. There are numerous mines, from which are
+obtained gold, silver, iron, copper, and lead; all very useful metals,
+I think.
+
+There are also quarries of marble, slate, and freestone; and in
+various parts are found coal and turf. In Ireland, turf is the
+principal fuel used. The brewing of stout, and a strong bittered beer,
+for exportation; and the distilling of whiskey, another strong but
+spirituous drink, are other branches of Irish industry.
+
+Fishing is an important occupation with those peasants who live on the
+sea-shore, and near the rivers or lakes. The making of roads, draining
+bogs, and improving the land, now employ thousands of poor labourers,
+who formerly used to be without any occupation.
+
+The Irish dairies are well-managed and are generally extensive; many
+counties in the south part of the island are occupied almost entirely
+by dairy farms. As many as thirty or forty cows are kept on some of
+them, for butter is the chief produce, and this is sent into England,
+Portugal, and the East and West Indies. Some of the nice butter you
+eat on your bread and rolls comes from Ireland. Sheep and cattle are
+fed in great quantities on large pieces of land devoted to the
+purpose the sheep are large, and have fine wool.
+
+The mud cabin of the Irish peasant is the most miserable cottage you
+can imagine; the walls are formed of clay, which hardens in the
+sunshine, the roof is made of sticks and straw, and the floor is the
+mere damp earth. It has frequently neither door, nor chimney, and
+consists of only one room; the furniture is rarely more than a stump
+bedstead, two or three stools, an iron pot, to boil the potatoes in,
+and a table to eat them from. Generally, there is a small piece of
+land attached to the dwelling, and in this potatoes are grown; the
+peasants of Ireland hardly ever eat anything besides potatoes. When
+they have enough of them to eat, and a little whiskey to drink, the
+poor people are exceedingly jovial and merry; they laugh, sing, and
+joke; and go to weddings, fairs, dances, and what are called in
+Ireland "wakes," which, among the poor, is a kind of laying in state
+before funerals;--but sometimes the crops of potatoes fail, and then
+the unfortunate peasants die by hundreds from hunger. The favourite
+dance of the common people is called a jig.
+
+Dublin, which, I dare say, you know is the capital of Ireland, is an
+elegant city, with fine houses and good streets. The churches, the
+castle, the linen hall, exchange, bank, custom-house, and
+post-office, are all very noble buildings. There are also parks,
+gardens, theatres, canals, and other ornamental places throughout the
+city. From Dublin have been sent models of carriages, specimens of
+metals, slates, and linens, and a model of a house made in granite.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+I have now told you, my dear little friends, a great many stories
+about the industry of all nations, and we have gone through the
+World's Show together. We have seen nearly all the useful and splendid
+things sent to the Great Exhibition from all parts of the world. I
+have told you about Europe, and Asia, Africa, and America; and I must
+soon leave you. But before I go, we must have another look at the
+Exhibition, and one more glance at those few things which we have not
+as yet seen.
+
+We forgot to examine this magnificent chess-board, worth one thousand
+two hundred guineas. You will doubtless wonder why it is such a dear
+board, but your surprise will cease when you observe that the
+"checks," as they are called, are of mother-of-pearl and
+tortoiseshell, while the rim is of beautifully burnished gold, and the
+chessmen are of gold and silver, elaborately wrought, and ornamented
+with the portraits of celebrated historical characters; one of them
+represents the Emperor, Charles the Fifth. I dare say you would like
+to play a game with me on this chess-board. As a companion to this
+beautiful chess-board, is a very elegant colour box, fit for the
+Queen, or the most noble young lady in the land, to use for painting
+with. And here is a model of the town of Liverpool, with several
+thousand little people in the streets; and these figures are so
+exceedingly small, that a thousand of them would fit into an ordinary
+sized pill box.
+
+In contrast to this specimen of a great town in a minute space, we
+have in front of the transept a wonderful clock, which is kept in
+motion by a set of powerful electro magnets, eight in number, on which
+is wound a length of twenty-five thousand feet of copper wire. This
+gigantic time-keeper sets in motion the immense hands on the principal
+dial, which is twenty-four feet in diameter, besides two smaller ones
+which are fixed in front of the galleries, at the east and west ends
+of the building. I am afraid that it would tire you, were I to attempt
+to tell you exactly what electricity is, and must therefore satisfy
+your curiosity, for the present, by letting you know that it is caused
+by the coming in contact of different substances possessing peculiar
+properties, which cause them to vibrate, when they touch.
+
+There is another very curious clock in the Exhibition, which will go
+for a hundred years before requiring to be wound up again; and there
+is one wheel in it which is said would take ten thousand years to go
+round once.
+
+Next there is a case of stuffed birds, which came from Scotland, and
+which we cannot help admiring. There are in this case specimens of all
+the various kinds of birds which are peculiar to Scotland, neatly and
+carefully stuffed; and really they almost look as if they were alive.
+Ah, ah! Mister Eagle, you are not so much to be feared now, I think,
+as you were when you lived in your lofty home in the Highland
+mountains.
+
+And here is another case in which are all the different sorts of
+mother-of-pearl buttons that can be imagined; there is every variety
+of ornament on the buttons, which look exceedingly brilliant.
+
+This immense block of granite, from Scotland, is not quite so pretty,
+though it is, perhaps, more useful; it is twenty feet long, and is a
+piece of the finest kind and colour that could be found. Another very
+useful thing, also from Scotland, is a large lighthouse bell, managed
+so as to ring very loud, to warn any ship that is going too near a
+dangerous rock or shoal, near the lighthouse where the bell may be.
+
+Among the more beautiful specimens of industry, there are several
+elegant vases made of silver, and of a delicate material called
+Parian, which is an imitation of Parian marble; some of them are
+ornamented with blue and gold, and others are ornamented with silver.
+There is also a splendid tea-service, adorned with charming pictures
+of the dear old fables we all know so well,--the "Lion and the Mouse,"
+the "Wolf and the Lamb," the "Dog and the Shadow," and others.
+
+Near the very middle of the building, close by the crystal fountain,
+there are the splendid iron gates from Coalbrookdale, which look very
+magnificent. I fancy Samson would find it rather a difficult matter
+trying to bear off _these_ gates on his back, strong as he was. Close
+by these gates there is a gigantic statue of our good Queen, on
+horseback, which towers high over our heads; and she sits smiling at
+us as if she could see us looking so delighted.
+
+There are several gigantic things at the Exhibition. Here, for one, is
+a monster cake, covered with the most superb ornaments; it is four
+feet high, and weighs about two-hundred and twenty-five pounds. Yonder
+is another monster contribution, an immense map of the busy city of
+Manchester; and there is a huge railway carriage; and still further
+on, there is an iron wire, one mile long. At a little distance stands
+a magnificent bed and bedstead, fit for the Queen to sleep in. It came
+from Edinburgh, and is made mostly of materials which can be produced
+in Scotland. And in this direction, we can see a set of beautiful
+mantelpieces and fenders, from Sheffield, all decorated in the most
+elegant manner. The first mantelpiece we must look at is made of
+cast-iron; the mouldings of the cornice are richly ornamented, and
+supported by little pillars covered with graceful wreaths of
+oak-leaves, while the freize is adorned with a cluster of rich fruit.
+The next mantelpiece is painted white and gold, and has a burnished
+steel grate; while the third is painted blue and gold, and has a
+stove made on a new plan, for it is managed so that its own brightness
+shall help to throw out the heat of the fire in an equal and agreeable
+manner. The fourth and last mantelpiece is painted black, and
+ornamented with ormolu; it contains a polished steel stove. Three
+ormolu fenders, and five bright ones are placed together with the
+mantelpieces; and they certainly make a goodly show. But we must now
+leave them, and go on to see some other wonders.
+
+Here are several most beautiful loo-tables inlaid, and they seem to
+attract a good deal of attention from more than us. You look a little
+puzzled at the word _inlaid_; I think I must explain it to you, by
+telling you that it means pieces of different material let into a
+piece of furniture to ornament it.
+
+There are numerous models of various buildings in the Crystal Palace;
+those of York Cathedral, and Chance's Lighthouse, are particularly
+well made. There is also a model of the Britannia Tubular Bridge; and
+there are models of many of the fine public works of London.
+
+Here is a pair of scissors made in Sheffield, and ornamented in the
+most beautiful way, with a crown for a handle; and yonder are a pair
+of cotton stockings from Ireland, spun so fine that they look exactly
+like silk, and indeed you would be likely to mistake them for silk, if
+you were not told they were merely cotton.
+
+How brilliant this collection of gems looks; how the stones sparkle!
+they have been sent as specimens of the jewels which Ireland produces.
+But here are some pretty English agates; and a huge mass of Irish rock
+crystal, which is very bright and clear. In a compartment, at a little
+distance, we may see a book, bound according to a new method, by which
+the leaves are so firmly placed together, that they would not loosen
+in ten years' time, no matter how the book was tossed about, unless
+they were purposely taken out.
+
+We must now have a look at the machinery department. Firstly, there is
+the great steam-engine that works all the other steam-engines in the
+Exhibition, though, of course, you cannot understand it by looking at
+it; neither can I, although I know so much more than you do. Near it
+is a model of a new agricultural machine for cutting, turning up, and
+making into light mould, the clay of fields, so as to make it ready to
+receive the seeds to be set, without the farmers being obliged to
+plough the earth. There is a machine for making bricks and tiles, so
+that people may, if they like, form those materials for building
+houses cheaper and better than in the usual way. But here is a useful
+machine. It is a measuring machine, by which you could measure to the
+smallest size, even to the hundred-thousandth part of an inch!
+
+Here is a very pretty contribution; it is a model of the house of the
+great play-writer, Shakspeare,--of whom, perhaps, you may have
+heard,--and it is surrounded by figures representing different
+beautiful scenes from Shakspeare's plays. It was made by a workman in
+his leisure time: and it certainly does him credit. It is called the
+Shakspeare Jubilee.
+
+Yonder is another piece of ingenious industry; it is a group of
+figures showing all the various Scotch games; there is one figure
+dancing the Highland fling, another throwing the beam, and all the
+others engaged in similar sports. That came from Scotland, of course.
+
+Let us now go on to look at that splendid design embroidered in gold,
+and intended for a communion cloth. Oh! here it is; does it not look
+beautiful? But here are several lovely specimens of china, and
+earthenware, which would grace the sideboards of the richest house in
+the land, I think. Here is a fine marble font, made of Devonshire
+marble, which is very nicely carved, as well as I can judge. Further
+on, we have some less showy, but more solidly useful articles. Various
+kinds of iron, copper, zinc, lead, silver, and gold ores are
+displayed, with oils, quartz, stones, coal, &c. There are lanterns on
+a new plan, microscopes, barometers, optical and philosophical
+instruments, farming implements, machines for melting metals;--besides
+hundreds of other articles which we cannot stop to notice more
+particularly. There are two or three very interesting models of mines,
+with mining machinery, and plans for improving the air of the mines,
+so as to make the poor miners more comfortable. And there are other
+models of ships, printing presses, looms, and machines for making gas,
+which deserve some degree of attention. There is also a new machine
+for printing cotton on both sides, which will be very useful, as the
+cotton printed with it will be as ornamental on one side as the other.
+
+There are four splendid and very powerful organs, and several
+beautiful piano fortes, in the Exhibition; and there is an accurate
+model of Plymouth Breakwater, with a very very little ship attached to
+it, and all complete, even to the smallest rope ladder. Plymouth
+Breakwater is a vast heap of stones built across the entrance of the
+Sound, so as to leave a passage for ships at each end, but preventing
+the heavy waves of the Atlantic Ocean from dashing into the harbour.
+It has cost more than a million of pounds in money.
+
+Here we have a beautiful writing table for ladies, which is one of the
+most splendid things in the Exhibition, and which came from that land
+of ingenuity and industry, Switzerland. It is made of two kinds of
+wood, white and red, the Swiss national colours; and is cleverly
+managed by machinery, so that by merely pressing a spring, the whole
+contents of the desk is laid before the spectator, while, at the same
+time, a stand for writing on, and a seat, are produced. It is covered
+with figures of men and animals, and with ornaments most exquisitely
+carved; and it is a writing table which the greatest lady in England
+might use.
+
+Along the centre of the aisle, or chief walk, are arranged colossal
+statues, pillars of marble, beautiful fountains, magnificent feathers,
+crystals of alum, crystals of spermaceti oil, specimens of silk
+manufactures, from Spitalfields; and fine cutlery, from Sheffield.
+There is also an immense dome of iron and glass, forty feet high
+which looks very astonishing; and a curious Russian chain bridge,
+which is very ingeniously made. Besides these, we have a gigantic
+telescope, which attracts a great deal of attention from the crowd of
+people who are walking down the aisle.
+
+In the nave there are several beautiful pieces of sculpture. One is a
+colossal group, representing St. Michael conquering Satan; another is
+a figure of the celebrated warrior, Godfrey of Bouillon, mounted on
+horseback; and a third, is an Amazon, who is just about to hurl her
+javelin at a ferocious tiger, who has fastened on the neck and
+shoulders of her frightened horse. Here is also a figure of Mazeppa on
+the wild horse, which is extremely well made, and, perhaps, reminds
+those of my little friends who have seen the play of "Mazeppa" at
+Astley's Amphitheatre, of the scenes where poor Mazeppa was carried
+along on the terrible horse's back, through brambles, thorns, and
+crashing boughs. But what have we here? A grim-looking growling bronze
+lion, from Bavaria, who glares at us as if he would be only too glad
+to eat us up if he were alive, and does not seem at all the kind of
+beast one would like to shake hands, or rather paws, with.
+
+We have a charming representation of Reinecke Fox's adventures, by
+means of stuffed animals, in the German portion of the Exhibition. The
+expression of the different animals is very funny, and makes us laugh
+to almost an inconvenient degree. The first group represents the fox,
+with his rosary in his hand, confessing his sins to the cock, who is
+listening very gravely, and reading him a sermon on his wickedness.
+
+The next group shows the tom-cat, coming to summon Master Reinecke to
+court, to answer the accusations brought against him; the fox sets
+out, and on his way wounds a poor hare, whom he carries with him. But
+we cannot stay to notice all the groups now; only we must just glance
+at the fox lying on the sheep's skin, after his repast, for here
+Master Reinecke's expression shows him to be so well satisfied and
+comfortable that it is very droll.
+
+In the Russian division we may observe a most magnificent pair of
+candlesticks of bronze, gilt, which look exceedingly sparkling and
+brilliant, and are the first objects that meet our eyes as we enter
+the department.
+
+In the transept, at the opposite end to where the gates from
+Coalbrookdale are situated, are another beautiful specimen of
+ornamented gates for a park, in the style of the elegantly wrought
+iron work, made about a hundred and fifty years since, and which adorn
+the entrances to many of the old mansions of England. Some parts of
+these are tastefully gilt, and produce a remarkably pretty effect.
+
+It would take us more than a month to see everything in the Crystal
+Palace, and those who wish to examine all the wonders, must pay
+several visits. But we have, I think, seen enough for the present, and
+will now leave the Exhibition, if you are satisfied. Perhaps, before I
+go, you would like me to describe the ceremony of the opening of our
+Palace of Wonders, by our good Queen? If so, I shall be very happy
+indeed to oblige you, by telling you all I saw on the first of May.
+
+Early in the morning of that day,--soon after dawn,--thousands of
+people in London were wending their way towards Hyde Park; horses
+feet, and carriage-wheels clattered through the streets, and strange
+looking foreigners passed along among the crowd, all eager to see the
+procession.
+
+I dare say you would have been delighted with the grand sight:--first
+there came a long line of splendid carriages, containing various lords
+and ladies, in gorgeous costumes;--diamonds flashing, and feathers
+waving; next came a troop of Life Guards in scarlet coats, bright
+cuirasses, and glittering helmets: they were escorting the Queen's
+carriage, which was followed by a goodly number of other carriages.
+You should have heard how the crowds huzzaed and shouted when they saw
+the Queen, who looked very much pleased, bowing and smiling to her
+people. She entered the building amid the loud cheers and hurras,
+followed by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess
+Royal. After staying a short time in the elegant robing-room, which
+was fitted up in a single night, her Majesty proceeded to her throne,
+between flower stands, and tropical plants, past the Coalbrookdale
+gates, and the fountains and statues with which the centre of the
+palace is adorned. When she appeared, the twenty-five thousand people,
+who were present, rose to welcome her.--Ladies waving their
+handkerchiefs, the gentlemen their hats;--and you may readily guess
+how splendid the scene looked. Even the sun popped out his head from
+the clouds, and poured a flood of golden light in through the
+glittering dome of the transept, to illuminate the brilliant
+spectacle.
+
+As soon as Her Majesty was seated on her throne, one of the organs
+commenced pealing forth the notes of the National Anthem, the choir,
+which was collected for the occasion, singing to the music. After
+this, Prince Albert joined those gentlemen who have directed the
+affairs of the Great Exhibition, and going near to the Queen, read to
+her an account of the Exhibition from the commencement; to which Her
+Majesty answered, when the Prince had finished, that she was much
+pleased with the description of the proceedings, and that she hoped
+the World's Fair would do good to all mankind, by encouraging the arts
+of peace and industry, strengthening the bonds of love between all the
+nations of the earth, and promoting a friendly rivalry among our
+fellow creatures, in the useful exercise of those faculties which have
+been given by GOD for the good and happiness of all mankind.
+
+The Queen having read this answer, the Archbishop of Canterbury
+approached the throne, and offered up a prayer to Heaven, intreating
+the Lord's blessing on the Exhibition; that it might benefit every
+body on earth, making them love and help each other. I hope all that
+heard the prayer, joined in it with heart and soul: and I hope, too,
+that my dear little readers will think of it when they go to the
+Crystal Palace.
+
+At the close of the prayer, the choir sang the Hallelujah chorus, and
+you may form some idea of the effect of this performance, when I tell
+you that all the persons who sing at the Queen's Chapel, at St. Paul's
+Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and St. George's Chapel, Windsor, were
+all singing together, besides part of the band of the Sacred Harmonic
+Society, pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, and many other
+songsters, both foreign and English.
+
+The immensity of the building left scope for the rich volume of sound
+poured forth; and you may imagine what an effect the splendid strains
+had on the feelings of the multitude of spectators. Indeed, one of the
+audience,--a Chinaman, was so excited by the grandeur of the scene,
+and the triumphant music, that he rushed forwards, made his way
+through the crowd of nobles and ladies that surrounded the Queen, and,
+advancing close to Her Majesty, saluted her by a grand salaam, which
+she graciously acknowledged with a smile and a bow. A salaam, you must
+know, is the eastern way of bowing, and consists in bending the head
+until it almost touches the ground.
+
+When the Hallelujah chorus ceased, the procession was formed for the
+Queen to go round the building. First went the heralds, in their
+splendid costumes; then a great number of gentlemen, who were more
+immediately concerned with the Exhibition; after them, the Duke of
+Wellington,--of whom, I dare say you know,--with more gentlemen, and
+the Archbishop of Canterbury; and then the Queen and Prince Albert,
+with the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, both of whom looked
+extremely delighted and astonished with the gorgeous spectacle they
+were viewing. The Royal Family was followed by a number of lords,
+ladies, and attendants, the procession being concluded by heralds.
+
+The train first went to the west end of the nave, on the north side,
+everybody cheering loudly as it passed. The view varied every minute,
+but was always picturesque, and beautiful. Even those persons who were
+most acquainted with the wondrous objects that lay on every side, were
+surprised by the new and charming attractions displayed. The Indian
+collection, and the compartment filled with specimens from the
+colonies, were left behind; the department devoted to sculpture, and
+other finer products of industry, was passed, and the procession moved
+into that portion of the palace which contains the English
+manufacturing products. You might then have caught a glimpse, over the
+heads of the spectators, of the Furniture Court, where the furniture
+is placed; and of the fixed machinery beyond it, the massive iron form
+of each machine looking as much as to say "move me, if you can." Then
+the procession passed the enormous dome of iron and glass, the two
+gigantic statues, the figure of Shakspeare, and the many other objects
+which adorn the centre aisle; leaving behind the furs of bears, and
+other wild animals, hung beneath the galleries, and the carpets which
+lent their brilliant colours to finish the decorations; it reached the
+western entrance, where it was reflected in the immense mirror,
+exhibited at that point. Then, turning round by the model of the
+Liverpool Docks, it was returning on the south side of the nave, when
+the gigantic organ placed there, suddenly hurled forth an immense
+volume of music, which sounded extremely fine: but every one was
+already so much astonished, that I do not think anything more could
+surprise them. At length the procession reached the transept, round
+the south end of which it proceeded, and then swept into the Foreign
+Department of the Exhibition, where great efforts had been made to
+receive it properly. The French had collected together all the
+choicest specimens of their manufactures to grace the foremost part of
+their division; and I am sure you would have admired the tasteful
+manner in which the contributors decorated the collection. Some of the
+other countries, as their exhibitors had sent in their contributions
+sooner than the French, were of course able to make a more
+satisfactory appearance. The two organs, from France and Germany,
+each, in turn, poured forth their music as the procession passed; and
+two or three of the Queen's bands played a march as the pageat moved
+round the eastern end of the building.
+
+At last the procession returned along the north side of the nave, the
+cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs, which had continued all
+the time getting now more joyful than ever; and the Queen returned
+once more to her throne. One of the noblemen, named the Marquis of
+Breadalbane, then called out in a loud tone of voice, that Her Majesty
+declared the Exhibition open; a flourish of trumpets, and a roar of
+cannon, told the people outside that all was now concluded, and the
+Queen, with the royal family and other attendants, left the Crystal
+Palace, the choir again singing the National Anthem.
+
+In order that the workmen and their families, who come to see the
+Exhibition, should live comfortably when they return home again,
+Prince Albert has had a model building erected, with four dwellings,
+or sets of rooms, each containing all the conveniences essential to a
+distinct family-house, with four distinct entrances for the four
+different families, such as he wishes every honest working couple in
+this country, and indeed every honest couple in all parts of the
+world, should possess. And, in order to shew to working men, and to
+builders, and to persons of property who desire to do good, how they
+can usefully assist their fellow creatures to comfortable habitations,
+for the same rent that they now pay for closely-built, unhealthy ones,
+he has erected these four model houses under one roof, each of them
+dry, warm, convenient, fire-proof, and healthy, and yet cheap. They
+are built of very hard hollow bricks, made by machinery, and are
+situate at the corner of the barrack yard, near to the Crystal Palace,
+and will be shown freely to all persons visiting the World's Fair.
+
+Now, boys and girls, good-bye; I know you are sorry to see me going
+away, and you may be certain I am sorry to be obliged to leave you.
+But I hope we shall soon meet again, for I am thinking of coming to
+see you very shortly, to tell you more stories and have another talk
+with you. So, if you say you have been amused, and have learned
+something, by reading these stories, I will pay you another visit
+soon, and tell you something more about other things. But in the mean
+time, let us hope that the suggestions of Prince Albert, the husband
+of our gracious Queen, will do good; and that every body, and every
+nation, may become better, and learn more, and love each other more,
+in consequence of meeting together, in friendship and harmony, at
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+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT. an interesting Narrative. 6d.
+Four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE NORMAN CONQUEST; four pages of illustrations. And the manner in
+which the People of England lived during the Reign of William the
+Conqueror. An interesting Narrative. 6d.
+
+
+ENGLAND, AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE FEUDAL TIMES.
+
+6d. Four pages of Illustrations
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; WITH THE MANNERS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
+IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
+
+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
+CENTURIES.
+
+Showing the Condition of the People, and how they lived and dressed
+during the Reign of Henry the Seventh, to the death of William the
+Third. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
+CENTURIES.
+
+Showing the Condition of the People, their modes of life, and how they
+lived and dressed from the Reign of James the Second, to that of Queen
+Victoria. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
+
+_These Eight Histories may be had, bound in One Volume, in fancy
+cloth, gilt sides and edges, suitable for a present, price 8s. 6d._
+
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+SQUIRE GRAY'S FRUIT FEAST.
+
+With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
+the Pretty Tales he gave to them as Prizes.
+
+6d. Fourteen engravings.
+
+
+MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.
+
+A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
+Directions for Playing each Game, and how to Cry the Forfeits.
+
+6d. with appropriate engravings.
+
+
+ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.
+
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
+COUSINS.
+
+Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.
+
+6d. Nineteen engravings.
+
+
+A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.--A Trial of
+Charity.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.
+
+6d. Many engravings.
+
+
+THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.
+
+6d. Sixteen engravings.
+
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+Polynesia or Australia. Illustrated for Little Folks, on Five Large
+Plates: and done up in a fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FOUR ELEMENTS:--or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water. Illustrated for
+Little Folks. And the Old English Nursery Rhyme of Simple Simon, set
+to Music. On Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain: or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FIVE SENSES,--Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
+the FOUR SEASONS,--Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Illustrated for
+Little Folks, on Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured
+
+
+THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND, Set to Music, for Little Folks.
+Containing, The Queen of Hearts,--Bye! Baby Bunting,--Who comes here?
+a Grenadier!--Little Boy Blue,--and, The Lion and the Unicorn.
+Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done up in Fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,--the Nursery Alphabet,--the Royal
+Family,--the comparative sizes of Animals,--and a "Morland."
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
+
+An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.
+
+With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.
+
+
+VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.
+
+Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.
+
+
+A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,--from whom all Good Things come--the Lost
+Purse,--Self-will,--the Careless Boy,--the Good Boy,--and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.
+
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+
+
+SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,
+
+About the Lame Boy,--the Sea Shore,--the Cross Boy,--and the Stray
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+
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+
+
+LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS: the Letters in
+large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by a number of
+pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.--
+
+In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.
+
+
+GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.
+
+In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.
+
+
+PETER PALLETTE's PICTURES FOR PAINTING: Thirteen Numbers, price 4d.
+each; or bound in 2 vols, 1st series, 2s. 6d. 2nd series, 3s. 6d.
+
+
+WORRET's NEW OUTLINE DRAWING-BOOK;
+
+A series of progressive lessons, by which the principles of the Art,
+as applied to figure, ornamental, and mechanical Drawing, may be
+easily and correctly acquired.--ON STONE, BY W. HEATH.
+
+3s. the set of six numbers; or 3s. 6d. in cloth.
+
+
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+
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+
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+appropriate engravings.
+
+
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+
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+
+
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+exhibited in twenty-four engravings.
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+
+
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+
+
+MY AUNT'S BALL; an ALPHABET; shewing who were there,--what they
+had,--and how they behaved themselves,--with twenty-four engravings.
+
+
+A PRINCE AND HIS THREE GIFTS; how he used his three gifts; and about a
+good and beautiful lady; with eight large engravings.
+
+
+STORY OF LITTLE JOEY, who came up to London a poor little boy, and
+afterwards became a great man;--with ten engravings.
+
+
+TALES OF THE MONTHS AND SEASONS: and what we see and enjoy all the
+year round; with twelve engravings.
+
+
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+engravings.
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+
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+THE SPARROW FOR SHOOTING HIM. With seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORY ABOUT MASTER NOBODY, and his many wonderful
+exploits. 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's VISIT TO LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN, the best little Boy that
+ever was seen, with 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's TWO LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN, and the means by which
+they became rich. Seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's ALPHABET OF OBJECTS. Embellished with many coloured
+plates.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW A, B, C. With fourteen pretty and appropriate
+coloured pictures.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS. Seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's COMICAL BOYS, With fourteen coloured plates.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT BIRDS, Seven coloured pictures.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; A NEW AND POPULAR MULTIPLICATION
+TABLE: With fourteen coloured pictures of the Procession by Land and
+Water.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's STORY ABOUT THE SICK LITTLE ROBIN, AND HIS KIND LITTLE
+NURSE JENNY WREN. With seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's STORIES ABOUT LITTLE PETER's VISIT TO THE FARM. With
+seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+
+=CORNER'S HISTORICAL LIBRARY,=
+
+FOR
+
+YOUTH, SCHOOLS, AND FAMILIES:
+
+PUBLISHED BY DEAN & SON, 35, THREADNEEDLE-STREET, LONDON:
+
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+
+
+A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION IN EUROPE,
+
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+Illustrations from Historical Subjects, elegantly engraven on Steel,
+from designs by Franklin, Jones, and Gilbert; and an Accurate Map to
+each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered_;
+
+COMMENCING WITH THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF AUTHENTIC RECORD, AND BROUGHT
+DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:
+
+ACCURATELY POURTRAYING THE NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND DOMESTIC
+HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.
+
+BY MISS CORNER,
+
+_Author of "Questions on the History of Europe," a Sequel to
+Mangnall's Historical Questions, &c. &c._
+
+The object of these Works,--peculiarly suited to Schools and
+Families,--is to furnish the reader with a faithful History of each
+Nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion,
+laws, customs, national characteristics, and domestic habits of the
+people, in the various periods of their History.
+
+In writing these elementary treatises, one especial object has been
+kept in view--that of adapting them to the capacities of young people
+and occasional readers: by this means, while they embrace information
+and entertainment for all, they attract the rising generation, by
+simplicity of language, and clearness of detail, and render
+comparatively easy the attainment of a knowledge of the leading events
+of History.
+
+The many high encomiums awarded to these works by the Public Press,
+and the very considerable acceptance they have met with in Schools and
+Families, are proofs that the efforts of the Author to render
+historical knowledge pleasing, and easy of attainment, are not
+unappreciated by those to whom the care of the rising generation is
+entrusted.
+
+
+THESE SERIES OF HISTORIES, BY MISS CORNER, COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND;
+
+A New Edition; with Chronological Table; Twentieth Thousand; 3_s_.
+6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up with Questions on the History,
+4_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and five Historical Engravings,--1. Rowena
+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria--the Peers rendering Homage.
+
+"It is important that history meant for young Englishmen should be
+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score."--_British Banner_.
+
+"We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book."--_Academic and Collegiate
+Circular_.
+
+"Miss Corner's England and Wales, we perceive, has just reached
+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book."--_Bent's Literary
+Advertiser_.
+
+"We know no histories more likely to prove useful and agreeable in the
+instruction of children."--_Britannia_.
+
+"The style of the book throughout renders it worthy of the support it
+has secured."--_Gospel Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;
+
+New Edition; Seventh Thousand; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound
+up with Questions on the History, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.--1. St.
+Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles. 2. Lord Thomas
+Fitzgerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII. 3. Entry of James
+II. into Dublin.
+
+"The history before us is well executed."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+"Miss Corner's style of writing will produce habits of
+thinking."--_Morning Advertiser_.
+
+"The Historical facts, always correct, are detailed in plain and
+concise language. This is one of the best class books on Ireland, for
+young people."--_Limerick Standard_.
+
+The beauty of composition throughout the writings of Miss Corner is
+singular and fascinating.--_Sun_.
+
+Miss Corner has acquired a deserved celebrity for the
+singularly-attractive and intelligible manner she has in narrating
+history.--_Critic_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND;
+
+New edition; ninth thousand; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with questions on the history, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a map, and three historical engravings.--1.
+Coronation of the infant King David II. and his Queen, at Scone, 2.
+James V. taking refuge at Sterling Castle. 3. Queen Mary's escape to
+England.
+
+"We sincerely recommend this history as peculiarly suited to the
+meridian of schools."--_Ayr Observer._
+
+"This meritorious work is written in a very easy and agreeeble style,
+perfectly adapted to the capacities of the young persons for whom it
+is intended."--_Times_.
+
+"We have perused this history with much interest, delighted with the
+ease and perspicuity of style, and with the clearness and force of the
+narrative."--_Chronicle_.
+
+"Peculiarly adapted for instructive family reading."--_Caledonian
+Mercury_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ROME;
+
+From accepted English and foreign authorities, as Macpherson's Annals
+of Commerce, Keightley's Roman History, Smith's and Adam's Greek and
+Roman Antiquities; Dr. Arnold, Niebuhr, &c. With questions to each
+chapter, a chronological table, and a map of the Roman Empire; 3_s_.
+6_d_. bound in cloth, lettered.
+
+"Miss Corner's History of Rome will assuredly ere long supersede all
+the Roman histories at present used in schools, it is well written,
+and the historical facts elicited by the learned labours of Niebuhr,
+Arnold, &c, are made to take the place of the fabulous accounts which
+have hitherto passed current as authentic history; at the same time
+the popular early legends are not omitted, but their doubtful nature
+pointed out."--_Westmister Review_.
+
+"An excellent feature in this history is the continual effort to open
+out to the young reader the household life and social customs of the
+Romans, for without this, ancient history can have no reality for
+children."--_Educational Times_.
+
+"Its contents form a correct history of the Roman empire, from its
+beginning."--_Church of England Journal_.
+
+
+THE HISTORIES OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL;
+
+New Edition, Fifth Thousand; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with questions on the histories, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a map, and three historical engravings,--1. Inez De
+Castro entreating the king to save her life. 2. Interview of Columbus
+with Queen Isabella. 3. The Cortez taking the oath of allegiance.
+
+"Miss Corner gives a clear and striking account of the different
+kingdoms that at various times were founded in Spain."--_Edinburgh
+Review_.
+
+"So concise and plain as to be at once adapted to the capacities and
+volatility of young people, while they are useful compendiums for
+adults."--_Times_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF FRANCE;
+
+Tenth Thousand, New Edition, with continuation of events to the
+Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered;
+or bound up with Questions on the History, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,--1. The
+Coronation of Charles VII. 2. A French Tilt, or Tournament. 3.
+Bonaparte's Expedition across the Alps.
+
+"The Writer has borne in mind throughout, that simplicity of style was
+essential to her purpose, and has selected those facts which are best
+adapted to give an idea of the events and the customs of the
+successive ages."--_Baptist Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner appears to be an excellent historian for the school room.
+She narrates with fluency and clearness, and in a concise and lively
+manner, the leading facts, so as to convey the spirit of history, and
+indicate the characteristics of the people and the country, as well as
+the rulers and famous characters."--_Spectator_.
+
+"We look upon Miss Corner's work with great interest, as being
+peculiarly adapted to the minds of young people, and being free from
+that inversion of facts by which history is so often made subservient
+to party purposes."--_Nonconformist_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY;
+
+2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and two elegant Historical
+Engravings.
+
+1. A Norwegian Family listening to the Songs of their Scalds, 2.
+Submission of the Order of Nobles to Frederick III.
+
+"The two chief qualities of a good book are usefulness of subject and
+cleverness of handling, and these requisites Miss Corner's histories
+exhibit in an eminent degree. The frequent intermixtures of government
+between the three countries have indeed tended materially to embarrass
+this portion of European history, but Miss Corner by an accurate
+arrangement of dates, and a judicious connection of events, has set
+every thing in a clear light."--_Post Magazine_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND RUSSIA;
+
+3_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Historical
+Engravings.
+
+1. Assassination of Demetrius. 2. John Cassimer, worn out by
+misfortune, resigning his crown to the Diet. 3. Flight of the
+Inhabitants of Moscow at the approach of the French army.
+
+"This volume forms one of a series of histories for the use of young
+persons; the present volume is, however, more descriptive than
+historical, which we consider an advantage; the living manners of the
+Poles and Russians being much more instructive and entertaining to
+young English readers."--_Tait's Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has succeeded in compressing into a small compass all the
+leading events of history, without the slightest obscurity, or without
+sinking her book into a dry chronicle of facts."--_Britannia_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE; INCLUDING GREECE,
+SYRIA, AND THE HOLY LAND;
+
+3_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Engravings.
+
+1. Selim II., receiving the Ambassadors of Maximilian, Emperor of
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+William Tell and the other Swiss Patriots holding their nightly
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+
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+
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+
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+
+AN ACCURATE HISTORY OF GREECE.
+
+From accepted Authorities, English and Foreign; as Crete's and
+Chambers's Histories of Greece, Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities,
+Thirlwall and Wordsworth's Greece, Smith's Mythology and Biography,
+Annals of Commerce, Library of Useful Knowledge, &c. With Questions to
+each Chapter, a Chronological Table, Index, and a coloured Map of the
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+
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+same compass, so large an amount of interesting and valuable
+information. Miss Corner writes concisely, perspicuously, and
+sensibly.--_Westley Banner_.
+
+A concise History of Greece, well adapted for Schools.--_Cambridge
+Independent Press_.
+
+This is a very excellent compendium of Grecian History, and such are
+the merits of the Work that we shall not be surprised at its becoming
+a popular educational book.--_The British Mother's Magazine_.
+
+Remarkably clear in its arrangement, while the simple and easy
+style in which it is written, peculiarly fits it for popular
+use, it displays much careful research on the part of its
+Author.--_Englishwoman's Magazine_.
+
+Miss Corner has the art of writing so as to be understood by youthful
+readers.--_London Literary Journal_.
+
+By far the best introductory School History of Greece we have ever
+seen.--_British Banner_.
+
+A combination of simplicity of narrative, with comprehensiveness of
+detail, admirably adapted for the use of the School-room.--_Douglas
+Jerrald's Weekly News_.
+
+With feminine delicacy, Miss Corner omits what should be omitted,
+giving meanwhile a narrative of the broad character and features that
+mark the progress of a nation.--_Express, Evening Paper_.
+
+The results of the best modern scholarship are here given.--_Leader_.
+
+Miss Corner's Histories require no recommendation of ours to bring
+them into notice. This Volume, her History of Greece, is written with
+great clearness and fluency, the fabulous tales which disfigure so
+many professedly authentic histories of the Greeks are discarded. We
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+Luke, ii. 10.
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+SIX-PENCE EACH,--SEWED IN FANCY COVERS, PRINTED IN COLORS,
+
+_Each embellished with numerous Engravings on wood._
+
+
+SQUIRE GRAY'S FRUIT FEAST.
+
+With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
+the Pretty Tales he gave to them as Prizes.
+
+6d. Fourteen engravings.
+
+
+MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.
+
+A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
+Directions for Playing each Game, and how to Cry the Forfeits.
+
+6d. with appropriate engravings.
+
+
+ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.
+
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
+COUSINS.
+
+Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.
+
+6d. Nineteen engravings.
+
+
+A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.--A Trial of
+Charity.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.
+
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.
+
+6d. Many engravings.
+
+
+THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.
+
+6d. Sixteen engravings.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NURSERY PICTURE BOOKS,--in illustrated covers,
+
+_size 4to. royal,--five sheets of coloured plates in each book._
+
+
+THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE GLOBE:--Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and
+Polynesia or Australia. Illustrated for Little Folks, on Five Large
+Plates: and done up in a fancy cover,
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FOUR ELEMENTS:--or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water.
+
+Illustrated for Little Folks. And the Old English Nursery Rhyme of
+Simple Simon, set to Music. On Five Large Plates; and done up in a
+fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FIVE SENSES,--Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
+the FOUR SEASONS,--Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Illustrated for
+Little Folks, on Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured
+
+
+THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND,
+
+Set to Music, for Little Folks. Containing, The Queen of Hearts,--Bye!
+Baby Bunting,--Who comes here? a Grenadier!--Little Boy Blue,--and,
+The Lion and the Unicorn. Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done
+up in Fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,--the Nursery Alphabet,--the Royal
+Family.--the comparative sizes of Animals,--and a "Morland."
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
+
+An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.
+
+With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.
+
+
+VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.
+
+Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.
+
+
+A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,--from whom all Good Things come--the Lost
+Purse,--Self-will,--the Careless Boy,--the Good Boy,--and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.
+
+Square size, with seven coloured engravings.--1s. in cloth.
+
+
+SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,
+
+About the Lame Boy,--the Sea Shore,--the Cross Boy,--and the Stray
+Child. By Mrs. Burden.
+
+Square size, with seven coloured engravings.--1s. in cloth.
+
+
+LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS:
+
+the Letters in large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by
+a number of pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.--
+
+In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.
+
+
+GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.
+
+In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.
+
+
+PETER PALLETTE'S PICTURES FOR PAINTING:
+
+Thirteen Numbers, price 4d. each; or bound in 2 vols, 1st series, 2s.
+6d. 2nd series, 3s. 6d.
+
+
+WORRET's NEW OUTLINE DRAWING-BOOK;
+
+A series of progressive lessons, by which the principles of the Art,
+as applied to figure, ornamental, and mechanical Drawing, may be
+easily and correctly acquired.--ON STONE, BY W. HEATH.
+
+3s. the set of six numbers; or 3s. 6d. in cloth.
+
+
+EVERY CHILD'S DRAWING-BOOK; Easy and familiar Subjects by HEATH and
+BARFOOT. In Seven Progressive Numbers.
+
+1s. the set.
+
+
+YOUNG ARTIST'S DRAWING-BOOK of EASY SUBJECTS, in Lithography and Ink.
+By BARFOOT and HEATH. In 13 Numbers.
+
+1s. the set.
+
+
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+coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S LAUGHABLE STORY ABOUT TOM PEPPER. With twenty
+coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S TWO SISTERS; OR, WHO WOULD NOT BE INDUSTRIOUS? Eight
+coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S 'LITTLE GENTLEMAN,'--GENERAL TOM THUMB. With eight
+coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S NEW MOTHER GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGGS. Eight coloured
+engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S LADY GOLIGHTLY AND HER COUSINS THE GRASSHOPPERS; With
+nine coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S NEW STORY OF THE LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING FOR
+THE CROWN. Eight coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S PRETTY POETRY, ABOUT TREES, FRUITS, and FLOWERS. With
+twenty-seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S JACKO's MERRY METHOD OF LEARNING THE PENCE TABLE.
+Eight coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S PRETTY POETICAL SPELLING BOOK. Twenty-eight coloured
+engravings.
+
+
+GRANDPAPA EASY'S COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. Embellished with fourteen
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+
+
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+
+
+GRANDMAMMA EASY'S MERRY MULTIPLICATION. With seventeen coloured
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+
+
+GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORY ABOUT OLD DADDY LONGLEGS. Illustrated with
+eight coloured engravings.
+
+
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+eight coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDMAMMA EASY'S ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF LONDON. With
+twelve coloured engravings.
+
+
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+coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORY OF THE QUEEN OF HEARTS. With eight
+coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORY ABOUT LITTLE TOM THUMB AND HIS MOTHER.
+Eight coloured plates.
+
+
+GRANDMAMMA EASY'S PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE ELEPHANT. Embellished with
+eight coloured engravings.
+
+
+GRANDMAMMA EASY'S PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE CAMEL. With nine coloured
+engravings.
+
+
+GRANDMAMMA EASY'S TRAVELS OF LITTLE MATTY MACARONI. With nine coloured
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+
+
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+seven coloured engravings.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
+AMUSING MULTIPLICATION; illustrated and explained, in twenty
+appropriate engravings.
+
+
+AMUSING SUBSTRACTION; rendered easy and plain by twenty-three
+appropriate engravings.
+
+
+AMUSING DIVISION, made familiar to the opening mind, by twenty-three
+appropriate engravings.
+
+
+AMUSING PENCE TABLE; in a new, easy, and pleasing manner; with fifteen
+appropriate engravings.
+
+
+RAILWAY ALPHABET, shewing all that can be seen in Railway travelling,
+exhibited in twenty-four engravings.
+
+
+ALPHABET OF TRADES; exhibiting the working of the several trades, in
+forty-one descriptive engravings.
+
+
+NEW ROYAL A, B, C, AND SPELLING-BOOK, in a new and familiar manner:
+with twenty-six pretty engravings, and twenty-six large ornamental
+coloured letters.
+
+
+PLEASING POPULAR RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY, or, the sayings and singings
+of infancy, in a new dress; ornamented with twenty-six humourous
+engravings.
+
+
+PLEASING POPULAR NURSERY RIDDLES, AND PUZZLES; upon the same plan as
+the above; thirty engravings.
+
+
+MY AUNT'S BALL; an ALPHABET; shewing who were there,--what they
+had,--and how they behaved themselves--with twenty-four engravings,
+
+
+A PRINCE AND HIS THREE GIFTS; how he used his three gifts; and about a
+good and beautiful lady; with eight large engravings.
+
+
+STORY OF LITTLE JOEY, who came up to London a poor little boy, and
+afterwards became a great man;--with ten engravings.
+
+
+TALES OF THE MONTHS AND SEASONS: and what we see and enjoy all the
+year round; with twelve engravings.
+
+
+THE MOUSE AND HER SONS; a rural tale;--with eight coloured
+engravings.
+
+
+
+=UNCLE BUNCLE'S ORIGINAL TOY BOOKS,=
+
+SIX-PENCE EACH.
+
+EMBELLISHED WITH LARGE APPROPRIATE COLORED ENGRAVINGS, AND IN FANCY
+COVERS,
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR COCK ROBIN, AND THE TRIAL OF
+THE SPARROW FOR SHOOTING HIM. With seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORY ABOUT MASTER NOBODY, and his many wonderful
+exploits. 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's VISIT TO LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN, the best little Boy that
+ever was seen: with 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's TWO LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN, and the means by which
+they became rich. Seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's ALPHABET OF OBJECTS. Embellished with many coloured
+plates.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW A, B, C. With fourteen pretty and appropriate
+coloured pictures.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS. Seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's COMICAL BOYS, With fourteen coloured plates.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT BIRDS, Seven coloured pictures.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; A NEW AND POPULAR MULTIPLICATION
+TABLE: With fourteen coloured pictures of the Procession by Land and
+Water.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's STORY ABOUT THE SICK LITTLE ROBIN, AND HIS KIND LITTLE
+NURSE JENNY WREN. With seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's STORIES ABOUT LITTLE PETER's VISIT TO THE FARM. With
+seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+
+=CORNER'S HISTORICAL LIBRARY,=
+
+FOR
+
+YOUTH, SCHOOLS, AND FAMILIES:
+
+PUBLISHED BY DEAN & SON, 35, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON:
+
+COMPRISING
+
+
+A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION IN EUROPE,
+
+_Uniformly printed, each country in a separate volume; with
+illustrations from Historical Subjects, elegantly engraven on Steel,
+from designs by Franklin, Jones, and Gilbert; and an Accurate Map to
+each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered;_
+
+COMMENCING WITH THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF AUTHENTIC RECORD, AND BROUGHT
+DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:
+
+ACCURATELY POURTRAYING THE
+
+NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND DOMESTIC HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.
+
+BY MISS CORNER,
+
+_Author of "Questions on the History of Europe," a Sequel to
+Mangnall's Historical Questions, &c. &c._
+
+The object of these works,--peculiarly suited to schools and
+families,--is to furnish the reader with a faithful history of each
+nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion,
+laws, customs, national characteristics, and domestic habits of the
+people, in the various periods of their history.
+
+In writing these elementary treatises, one especial object has been
+kept in view--that of adapting them to the capacities of young people
+and occasional readers: by this means, while they embrace information
+and entertainment for all, they attract the rising generation, by
+simplicity of language, and clearness of detail, and render
+comparatively easy the attainment of a knowledge of the leading events
+of history.
+
+The many high encomiums awarded to these works by the public press,
+and the very considerable acceptance they have met with in schools and
+families, are proofs that the efforts of the author to render
+historical knowledge pleasing, and easy of attainment, are not
+unappreciated by those to whom the care of the rising generation is
+entrusted.
+
+
+THESE SERIES OF HISTORIES, BY MISS CORNER, COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND;
+
+A New Edition; with Chronological Table; Twentieth Thousand; 3_s_.
+_6d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up with Questions on the History,
+4_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and five Historical Engravings,--1. Rowena
+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria--the Peers rendering Homage.
+
+"It is important that history meant for young Englishmen should be
+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score."--_British Banner_.
+
+"We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book."--_Academic and Collegiate
+Circular_.
+
+"Miss Corner's England and Wales, we perceive, has just reached
+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book."--_Bent's Literary
+Advertiser_.
+
+"We know no histories more likely to prove useful and agreeable in the
+instruction of children."--_Britannia_.
+
+"The style of the book throughout renders it worthy of the support it
+has secured."--_Gospel Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;
+
+New Edition; Seventh Thousand; _2s. 6d._ cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with Questions on the History, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.--1. St.
+Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles. 2. Lord Thomas
+Fitzgerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII. 3. Entry of James
+II. into Dublin.
+
+"The history before us is well executed."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+"Miss Corner's style of writing will produce habits of
+thinking."--_Morning Advertiser_.
+
+"The Historical facts, always correct, are detailed in plain and
+concise language. This is one of the best class books on Ireland, for
+young people."--_Limerick Standard_.
+
+The beauty of composition throughout the writings of Miss Corner is
+singular and fascinating.--_Sun_.
+
+Miss Corner has acquired a deserved celebrity for the
+singularly-attractive and intelligible manner she has in narrating
+history.--_Critic_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND;
+
+New Edition; Ninth Thousand; 2s. 6d. cloth, lettered; or bound up with
+Questions on the History, 3s.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.--1.
+Coronation of the Infant King David II. and his Queen, at Scone. 2.
+James V. taking refuge at Sterling Castle. 3. Queen Mary's Escape to
+England.
+
+"We sincerely recommend this history as peculiarly suited to the
+meridian of schools."--_Ayr Observer._
+
+"This meritorious work is written in a very easy and agreeeble style,
+perfectly adapted to the capacities of the young persons for whom it
+is intended."--_Times_.
+
+"We have perused this history with much interest, delighted with the
+ease and perspicuity of style, and with the clearness and force of the
+narrative."--_Edinburgh Chronicle._
+
+"Peculiarly adapted for instructive family reading."--_Caledonian
+Mercury._
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ROME;
+
+From accepted English and Foreign authorities, as Macpherson's Annals
+of Commerce, Keightley's Roman History, Smith's and Adam's Greek and
+Roman Antiquities; Dr. Arnold, Niebuhr, &c. With Questions to each
+Chapter, a Chronological Table, and a Map of the Roman Empire; 3s. 6d.
+bound in cloth, lettered.
+
+"Miss Corner's History of Rome will assuredly ere long supersede all
+the Roman histories at present used in schools, it is well written,
+and the historical facts elicited by the learned labours of Niebuhr,
+Arnold, &c, are made to take the place of the fabulous accounts which
+have hitherto passed current as authentic history; at the same time
+the popular early legends are not omitted, but their doubtful nature
+pointed out."--_Westmister Review._
+
+"An excellent feature in this history is the continual effort to open
+out to the young reader the household life and social customs of the
+Romans, for without this, ancient history can have no reality for
+children."--_Educational Times._
+
+"Its contents form a correct history of the Roman empire, from its
+beginning."--_Church of England Journal._
+
+
+THE HISTORIES OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL;
+
+New Edition, Fifth Thousand; 2s. 6d. cloth, lettered; or bound up with
+Questions on the Histories, 3s.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,--1. Inez De
+Castro entreating the King to save her life. 2. Interview of Columbus
+with Queen Isabella. 3. The Cortez taking the Oath of Allegiance.
+
+"Miss Corner gives a clear and striking account of the different
+kingdoms that at various times were founded in Spain."--_Edinburgh
+Review._
+
+"So concise and plain as to be at once adapted to the capacities and
+volatility of young people, while they are useful compendiums for
+adults."--_Times_.
+
+THE HISTORY OF FRANCE;
+
+Tenth Thousand, New Edition, with continuation of events to the
+Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; 2_s_ 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or
+bound up with Questions on the History, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,--1. The
+Coronation of Charles VII. 2. A French Tilt, or Tournament. 3.
+Bonaparte's Expedition across the Alps.
+
+"The Writer has borne in mind throughout, that simplicity of style was
+essential to her purpose, and has selected those facts which are best
+adapted to give an idea of the events and the customs of the
+successive ages."--_Baptist Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner appears to be an excellent historian for the school room.
+She narrates with fluency and clearness, and in a concise and lively
+manner, the leading facts, so as to convey the spirit of history, and
+indicate the characteristics of the people and the country, as well as
+the rulers and famous characters."--_Spectator_.
+
+"We look upon Miss Corner's work with great interest, as being
+peculiarly adapted to the minds of young people, and being free from
+that inversion of facts by which history is so often made subservient
+to party purposes."--_Nonconformist_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY;
+
+2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and two elegant Historical
+Engravings.
+
+1. A Norwegian Family listening to the Songs of their Scalds, 2.
+Submission of the Order of Nobles to Frederick III.
+
+"The two chief qualities of a good book are usefulness of subject and
+cleverness of handling, and these requisites Miss Corner's histories
+exhibit in an eminent degree. The frequent intermixtures of government
+between the three countries have indeed tended materially to embarrass
+this portion of European history, but Miss Corner by an accurate
+arrangement of dates, and a judicious connection of events, has set
+every thing in a clear light."--_Post Magazine._
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND RUSSIA;
+
+3_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Historical
+Engravings.
+
+1. Assassination of Demetrius. 2. John Cassimer, worn out by
+misfortune, resigning his crown to the Diet. 3. Flight of the
+Inhabitants of Moscow at the approach of the French army.
+
+"This volume forms one of a series of histories for the use of young
+persons; the present volume is, however, more descriptive than
+historical, which we consider an advantage; the living manners of the
+Poles and Russians being much more instructive and entertaining to
+young English readers."--_Tait's Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has succeeded in compressing into a small compass all the
+leading events of history, without the slightest obscurity, or without
+sinking her book into a dry chronicle of facts."--_Britannia_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE; INCLUDING GREECE, SYRIA,
+AND THE HOLY LAND;
+
+3_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Engravings.
+
+1. Selim II., receiving the Ambassadors of Maximilian, Emperor of
+Germany. 2. Mahomet expounding the Koran at Medina. 5. Reschid Pacha
+reading the Hatti Scheriff of 1839 to the Ambassadors and Great
+Officers of State.
+
+"The narrative is so well arranged and so agreeably diversified by
+occasional remarks on individual and national character, as to render
+history attractive even to the very young; and the information is
+conveyed in a style remarkable for its unaffected simplicity and
+clearness."--_Morning Post._
+
+"The leading features of Turkish manners, laws, and policy, are
+accurately and forcibly pourtrayed, while the narrative is
+distinguished for simplicity, perspicuity, and completeness."
+_Conservative Journal._
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ITALY AND SWITZERLAND;
+
+3_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Historical
+Engravings.
+
+1. Pope Martin V, riding through the streets of Rome, the Emperor and
+Elector leading his Horse. 2. Massaniello haranguing the Populace. 3.
+William Tell and the other Swiss Patriots holding their nightly
+meetings.
+
+"Brief, clear, and correct; well adapted for young
+persons."--_Leamington Spa Chronicle._
+
+"Written with great care and ability."--_John Bull._
+
+"A very useful educational book."--_Literary Gazette._
+
+
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+<h1>THE<br />
+WORLD'S FAIR;</h1>
+<h3>OR,<br />
+CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK<br />
+OF THE<br />
+GREAT EXHIBITION<br />
+OF 1851.</h3>
+
+<br />
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/img001.png">
+<img src="images/img001s.png" width="200" height="303"
+alt="THE WORLD'S FAIR OR CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK OF THE
+GREAT EXHIBITION" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+<hr />
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/img002.jpg">
+<img src="images/img002s.jpg" width="200" height="299"
+alt="Illustration" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+<hr />
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/img003.jpg">
+<img src="images/img003s.jpg" width="300" height="449"
+alt="Title Page" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+<hr />
+
+<a name='Page1'></a>
+<h1>THE<br />
+WORLD'S FAIR;</h1>
+<h3>OR,<br />
+CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK<br />
+OF THE<br />
+GREAT EXHIBITION<br />
+OF 1851.</h3>
+<br />
+<br />
+<h3>DESCRIBING THE<br />
+BEAUTIFUL INVENTIONS AND MANUFACTURES<br />
+EXHIBITED THEREIN;<br />
+<br />
+WITH<br />
+<br />
+PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE PEOPLE<br />
+WHO HAVE MADE AND SENT THEM;<br />
+AND<br />
+HOW THEY LIVE WHEN AT HOME.</h3>
+<br />
+<br />
+<h6>LONDON:<br />
+THOMAS DEAN AND SON 35, THREADNEEDLE-STREET, AND<br />
+ACKERMANN AND CO. 96, STRAND.</h6>
+
+<hr />
+
+<a name='Page2'></a><a name='Page3'></a>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>THE WORLD'S FAIR;</h2>
+<h4>OR,</h4>
+<h3>CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK</h3>
+<h4>OF THE</h4>
+<h3>GREAT EXHIBITION.</h3>
+<br />
+
+<a href="images/p003-w.png">
+<img align="left" src="images/p003-ws.png" width="60" height="59"
+alt="W" /></a>
+<p>What a pretty picture we have in the first title page, of the Great
+Exhibition in Hyde Park! This gigantic structure is built of iron,
+glass, and wood; but as, at a distance, it seems to be made entirely
+of glass, it is called the &quot;Crystal Palace.&quot; Does it not look like one
+of those magnificent palaces we read about in fairy tales?</p>
+
+<p>The Great Exhibition is intended to receive and exhibit the most
+beautiful and most ingenious things from every country in the world,
+in order that everybody may become better known to each other than
+they have been, and be joined together in love and trade, like one
+great family; so that we may have no more wicked, terrible battles,
+such as there used to be long ago, when nobody cared who else was<a name='Page4'></a>
+miserable, so that they themselves were comfortable. Only look at the
+thousands of people who crowd the Park,&mdash;all so different looking, and
+so curiously dressed. Grave Turks,&mdash;swarthy Spaniards and
+Italians,&mdash;East Indian Princes, glistening with gold and
+jewels,&mdash;clever French and German workmen, in blue cotton
+blouses,&mdash;Chinese gentlemen,&mdash;Tartars, Russians, energetic Americans,
+and many more. I wonder what they all think of us, whose habits in
+many things are so different from their own?</p>
+
+<p>And what charming things there are in the Exhibition itself! Fine
+porcelain wares, mirrors, books, statues, perfumes, and many more
+articles from various parts of the world,&mdash;beautiful fans, books,
+bronzes, and an infinity of other matters, from France in particular.
+Here is a model in miniature of the Crystal Palace itself, in glass.</p>
+
+<p>Ah! talking of glass, what think you of an enormous French decanter,
+in which three persons, having gotten inside by a ladder, can sit and
+dine off a table a yard in circumference? This is quite an exhibition
+in itself, I think. In another part of the building, we have a
+looking-glass, from Germany, which is the largest that ever was made,
+and is encased in a splendid frame of Dresden china. But here is a
+darling little English steam-engine, so small that you could, after
+wrapping it up in paper, lay it very comfortably inside an<a name='Page5'></a>
+ordinary-sized walnut-shell, while the plate on which it stands is not
+bigger than a sixpence!</p>
+
+<p>In the very centre of the building, a gigantic crystal fountain
+diffuses a delicious coolness around, its bright clear waters
+sparkling, leaping, and playing, as if in delight and astonishment at
+the splendid and wonderful articles surrounding it. And there are two
+immense statues just beside it, looking mightily pleased with the
+agreeable coolness of the water. But here are two large bronze
+lions;&mdash;how terrible they look: they seem almost as if they were going
+to jump at us. There are animals of various kinds in different parts
+of the Exhibition; stags, horses, foxes, birds, cats, and even a
+ferocious-looking tiger.</p>
+
+<p>There is a bundle of nails so diminutive you can hardly see
+them&mdash;another bundle of three thousand nails, one thousand gold,
+another silver, and the third iron; so light that the whole weighs
+only three grains,&mdash;a French watch, smaller than a fourpenny
+piece,&mdash;Hindoo stuffs, so thin you can scarcely feel them, yet are
+made from rejected cotton-husks,&mdash;a highly-finished model of a palace,
+from Italy; and a handsome carriage, from Prussia.</p>
+
+<p>But among the curious articles we must notice this imitation of a
+camelia japonica tree in china, <a name='Page6'></a>with buds, leaves, and blossoms, all
+perfect, which came from Germany;&mdash;and that painted oil-cloth from
+Manchester, covered with the most extraordinary mathematical
+ornaments, and which took eleven years to complete, and is worth 500
+guineas. And that table, made of 38,000 pieces of wood, of
+twenty-eight different colours, looking like mosaic, which was sent
+from Switzerland. Nor must we forget to look at this piece of gold, on
+which is engraved &quot;The Lord's Prayer,&quot; and is yet so small that a
+common pin-head covers it: that came from Portsmouth. And here is a
+German bed, which being wound up, like a clock, to a certain hour,
+throws the sleeper out on the ground, when the time comes; no lazy
+lie-a-beds with that, I fancy!</p>
+
+<p>But here is an odd contribution, also from Germany; it is&mdash;what do you
+think?&mdash;a piece of lace, darned, and a fine table napkin, also darned!
+however, don't laugh, until I explain to you the reason <i>why</i> it has
+been mended in this way: an ingenious young lady, wishing to show
+industrious lasses that torn clothes may be made to look as if they
+had not been injured in that manner at all, got a piece of cloth, tore
+it for the purpose, and taking up the stitches neatly, worked thread
+after thread till she had darned it <a name='Page7'></a>in such a way that nobody could
+tell where it had been torn; she then thought of sending a specimen of
+her industry to the World's Fair.</p>
+
+<p>Here are snuff-boxes made of coal, which have been sent from Woolwich;
+and a beautiful little cannon of agate, from Germany; and two violins,
+worth a great deal of money, which have been contributed from America.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p007-i.png">
+<img align="left" src="images/p007-is.png" width="60" height="63"
+alt="I" /></a>
+<p>I know that the productions of India will delight you by their beauty
+and ingenuity: the costumes the natives have sent are even prettier
+than those of Turkey, Spain, or Persia, and their gold, silver, and
+mother-of-pearl ornaments, are enchanting; what splendid veils,
+dresses, shawls, carved ivory, and curiosities!</p>
+
+<p>I would have you look very attentively at the contributions from
+India, they are so gorgeous; such superb muslins, baskets, and fans;
+with silks, cotton, cocoa-nuts, roots, woods, and such tempting
+fruits. I always like to see Indian articles, they are so magnificent.
+The persons who have sent these things must have worked very hard, to
+make so many beautiful specimens; but then the poorer people of India
+are exceedingly industrious; they live very simply, eating rice,
+boiled with milk <a name='Page8'></a>and spices, as their principal food, for it is
+against their religion to touch meat of any kind. They would lead
+rather a sorry life, were it not that their tastes were so extremely
+simple, and their wants so few. A Hindoo village looks more like a
+gipsy encampment, than anything else, and bears a very strange
+appearance to a European, at first.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p008.jpg">
+<img src="images/p008s.jpg" width="200" height="156"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>However, although the poor people live in this way, the princes and
+nobles lead a far different life; an eastern grandee could formerly do
+anything he chose, even to killing of his wives and slaves, and, only
+I do not wish to frighten you, I could tell you many stories about the
+cruelty of <a name='Page9'></a>the Indian nobles. They live in great state, and are
+always surrounded by a throng of slaves, and attendants, who wait on
+them as they recline lazily on a pile of the softest cushions, which
+are covered with the skins of beasts, and with silks, velvets, and
+satins. When they go abroad they are carried in what is called a
+palanquin, borne on the shoulders of servants, if they do not choose
+to ride on a horse or an elephant.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p009.jpg">
+<img src="images/p009s.jpg" width="267" height="121"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+
+<p>Their houses are adorned with the utmost magnificence, while the
+gardens or approaches to them are delightfully cool and refreshing,
+being shaded by fragrant trees, and shrubs, perfumed by the most
+beautiful flowers, and cooled by fountains, playing in marble basins.
+The Indian machinery is very clumsy indeed, and the mills are the
+funniest-looking things imaginable: I must show you an oil-mill.</p><a name='Page10'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p010.jpg">
+<img src="images/p010s.jpg" width="190" height="137"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+
+<p>A very cruel custom prevails in many parts of India, which I know will
+shock you very much: when a Hindoo of rank dies, his widow is laid by
+his side on a pile of faggots, which being set fire to, the poor
+creature is suffocated, or else burnt alive, and they pretend that she
+likes to be so destroyed. The ceremony is called a &quot;Suttee,&quot; and is
+conducted with great pomp, all the relations of the woman and her dead
+husband being present, in addition to an immense crowd; before getting
+on the pile, the widow divides all her jewels and ornaments amongst
+her friends. Here is a picture of a widow about to bathe in a
+&quot;consecrated&quot; river, before going to be burnt.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p011.jpg">
+<img src="images/p011s.jpg" width="200" height="153"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Here are lovely specimens of the manufacture of gold, silver, silk,
+jewellery, and Lebanon horns, from Syria, with seeds, fruits, oils,
+and woods; <a name='Page11'></a>and even ornaments and marble from Jerusalem! Little did
+the Crusaders of old think, when they were fighting in Jerusalem, and
+the Holy Land, that the Infidels, as they very incorrectly called
+them, would be sending in such a friendly way to England.</p>
+
+<p>What splendid caps, slippers, veils, and perfumes, with such
+picturesque guns and swords, from Turkey! The Turks are a fine,
+handsome race of people, and very grave and sensible, except when they
+are angry, when they grow raging and furious; they are fond of ease;
+and the chief delight of those who can afford it is to sit
+cross-legged <a name='Page12'></a>on a low couch, drinking coffee, and smokeing a long
+curled pipe, called a <i>hookah</i>. They often sit by the side of a canal
+for a whole day, looking at children flying kites. Instead of sitting
+at a table to dine, they put the dishes on a carpet of Turkey leather,
+and sit round it on the floor, eating, with wooden spoons, meat and
+rice stewed together, called <i>pilau</i>. They are not allowed to drink
+wine, or eat pork. A favourite diversion with them is playing on a
+kind of lute, and sometimes they amuse themselves with chess,
+draughts, and other games; but their principal amusement, like some of
+my little friends, is to sit and listen <a name='Page13'></a>to stories, told by men who
+earn their livelihood by relating entertaining tales and romances.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p012.jpg">
+<img src="images/p012s.jpg" width="200" height="140"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The Turks do not undress and go to bed at any time, but being seated
+on a sofa, they smoke till they are sleepy, then laying themselves
+down, their slaves cover them over for the night. The poor people of
+the cities carry water, cakes, loaves, and other things, through the
+streets for a living, or act as buffoons, musicians, tumblers and
+wrestlers, at the Sultan's and other of the rich people's palaces.</p>
+
+<p>They cannot use wheel carriages in Turkey, the streets are so narrow,
+and the pavements in many parts so bad; everything is therefore
+carried by men, horses, mules, and donkeys, which is very
+inconvenient, as the mules and donkeys very often tumble down, and
+throw their burdens right in everybody's way; as for a horse, when
+heavily laden, it takes up the entire road; and when two loaded horses
+meet, the bawling and confusion is dreadful.</p>
+
+<p>The markets in Turkey are called &quot;bazaars,&quot; and there you can buy
+almost anything you want; and every trade keeps together in knots of
+shops, different from us, in particular quarters, so that you are not
+obliged to walk all over the bazaar in search of a hat or a pair of
+shoes. In these bazaars, <a name='Page14'></a>it is customary for a dealer to ask much
+more than he means to take, and for a buyer to offer infinitely less
+than he means to give; it is, therefore, rather difficult to strike a
+bargain, and sometimes several days are occupied chaffering about a
+price.</p>
+
+<p>The Turkish houses, above the ground floors, are usually built of thin
+laths, painted of different gay colours, and the roofs made of tiles,
+so that every few months a terrible fire takes place, and several
+thousand dwellings are burnt down; but the people are so accustomed to
+this that they do not mind it, and look on very contentedly while the
+fire rages, smoking their pipes, and drinking coffee.</p>
+
+<p>The Turks are exceedingly charitable, and not only give alms to the
+sick and poor, but even to travellers and strangers; and some of them
+have exercised their benevolence so far that they have left a sum of
+money for digging wells, and for the support of several cats and dogs.
+A very great trade is carried on from many parts of the world with
+them, as their country is famous for its rich brocades, thick soft
+carpets, mattings, baskets, curiously-wrought gold and silver
+embroidery, and balsams. It is also remarkable for its attar of roses,
+spices, figs, and coffee; all very good things, I dare say, you will
+think.</p><a name='Page15'></a>
+
+<a href="images/p015-s.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p015-ss.jpg" width="63" height="64"
+alt="S" /></a>
+
+<p>Some things have been sent from China to our Exhibition; but the
+Chinese people do not seem to care much about it. Indeed, I wonder
+they sent at all, for they consider themselves as the only civilized
+nation in the world, and call China the &quot;Celestial Empire,&quot; while they
+imagine that the Emperor is an intimate relation of the Sun, Moon, and
+Stars! They are a very industrious nation, however, and the Emperor
+encourages them by his example. The poor work in every way they can;
+and one of their occupations is carrying about water for sale, as they
+have not water brought by pipes into the houses, as we <a name='Page16'></a>have here.
+Here is the picture of a Chinese water carrier.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p015.jpg">
+<img src="images/p015s.jpg" width="200" height="138"
+alt="Chinese Water Carrier" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>They also make the most elaborately carved ornaments, in wood and
+ivory; their toys and lanterns are celebrated for their ingenuity and
+workmanship. Their fireworks are superior to all those of other
+nations; and they excel in tricks and amusing entertainments. The
+cultivation of tea is universal, and agriculture&mdash;which, you know is
+the art of tilling the earth&mdash;is held in high esteem; the principal
+products being rice, wheat, yams, potatoes, turnips, and cabbages. The
+dwellings of the peasantry too, are not in villages, as in old
+England, but are scattered through the country; and they have no
+fences, gates, or anything to guard against wild beasts, or robbers.
+The females raise silk-worms, spin cotton, manufacture <a name='Page17'></a>woollen
+stuffs, and are the only weavers in the empire. The art of printing,
+though done in what I must confess is rather a clumsy manner, is much
+exercised amongst them, and gives employment to many people.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p016.jpg">
+<img src="images/p016s.jpg" width="185" height="187"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>I do not think we should like to dine with a Chinese gentleman, or
+Mandarin, as he would treat us to strange dainties, as&mdash;a roast dog, a
+dish of stewed worms, a rat pie; or, perhaps, a bird's-nest. But the
+bird's-nest would be the best of the list, for it is not like the kind
+of bird's-nests which you have seen, but is made, I believe, of the
+spawn of fish, and looks something like isinglass. It is the nest of a
+sort of swallow, is about the size of a goose's egg, and is found in
+caverns along the sea shores; so it is not so bad as it seems at
+first. And the rats are as large and fat as some of our rabbits, being
+fed on fruits and grain, purposely for eating; as also are their dogs,
+for eating.</p>
+
+<p>The people of the &quot;Celestial Empire&quot; are celebrated for their fondness
+for making beautiful gardens; but their houses and gardens are quite
+different from ours.</p>
+
+<p>What a pretty scene! what a delicious cool walk is formed by the grove
+of trees leading to the porcelain tower. And those ladies walking
+towards the boat,&mdash;or hobbling, more likely; for <a name='Page18'></a>the Chinese ladies
+have feet not much larger than your papa's thumb, which is there
+considered a great beauty.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p018.jpg">
+<img src="images/p018s.jpg" width="200" height="148"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The common women cannot afford to have little feet, as the feet of the
+rich girls are bandaged up in iron shoes, when they are two or three
+years old, to prevent their growing larger. These small feet are
+called &quot;Golden Lilies;&quot; but I am glad no such barbarous custom
+prevails in our own dear country. The Chinese ladies, however, are
+extremely accomplished, and can play on many musical instruments,
+paint, and embroider. The merchants of China are not at all remarkable
+for <a name='Page19'></a>their honesty, though a few of them are very scrupulous. Many of
+them amass great fortunes.</p>
+
+<p>The Chinese have sent in embroidered shawls, table-covers, teas,
+curious and intricate toys, and specimens of handicraft.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p019-w.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p019-ws.jpg" width="77" height="76"
+alt="W" /></a>
+
+<p>Why, we have even specimens of Russian industry, in the Great
+Exhibition; and very good specimens they are, too. Russia is not such
+a pleasant country, in some respects, as any of those I have been
+telling you of; for in the winter the frost is so severe that many of
+the poor Russians die from cold.<a name='Page20'></a> The rich wrap themselves up in warm
+furs, and ride in fur-lined sledges, instead of the usual carriages;
+but the poor people are forced to continue working out of doors at
+their various employments, being very careful, however, to cover their
+legs, hands, and head with fur, lest they should be bitten with the
+frost, which sometimes seizes those parts and turns them white. Though
+many of the poor women stand for hours together, washing their linen
+in holes cut in the ice, without getting frozen, yet it often happens
+that coachmen and other servants have been frozen to death in the
+streets at night, while waiting for their masters.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p019.jpg">
+<img src="images/p019s.jpg" width="200" height="140"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>At the end of every year, the Russians keep a long fast, and as soon
+as it is over, lay in their store of winter's provisions, at a market
+held once a-year on the river Neva, which is then frozen over. I
+should like you to see this market, it is so full of gaiety and
+singularity, while the high piles of frozen provisions look so
+picturesque along the ice. The Russians are remarkable for their
+cheerfulness and contentment, and are so fond of singing, that they
+are always enjoying a song when at work. Russian songs are very
+different from ours, and sound rather odd to us.</p>
+
+<p>The food of the common people is black rye <a name='Page21'></a>bread, sometimes, by way
+of treat, stuffed with onions, carrots, or green corn, and seasoned
+with sweet oil. They use eggs, salt fish, bacon, and mushrooms, of
+which last they have a great plenty. The men are ordinarily dressed in
+loose trousers; short coats of sheep-skin, tied with a sash round
+their waists, and folds of flannel, fastened round with pack-thread,
+on their legs, for stockings. The women are dressed just as oddly, in
+short gowns, and with their hair plaited and hanging down their backs,
+if they are unmarried; or a cap and cotton kerchief round their heads,
+if they are married. The peasants' houses are built of wood, and have
+one or two rooms only; they are miserably furnished, with no beds, as
+the family sleep on benches in summer, while nearly one-fourth of the
+principal apartment is filled by an enormous stove, or rather oven,
+upon which they sleep in winter; for the smoke of which, there is no
+chimney beyond a hole in the wall. I don't think you or I would much
+like to spend a winter in Russia.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p021-m.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p021-ms.jpg" width="60" height="51"
+alt="M" /></a>
+
+<p>Many useful things, you may observe, have come from Spain&mdash;cheeses,
+honey, dried fruits, salt, lime, wool, oil, flax, and cotton; with
+guns, swords, and also <a name='Page22'></a>beautiful ornaments; with some precious
+stones, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. The Spaniards are not either a
+very active or a very cleanly people, but they are exceedingly proud,
+honest, and hospitable; they are skilful workers in woollen and silk
+stuffs, and manufacture sword-blades of a very fine kind; while their
+leather is celebrated for its superiority. They also work beautifully
+in gold and silver; and trade in immense quantities of those oranges
+you like so well, lemons, citrons, grapes, raisins, olives, nuts, and
+wines.</p>
+
+<p>The chief amusement of both high and low is one which neither you nor
+I would be pleased with, I hope, for it is bull-fighting; which cruel
+entertainment they learned from the Moors, who once had possession of
+Spain, and built all the beautiful castles and palaces that are in it.
+The manners of the rich people are merely like those of our own
+gentry, but the common people are very peculiar; and all classes
+delight in playing on the guitar, and singing, both of which they
+perform charmingly. They have also two favourite dances, called a
+fandango, and a bolero, both extremely lively and graceful. The mode
+of conveyance in Spain is by mules, and these beasts are surprisingly
+obedient to their masters, and answer to their own names just like our
+own pet dogs. The tails of <a name='Page23'></a>the mules are oddly decorated, by cutting
+the hair into stars, flowers, and other fanciful designs.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p023-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p023-ts.jpg" width="80" height="139"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The villages are mostly mean, and the roads narrow; but Madrid, the
+capital of Spain, is a large city, with long, straight streets, many
+of them cooled by noble fountains. The houses in Madrid are built of
+brick, and even the grandest of them have only lattices, instead of
+glass windows, most of which have, however, handsome balconies,
+supported on columns. In the churches, there are neither pews,
+benches, nor chairs; the ground is covered with matting, on which
+every one kneels together, from the grandee to the beggar. In the
+suburbs there are many woods of evergreen oak, vineyards, olive
+plantations, and orchards of mulberry, plum, and almond trees; and the
+flocks of black sheep and goats, grazing in the country meadows, have
+a pretty effect.</p>
+
+<p>I don't think you would find the Spanish cookery much to your taste;
+for the Spaniards are very fond of rancid butter in their meals, and
+of oil that has a very strong smell and flavour; indeed, <a name='Page24'></a>when they
+are going to cook anything that requires fat, they lift down the lamp
+from the ceiling, and take out what oil they want. Bread, steeped in
+oil, and occasionally seasoned with vinegar, is the common food of the
+country people. Their favourite wine is that which has a strong taste
+of the leather bottles or casks, in which they keep it; and they will
+hardly eat any thing that has not saffron, pimento, or garlic, in it.
+They have, however, even amongst the poorest, such fine grapes, ripe
+melons, and tempting oranges, as my little readers, I know, have
+seldom tasted. In summer, they use a quantity of ice, which is sold in
+glasses, in the streets, for a trifling sum. In <a name='Page25'></a>place of candles, the
+poor people have a piece of cane, cut with holes through it, which is
+fixed to the ceiling, and from one of the holes a lamp is hung by a
+hook.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p024.jpg">
+<img src="images/p024s.jpg" width="200" height="135"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The dress of the lower orders is very pretty indeed, and they
+themselves are mostly tall and handsome, with black hair and eyes, and
+dark sun-burnt complexions. The climate is so warm and balmy, that
+they can grow their fruits in the open air.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p025-s.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p025-ss.jpg" width="40" height="52"
+alt="S" /></a>
+
+<p>Some pretty articles have been sent from Portugal, a country which is
+near Spain, and very like it in all respects. It is a very fine
+country, famous for wine, and oil; and the sheep are much prized for
+their superior wool. The ladies of rank still spin flax from a
+distaff, to show their industry. The peasantry are not very well off;
+their only luxury is tobacco, and their usual fare is bread, made of
+Indian corn, with a salted pilchard, or a head of garlic, to give it a
+relish. They are polite and hospitable; but the people of the towns
+have not the least scruple in stabbing any body that offends them; so
+that it is a dangerous thing to affront them.</p>
+
+<p>What elegant tables, pictures, vases, marbles, statues, shells, woods,
+and perfumes, have been <a name='Page26'></a>contributed to the Exhibition from Italy.
+Here is a table of a most beautiful material, called pietra dura,
+which took one hundred and twenty years to finish, and came from
+Naples.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p026-i.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p026-is.jpg" width="100" height="147"
+alt="I" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Italy has always been celebrated for the beauty of the articles
+manufactured there; and the things it has sent us now are certainly
+worthy of its fame. It is one of the loveliest countries in the world,
+in the spring and autumn, and is ornamented with the richest foliage;
+vines, mulberry, olive, and orange trees; and with high hills and deep
+dales, towns, villas, and villages. The soil is extremely fertile, and
+produces abundance of grain, the finest fruits and vegetables, with
+flax, <a name='Page27'></a>saffron, and manna. The climate is delightful, except in
+summer, when the weather is dreadfully hot, and the winters are so
+mild, that ice and snow are quite rarities, except in the mountains; I
+wonder what my little-boy friends would do there, for a skate on the
+ice, or a merry game of snow-balls?</p>
+
+<p>Rome, the capital of Italy, is a splendid city, full of the remains of
+ancient temples, pillars, arches, and fountains; but many of them
+sadly ruinous and decayed. There are a great many Jews in it, who are
+forced to live in a particular part, called the <i>ghetto</i>, which means
+a place for Jews. The city of Rome and the surrounding country are
+very unwholesome during summer, in consequence of the land not being
+properly drained, as it used to be in the times of the ancient Romans,
+so that it is dangerous to dwell near them at that season of the year.
+The numerous vineyards in Italy, are not divided by hedges, but by
+rows of rather fine trees, the vines clinging in graceful festoons
+from one bough to another. In some parts of the country, there are
+various picturesque corn fields and meadows, bordered by olive trees.</p>
+
+<p>The Italians are not a very industrious people, but they make silk
+stockings, soap, snuff-boxes of <a name='Page28'></a>the lava of Mount Vesuvius, tables of
+marble, and ornaments of shells, besides gloves and caps of the
+filaments of a kind of muscle, which they get off the rocks, where it
+fixes itself by spinning a web from its own body, like the silk-worm
+or spider. These caps and gloves are actually warmer than those made
+of wool, and are of a fine glossy green colour.</p>
+
+<p>There are a great many beggars, I am sorry to say, in fair Italy, who
+are called <i>Lazzaroni</i>, and they live on whatever they can get,
+sleeping under porticos, piazzas, or any place they can find, and are,
+as you may guess, excessively idle, like all other beggars.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p028-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p028-ts.jpg" width="100" height="145"
+alt="T" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>There are also hordes of thieves, who are called <i>Banditti</i>, and who
+rob people in the most daring manner, for there are very few police.
+But there are also <a name='Page29'></a>numerous persons who are quite well-behaved, and
+do all they can to earn their bread honestly. Among these is a set of
+men called <i>Improvisatori</i>, who tell stories, or repeat verses in the
+streets, and get a good deal of money from those who stop to listen to
+them. It must be very pleasant, on a cool summer evening, to sit under
+some magnificent old portico, listening to some interesting poem, or
+hearing a pretty story related.</p>
+<br />
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p029-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p029-ts.jpg" width="100" height="138"
+alt="T" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Throughout Italy, one of the remarkable customs, is keeping of a grand
+festival, which begins some weeks before Lent, and is called the
+&quot;Carnival;&quot; on this occasion, every place is brilliantly adorned, and
+the people go about singing, dancing, joking, and masquerading. The
+most splendid Carnival is kept at Venice, a remarkable city of Italy,
+<a name='Page30'></a>built upon a several islands, the sea, which runs every where among
+them, serving the inhabitants for streets.</p>
+
+<p>The Italians are very handsome, and have jet black hair, dark roguish
+eyes, and fine figures. The dress of the lower orders is even prettier
+than the pretty Spanish costume. The men wear high-crowned hats, such
+as you may sometimes have seen on the organ-grinders in the streets of
+London, velveteen jackets, gaiters, and open shirt-collars, loosely
+fastened by a silk ribbon; while the women have short scarlet
+petticoats, and jackets of a darker colour, with exceedingly short
+sleeves, tied with bright ribbon, and their long black hair decorated
+with coloured bows of ribbon, and confined by a silk lace net, which
+falls partly over their shoulders. Instead of sending thieves to
+prison in Italy, they are sent on board the galleys, a large kind of
+rowing vessels, where they are chained to the decks, and obliged to
+endure every species of hardship.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p030-w.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p030-ws.jpg" width="50" height="48"
+alt="W" /></a>
+
+<p>What a number of things the Germans have contributed! Bracelets,
+articles of straw, beautiful household furniture, toys, wire, and many
+other manufactures. Here is a splendid tray of polished amber, with a
+little carriage, made <a name='Page31'></a>according to a proper model, and a large
+chandelier of amber, capable of holding several thousand lights. There
+is a beautiful cabinet made of a collection of pieces of unpolished
+amber, intended to show the different kinds of that mineral, its
+various forms, its peculiarities, and its varieties. Here is a
+bedstead, worth it is said ten thousand pounds; and the most elegant
+furniture ever seen. And here is a piece of white silk embroidered
+with portraits of our Queen and the Prince of Wales, done in a thin
+kind of thread, called &quot;hair thread.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>You know a good deal about Germany itself, I dare say, already; but I
+must tell you something about the Germans themselves. They are grave
+and thoughtful, but highly romantic and full of enthusiasm. Their love
+for their country is most remarkable. All classes in Germany are
+well-educated, and many painters, poets, and musicians, have been born
+among them. The art of printing was first practiced in that country,
+and at present the number of books printed there is immense; while
+every year a book-fair is held at the city of Leipzig. The produce and
+manufactures of Germany are exceedingly numerous, and you see they are
+of great variety, such as clocks, watches, woollens, linens, toys,
+wines, ornamental work in iron and steel, worsteds, and silks. In the
+public walks <a name='Page32'></a>and gardens, on Sundays, the people assemble in great
+crowds, dressed out in their holiday clothes, while ladies and
+gentlemen walk about without the least restraint among the working
+people.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p032-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p032-ts.jpg" width="100" height="136"
+alt="T" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The chase is a favourite amusement with the nobles and gentlemen, and
+is a sport in which they are lustily joined by the peasantry. The
+immense forests with which the country abounds gives shelter to wild
+boars, wolves, and many other ferocious animals. On grand occasions
+there is held what is called a <i>battue</i>, when a number of deer are
+driven into an enclourse, and shot at by the sportsmen. The habits of
+the peasants are extremely simple, but the people are industrious and
+ingenious. The villages and cottages are neat and comfortable. The
+peasants make many pretty toys and ornaments, and bring provisions to
+market from a great distance, in light roomy wheel-barrows, made for
+the purpose. The<a name='Page33'></a> German people are in general fair, with blue eyes,
+flaxen hair, and full figures; but they do not wear any very peculiar
+dress.</p><br />
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p033-i.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p033-is.jpg" width="100" height="82"
+alt="I" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>In models of ships, in rosewood furniture, in silver embroidery, and
+silver cups,&mdash;besides linens, calicoes, and glass beautifully painted
+for windows; many contributions have been sent in by the Dutch. There
+are also soft thick blankets with scarlet borders, which make one warm
+merely to look at them.</p>
+
+<p>The Dutch people are industrious, and cleanly. The women are the most
+active and nicest house-wives in the world; they scour and brighten,
+and rub not only the furniture and inside of their houses, but the
+outside as well; the houses in Holland, by-the-bye, look like painted
+baby-houses, and are roofed with glossy delft tiles, and the rooms are
+lined with smooth square tiles of delft, and the floors paved with
+marble. The people are never idle in Holland, but are always working
+at a great variety of manufactures, among which are leather, woollen,
+and linen <a name='Page34'></a>articles,&mdash;also, paper, wax, starch, pottery, and tiles.
+Large quantities of gin are likewise made, and this liquor is in
+England called &quot;Hollands&quot; for that reason. Carts are not much used by
+the Dutch; their goods are carried on sledges, very light waggons, and
+boats. The reason of this is, that they are afraid lest the wheels of
+vehicles should injure the foundations of their cities, which are
+generally built on piles of huge trees, driven like stakes into the
+bog beneath. The common people are very humane to their cattle; they
+rub down the cows and oxen, and keep them as clean and sleek as our
+English horses. Canals run through the principal streets, and in
+winter they <a name='Page35'></a>are frozen over for two or three months, when the whole
+country is like a fair; booths are erected upon the ice, with fires in
+them. The country people skate to market, with milk and vegetables;
+and every kind of sport is seen on the frozen canals. Sledges fly from
+one street to another, gaily decorated, and numberless skaters glide
+about with astonishing swiftness and dexterity. No people skate so
+well as the Dutch.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p034.jpg">
+<img src="images/p034s.jpg" width="200" height="135"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Holland was once a quagmire, almost covered with water; but by making
+canals higher than the land, and pumping the water out of the fields
+into them, the land was drained. The bogs are numerous, and supply so
+much turf that little else is burned. There are no beggars; and the
+people are in general pretty warmly clothed, and comfortable looking,
+with ruddy faces. The townspeople are dressed almost like the
+Londoners, or Parisians; but the costume of the country folks is
+rather funny. A farmer's wife, when out for a holiday, wears a large
+kind of gipsy hat, like a small umbrella, lined with damask; a close
+jacket with long flaps; and full short thick coloured petticoats. Her
+slippers are yellow, her stockings blue, and her cap is without a
+border, being made to fit her head exactly, and gaily ornamented with
+gold filagree clasps; while her costume is finished <a name='Page36'></a>by a pair of
+earrings and a necklace. The farmer himself wears a hat without a rim,
+and huge silver buttons on his coat; and keeps whiffing away at his
+pipe, which he is seldom without. The Dutch are most excellent
+gardeners, though they sometimes ruin themselves by their love for
+flowers.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p036-a.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p036-as.jpg" width="100" height="156"
+alt="A" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Among the articles that have been sent here from Switzerland, are
+several well worth looking at, they are so wonderfully ingenious. Of
+this kind are two boxes, one of white wood, and the other of brown;
+the white has a lovely Alpine rose, with garlands of flowers upon the
+sides, the rose and lid being cut out of one piece of wood, and so
+beautifully made to imitate nature, that the slightest touch with the
+point of a knife or a needle, makes the leaves move and quiver without
+<a name='Page37'></a>spoiling the flower. This was made by a Swiss peasant. The people of
+Switzerland are very remarkable for their industry, contentment, and
+ingenuity.</p>
+
+<p>Among the villagers, their chief occupations are the management of
+dairies, and the breeding of cattle; and many of the peasantry make a
+living by hunting the chamois, as the wild goat is called. This is
+rather a dangerous employment, yet the chamois-hunters delight in it;
+they carry a long hook pointed with an iron spike, and with the help
+of this, they leap from rock to rock, over frightful chasms and
+precipices; yet such is their surprising activity, that they are never
+killed. Other peasants earn a livelihood by fattening and preparing
+snails for market; for these creatures are considered a great delicacy
+in many parts of Switzerland. In another part of the country the
+inhabitants almost exclusively follow the trade of watch-making, and
+polishing the crystals and pebbles that are found in the mountains,
+Geneva, a city of Switzerland, is celebrated for the watches that are
+made there.</p>
+
+<p>The women are extremely domestic, delighting in their children; and
+all the Swiss are remarkable for their passionate love of home. In
+every village there is a school, established by the Government <a name='Page38'></a>for
+the instruction of poor children. The Swiss are the most graceful of
+all peasants, and wear very smart costumes. The men wear large hats,
+and their dress is generally a brown cloth jacket without sleeves, and
+puffed breeches of ticking. The women have short blue petticoats, a
+cherry-coloured boddice, full white sleeves fastened above the elbow,
+and a muslin kerchief thrown round their necks; while their hair is
+plaited, and twisted about their heads. They also wear pretty flat
+straw hats, ornamented with bows of ribbon.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p038-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p038-ts.jpg" width="50" height="119"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The scenery of Switzerland is of the most charming and romantic
+description; there are towering mountains, craggy rocks, steep
+precipices, with foaming torrents dashing down their sides, and dizzy
+heights, which I should be sorry any of my little friends were looking
+down. But these are delightfully intermixed with beautiful valleys,
+adorned with groves of fir, beech, and chestnut trees; clear lakes,
+rapid rivers, cataracts, and bridges of one arch reaching an immense
+distance from rock to rock. Portions of the mountains are covered with
+villages and scattered cottages; and the inside of the dwellings <a name='Page39'></a>are
+so neat and look so comfortable, that you could almost wish to live in
+one of them, if you were not told that there is a perpetual danger of
+their being buried under one of the enormous masses of snow that
+frequently roll from the tops of the mountains, and destroy everything
+in their way. These masses are called Avalanches.</p>
+
+<p>Between the summits of the highest of the mountains are valleys of
+ice, frozen into many fantastic shapes, formed by one crust of ice
+growing hard over another; but what is more extraordinary, is that the
+borders of these glaciers, as they are called, are fertile:
+strawberries, wild cherries, nuts, barberries, and mulberries, grow
+there; and goats browse on the most inaccessible parts of the rocks,
+and bound with the most surprising agility from one cliff to another.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p039.jpg">
+<img src="images/p039s.jpg" width="200" height="136"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<a name='Page40'></a>
+<a href="images/p040-s.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p040-ss.jpg" width="60" height="54"
+alt="S" /></a>
+
+<p>Several contributions have been sent by the Prussians and Austrians;
+woollens, minerals, linens, china, and other things.</p>
+
+<p>The Prussians are a very polite and well-educated people, and nowhere
+are there more schools than in their country.</p>
+
+<p>Prussia itself is an extremely pleasant place, and the towns are fine,
+with wide, regular streets, and high antique-looking houses; the
+streets are mostly lined with trees, which look pretty enough while
+their leaves are green, but rather prevent the free circulation of
+air. The Prussian ladies delight in fine clothes, and would be much
+vexed if they were obliged to go out without them. The gentry speak
+French, but the common people talk German. The beautiful Dresden china
+we see at the Exhibition, cames from the town of Dresden.</p>
+
+<p>Austria is a very fine country, and contains a great variety of
+people. The principal artizans are tanners, furriers, boot makers,
+lace workers, and cabinet makers. There are also workers in iron,
+copper, alum, saltpetre, besides many others. The general habits of
+the Austrians are like those of the Germans, so I do not think I need
+tell you anything about them.</p><a name='Page41'></a>
+
+<a href="images/p041-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p041-ts.jpg" width="60" height="62"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The Poles and Hungarians have also sent their industrial productions
+to the Great Exhibition; cloth, lace, furniture, brooms, linens,
+woollens, and other articles. I dare say you have heard a good deal
+lately about the Hungarians, when they were fighting against the
+Austrians and Russians. The Hungarian peasants are very hard-working;
+indeed, they cannot help being so, for as the nobility and gentry are
+not taxed, the poor people are forced to pay all the taxes, besides
+being obliged to give money and provisions to their masters, the Lords
+of the Manor, who, I am sorry to say, are excessively tyrannical. They
+are also compelled to pay tithes to the clergy, the magistrates, and
+the soldiers, and to work for nothing on the public works; against
+which bad laws they fought. Agriculture, and the breeding of cattle,
+are carried on to a considerable extent.</p>
+
+<p>Hungary is occupied by a variety of people, with entirely different
+habits; it contains Frenchmen, Sclavonians, Turks, Jews, Spaniards,
+Gipsies, Germans, and Greeks. The Magyar language, the original
+Hungarian tongue, is spoken by the peasants; but in the cities the
+people mostly use German and French.</p><a name='Page42'></a>
+
+<a href="images/p042-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p042-ts.jpg" width="50" height="41"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The Poles live in a cold, flat, marshy country, in the north of
+Europe. The peasantry are in a miserable state, very dirty and
+frequently drunken; and their land is in a wretched condition.</p>
+
+<p>The Swedish and Danish people have made many things to be exhibited in
+the World's Fair. Sweden is in the north of Europe, and the climate is
+very disagreeable, for it is extremely cold in winter, and intolerably
+hot in summer. The people do not live very luxuriantly; their bread is
+not only black and coarse, but so hard that they are sometimes obliged
+to break it with a hatchet; and this, with dried fish, and salt meat,
+forms the chief part of their food. Yet they are very hardy and
+contented. At Michaelmas, they kill their cattle and salt them, for
+the winter and spring. Their favourite drink is beer, and they delight
+in malt spirits; some of them have tea and coffee. Their houses are
+generally built of wood, and their cottages are made of rough logs;
+the roofs are covered with turf, on which the goats browse. The
+Swedish women do everything that men are employed to do in other
+countries; they plough, sow, and thresh, and work with the
+bricklayers; the country women, as well as the <a name='Page43'></a>ladies, wear veils to
+shade their faces from the glare of the snow in winter, and from the
+scorching rays of the sun reflected from the barren rocks in summer.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p043.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p043s.jpg" width="100" height="158"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The iron mines of Sweden are exceedingly useful; they furnish great
+quantities of metal, to be exported to England, for the use of our
+steel manufactories. The extensive forests supply numerous pine trees,
+which are cut down and sent to foreign countries, for ship and house
+building; while pitch and tar are made from the sap,&mdash;a preparation
+which gives employment to many of the inhabitants.</p>
+
+<p>The Swedes contrive to make things from materials we should throw away
+as good for nothing; they twist rope from hogs'-bristles, horses'
+manes, and the bark of trees; and form bridles of eel-skins. The
+coarse cloth they wear they make <a name='Page44'></a>themselves, for the women are
+continually busy spinning or weaving. Sweden is the birth-place of the
+famous botanist, Linn&aelig;us, and the charming singer, Jenny Lind.</p>
+
+<p>Norway is united to Sweden, but it is still colder in winter and
+hotter in summer. The people live very simply, mostly on milk, cheese,
+and dried fish; and sometimes they have slices of meat, sprinkled with
+salt and dried in the wind. In some parts of the country, the people
+make bread of the bark of the pine tree; and in winter, for want of
+hay, they are obliged to feed their cattle on dried fish. The houses
+are built of wood, and many of the roads are made of the same
+material; while wooden fences are used instead of hedges. The
+Norwegians send metals, minerals, salt, butter, dried fish, and furs,
+to other countries.</p>
+
+<p>Denmark is a very fine country, perfectly level, except a single ridge
+of mountains. Its chief products are grain, tobacco, flax, madder, and
+hops. There are a great many mines, but few manufactures carried on;
+though the Danish gloves are much esteemed. The climate is generally
+rather warm, but very wet. The Danes are mostly well-educated; they
+are like the Swedes in their manners and customs. They have sent many
+specimens of their industry to the Great Exhibition.</p><a name='Page45'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p045-w.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p045-ws.jpg" width="100" height="143"
+alt="W" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Why, who would have thought of seeing Persian and Egyptian
+contributions at the Exhibition?</p>
+
+<p>And such splendid articles as they are! Persia, you know, is a rich
+and fertile country, near Russia, in Asia; but although it has many
+beautiful flowers and fruits, yet is there very little timber; owing
+to which they have no shipping. The Persians delight in fine clothes
+on which they lavish the greater part of their money, and they are
+fonder of scarlet, or crimson, than of any other colour. They are very
+skilful in dyeing, in making silks, shagreen, morocco, gold and silver
+ornaments; and they form excellent swords and weapons. Their commerce
+with Turkey, China, Arabia, and other places, is carried on by means
+of what they call &quot;caravans,&quot; which are <a name='Page46'></a>large companies of merchants,
+who travel together for the sake of security from thieves, by whom
+however, they are often robbed; these companies have frequently more
+than a thousand camels, to carry their luggage and their goods; and in
+consequence of the excessive heat, they are obliged to journey mostly
+in the early morning, and rest during the day. The Persians live
+chiefly on rice, fruit, and coffee, and eat very little meat; they
+luxuriate in baths, and the poorest amongst them endeavour to have a
+horse. They use the Turkish language, and are nearly all Mahometans;
+they used to worship the sun and fire, though very few continue to do
+so still. The Persian ladies never appear in the streets or any other
+public place, without having long veils, in order to conceal their
+faces, as the Turkish ladies do. The Persians are very like the Turks
+in their manners and customs, which I described to you before.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p046-e.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p046-es.jpg" width="60" height="64"
+alt="E" /></a>
+
+<p>Egypt was, formerly, a mighty empire, and had rich and haughty kings,
+who adorned it with magnificent temples and palaces. I dare say you
+remember what you have read of it in the history of Joseph and his
+brethren, and in that of Moses. It was here that Solomon built his
+magnificent <a name='Page47'></a>and gorgeous Temple. It is now, however, an exceedingly
+mean country, and is governed by a Turkish Pacha, whose grandfather
+contrived to make himself master of Egypt, as well as of Syria and
+Palestine. The climate of Egypt is excessively hot,&mdash;in fact, the
+nights in spring are the only pleasant part of the year. The nights in
+autumn are also very fine,&mdash;even delicious; and the rays of the moon
+are so bright that the natives, who sleep in the open air, cover their
+eyes to prevent their being injured by the brilliancy. The greater
+portion of the land is covered with burning sands; but wherever the
+waters of the river Nile have been conducted by canals, and allowed to
+flow over the country, the earth becomes fertile, and fruits thrive
+luxuriantly. There are but few garden flowers, but roses are
+extensively cultivated, the attar of roses forming an article of
+commerce.</p>
+
+<p>There are many valuable minerals found in the earth; and beautiful
+marble, alabaster, salt, alum, and other useful things. The woods,
+marshes, plains, and rivers supply a variety of animals, most of them
+wild and ferocious. It was in Egypt that the Hippopotamus was found.
+The people devote themselves to agriculture, the rearing of bees, and
+poultry; they also carry on an important trade with other countries.
+Most of the Egyptians <a name='Page48'></a>are strong, of a tawny complexion, and of a gay
+disposition. They luxuriate in water; and esteem it the height of
+enjoyment to sit by a fountain, smoking their pipes; they are
+excessively fond of bathing. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a large
+city, with irregular unpaved streets, and brick houses, with flat
+roofs. There are a good many small manufactories; and some schools, a
+printing-office, and a large library. There are numerous magnificent
+fountains in the city, which are indispensable on account of the
+intense heat; and more than a thousand shops for selling cups of
+coffee, of which the Egyptians are very fond; these coffee shops are
+called <i>rahwehs</i>. All along the river Nile the banks show signs of
+industry; cotton, tobacco, and other produce being grown down to the
+water's edge. The Pyramids of Egypt, the time of the building of which
+is not known, are considered one of the wonders of the world.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<a href="images/p048-t.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p048-ts.jpg" width="60" height="63"
+alt="T" /></a>
+
+<p>The Greeks have sent some fine stuffs; their silk manufactures are
+really beautiful, and their sculptures and feather-fans are splendid.
+Greece was a famous country long, long ago, in ancient history, but it
+has undergone many sad changes, and was for a long time ruled by the
+Turks. The<a name='Page49'></a> English, French, and Russians rid it from Turkish hands;
+but its present government is weak and imperfect, for the numerous
+petty chiefs pursue a wicked system of robbery, fighting, and tyranny.
+Indeed, many of these chiefs have fitted out vessels as pirate ships,
+in order to seize and plunder any other vessels weaker than their own
+with which they may fall in. There are, however, many wealthy Greek
+merchants; and a number of rich Jews live in various parts of Greece.
+The Greek people are beautiful and graceful. The women have fine oval
+faces, their eyes are large and dark, their eyebrows and hair are of
+deep shining black, and their complexions are mostly pale. They are
+very splendid in their dresses; the costume of the men is extremely
+like that of the Turks. From having been so long subject, however, to
+their Turkish rulers, the Greeks have become artful and cunning.</p>
+
+<p>The rich ladies and nobles of Greece have fine young slaves to wait
+upon them, and amuse them by singing or dancing. These slaves are
+bought from the Tartars, who steal them from Russia, Circassia, or
+Georgia, and are taken great care of, being taught to embroider, sing,
+dance, and deport themselves with elegance and grace. Their masters or
+mistresses scarcely ever sell <a name='Page50'></a>them, but when they are tired of them,
+either give them to a friend, or set them free. When they do sell
+them, it is as a punishment for some crime, or for being useless.</p>
+
+<p>There are numerous brigands, or thieves, in Greece, who are divided
+into bands, and rob with the utmost impunity. They manage to hide
+themselves very artfully in the roads where they expect to meet
+travellers, doubling their bodies up behind stones and bushes, or else
+lying flat on their faces on the ground, when they suddenly all start
+up and surround any unfortunate individual who may happen to pass that
+way. There are also honest, industrious people in Greece; and among
+them are the guides, men who show strangers over the curious portions
+of the cities for a trifling sum of money; and there are the cabmen of
+Athens, who are usually very intelligent and well-informed; there are
+a number of cabs in Athens.</p>
+
+<p>The Greek houses have only one story; but there are generally large
+gardens, carefully tended, attached to them. The climate is generally
+mild, but not so much so as formerly, on account of the cutting down
+of the forests. The spring and autumn are delightful; but the summer
+is too hot, and the winter is almost a succession of <a name='Page51'></a>storm and rain.
+The earth is extremely fertile, and produces corn, wine, and fruits,
+besides the honey and figs you like so much. The people manufacture
+silks and cottons, and export quantities of small raisins, which grow
+very luxuriantly in and about the city of Corinth. Corinth is one of
+the most charming places that you can fancy to yourself, and is
+surrounded by beautiful views and the remains of ancient temples,
+columns, and statues; groves of fine olive trees border the city, and
+the waters of two bays meet near the entrance. The ruins of the
+ancient temples and buildings in Athens, the capital of Greece, are
+still to be seen; but so little do the ignorant and foolish people,
+who have lived in the city in modern times, value these great works,
+that they have for hundreds of years used the greater part of the
+splendid marbles to build their houses, which are only ordinary and
+common-looking.</p>
+
+<a href="images/p051.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p051s.jpg" width="100" height="91"
+alt="" /></a>
+
+<p>The inhabitants of Bavaria and Belgium have sent almost numberless
+articles of industry to the Exhibition; furs, lace, machinery, corn,
+books, furniture, and metals.</p><a name='Page52'></a>
+
+<p>Belgium was formerly called Flanders, and the people produced superior
+cloth, hats, cutlery, and other useful things, a very great many years
+before the English could make any thing better than the most common
+sort of goods. The Belgians are still celebrated for their ingenuity
+in making toys, lace, cloth, silk, satin, velvet, and other useful
+articles. They are also famous for the culture of flowers, in which
+they excel even the Dutch. Every house has a garden attached, which is
+frequently surrounded by a moat. The country is small, but every part
+of the land is made fertile by the industry of the farmers, of whom
+there are a great number; many of them grow flax, which is woven into
+linen by the women. There is a weekly market for linen, held at Ghent,
+whither the peasantry carry their products for sale, and both men and
+women may be seen standing in two long lines, with benches before
+them.</p>
+
+<p>The farms in Belgium are cultivated with great care and attention, and
+much resemble the market gardens round London; they all have gardens,
+and grow an ample supply of fruit and vegetables. The food of the
+peasants, is rye-bread and milk, for breakfast and supper; potatoes
+and onions, with bacon and beer, for dinner; they eat off pewter; and
+although their fare is simple, it is good <a name='Page53'></a>and plentiful. Their dress
+is somewhat coarse, but it is neat and clean, the men wear blue linen
+frocks; and the women have printed cotton gowns, linen caps, and
+woollen petticoats.</p>
+
+<p>The towns and villages of Belgium are numerous, and thickly peopled.
+Brussels, the capital, is a fine city, and is celebrated for its
+manufactures, particularly for lace, camlet, and carpets. Ten thousand
+people are employed there in making lace. It is also famous for its
+pottery and porcelain. The other articles made there, are cotton and
+woollen stuffs, silk stockings, and earthenware. The carriages built
+there, are superior to even those of London or Paris; there is a
+specimen of Belgian carriages at the Exhibition.</p>
+
+<p>There are numerous silk manufactories in Brussels; and the beautiful
+linen, called damask, is exported in great quantities. There are
+innumerable breweries, too; for no people in the world are so fond of
+drinking beer as the Belgians. The people carry on a considerable
+trade with foreign countries, by means of the various canals, on which
+a vast number of steam-boats are constantly passing and re-passing.</p>
+
+<p>The upper part of Brussels is magnificent, and has a splendid park
+laid out with shaded walks, and surrounded by the palaces, private
+houses, <a name='Page54'></a>and public offices; but in the lower part, the streets are
+narrow and crowded, though the market-place is very beautiful. There
+are twenty superb fountains in the city, ornamented with sculpture.
+The Belgians delight in music, and they hold musical festivals every
+year. In the Horticultural Gardens at Ghent, during summer, there are
+several concerts performed in the open air; and even among the
+labouring people, the songs and pieces of music sung together by
+groups of peasants and working people are often delightful to hear;
+for in Belgium, as in Holland, Prussia, and over a great part of
+Germany, even the poorest children are freely taught to sing in
+harmony at school. There are several railways in Belgium, which is a
+very great convenience to travellers. The climate is good; and, in
+winter, snow does not fall deeply.</p>
+
+<p>Bavaria is in Germany also, and is celebrated for its manufactures of
+iron, glass, paper, hardware, clocks, linen, woollen, and fire-arms.
+The people are industrious and careful, excepting in smoking tobacco,
+of which they are very wasteful. Industry is encouraged; and several
+schools have been established for teaching young men agriculture and
+gardening, with the usual branches of education.</p><a name='Page55'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p055.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p055s.jpg" width="100" height="127"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>We must not forget to see what has come from America. Our Great
+Exhibition has been almost as much talked of there, as it has been at
+home, and an immense number of contributions has been sent from that
+country. Machinery, sculptures, stuffs, carriages, minerals, boots and
+shoes, iron-work, and wines, have been dispatched over to the
+Exhibition.</p>
+
+<p>America was formerly inhabited by numerous tribes of Red Indians,&mdash;a
+wild, warlike race,&mdash;of whom but few now remain, and those not at all
+civilized; but the greater number of the white <a name='Page56'></a>people of America are
+the same in their dress, manners, and language, as ourselves.</p>
+
+<p>A large portion of America is called the United States, which is a
+Republic; that is, it is governed by the people themselves, without a
+king, queen, and a royal family; they appoint a President every four
+years. Long ago, the United States belonged to the English, but the
+natives gradually grew more powerful than they had been, and threw off
+all foreign control.</p>
+
+<p>America produces every kind of grain and fruit, as well as spices,
+dye-woods, and balsams. The people export quantities of natural
+productions to Europe, but their manufacturers are not as yet able to
+compete with those of what are called the <i>old</i> countries. The
+principal manufactures are of cotton, woollen, iron, and leather;
+which they exchange with the Red Indians for prepared bark, skins, and
+birds' feathers. Mines abound, particularly for gold and silver; and
+there is abundance of precious stones. The farmers are a very
+industrious and intelligent class, and display much taste and neatness
+in their management.</p>
+
+<p>The finest timber for ship-building is abundant, and easily obtained;
+and there are many excellent harbours. Numerous fishing stations are
+situated along the coasts, and are very valuable; for fishing <a name='Page57'></a>is
+there a very good employment, and engages many of the natives of the
+Northern States. As these fishermen get accustomed to a sea-faring
+life, and inured to fatigue, they soon become excellent sailors, and
+furnish men for the navy.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p057.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p057s.jpg" width="100" height="132"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+
+<p>The whale fishery is also a valuable pursuit, but it requires uncommon
+bravery and skill.&mdash;In the United States there are numerous schools
+and academies, wherein the children are educated free.</p>
+
+<p>The rich people in America are free from haughtiness, awkwardness, or
+formality, but they do not display the elegance and refinement of the
+higher classes in England or France. As for the common people, they
+are serious, shrewd, and industrious; but often seem rude and
+uncourtly to strangers, for they wish to show their independance by an
+annoying surliness of behaviour. A great number of turnpike roads,
+railways, canals, <a name='Page58'></a>and bridges, have been formed, and improve the
+country very much, as you may imagine.</p>
+
+<p>The Americans make works in iron and wood, articles of machinery and
+of husbandry, tanned leather, and dressed skins. They are famous for
+ship-building.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p058.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p058s.jpg" width="60" height="91"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Peru, which is in South America, is a very fine country, and produces
+many useful things, such as tobacco, pepper, jalap, Peruvian bark, and
+indigo.</p>
+
+<p>There are numerous valuable gold and silver mines, which make the
+inhabitants so rich, that at one time, long since, they paved several
+streets with ingots of silver, in proof of their wealth. There are
+whale fisheries on the coasts. Only <i>one</i> specimen of industry has
+been sent from Peru!</p>
+<br />
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center>
+<a href="images/p058m.jpg">
+<img src="images/p058ms.jpg" width="100" height="67"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+<a name='Page59'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p059.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p059s.jpg" width="60" height="79"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Mexico is another portion of South America. Its products are numerous,
+but the country suffers much for want of water, though the dew falls
+heavily every night. The soil is rich, and well cultivated, although
+not so carefully as with us. Indian corn is the principal food of the
+natives, and is cultivated so generally, that when the crop fails,
+there is a year of famine. A drink is also made from it, called
+chicha. Sweet potatoes, yams, and quantities of red pepper, together
+with vegetables, and fruits, and tobacco, are grown. A kind of plant,
+called a cacao, is so highly prized that the grains are used for
+money.</p>
+
+<p>For want of streams, of which the country is sadly deficient, the
+mills are mostly worked by animals, and are very inferior; and the
+machinery is so bad, that the cotton is separated from the seed by the
+hands of workpeople. The principal manufactures are cigars, cottons,
+soap, tanned leather, gunpowder, pottery, and hats.</p>
+
+<p>The rich people use a number of silver vessels, and a quantity of
+plate, on account of the want of <a name='Page60'></a>manufactures of china and glass, so
+that the trade of a silversmith is rather good. Boots, saddles, and
+coaches, are well made: but the furniture, which is mostly of pine and
+cedar, is coarsely and clumsily put together.</p>
+
+<p>The streets of Mexico are rather wide and well paved; the houses
+are ornamental, and the churches and public buildings are
+magnificent.&mdash;The rich people pass the greater part of the day on
+their sofas, in darkened rooms; but in the evening, they appear
+arrayed in the most elegant costume, for they are particularly partial
+to parties and brilliant assemblies.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p060.jpg">
+<img src="images/p060s.jpg" width="200" height="82"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>There are numerous beggars, called Leperos, who are very drunken and
+dishonest; but lively, voluble, and extremely civil; though they will
+pick any body's pocket. There are also innumerable Indians, who make
+earthen pots very neatly, and use them instead of iron or copper
+vessels.</p><a name='Page61'></a>
+
+<a href="images/p061-y.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p061-ys.jpg" width="60" height="70"
+alt="Y" /></a>
+
+<p>You have heard of Canada, which is a part of North America, and all
+that now remains to England of her vast American colonies.&mdash;Well, we
+have an enormous canoe from Canada!&mdash;I wonder who can have sent that?
+A canoe, as you know, is a kind of boat, which uncivilized people, who
+live near rivers, use. The canoes of Canada are of a very thin
+material, and so light, that the boatmen, in passing overland from one
+river to another, generally carry them on their heads. The canoes are
+mostly covered with bark, the pieces of which are sewed together with
+a particular kind of grass; the bark being usually not more than a
+quarter of an inch in thickness.</p>
+
+<p>The people of Canada, who are called Canadians, are rather
+industrious; they make very fine fans, they hunt, fish, and collect
+sugar from a tree called the Sugar maple. Their houses are built of
+stone, and are plastered, but seldom are higher than one story, except
+in the towns, and are made very warm by means of stoves. The furniture
+is usually made by the Canadians themselves, and is exceedingly
+simple.</p>
+
+<p>The chief article of food is peas soup, with a small piece of pork
+boiled in it, and a dish of thick sour milk. The women and children
+<a name='Page62'></a>scarcely ever drink other than milk and water, but the men are
+particularly fond of rum.</p>
+
+<p>Winter lasts six months, during which time the greater part of the day
+is devoted to amusement, principally dancing. Most of the women can
+read and write, but the men can hardly do either; and the manners of
+both are very gay and light. There are a few lead mines in Canada, in
+which silver is also found. Their exports are timber, furs, potash,
+grain, and pearl-ash.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p062.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p062s.jpg" width="100" height="77"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>Australia has also sent her contributions to the Exhibition. Among
+them are specimens of the skins of animals, dried plants, fine woods,
+and other things.</p>
+
+<p>In Australia, there are scarcely any extensive manufactures, but the
+natives make some useful things, from the various and curious trees
+which abound. For instance, they form the most durable furniture and
+weapons from the casuarina or club tree; they make cloth from the
+finest bark of the paper-mulberry tree, and cord from a <a name='Page63'></a>peculiar kind
+of flax. There are sago and cocoa trees, which grow to the height of
+one hundred and fifty feet, and are thirty feet round. Figs, lemons,
+oranges, sugar-canes, gum-trees, bread-fruit, and a kind of pepper,
+from which a drink, called ava, is made, are very useful to the
+natives. There are mines of a very rich quality, but they are as yet
+scarcely attended to. The original natives are very idle, and not very
+well off; those who live near the sea shore, catch fish; and those in
+the woods, eat such animals as they can get; or climb up trees, for
+honey, squirrels, and opussums.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p063.jpg">
+<img src="images/p063s.jpg" width="200" height="95"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The settlers, who are the people who have gone out from England and
+other countries, to dwell there, live in a very comfortable manner;
+they have large farms, with flocks of sheep and herds cattle, fields
+of waving corn, rice, and wheat; pretty huts, or shanties, as they are
+called, and a profusion of the most beautiful plants and creepers.<a name='Page64'></a> In
+some parts of the country there are thriving towns, with good streets,
+elegant shops, and fine houses, such as there are in London.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p064.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p064s.jpg" width="60" height="110"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>From the West Indies, specimens of industry have also come. Rice,
+fruits, sugar, metals, and plants, are among the contributions.</p>
+
+<p>The West Indians send us sugar rice, currants, raisins, cloves,
+nutmegs, cinnamon, allspice, and mace, for puddings; nice nuts, for
+our little boys and girls; coffee, cocoa, and chocolate, for our
+breakfast and tea; and fine silk, and cotton, for our dresses.</p>
+
+<p>Under the name of the West Indies, there are many countries:&mdash;Cuba,
+Jamaica, Hayti, Porto Rico, Barbadoes, and others. In Cuba, are found
+mines of gold, copper, and different other metals; there is a quantity
+of sugar grown there; and the tobacco is finer than that of most other
+islands. The trees are principally ebony, cedar, and mahogany, which
+are hewed down, and sent to foreign countries, to be made into
+furniture of various sorts. Cedar wood is also used to scent clothes
+and papers, on account of its sweet perfume.<a name='Page65'></a> The Cubans are fond of
+bull-fighting, and of cock-fighting, I am sorry to say. Balls and
+parties are also a favourite and more innocent amusement.</p>
+
+<p>In Jamaica, the principal exercise of industry is in growing sugar,
+indigo, coffee, and ginger. These are cultivated in what are called
+plantations, which are attended to by negroes, who used to be slaves,
+and used to be lashed on to work unnaturally hard with whips; but they
+are now free in all the British colonies, as I hope they will be every
+where, long before any of my little friends, who read this book, may
+die. For not only were men and women kept in a state of slavery, but
+all their dear innocent little children, both little boys and little
+girls were treated as slaves.</p>
+
+<p>The bread-fruit tree is one of the most useful productions of the
+country, it not only supplies food, but other necessaries. Of the
+inner bark is formed a kind of cloth; the wood, which is soft, smooth,
+and of a yellowish colour, serves for the building of boats and
+houses; the leaves are used for wrapping up food; some parts of the
+flowers are good tinder; and the juice, when boiled with cocoa-nut
+oil, is employed for making bird-lime, and as a cement for mending
+earthenware vessels. So you may guess how useful it is to the people
+<a name='Page66'></a>of Jamaica, and yet it is not a native of the West Indies, but was
+first brought there by English people, within the last seventy or
+eighty years.</p>
+
+<p>Hayti is now a much more flourishing island than it was; the Emperor,
+Faustin Soulouque, does every thing in his power to render it a
+civilized and polite country. He encourages all the arts and
+industrial sciences; and, in his court is kept up the grandeur of a
+great and powerful state; though the Haytians are black people, and
+were for the greater part negro slaves.</p>
+
+<p>Barbadoes is an exceedingly warm country, and is unfortunately liable
+to dreadful hurricanes, which sometimes overthrow whole towns and
+villages. The products are sugar, cotton, ginger, and rum. The tall
+sugar-canes, which grow as high as five or six feet, are set in
+plantations and tended by negroes; and the cotton plants are also
+taken care of by the negroes, who are almost the only persons who can
+work in the open air, on account of the heat. The houses of the
+planters are numerous all over the country; and, with the green hills,
+and the luxuriance of the vegetation, make an extremely picturesque
+scene.</p>
+
+<p>Since slavery has been abolished in our West India islands, schools
+for the children, and chapels for religious worship, have been erected
+at the expense <a name='Page67'></a>of the negroes; numbers of whom have also become small
+landowners.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p067.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p067s.jpg" width="100" height="137"
+alt="W" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>What a number of specimens have been despatched to the Exhibition from
+Algeria, Tunis, and the Cape of Good Hope: one, a model of a winged
+head, moulded in fine yellow clay, is really pretty; and the preserved
+fruits have quite a tempting look. And here are some boxes, made of
+most brilliant fancy woods; a few knives, soaps, cigars, herbs, and
+specimens of various woods, in blocks and in polished pieces. Here is
+also opium, paper made from the palm-tree, articles manufactured from
+native woods, with essences, perfumes, and splendid veils, slippers,
+caps, guns, and swords.</p>
+
+<p>Algeria now belongs to France; it was formerly one of the Barbary
+States, in the north of Africa, and many very useful plants and <a name='Page68'></a>trees
+flourish there; oranges, melons, cucumbers, cabbages, lettuces, and
+artichokes, grow in great luxuriance. The sugar-cane is cultivated
+with success; and everywhere may be seen quantities of white roses,
+from which a sweet essence is extracted. The stems of the vines, which
+the people tend, are sometimes so thick, that a man can hardly put his
+arms round them; and the bunches of grapes are a foot and a-half long.
+Only think of bunches of grapes half a yard long! they must be
+something like those which we read of in the Bible, that were brought
+to Joshua, to show him what a fertile country was the land of Canaan.</p>
+
+<p>Acacia and cork trees grow in the woods of Algeria; the natives obtain
+gum from the acacia. There are many mines, but the Algerines make no
+use of them. The people themselves are strong in body, and of a tawny
+complexion.</p>
+
+<p>Tunis is another of the Barbary States, and contains a great number of
+people,&mdash;Moors, Turks, Arabs, Jews, and Christians, merchants and
+slaves. All these carry on a large trade in Morocco leather, linens,
+gold-dust, oil, woollen cloth, lead, ostrich feathers, horses, and
+soap. There are the same variety of vegetable productions that there
+are in Algeria.</p><a name='Page69'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p069.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p069s.jpg" width="100" height="131"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The Cape of Good Hope is in the south of Africa; it produces fine
+fruits and flowers, grapes, lemons, oranges, and figs, but no nuts.
+The aloe and myrtle grow to a great size, and the almond and wild
+chestnut are very plentiful. There are scarcely any manufactures, but
+the farmers keep immense flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle; and
+there is a vast quantity of fine wool sent every year to England; and
+ships provisions, such as beef, pork, and butter, are supplied to the
+vessels sailing to India, Australia, and many other parts of the
+world; their other chief export is Cape wine.</p>
+
+<p>In some parts of this country are large herds of zebras, antelopes,
+and giraffes, which are usually preyed upon by lions, obliging the
+shepherds to watch their flocks, and the farmers to ride about with
+loaded guns. A strange mode, my little readers will think, of being
+shepherds.</p><a name='Page70'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p070.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p070s.jpg" width="60" height="118"
+alt="" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>There have been no scarcity of French contributions; rich silks,
+velvets, satins, linens, fruits, woods, herbs, statues, machinery,
+furniture, iron-work, glass, plate, and a heap more of industrial
+products; and such splendid carpets. In the &quot;Arabian Nights'
+Entertainments&quot; we read about the Palaces of Fairies and Genii, with
+the floors covered with the richest carpets, and divans and cushions
+or gorgeous tapestry, and we long to see these carpets in reality; and
+so we shall at the Exhibition, for there are some so magnificent, that
+I do not think the Princess Badroulboudour, or the Fairy Queen Pari
+Banou, ever sat on finer. And charming little models of ships; and
+such beautiful fans. Do you know how many persons it takes to make a
+fan? Fifteen; and although those fans at the Exhibition are each worth
+several guineas, yet, in France, tens of thousands are sold at not
+more than a halfpenny a-piece. The French fan-makers get two shillings
+and six-pence a-day each, for their labour.<a name='Page71'></a> The people of France are
+our next-door neighbours, almost; and from being our bitterest enemies
+they have now become our most intimate friends, and exchange visits
+constantly with us; steam vessels and railways having made the journey
+one of only a few hours.</p>
+
+<p>Paris is the capital of France, and it is the gayest city in the
+world; there are theatres, balls, processions, feast-days, fairs, and
+more amusements than I can remember. But there are also numbers of
+very poor people, who almost live in the streets, and get food and
+clothing as they best can. Some, who are called cheffoniers, go about
+with a fork and a basket, to pick up pieces of iron, rags, bones, or
+any stray valuables, if they can find them, from holes and corners in
+the streets, and from the dust heaps; others look for the ends of
+cigars, and sell them to be made into pieces of tobacco for the common
+people; and a number, I am very sorry to say, either beg or steal.</p>
+
+<p>Among the peasantry there is a great deal of industry displayed. As
+they are all desirous of having a cottage and some land of their own,
+lads of fifteen or sixteen years of age, hire themselves as labourers
+to the farmers, and receive wages, out of which, and their mode of
+living, they save <a name='Page72'></a>enough money in a few years, to buy a piece of
+land. If the land is fit for it, they plant it with vines; for the
+vineyards of France yield an abundant harvest, and well repay the
+labour bestowed on them. The French wines are among the finest and
+most expensive in the world.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p072.jpg">
+<img src="images/p072s.jpg" width="200" height="143"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The cottages of the peasantry are not remarkable for comfort, being
+very rude buildings, frequently having merely a hole in the roof for a
+chimney. They are mostly, however, extremely picturesque, completely
+covered with vines. The wines, called Bourdeaux, Burgundy, and
+Champagne come from France. From the fruit of the olive-trees, which
+grow in vast quantities, a fine <a name='Page73'></a>clear oil is obtained, and this forms
+a large part of the commerce of the country. The rearing of poultry is
+carried on to a great extent; and most of the eggs sold in London,
+which are used by us at breakfast, for sauces, and for puddings, come
+from France. Most of the cottagers keep one or two small hardy cows,
+which their boys or girls, or old people, are usually leading about by
+a halter, to eat the rank grass in paths or road-ways between the
+fields. Their milk and butter form a good part of the people's food.</p>
+
+<p>In Tours and Lyons, there are numerous manufactories for the most
+superb silks and damasks; some years ago, there were fifteen hundred
+pairs of silk stockings finished each day at Lyons.</p>
+
+<p>The plate-glass of Paris is now much better than that of Venice, which
+was formerly the finest in the world, the plates being of an immense
+size and extraordinary clearness. Their tapestry is beautiful; the
+tapestry of the Gobelin in particular, for it is just like splendid
+painting. Indeed, some of the designs, copied from pictures, surpass
+the originals, in point of beauty and brilliancy. There are many
+specimens of this tapestry at the Exhibition, both in draperies, and
+fitted to pieces of furniture.</p>
+
+<p>The porcelain made at Sevres is exquisitely <a name='Page74'></a>beautiful, and is used
+for numerous ornamental purposes; vases, tea services, chimney
+ornaments, figures, and other articles. The painted papers, which
+represent various ornaments in painting, sculpture, and architecture,
+serve to employ a great number of people. Watches, cutlery, shoes,
+dresses, bonnets, and jewellery, are also a good source of employment
+among numerous families. All these beautiful things we shall see at
+the Exhibition.</p>
+
+<p>The forests, in France, are very extensive; and as wood is the general
+fuel used, great attention is paid to the growth of the trees. Cattle
+and domestic animals are rather scarce, and the sheep are ill-managed;
+in winter, they are fed on straw and hay, instead of green food, so
+that the French meat is not so good as the English; but they have a
+nice way of dressing it. The country people are very simple in their
+habits and manners, and very frugal in their way of living; they live
+for the most part on black bread, garlic, fruit, and milk. The
+costumes of some of the peasants are exceedingly pretty.</p><a name='Page75'></a>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p075-w.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p075-ws.jpg" width="100" height="134"
+alt="W" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>What a many thousand contributions have come from foreign countries,
+yet even a greater number have been sent in from all parts of our own
+dear islands, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Here is a silver
+tea-kettle, manufactured from a fourpenny-piece, by a working man. I
+think that would grace the diminitive tea-table of the Emperor of the
+Lilliputians. And a pair of boat-sculls, made of white ash, and only
+the size of writing-pens, which I dare say, the oars of the King of
+Blefuscan's barge resembled; these, with a magnificent oar, thirty-six
+feet long, are intended as presents for His Royal Highness the Prince
+of Wales.</p>
+
+<p>Here is a scarf, containing twelve miles and a-half of thread, three
+millions four hundred and seventy-five stitches, is nine feet ten
+inches long, three feet wide, and weighs only five ounces and
+a-quarter;&mdash;that came from Ireland. Look, too, <a name='Page76'></a>at that beautifully
+embroidered dress; it came from Ireland, and is worth seventy-five
+guineas.</p>
+
+<p>There are many little models of different buildings; and there is a
+colossal horse and dog; and two gigantic statues; and there is a
+nicely carved oak chair, made by an English ship-carpenter; and here
+are cotton stockings, manufactured so fine, that they look exactly
+like silk. There are also models of carriages, ships and machinery;
+a magnificient epergne of glass, with some large pearls, from Ireland.
+A beautiful piece of sculpture, representing the Scottish games, is
+the most remarkable contribution which has come from Scotland.</p>
+
+<p>The English people are celebrated for their industry and perseverence;
+they manufacture numerous things, and carry on a alrge commerce with
+other countries. The industry of the peasants have made the soil
+produce wheat, barley, rye, oats, beans, potatoes, turnips, hops, hemp
+and flax. Nearly every variety, of vegetables, and a great number of
+fruits, are also grown. There is abundance of timber, which is used
+for many purposes; the oak tree is chiefly employed for building
+ships. The ships of war are called the "wooden walls of England."</p>
+
+<p>The domestic animals are taken great care of;
+<a name='Page77'></a>sheep and hogs, when killed, are made into
+mutton, pork, bacon, and ham. The English cheese and butter is
+superior to any other. There are abundance of mineral treasures found
+in various parts of the kingdom; indeed, the English people are
+greatly indebted to the well-worked mines for their wealth. At the
+Exhibition, are several specimens of ores.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to the rich mines, and the vegetable productions, the
+English are celebrated for their superior manufactures, which fame
+they are enabled to enjoy by means of the most ingenious machinery,
+rail roads, and canals, by which they can easily and rapidly send
+their goods, and travel from one part of the country to another.
+Cottons, woollens, linens, silks, iron, jewellery, leather, glass,
+earthenware, paper, and hats, are manufactured in great quantities.</p>
+
+<p>I dare say you would be much amused by a visit to Manchester, in
+Lancashire, where the art of spinning cotton is carried to a high
+perfection. There are more than a hundred and forty cotton factories
+in that city, where men, women, and children, are continually at work,
+minding the machines, which are about twenty thousand in number. When
+you first go into one of these factories, you hear a terrible noise of
+whirling <a name='Page78'></a>and whizzing, and see an immense number of wheels flying
+round and round.</p>
+
+<p>Halifax and Leeds, in Yorkshire, are the chief places for woollen
+cloth, the manufacture of which employs the greater part of the
+inhabitants. A weekly market is held in Halifax for the sale of
+woollens, in a spacious building called the Piece Hall; but in Leeds,
+the markets are held two days in the week, in the two Cloth Halls.</p>
+
+<p>Staffordshire is famous for earthenware; the reason of this is, that
+there is such an enormous quantity of yellow clay suitable for that
+manufacture, found there. Indeed, there are several towns and villages
+formed into a district called &quot;The Potteries;&quot; and in consequence of
+the innumerable furnaces, which are always blazing, the place looks at
+night as if was on fire. Gloves, lace, and stockings, are mostly made
+in Nottingham, where there are several thousand machines for the
+manufacture of these things.</p>
+
+<p>From Kidderminster, in Worcester, we have very fine carpets; from
+Gloucester, we have cheese and pins; Northampton is celebrated for
+leather; Shrewsbury, for flannel. The great mines are in Cumberland,
+Cornwall, Northumberland, Durham, and Derbyshire. However, if I were
+to tell you of all the places in England, that <a name='Page79'></a>are famed for
+different manufactures, I am afraid I should both exceed our space,
+and wear out your patience, which I should be sorry to do. So I will
+now tell you something about London.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p079.jpg">
+<img src="images/p079s.jpg" width="160" height="182"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>London, which you know is the capital of our own dear native land, is
+the greatest commercial city in the world; it has been reckoned that
+the value of the property shipped and unshipped on the river Thames,
+every year, is more than one hundred million pounds. An enormous
+quantity of property is laid in the London Docks, at Wapping; indeed,
+the warehouse for tobacco alone <a name='Page80'></a>covers a space of nearly five acres,
+while the vaults underneath the ground are more than eighteen acres in
+extent.</p>
+
+<p>More coaches, omnibusses, waggons, vans, and other conveyances, crowd
+the streets of London than any other city in the world. You will,
+perhaps, be a little surprised when I tell you that in one principal
+street, seven thousand vehicles pass to and fro every day. Almost
+every kind of manufacture is carried on in London; silk goods,
+jewellery, clocks, watches, ear-rings, hats, furniture, instruments of
+every kind, porter and ale, with many more that I cannot now remember.
+However, you must not think, from all this, there are no poor people
+in London; for, unfortunately, there are thousands. Some beg, others
+steal, and those who are honest and able to labour, work. But those
+who cannot obtain work are very badly off; and persons die from
+starvation.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p080.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p080s.jpg" width="60" height="69"
+alt="T" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The industrial manufactures of Scotland are like those of England; the
+exports are linens, muslins, woollen stuffs, cottons, iron, lead,
+glass, earthenware, leather, and other articles. The chief
+<a name='Page81'></a>manufacture is linen: but manufactures of stoves, and grates, and
+many other things, from their immense iron works, particularly from
+those of Carron, are also a principal part of the industrial products.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<center><a href="images/p081.jpg">
+<img src="images/p081s.jpg" width="200" height="139"
+alt="" /></a>
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>The Scotch people are remarkable for their thrift and prudence; the
+lower orders are in general well-educated, and it is the height of
+ambition in a Scottish mechanic, to appear with his family in neat,
+clean dresses, on Sundays and other holidays.</p>
+
+<p>The costume of the Highlanders is very picturesque; the plaid is made
+of woollen stuff, of <a name='Page82'></a>various colours, with a jacket, and a short
+petticoat called a kilt, which leaves the knees bare; the stockings
+are also a plaid, generally red and white, and do not reach up to the
+knees, but are tied round the legs with scarlet garters. The
+head-dress is a flat blue bonnet, as it is called, ornamented round
+with scarlet and white plaid, and frequently adorned with eagle's
+feathers. The Highland women go without shoes or stockings, and wear
+short petticoats, a plaid jacket, and a plaid scarf.</p>
+
+<p>Most of the Scotch people are intelligent, and so far advanced in
+education, that even the miners in the south have a library, where
+they read, and improve their minds; and yet these poor miners were
+little better than in a state of slavery two hundred years since. The
+favourite musical instrument, with the Scotch, is the bag-pipe; which
+does not, however, sound quite so well to our English ears, as it does
+to theirs. Their national dances are the Highland reel, and fling,
+which they perform with great agility and grace. The sheep and cattle
+are rather small, but give exceedingly good meat; and the sheep, in
+particular, are valued for their fleece, which is almost as fine as
+the best Spanish wool.</p>
+
+<p>Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is, in the <a name='Page83'></a>new parts of it, a
+fine clean city; the houses in the old town are excessively high, and
+the streets inconvenient; but the streets of the new town are very
+broad, and almost all in straight lines; some of them are a mile long.
+Most of the houses are built of white stone, which sparkles as if it
+was inlaid with diamonds when the sun shines on it.</p>
+
+<p>The manufactures carried on in the city, are mostly cabinet-work,
+furniture, carriages, musical instruments, linens, shawls, silks,
+glass, marble, brass, and iron work. There are also many breweries,
+for Edinburgh has long been celebrated for its ale, large quantities
+of which are sent to London, and other parts of the kingdom, Glasgow,
+which is the principal manufacturing and trading town, contains
+extensive cotton factories.</p>
+
+<p>In many parts of the Highlands, the natives are employed in feeding
+sheep and cattle, for the markets; and in the valleys, and other
+sheltered places, hemp, barley, flax, and potatoes, are cultivated,
+though unfortunately most of the barley is made into whiskey. In the
+more northernly parts the general employment is fishing.</p>
+
+<img align="left" src="images/p083-i.jpg" width="50" height="115"
+alt="I" />
+
+<p>Ireland is a much warmer and more fertile island; it is celebrated, in
+point of industry, for its wool, butter, beef, hides, tallow, cows,
+<a name='Page84'></a>horses, pigs, sheep, potatoes, wheat, barley, oats, and linen. Linen
+is the chief manufacture. There are numerous mines, from which are
+obtained gold, silver, iron, copper, and lead; all very useful metals,
+I think.</p>
+
+<p>There are also quarries of marble, slate, and freestone; and in
+various parts are found coal and turf. In Ireland, turf is the
+principal fuel used. The brewing of stout, and a strong bittered beer,
+for exportation; and the distilling of whiskey, another strong but
+spirituous drink, are other branches of Irish industry.</p>
+
+<p>Fishing is an important occupation with those peasants who live on the
+sea-shore, and near the rivers or lakes. The making of roads, draining
+bogs, and improving the land, now employ thousands of poor labourers,
+who formerly used to be without any occupation.</p>
+
+<p>The Irish dairies are well-managed and are generally extensive; many
+counties in the south part of the island are occupied almost entirely
+by dairy farms. As many as thirty or forty cows are kept on some of
+them, for butter is the chief produce, and this is sent into England,
+Portugal, and the East and West Indies. Some of the nice butter you
+eat on your bread and rolls comes from Ireland. Sheep and cattle are
+fed in great quantities <a name='Page85'></a>on large pieces of land devoted to the
+purpose the sheep are large, and have fine wool.</p>
+
+<p>The mud cabin of the Irish peasant is the most miserable cottage you
+can imagine; the walls are formed of clay, which hardens in the
+sunshine, the roof is made of sticks and straw, and the floor is the
+mere damp earth. It has frequently neither door, nor chimney, and
+consists of only one room; the furniture is rarely more than a stump
+bedstead, two or three stools, an iron pot, to boil the potatoes in,
+and a table to eat them from. Generally, there is a small piece of
+land attached to the dwelling, and in this potatoes are grown; the
+peasants of Ireland hardly ever eat anything besides potatoes. When
+they have enough of them to eat, and a little whiskey to drink, the
+poor people are exceedingly jovial and merry; they laugh, sing, and
+joke; and go to weddings, fairs, dances, and what are called in
+Ireland &quot;wakes,&quot; which, among the poor, is a kind of laying in state
+before funerals;&mdash;but sometimes the crops of potatoes fail, and then
+the unfortunate peasants die by hundreds from hunger. The favourite
+dance of the common people is called a jig.</p>
+
+<p>Dublin, which, I dare say, you know is the capital of Ireland, is an
+elegant city, with fine houses and good streets. The churches, the
+<a name='Page86'></a>castle, the linen hall, exchange, bank, custom-house, and
+post-office, are all very noble buildings. There are also parks,
+gardens, theatres, canals, and other ornamental places throughout the
+city. From Dublin have been sent models of carriages, specimens of
+metals, slates, and linens, and a model of a house made in granite.</p>
+
+<!--IMG-->
+<a href="images/p086.jpg">
+<img align="left" src="images/p086s.jpg" width="100" height="134"
+alt="I" /></a>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+
+<p>I have now told you, my dear little friends, a great many stories
+about the industry of all nations, and we have gone through the
+World's Show together. We have seen nearly all the useful and splendid
+things sent to the Great Exhibition from all parts of the world. I
+have told you about Europe, and Asia, Africa, and America; and I must
+soon leave you. But before I go, we must have another look at the
+Exhibition, and one <a name='Page87'></a>more glance at those few things which we have not
+as yet seen.</p>
+
+<p>We forgot to examine this magnificent chess-board, worth one thousand
+two hundred guineas. You will doubtless wonder why it is such a dear
+board, but your surprise will cease when you observe that the
+&quot;checks,&quot; as they are called, are of mother-of-pearl and
+tortoiseshell, while the rim is of beautifully burnished gold, and the
+chessmen are of gold and silver, elaborately wrought, and ornamented
+with the portraits of celebrated historical characters; one of them
+represents the Emperor, Charles the Fifth. I dare say you would like
+to play a game with me on this chess-board. As a companion to this
+beautiful chess-board, is a very elegant colour box, fit for the
+Queen, or the most noble young lady in the land, to use for painting
+with. And here is a model of the town of Liverpool, with several
+thousand little people in the streets; and these figures are so
+exceedingly small, that a thousand of them would fit into an ordinary
+sized pill box.</p>
+
+<p>In contrast to this specimen of a great town in a minute space, we
+have in front of the transept a wonderful clock, which is kept in
+motion by a set of powerful electro magnets, eight in number, on which
+is wound a length of twenty-five thousand <a name='Page88'></a>feet of copper wire. This
+gigantic time-keeper sets in motion the immense hands on the principal
+dial, which is twenty-four feet in diameter, besides two smaller ones
+which are fixed in front of the galleries, at the east and west ends
+of the building. I am afraid that it would tire you, were I to attempt
+to tell you exactly what electricity is, and must therefore satisfy
+your curiosity, for the present, by letting you know that it is caused
+by the coming in contact of different substances possessing peculiar
+properties, which cause them to vibrate, when they touch.</p>
+
+<p>There is another very curious clock in the Exhibition, which will go
+for a hundred years before requiring to be wound up again; and there
+is one wheel in it which is said would take ten thousand years to go
+round once.</p>
+
+<p>Next there is a case of stuffed birds, which came from Scotland, and
+which we cannot help admiring. There are in this case specimens of all
+the various kinds of birds which are peculiar to Scotland, neatly and
+carefully stuffed; and really they almost look as if they were alive.
+Ah, ah! Mister Eagle, you are not so much to be feared now, I think,
+as you were when you lived in your lofty home in the Highland
+mountains.</p>
+
+<p>And here is another case in which are all the <a name='Page89'></a>different sorts of
+mother-of-pearl buttons that can be imagined; there is every variety
+of ornament on the buttons, which look exceedingly brilliant.</p>
+
+<p>This immense block of granite, from Scotland, is not quite so pretty,
+though it is, perhaps, more useful; it is twenty feet long, and is a
+piece of the finest kind and colour that could be found. Another very
+useful thing, also from Scotland, is a large lighthouse bell, managed
+so as to ring very loud, to warn any ship that is going too near a
+dangerous rock or shoal, near the lighthouse where the bell may be.</p>
+
+<p>Among the more beautiful specimens of industry, there are several
+elegant vases made of silver, and of a delicate material called
+Parian, which is an imitation of Parian marble; some of them are
+ornamented with blue and gold, and others are ornamented with silver.
+There is also a splendid tea-service, adorned with charming pictures
+of the dear old fables we all know so well,&mdash;the &quot;Lion and the Mouse,&quot;
+the &quot;Wolf and the Lamb,&quot; the &quot;Dog and the Shadow,&quot; and others.</p>
+
+<p>Near the very middle of the building, close by the crystal fountain,
+there are the splendid iron gates from Coalbrookdale, which look very
+magnificent. I fancy Samson would find it rather a difficult matter
+trying to bear off <i>these</i> gates on <a name='Page90'></a>his back, strong as he was. Close
+by these gates there is a gigantic statue of our good Queen, on
+horseback, which towers high over our heads; and she sits smiling at
+us as if she could see us looking so delighted.</p>
+
+<p>There are several gigantic things at the Exhibition. Here, for one, is
+a monster cake, covered with the most superb ornaments; it is four
+feet high, and weighs about two-hundred and twenty-five pounds. Yonder
+is another monster contribution, an immense map of the busy city of
+Manchester; and there is a huge railway carriage; and still further
+on, there is an iron wire, one mile long. At a little distance stands
+a magnificent bed and bedstead, fit for the Queen to sleep in. It came
+from Edinburgh, and is made mostly of materials which can be produced
+in Scotland. And in this direction, we can see a set of beautiful
+mantelpieces and fenders, from Sheffield, all decorated in the most
+elegant manner. The first mantelpiece we must look at is made of
+cast-iron; the mouldings of the cornice are richly ornamented, and
+supported by little pillars covered with graceful wreaths of
+oak-leaves, while the freize is adorned with a cluster of rich fruit.
+The next mantelpiece is painted white and gold, and has a burnished
+steel grate; while the third <a name='Page91'></a>is painted blue and gold, and has a
+stove made on a new plan, for it is managed so that its own brightness
+shall help to throw out the heat of the fire in an equal and agreeable
+manner. The fourth and last mantelpiece is painted black, and
+ornamented with ormolu; it contains a polished steel stove. Three
+ormolu fenders, and five bright ones are placed together with the
+mantelpieces; and they certainly make a goodly show. But we must now
+leave them, and go on to see some other wonders.</p>
+
+<p>Here are several most beautiful loo-tables inlaid, and they seem to
+attract a good deal of attention from more than us. You look a little
+puzzled at the word <i>inlaid</i>; I think I must explain it to you, by
+telling you that it means pieces of different material let into a
+piece of furniture to ornament it.</p>
+
+<p>There are numerous models of various buildings in the Crystal Palace;
+those of York Cathedral, and Chance's Lighthouse, are particularly
+well made. There is also a model of the Britannia Tubular Bridge; and
+there are models of many of the fine public works of London.</p>
+
+<p>Here is a pair of scissors made in Sheffield, and ornamented in the
+most beautiful way, with a crown for a handle; and yonder are a pair
+of <a name='Page92'></a>cotton stockings from Ireland, spun so fine that they look exactly
+like silk, and indeed you would be likely to mistake them for silk, if
+you were not told they were merely cotton.</p>
+
+<p>How brilliant this collection of gems looks; how the stones sparkle!
+they have been sent as specimens of the jewels which Ireland produces.
+But here are some pretty English agates; and a huge mass of Irish rock
+crystal, which is very bright and clear. In a compartment, at a little
+distance, we may see a book, bound according to a new method, by which
+the leaves are so firmly placed together, that they would not loosen
+in ten years' time, no matter how the book was tossed about, unless
+they were purposely taken out.</p>
+
+<p>We must now have a look at the machinery department. Firstly, there is
+the great steam-engine that works all the other steam-engines in the
+Exhibition, though, of course, you cannot understand it by looking at
+it; neither can I, although I know so much more than you do. Near it
+is a model of a new agricultural machine for cutting, turning up, and
+making into light mould, the clay of fields, so as to make it ready to
+receive the seeds to be set, without the farmers being obliged to
+plough the earth. There is <a name='Page93'></a>a machine for making bricks and tiles, so
+that people may, if they like, form those materials for building
+houses cheaper and better than in the usual way. But here is a useful
+machine. It is a measuring machine, by which you could measure to the
+smallest size, even to the hundred-thousandth part of an inch!</p>
+
+<p>Here is a very pretty contribution; it is a model of the house of the
+great play-writer, Shakspeare,&mdash;of whom, perhaps, you may have
+heard,&mdash;and it is surrounded by figures representing different
+beautiful scenes from Shakspeare's plays. It was made by a workman in
+his leisure time: and it certainly does him credit. It is called the
+Shakspeare Jubilee.</p>
+
+<p>Yonder is another piece of ingenious industry; it is a group of
+figures showing all the various Scotch games; there is one figure
+dancing the Highland fling, another throwing the beam, and all the
+others engaged in similar sports. That came from Scotland, of course.</p>
+
+<p>Let us now go on to look at that splendid design embroidered in gold,
+and intended for a communion cloth. Oh! here it is; does it not look
+beautiful? But here are several lovely specimens of china, and
+earthenware, which would grace the sideboards of the richest house in
+the <a name='Page94'></a>land, I think. Here is a fine marble font, made of Devonshire
+marble, which is very nicely carved, as well as I can judge. Further
+on, we have some less showy, but more solidly useful articles. Various
+kinds of iron, copper, zinc, lead, silver, and gold ores are
+displayed, with oils, quartz, stones, coal, &amp;c. There are lanterns on
+a new plan, microscopes, barometers, optical and philosophical
+instruments, farming implements, machines for melting metals;&mdash;besides
+hundreds of other articles which we cannot stop to notice more
+particularly. There are two or three very interesting models of mines,
+with mining machinery, and plans for improving the air of the mines,
+so as to make the poor miners more comfortable. And there are other
+models of ships, printing presses, looms, and machines for making gas,
+which deserve some degree of attention. There is also a new machine
+for printing cotton on both sides, which will be very useful, as the
+cotton printed with it will be as ornamental on one side as the other.</p>
+
+<p>There are four splendid and very powerful organs, and several
+beautiful piano fortes, in the Exhibition; and there is an accurate
+model of Plymouth Breakwater, with a very very little ship attached to
+it, and all complete, even to the <a name='Page95'></a>smallest rope ladder. Plymouth
+Breakwater is a vast heap of stones built across the entrance of the
+Sound, so as to leave a passage for ships at each end, but preventing
+the heavy waves of the Atlantic Ocean from dashing into the harbour.
+It has cost more than a million of pounds in money.</p>
+
+<p>Here we have a beautiful writing table for ladies, which is one of the
+most splendid things in the Exhibition, and which came from that land
+of ingenuity and industry, Switzerland. It is made of two kinds of
+wood, white and red, the Swiss national colours; and is cleverly
+managed by machinery, so that by merely pressing a spring, the whole
+contents of the desk is laid before the spectator, while, at the same
+time, a stand for writing on, and a seat, are produced. It is covered
+with figures of men and animals, and with ornaments most exquisitely
+carved; and it is a writing table which the greatest lady in England
+might use.</p>
+
+<p>Along the centre of the aisle, or chief walk, are arranged colossal
+statues, pillars of marble, beautiful fountains, magnificent feathers,
+crystals of alum, crystals of spermaceti oil, specimens of silk
+manufactures, from Spitalfields; and fine cutlery, from Sheffield.
+There is also an immense <a name='Page96'></a>dome of iron and glass, forty feet high
+which looks very astonishing; and a curious Russian chain bridge,
+which is very ingeniously made. Besides these, we have a gigantic
+telescope, which attracts a great deal of attention from the crowd of
+people who are walking down the aisle.</p>
+
+<p>In the nave there are several beautiful pieces of sculpture. One is a
+colossal group, representing St. Michael conquering Satan; another is
+a figure of the celebrated warrior, Godfrey of Bouillon, mounted on
+horseback; and a third, is an Amazon, who is just about to hurl her
+javelin at a ferocious tiger, who has fastened on the neck and
+shoulders of her frightened horse. Here is also a figure of Mazeppa on
+the wild horse, which is extremely well made, and, perhaps, reminds
+those of my little friends who have seen the play of &quot;Mazeppa&quot; at
+Astley's Amphitheatre, of the scenes where poor Mazeppa was carried
+along on the terrible horse's back, through brambles, thorns, and
+crashing boughs. But what have we here? A grim-looking growling bronze
+lion, from Bavaria, who glares at us as if he would be only too glad
+to eat us up if he were alive, and does not seem at all the kind of
+beast one would like to shake hands, or rather paws, with.</p><a name='Page97'></a>
+
+<p>We have a charming representation of Reinecke Fox's adventures, by
+means of stuffed animals, in the German portion of the Exhibition. The
+expression of the different animals is very funny, and makes us laugh
+to almost an inconvenient degree. The first group represents the fox,
+with his rosary in his hand, confessing his sins to the cock, who is
+listening very gravely, and reading him a sermon on his wickedness.</p>
+
+<p>The next group shows the tom-cat, coming to summon Master Reinecke to
+court, to answer the accusations brought against him; the fox sets
+out, and on his way wounds a poor hare, whom he carries with him. But
+we cannot stay to notice all the groups now; only we must just glance
+at the fox lying on the sheep's skin, after his repast, for here
+Master Reinecke's expression shows him to be so well satisfied and
+comfortable that it is very droll.</p>
+
+<p>In the Russian division we may observe a most magnificent pair of
+candlesticks of bronze, gilt, which look exceedingly sparkling and
+brilliant, and are the first objects that meet our eyes as we enter
+the department.</p>
+
+<p>In the transept, at the opposite end to where the gates from
+Coalbrookdale are situated, are another beautiful specimen of
+ornamented gates <a name='Page98'></a>for a park, in the style of the elegantly wrought
+iron work, made about a hundred and fifty years since, and which adorn
+the entrances to many of the old mansions of England. Some parts of
+these are tastefully gilt, and produce a remarkably pretty effect.</p>
+
+<p>It would take us more than a month to see everything in the Crystal
+Palace, and those who wish to examine all the wonders, must pay
+several visits. But we have, I think, seen enough for the present, and
+will now leave the Exhibition, if you are satisfied. Perhaps, before I
+go, you would like me to describe the ceremony of the opening of our
+Palace of Wonders, by our good Queen? If so, I shall be very happy
+indeed to oblige you, by telling you all I saw on the first of May.</p>
+
+<p>Early in the morning of that day,&mdash;soon after dawn,&mdash;thousands of
+people in London were wending their way towards Hyde Park; horses
+feet, and carriage-wheels clattered through the streets, and strange
+looking foreigners passed along among the crowd, all eager to see the
+procession.</p>
+
+<p>I dare say you would have been delighted with the grand sight:&mdash;first
+there came a long line of splendid carriages, containing various lords
+and ladies, in gorgeous costumes;&mdash;diamonds <a name='Page99'></a>flashing, and feathers
+waving; next came a troop of Life Guards in scarlet coats, bright
+cuirasses, and glittering helmets: they were escorting the Queen's
+carriage, which was followed by a goodly number of other carriages.
+You should have heard how the crowds huzzaed and shouted when they saw
+the Queen, who looked very much pleased, bowing and smiling to her
+people. She entered the building amid the loud cheers and hurras,
+followed by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess
+Royal. After staying a short time in the elegant robing-room, which
+was fitted up in a single night, her Majesty proceeded to her throne,
+between flower stands, and tropical plants, past the Coalbrookdale
+gates, and the fountains and statues with which the centre of the
+palace is adorned. When she appeared, the twenty-five thousand people,
+who were present, rose to welcome her.&mdash;Ladies waving their
+handkerchiefs, the gentlemen their hats;&mdash;and you may readily guess
+how splendid the scene looked. Even the sun popped out his head from
+the clouds, and poured a flood of golden light in through the
+glittering dome of the transept, to illuminate the brilliant
+spectacle.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Her Majesty was seated on her throne, one of the organs
+commenced pealing <a name='Page100'></a>forth the notes of the National Anthem, the choir,
+which was collected for the occasion, singing to the music. After
+this, Prince Albert joined those gentlemen who have directed the
+affairs of the Great Exhibition, and going near to the Queen, read to
+her an account of the Exhibition from the commencement; to which Her
+Majesty answered, when the Prince had finished, that she was much
+pleased with the description of the proceedings, and that she hoped
+the World's Fair would do good to all mankind, by encouraging the arts
+of peace and industry, strengthening the bonds of love between all the
+nations of the earth, and promoting a friendly rivalry among our
+fellow creatures, in the useful exercise of those faculties which have
+been given by GOD for the good and happiness of all mankind.</p>
+
+<p>The Queen having read this answer, the Archbishop of Canterbury
+approached the throne, and offered up a prayer to Heaven, intreating
+the Lord's blessing on the Exhibition; that it might benefit every
+body on earth, making them love and help each other. I hope all that
+heard the prayer, joined in it with heart and soul: and I hope, too,
+that my dear little readers will think of it when they go to the
+Crystal Palace.</p>
+
+<p>At the close of the prayer, the choir sang the<a name='Page101'></a> Hallelujah chorus, and
+you may form some idea of the effect of this performance, when I tell
+you that all the persons who sing at the Queen's Chapel, at St. Paul's
+Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and St. George's Chapel, Windsor, were
+all singing together, besides part of the band of the Sacred Harmonic
+Society, pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, and many other
+songsters, both foreign and English.</p>
+
+<p>The immensity of the building left scope for the rich volume of sound
+poured forth; and you may imagine what an effect the splendid strains
+had on the feelings of the multitude of spectators. Indeed, one of the
+audience,&mdash;a Chinaman, was so excited by the grandeur of the scene,
+and the triumphant music, that he rushed forwards, made his way
+through the crowd of nobles and ladies that surrounded the Queen, and,
+advancing close to Her Majesty, saluted her by a grand salaam, which
+she graciously acknowledged with a smile and a bow. A salaam, you must
+know, is the eastern way of bowing, and consists in bending the head
+until it almost touches the ground.</p>
+
+<p>When the Hallelujah chorus ceased, the procession was formed for the
+Queen to go round the building. First went the heralds, in their
+<a name='Page102'></a>splendid costumes; then a great number of gentlemen, who were more
+immediately concerned with the Exhibition; after them, the Duke of
+Wellington,&mdash;of whom, I dare say you know,&mdash;with more gentlemen, and
+the Archbishop of Canterbury; and then the Queen and Prince Albert,
+with the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, both of whom looked
+extremely delighted and astonished with the gorgeous spectacle they
+were viewing. The Royal Family was followed by a number of lords,
+ladies, and attendants, the procession being concluded by heralds.</p>
+
+<p>The train first went to the west end of the nave, on the north side,
+everybody cheering loudly as it passed. The view varied every minute,
+but was always picturesque, and beautiful. Even those persons who were
+most acquainted with the wondrous objects that lay on every side, were
+surprised by the new and charming attractions displayed. The Indian
+collection, and the compartment filled with specimens from the
+colonies, were left behind; the department devoted to sculpture, and
+other finer products of industry, was passed, and the procession moved
+into that portion of the palace which contains the English
+manufacturing products. You might then have caught a glimpse, over the
+heads of the spectators, <a name='Page103'></a>of the Furniture Court, where the furniture
+is placed; and of the fixed machinery beyond it, the massive iron form
+of each machine looking as much as to say &quot;move me, if you can.&quot; Then
+the procession passed the enormous dome of iron and glass, the two
+gigantic statues, the figure of Shakspeare, and the many other objects
+which adorn the centre aisle; leaving behind the furs of bears, and
+other wild animals, hung beneath the galleries, and the carpets which
+lent their brilliant colours to finish the decorations; it reached the
+western entrance, where it was reflected in the immense mirror,
+exhibited at that point. Then, turning round by the model of the
+Liverpool Docks, it was returning on the south side of the nave, when
+the gigantic organ placed there, suddenly hurled forth an immense
+volume of music, which sounded extremely fine: but every one was
+already so much astonished, that I do not think anything more could
+surprise them. At length the procession reached the transept, round
+the south end of which it proceeded, and then swept into the Foreign
+Department of the Exhibition, where great efforts had been made to
+receive it properly. The French had collected together all the
+choicest specimens of their manufactures to grace the foremost part of
+their division; <a name='Page104'></a>and I am sure you would have admired the tasteful
+manner in which the contributors decorated the collection. Some of the
+other countries, as their exhibitors had sent in their contributions
+sooner than the French, were of course able to make a more
+satisfactory appearance. The two organs, from France and Germany,
+each, in turn, poured forth their music as the procession passed; and
+two or three of the Queen's bands played a march as the pageat moved
+round the eastern end of the building.</p>
+
+<p>At last the procession returned along the north side of the nave, the
+cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs, which had continued all
+the time getting now more joyful than ever; and the Queen returned
+once more to her throne. One of the noblemen, named the Marquis of
+Breadalbane, then called out in a loud tone of voice, that Her Majesty
+declared the Exhibition open; a flourish of trumpets, and a roar of
+cannon, told the people outside that all was now concluded, and the
+Queen, with the royal family and other attendants, left the Crystal
+Palace, the choir again singing the National Anthem.</p>
+
+<p>In order that the workmen and their families, who come to see the
+Exhibition, should live comfortably when they return home again,
+Prince<a name='Page105'></a> Albert has had a model building erected, with four dwellings,
+or sets of rooms, each containing all the conveniences essential to a
+distinct family-house, with four distinct entrances for the four
+different families, such as he wishes every honest working couple in
+this country, and indeed every honest couple in all parts of the
+world, should possess. And, in order to shew to working men, and to
+builders, and to persons of property who desire to do good, how they
+can usefully assist their fellow creatures to comfortable habitations,
+for the same rent that they now pay for closely-built, unhealthy ones,
+he has erected these four model houses under one roof, each of them
+dry, warm, convenient, fire-proof, and healthy, and yet cheap. They
+are built of very hard hollow bricks, made by machinery, and are
+situate at the corner of the barrack yard, near to the Crystal Palace,
+and will be shown freely to all persons visiting the World's Fair.</p>
+
+<p>Now, boys and girls, good-bye; I know you are sorry to see me going
+away, and you may be certain I am sorry to be obliged to leave you.
+But I hope we shall soon meet again, for I am thinking of coming to
+see you very shortly, to tell you more stories and have another talk
+with you. So, if you say you have been amused, and have <a name='Page106'></a>learned
+something, by reading these stories, I will pay you another visit
+soon, and tell you something more about other things. But in the mean
+time, let us hope that the suggestions of Prince Albert, the husband
+of our gracious Queen, will do good; and that every body, and every
+nation, may become better, and learn more, and love each other more,
+in consequence of meeting together, in friendship and harmony, at</p>
+<br />
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+<p class="ads">THE PLAY GRAMMAR; or, THE ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR EXPLAINED IN SHORT AND
+EASY GAMES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By Miss CORNER. 1s. 6d. cloth lettered, with richly coloured
+frontispiece, and numerous engravings on wood; or, 1s. sewed in fancy
+covers, with plain frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">CHRISTMAS BERRIES AND DAISY CHAINS, FOR THE YOUNG AND GOOD.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A collection of pleasing and instructive Tales in poetry and prose,
+adapted to the Youthful mind. By the Author of Spring Flowers and
+Summer Blossoms, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Printed in large type; with eight pages of tinted illustrations. Price
+2s. 6d. bound in fancy cloth, gilt edges and sides, suitable for a
+present.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SILVER BLOSSOMS TO PRODUCE GOLDEN FRUIT:
+Being Golden Keys to the Good Old Proverbs, in interesting Tales. By
+the Author of Spring Flowers and Summer Blossoms, Christmas Berries,
+&amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With eight pages of tinted illustrations. Price 2s. 6d. bound suitably
+for a present, in fancy cloth, with gilt edges and sides.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORIES OF THE ELEMENTS:
+Or, the Old Man and his Four Servants; Volcanoes and Earthquakes; the
+Volcanic Island, and the Indian Family.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By MRS. BAKER. With six pages of engravings printed in tint, 1s. 6d.
+cloth, lettered, with richly coloured frontispiece;&mdash;or, 1s. sewed,
+with plain frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY; BY THE REV. J. YOUNG, A.M. A pleasing
+description of the nature and habits of the most interesting and
+wonderful of the Works of God, as exhibited in Creation, and recorded
+in Scripture.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With numerous engravings, and eight pages of tinted illustrations; 2s.
+6d. handsomely bound in cloth, gilt edges and sides.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE ORPHAN CAPTIVE; OR, CHRISTIAN ENDURANCE; a Tale of the Shipwreck
+and Captivity of an Ambassador's Daughter. By Miss J. Strickland.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With seven pages of elegant plates, 1s. sewed, or 1s. 6d. cloth.</p><a name='Page109'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SCRIPTURE PARABLES, in EASY VERSE, for CHILDREN; WITH AN EXPLANATION
+OF EACH PARABLE, IN PROSE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By the Author of Ruth and Naomi,&mdash;the Widow's Cruise of Oil,&mdash;Isaac
+and Rebekah, &amp;c. Illustrated with eight pages of beautiful plates, and
+twenty engravings on wood.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. 6d. cloth lettered, with richly coloured frontispiece; or, 1s.
+sewed, in fancy covers, with plain frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TALES OF SPRING FLOWERS AND SUMMER BLOSSOMS; FOR THE YOUNG AND GOOD:
+About Snow-drops,&mdash;the Wall-flower,&mdash;and Cowslips and Primroses.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With six pages of illustrations, 1s. sewed&mdash;or 1s. 6d. bound in cloth,
+lettered, and coloured frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">MORE TALES OF SPRING FLOWERS AND SUMMER BLOSSOMS; FOR THE YOUNG AND
+GOOD: About Hare Bells,&mdash;the Bee Orchis,&mdash;White Violets,&mdash;Water
+Lilies,&mdash;Wild Roses,&mdash;and Wood Anemonies.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With six pages of illustrations, 1s. sewed;&mdash;or 1s. 6d. in cloth,
+lettered, and coloured frontispiece.</p>
+
+<p class="ads">THE TWO PARTS, elegantly bound in one handsome volume, gilt edges,
+with eleven pages of tinted illustrations, 2s. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE VILLAGE SCHOOL: WITH THE HISTORY, AND WHAT BECAME OF, SOME OF ITS
+SCHOLARS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. 6d. cloth, with many engravings, and richly coloured frontispiece;
+or, 1s. sewed, with plain frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE WIDOW AND ORPHANS; OR, CHANGES OF LIFE. BY THE REV. J. YOUNG, M.A.
+Author of Perils of Paul Percival, Scripture Natural History, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With seven pages of plates, and vignette title, 1s. sewed; or 1s. 6d.
+bound in cloth, with richly coloured frontispiece.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">LITTLE STORIES ABOUT PRETTY LITTLE BIRDS. BY THE AUTHOR OF KEEPER'S
+TRAVELS, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With seven pages of plates, and vignette title, 1s. sewed; or, with
+coloured frontispiece, 1s. 6d. bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">LITTLE TALES FOR THE NURSERY; AMUSING AND INSTRUCTIVE. By the Author
+of 'Sketches of Little Girls,' 'Little Boys,' &amp;c. With many
+illustrations.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. 6d. cloth lettered, and richly coloured
+frontispiece; or, 1s. sewed, with plain frontispiece.</p><a name='Page110'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORIES OF THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE WORLD; descriptive of the
+peculiar habits and customs of the Inhabitants of Australia and
+Polynesia,&mdash;Omoko, King of Africa,&mdash;the Elephant, and the Little Dog
+of Siam,&mdash;the American Slave Trade,&mdash;and Europe, or, English Freedom.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With neat vignettes, and six tinted engravings 1s. sewed.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORIES OF THE FIVE SENSES; OR, WHICH is BEST? An entertaining Little
+Book, for Little Ladies and Little Gentlemen. Vignette illustrations,
+and six tinted engravings, 1s. sewed.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">WHICH IS BEST?</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Or, Stories about the Five Senses, and the Five Divisions of the Globe
+With sixteen illustrations 2s. 6d. fancy cloth, gilt edges.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE WORLD's FAIR; OR, CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK OF THE GREAT
+EXHIBITION OF 1851.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Describing the beautiful Inventions and Manufactures exhibited there;
+with pretty stories about the People who have made and sent those
+beautiful Articles to be exhibited, and how they live when at
+home.&mdash;Embellished with numerous elegant engravings, a frontispiece,
+and pictorial title-page.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">2s. 6d. elegantly bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS; or, STORIES FOR THE CHILDREN OF ENGLAND; By
+M.E.T. author of &quot;Silver Blossoms to produce Golden Fruit.&quot;
+Embellished with illustrative engravings, and eight pages of plates,
+beautifully printed in lithography.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">2s. 6d. elegantly bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ILLUSTRATED JUVENILE KEEPSAKE OF AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION. With
+upwards of sixty engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed,&mdash;or 1s. 6d. bound in cloth, lettered.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SKETCHES OF LITTLE BOYS; The Well-behaved Little Boy. The Attentive,
+Inattentive, Covetous Dilatory, Exact, Quarrelsome, and Good Little
+Boy. By S. Lovechild 1s. sewed,&mdash;Square size, with seven coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SKETCHES OF LITTLE GIRLS; The Good-natured Little Girl, the
+Thoughtless, the Vain, the Orderly, the Slovenly, the Snappish, the
+Persevering, the Forward, the Modest, and the Awkward, Little Girl. By
+Solomon Lovechild.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed,&mdash;Square size, with seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE THREE BASKETS, Or, THE LITTLE GARDENER, LITTLE PAINTER, AND LITTLE
+CARPENTER. Describing how, and in what manner, Henry, Richard, and
+Charles, were occupied during the absence of their Father. By Mrs.
+Burden.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed,&mdash;Square size, with seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">DAME WIGGINS OF LEE, AND HER WONDERFUL CATS; A humorous tale, about
+the worthy old Dame and her Seven whiskered favourites: written by a
+Lady of Ninety.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. sewed,&mdash;Square size, with fifteen coloured engravings.</p><a name='Page111'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">EASY AND INTERESTING HISTORIES, FOR LITTLE FOLKS; BY MISS CORNER,
+Author of the Historical Library, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2"><i>Price sixpence each, printed in large type, and embellished with four
+pages of descriptive tinted plates, and sewed in fancy wrappers.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE ANCIENT BRITONS. Describing their Manners and Customs; and how
+they were conquered, and Britain was governed by the Romans. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE CONQUEST OF THE ROMANS AND BRITONS BY THE SAXONS; and an
+interesting Account of the Saxon Heptarchy, or the Seven Saxon
+Kingdoms in England at one time.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. With four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT. an interesting Narrative. 6d.
+Four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE NORMAN CONQUEST; four pages of illustrations. And the manner in
+which the People of England lived during the Reign of William the
+Conqueror. An interesting Narrative. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ENGLAND, AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE FEUDAL TIMES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Four pages of Illustrations</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; WITH THE MANNERS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
+IN THE MIDDLE AGES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. With four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
+CENTURIES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Showing the Condition of the People, and how they lived and dressed
+during the Reign of Henry the Seventh, to the death of William the
+Third. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
+CENTURIES.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Showing the Condition of the People, their modes of life, and how they
+lived and dressed from the Reign of James the Second, to that of Queen
+Victoria. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.</p>
+
+<h4><i>These Eight Histories may be had, bound in One Volume, in fancy
+cloth, gilt sides and edges, suitable for a present, price 8s. 6d.</i></h4>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<br />
+
+<h3>PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE,</h3>
+
+<h4>SIX-PENCE EACH,&mdash;SEWED IN FANCY COVERS, PRINTED IN COLORS,</h4>
+
+<h5><i>Each embellished with numerous Engravings on wood.</i></h5>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SQUIRE GRAY'S FRUIT FEAST.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
+the Pretty Tales he gave to them as Prizes.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fourteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
+Directions for Playing each Game, and how to Cry the Forfeits.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. with appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<a name='Page112'></a>
+<p class="ads">ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
+COUSINS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Nineteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.&mdash;A Trial of
+Charity.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Many engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Sixteen engravings.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">NURSERY PICTURE BOOKS,&mdash;in illustrated covers.
+<i>size 4to. royal,&mdash;five sheets of coloured plates in each book.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE GLOBE:&mdash;Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and
+Polynesia or Australia. Illustrated for Little Folks, on Five Large
+Plates: and done up in a fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FOUR ELEMENTS:&mdash;or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water. Illustrated for
+Little Folks. And the Old English Nursery Rhyme of Simple Simon, set
+to Music. On Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain: or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FIVE SENSES,&mdash;Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
+the FOUR SEASONS,&mdash;Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Illustrated for
+Little Folks, on Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND, Set to Music, for Little Folks.
+Containing, The Queen of Hearts,&mdash;Bye! Baby Bunting,&mdash;Who comes here?
+a Grenadier!&mdash;Little Boy Blue,&mdash;and, The Lion and the Unicorn.
+Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done up in Fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,&mdash;the Nursery Alphabet,&mdash;the Royal
+Family,&mdash;the comparative sizes of Animals,&mdash;and a &quot;Morland.&quot;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p><a name='Page113'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,&mdash;from whom all Good Things come&mdash;the Lost
+Purse,&mdash;Self-will,&mdash;the Careless Boy,&mdash;the Good Boy,&mdash;and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with seven coloured engravings.&mdash;1s, in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">About the Lame Boy,&mdash;the Sea Shore,&mdash;the Cross Boy,&mdash;and the Stray
+Child. By Mrs. Burden.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with seven coloured engravings.&mdash;1s. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS: the Letters in
+large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by a number of
+pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PETER PALLETTE's PICTURES FOR PAINTING: Thirteen Numbers, price 4d.
+each; or bound in 2 vols, 1st series, 2s. 6d. 2nd series, 3s. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">WORRET's NEW OUTLINE DRAWING-BOOK;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A series of progressive lessons, by which the principles of the Art,
+as applied to figure, ornamental, and mechanical Drawing, may be
+easily and correctly acquired.&mdash;ON STONE, BY W. HEATH.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3s. the set of six numbers; or 3s. 6d. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">EVERY CHILD'S DRAWING-BOOK; Easy and familiar Subjects by HEATH and
+BARFOOT. In Seven Progressive Numbers.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. the set.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">YOUNG ARTIST'S DRAWING-BOOK of EASY SUBJECTS, in Lithography and Ink.
+By BARFOOT and HEATH. In 13 Numbers.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. the set.</p><a name='Page114'></a>
+<br />
+
+<h3>GRANDPAPA EASY'S COLOURED</h3>
+
+<h4>ORIGINAL AND SPLENDID PICTORIAL TOY BOOKS,</h4>
+
+<h5>SIX-PENCE EACH. SIZE, LARGE OCTAVO SUPER-ROYAL.</h5>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S LITTLE PIG'S RAMBLE FROM HOME. Embellished with eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's LAUGHABLE STORY ABOUT TOM PEPPER. With twenty
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's TWO SISTERS; OR, WHO WOULD NOT BE INDUSTRIOUS? Eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's 'LITTLE GENTLEMAN,'&mdash;GENERAL TOM THUMB. With eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's NEW MOTHER GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGGS. Eight coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's LADY GOLIGHTLY AND HER COUSINS THE GRASSHOPPERS. With
+nine coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's NEW STORY OF THE LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING FOR
+THE CROWN. Eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's PRETTY POETRY, ABOUT TREES, FRUITS, and FLOWERS. With
+twenty-seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's JACKO's MERRY METHOD OF LEARNING THE PENCE TABLE.
+Eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's PRETTY POETICAL SPELLING BOOK. Twenty-eight coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. Embellished with fourteen
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's MARQUIS OF CARABAS; OR, NEW PUSS IN BOOTS. With
+fifteen coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's AMUSING ADDITION; A NEW POETICAL NUMBER BOOK. Sixteen
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY's COCK ROBIN ALIVE AND WELL AGAIN; with seven coloured
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+
+<p class="ads"><i>All Six-pence each,&mdash;with handsome Coloured Engravings.</i></p><a name='Page115'></a>
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+
+<h3>GRANDMAMMA EASY'S COLOURED</h3>
+
+<h4>ORIGINAL AND SPLENDID PICTORIAL TOY BOOKS,</h4>
+
+<h5>SIX-PENCE EACH.&mdash;SIZE, LARGE OCTAVO SUPER ROYAL.</h5>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORIES ABOUT THE ALPHABET. With twenty-six
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's MERRY MULTIPLICATION. With seventeen coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORY ABOUT OLD DADDY LONGLEGS. Illustrated with
+eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORY ABOUT LITTLE JACK HORNER. With eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's MICHAELMAS DAY, OR, FATE OF POOR MOLLY GOOSEY. Eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's ALDERMAN's FEAST: A NEW ALPHABET. Illustrated with
+eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF LONDON. With
+twelve coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's WONDERS OF A TOY-SHOP. Embellished with eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORY OF THE QUEEN OF HEARTS. With eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's NEW STORY ABOUT LITTLE TOM THUMB AND HIS MOTHER.
+Eight coloured plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE ELEPHANT. Embellished with
+eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE CAMEL. With nine coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's TRAVELS OF LITTLE MATTY MACARONI. With nine coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY's DAME BANTRY AND HER CAT; A HUMOUROUS TALE; with
+seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
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+<p class="ads">AMUSING PENCE TABLE; in a new, easy, and pleasing manner; with fifteen
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+exhibited in twenty-four engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ALPHABET OF TRADES; exhibiting the working of the several trades, in
+forty-one descriptive engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">NEW ROYAL A, B, C, AND SPELLING-BOOK, in a new and familiar manner:
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+<br />
+
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+had,&mdash;and how they behaved themselves,&mdash;with twenty-four engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
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+good and beautiful lady; with eight large engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORY OF LITTLE JOEY, who came up to London a poor little boy, and
+afterwards became a great man;&mdash;with ten engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TALES OF THE MONTHS AND SEASONS: and what we see and enjoy all the
+year round; with twelve engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE MOUSE AND HER SONS; a rural tale;&mdash;with eight coloured
+engravings.</p><a name='Page117'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>UNCLE BUNCLE'S ORIGINAL TOY BOOKS,</h3>
+
+<h4>SIX-PENCE EACH.</h4>
+
+<h4>EMBELLISHED WITH LARGE APPROPRIATE COLORED ENGRAVINGS, AND IN FANCY
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR COCK ROBIN, AND THE TRIAL OF
+THE SPARROW FOR SHOOTING HIM. With seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORY ABOUT MASTER NOBODY, and his many wonderful
+exploits. 7 coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's VISIT TO LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN, the best little Boy that
+ever was seen, with 7 coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's TWO LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN, and the means by which
+they became rich. Seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's ALPHABET OF OBJECTS. Embellished with many coloured
+plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW A, B, C. With fourteen pretty and appropriate
+coloured pictures.</p>
+<br />
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+<br />
+
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+<br />
+
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; A NEW AND POPULAR MULTIPLICATION
+TABLE: With fourteen coloured pictures of the Procession by Land and
+Water.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's STORY ABOUT THE SICK LITTLE ROBIN, AND HIS KIND LITTLE
+NURSE JENNY WREN. With seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's STORIES ABOUT LITTLE PETER's VISIT TO THE FARM. With
+seven coloured engravings.</p><a name='Page118'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>CORNER'S HISTORICAL LIBRARY,</h3>
+
+<h5>FOR</h5>
+
+<h4>YOUTH, SCHOOLS, AND FAMILIES:</h4>
+
+<h4>PUBLISHED BY DEAN &amp; SON, 35, THREADNEEDLE-STREET, LONDON:</h4>
+
+<h5>COMPRISING</h5>
+<br />
+
+<h4>A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION IN EUROPE,</h4>
+
+<h5><i>Uniformly printed, each Country in a separate Volume; with
+Illustrations from Historical Subjects, elegantly engraven on Steel,
+from designs by Franklin, Jones, and Gilbert; and an Accurate Map to
+each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered</i>;</h5>
+
+<h4>COMMENCING WITH THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF AUTHENTIC RECORD, AND BROUGHT
+DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:</h4>
+
+<h4>ACCURATELY POURTRAYING THE NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND DOMESTIC
+HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.</h4>
+
+<h3>BY MISS CORNER,</h3>
+
+<h5><i>Author of &quot;Questions on the History of Europe,&quot; a Sequel to
+Mangnall's Historical Questions, &amp;c. &amp;c.</i></h5>
+
+<p>The object of these Works,&mdash;peculiarly suited to Schools and
+Families,&mdash;is to furnish the reader with a faithful History of each
+Nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion,
+laws, customs, national characteristics, and domestic habits of the
+people, in the various periods of their History.</p>
+
+<p>In writing these elementary treatises, one especial object has been
+kept in view&mdash;that of adapting them to the capacities of young people
+and occasional readers: by this means, while they embrace information
+and entertainment for all, they attract the rising generation, by
+simplicity of language, and clearness of detail, and render
+comparatively easy the attainment of a knowledge of the leading events
+of History.</p>
+
+<p>The many high encomiums awarded to these works by the Public Press,
+and the very considerable acceptance they have met with in Schools and
+Families, are proofs that the efforts of the Author to render
+historical knowledge pleasing, and easy of attainment, are not
+unappreciated by those to whom the care of the rising generation is
+entrusted.</p><a name='Page119'></a>
+<br />
+
+<h5>THESE SERIES OF HISTORIES, BY MISS CORNER, COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:</h5>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A New Edition; with Chronological Table; Twentieth Thousand; 3<i>s</i>.
+6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; or bound up with Questions on the History,
+4<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and five Historical Engravings,&mdash;1. Rowena
+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria&mdash;the Peers rendering Homage.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;It is important that history meant for young Englishmen should be
+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score.&quot;&mdash;<i>British Banner</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Academic and Collegiate
+Circular</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's England and Wales, we perceive, has just reached
+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Bent's Literary
+Advertiser</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We know no histories more likely to prove useful and agreeable in the
+instruction of children.&quot;&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The style of the book throughout renders it worthy of the support it
+has secured.&quot;&mdash;<i>Gospel Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New Edition; Seventh Thousand; 2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; or bound
+up with Questions on the History, 3<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.&mdash;1. St.
+Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles. 2. Lord Thomas
+Fitzgerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII. 3. Entry of James
+II. into Dublin.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The history before us is well executed.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's style of writing will produce habits of
+thinking.&quot;&mdash;<i>Morning Advertiser</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The Historical facts, always correct, are detailed in plain and
+concise language. This is one of the best class books on Ireland, for
+young people.&quot;&mdash;<i>Limerick Standard</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The beauty of composition throughout the writings of Miss Corner is
+singular and fascinating.&mdash;<i>Sun</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner has acquired a deserved celebrity for the
+singularly-attractive and intelligible manner she has in narrating
+history.&mdash;<i>Critic</i>.</p><a name='Page120'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New edition; ninth thousand; 2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with questions on the history, 3<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a map, and three historical engravings.&mdash;1.
+Coronation of the infant King David II. and his Queen, at Scone, 2.
+James V. taking refuge at Sterling Castle. 3. Queen Mary's escape to
+England.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We sincerely recommend this history as peculiarly suited to the
+meridian of schools.&quot;&mdash;<i>Ayr Observer.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;This meritorious work is written in a very easy and agreeeble style,
+perfectly adapted to the capacities of the young persons for whom it
+is intended.&quot;&mdash;<i>Times</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We have perused this history with much interest, delighted with the
+ease and perspicuity of style, and with the clearness and force of the
+narrative.&quot;&mdash;<i>Chronicle</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Peculiarly adapted for instructive family reading.&quot;&mdash;<i>Caledonian
+Mercury</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ROME;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">From accepted English and foreign authorities, as Macpherson's Annals
+of Commerce, Keightley's Roman History, Smith's and Adam's Greek and
+Roman Antiquities; Dr. Arnold, Niebuhr, &amp;c. With questions to each
+chapter, a chronological table, and a map of the Roman Empire; 3<i>s</i>.
+6<i>d</i>. bound in cloth, lettered.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's History of Rome will assuredly ere long supersede all
+the Roman histories at present used in schools, it is well written,
+and the historical facts elicited by the learned labours of Niebuhr,
+Arnold, &amp;c., are made to take the place of the fabulous accounts which
+have hitherto passed current as authentic history; at the same time
+the popular early legends are not omitted, but their doubtful nature
+pointed out.&quot;&mdash;<i>Westmister Review</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;An excellent feature in this history is the continual effort to open
+out to the young reader the household life and social customs of the
+Romans, for without this, ancient history can have no reality for
+children.&quot;&mdash;<i>Educational Times</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Its contents form a correct history of the Roman empire, from its
+beginning.&quot;&mdash;<i>Church of England Journal</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORIES OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New Edition, Fifth Thousand; 2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with questions on the histories, 3<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a map, and three historical engravings,&mdash;1. Inez De
+Castro entreating the king to save her life. 2. Interview of Columbus
+with Queen Isabella. 3. The Cortez taking the oath of allegiance.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner gives a clear and striking account of the different
+kingdoms that at various times were founded in Spain.&quot;&mdash;<i>Edinburgh
+Review</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;So concise and plain as to be at once adapted to the capacities and
+volatility of young people, while they are useful compendiums for
+adults.&quot;&mdash;<i>Times</i>.</p><a name='Page121'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF FRANCE;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Tenth Thousand, New Edition, with continuation of events to the
+Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; 2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered;
+or bound up with Questions on the History, 3<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,&mdash;1. The
+Coronation of Charles VII. 2. A French Tilt, or Tournament. 3.
+Bonaparte's Expedition across the Alps.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The Writer has borne in mind throughout, that simplicity of style was
+essential to her purpose, and has selected those facts which are best
+adapted to give an idea of the events and the customs of the
+successive ages.&quot;&mdash;<i>Baptist Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner appears to be an excellent historian for the school room.
+She narrates with fluency and clearness, and in a concise and lively
+manner, the leading facts, so as to convey the spirit of history, and
+indicate the characteristics of the people and the country, as well as
+the rulers and famous characters.&quot;&mdash;<i>Spectator</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We look upon Miss Corner's work with great interest, as being
+peculiarly adapted to the minds of young people, and being free from
+that inversion of facts by which history is so often made subservient
+to party purposes.&quot;&mdash;<i>Nonconformist</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and two elegant Historical
+Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. A Norwegian Family listening to the Songs of their Scalds, 2.
+Submission of the Order of Nobles to Frederick III.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The two chief qualities of a good book are usefulness of subject and
+cleverness of handling, and these requisites Miss Corner's histories
+exhibit in an eminent degree. The frequent intermixtures of government
+between the three countries have indeed tended materially to embarrass
+this portion of European history, but Miss Corner by an accurate
+arrangement of dates, and a judicious connection of events, has set
+every thing in a clear light.&quot;&mdash;<i>Post Magazine</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND RUSSIA;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Historical
+Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. Assassination of Demetrius. 2. John Cassimer, worn out by
+misfortune, resigning his crown to the Diet. 3. Flight of the
+Inhabitants of Moscow at the approach of the French army.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;This volume forms one of a series of histories for the use of young
+persons; the present volume is, however, more descriptive than
+historical, which we consider an advantage; the living manners of the
+Poles and Russians being much more instructive and entertaining to
+young English readers.&quot;&mdash;<i>Tait's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner has succeeded in compressing into a small compass all the
+leading events of history, without the slightest obscurity, or without
+sinking her book into a dry chronicle of facts.&quot;&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p><a name='Page122'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE; INCLUDING GREECE,
+SYRIA, AND THE HOLY LAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. Selim II., receiving the Ambassadors of Maximilian, Emperor of
+Germany. 2. Mahomet expounding the Koran at Medina. 5. Reschid Pacha
+reading the Hatti Scheriff of 1839 to the Ambassadors and Great
+Officers of State.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The narrative is so well arranged and so agreeably diversified by
+occasional remarks on individual and national character, as to render
+history attractive even to the very young; and the information is
+conveyed in a style remarkable for its unaffected simplicity and
+clearness.&quot;&mdash;<i>Morning Post</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The leading features of Turkish manners, laws, and policy, are accurately
+and forcibly pourtrayed, while the narrative is distinguished for
+simplicity, perspicuity, and completeness.&quot;&mdash;<i>Conservative Journal</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ITALY AND SWITZERLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Historical
+Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. Pope Martin V. riding through the streets of Rome, the Emperor and
+Elector leading his Horse. 2. Massaniello haranguing the Populace. 3.
+William Tell and the other Swiss Patriots holding their nightly
+meetings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Brief, clear, and correct; well adapted for young
+persons.&quot;&mdash;<i>Leamington Spa Chronicle</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Written with great care and ability.&quot;&mdash;<i>John Bull</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;A very useful educational book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. cloth, lettered, with a Map, and two elegant Historical
+Engravings.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1. Assassination of William of Orange. 2. Admiral Van Tromp shot
+whilst animating his sailors.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The present, like the proceeding histories from the pen of this
+intelligent lady, is distinguished for its conciseness, elegance of
+expression, and clearness of detail.&quot;&mdash;<i>Manchester Times</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;A condensed mass of knowledge, well put together, and prettily
+illustrated.&quot;&mdash;<i>Church and State Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;To a pleasing, fluent, narrative style, Miss corner unites a nice
+discrimination, and never suffers matters which sully the mind to
+appear in her pages.&quot;&mdash;<i>Surplice</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We cannot too strongly recommend these admirable Histories, and we
+feel satisfied that no parent or preceptor can place better works in
+the hands of a youth.&quot;&mdash;<i>Academic and Collegiate Circular</i>.</p><a name='Page123'></a>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Altogether we do not know of a more agreeable or instructive present
+for youth; and each history is illustrated with a map and engravings,
+which considering the price of the work, are of a superior
+description.&quot;&mdash;<i>Times</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The authoress shows much discrimination in conveying in language
+suited to her readers the results of the laborious investigations of
+other scholars.&quot;&mdash;<i>Educational Times</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AN ACCURATE HISTORY OF GREECE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">From accepted Authorities, English and Foreign; as Crete's and
+Chambers's Histories of Greece, Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities,
+Thirlwall and Wordsworth's Greece, Smith's Mythology and Biography,
+Annals of Commerce, Library of Useful Knowledge, &amp;c. With Questions to
+each Chapter, a Chronological Table, Index, and a coloured Map of the
+Greek States. Price 3<i>s</i>. bound in cloth, lettered.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">We have not met with any History of Greece that contains, within the
+same compass, so large an amount of interesting and valuable
+information. Miss Corner writes concisely, perspicuously, and
+sensibly.&mdash;<i>Westley Banner</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A concise History of Greece, well adapted for Schools.&mdash;<i>Cambridge
+Independent Press</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">This is a very excellent compendium of Grecian History, and such are
+the merits of the Work that we shall not be surprised at its becoming
+a popular educational book.&mdash;<i>The British Mother's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Remarkably clear in its arrangement, while the simple and easy
+style in which it is written, peculiarly fits it for popular
+use, it displays much careful research on the part of its
+Author.&mdash;<i>Englishwoman's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner has the art of writing so as to be understood by youthful
+readers.&mdash;<i>London Literary Journal</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By far the best introductory School History of Greece we have ever
+seen.&mdash;<i>British Banner</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A combination of simplicity of narrative, with comprehensiveness of
+detail, admirably adapted for the use of the School-room.&mdash;<i>Douglas
+Jerrald's Weekly News</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With feminine delicacy, Miss Corner omits what should be omitted,
+giving meanwhile a narrative of the broad character and features that
+mark the progress of a nation.&mdash;<i>Express, Evening Paper</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The results of the best modern scholarship are here given.&mdash;<i>Leader</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner's Histories require no recommendation of ours to bring
+them into notice. This Volume, her History of Greece, is written with
+great clearness and fluency, the fabulous tales which disfigure so
+many professedly authentic histories of the Greeks are discarded. We
+cordially recommend this work for the School-room, or family
+circle.&mdash;<i>Gospel Herald</i>.</p><a name='Page124'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>Religious Works</h3>
+
+<h5>PUBLISHED BY THOMAS DEAN AND SON,</h5>
+
+<h5>THREADNEEDLE-STREET.</h5>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p class="ads">DEDICATED (BY PERMISSION) TO THE LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN.
+THE REV^D. EDWARD BICKERSTETH'S CHRISTIAN PSALMODY;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2"><i>(of which upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand have been used,)</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Comprising a Collection of above Nine Hundred Psalms, Hymns, and
+Spiritual Songs, selected and arranged for public, social, family, and
+private worship, by the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, late Rector of
+Watton, Herts.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Sold at 2s. in cloth,&mdash;2s. 6d. in embossed roan,&mdash;and 3s. 6d. in
+calf,&mdash;12 copies, in cloth, &pound;1,&mdash;25 for &pound;2,&mdash;50 for &pound;3 17s. or 100 for
+&pound;7 10s.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A fine thin paper edition, 2s. 6d. in cloth, gilt edges;&mdash;3s. 6d.
+roan, gilt edges;&mdash;and 4s. 6d. morocco, gilt edges.</p>
+
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+<p class="ads">1 ANGELS APPEARING TO THE SHEPHERDS. And the angel said unto
+them&mdash;Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy.
+Luke, ii. 10.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">2 ADORATION OF THE MAGI. And when they saw the young child with Mary
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">3 CHRIST DISPUTING WITH THE DOCTORS. They found him in the temple,
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+
+<p class="ads">4 THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST. The heavens were opened unto him, and he saw
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+<p class="ads">5 CHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN. Suffer the little children to come
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+
+<p class="ads">6 CHRIST HEALING THE BLIND. Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight:
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+
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+
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">9 CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. Many spread their garments in the
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">10 THE LAST SUPPER. This do in remembrance of me. Luke, xxii. 19.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">11 PETER DENYING CHRIST. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter,
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+thou shalt deny me thrice. And he wept bitterly Luke, xxii, 61.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">12 CHRIST BEFORE PILATE. Pilate asked him, Answerest thou nothing?
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">13 TAKING DOWN FROM THE CROSS. When Joseph had taken the body, he
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+<br />
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+<p class="ads">PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE,</p>
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+<p class="ads2">SIX-PENCE EACH,&mdash;SEWED IN FANCY COVERS, PRINTED IN COLORS,</p>
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+<p class="ads">SQUIRE GRAY'S FRUIT FEAST.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
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+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fourteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
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+
+<p class="ads2">6d. with appropriate engravings.</p><a name='Page133'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
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+
+<p class="ads2">Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Nineteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.&mdash;A Trial of
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+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Fifteen engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Many engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">6d. Sixteen engravings.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">NURSERY PICTURE BOOKS,&mdash;in illustrated covers,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2"><i>size 4to. royal,&mdash;five sheets of coloured plates in each book.</i></p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE GLOBE:&mdash;Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and
+Polynesia or Australia. Illustrated for Little Folks, on Five Large
+Plates: and done up in a fancy cover,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FOUR ELEMENTS:&mdash;or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated for Little Folks. And the Old English Nursery Rhyme of
+Simple Simon, set to Music. On Five Large Plates; and done up in a
+fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE FIVE SENSES,&mdash;Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
+the FOUR SEASONS,&mdash;Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Illustrated for
+Little Folks, on Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Set to Music, for Little Folks. Containing, The Queen of Hearts,&mdash;Bye!
+Baby Bunting,&mdash;Who comes here? a Grenadier!&mdash;Little Boy Blue,&mdash;and,
+The Lion and the Unicorn. Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done
+up in Fancy cover.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,&mdash;the Nursery Alphabet,&mdash;the Royal
+Family.&mdash;the comparative sizes of Animals,&mdash;and a &quot;Morland.&quot;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.</p><a name='Page134'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,&mdash;from whom all Good Things come&mdash;the Lost
+Purse,&mdash;Self-will,&mdash;the Careless Boy,&mdash;the Good Boy,&mdash;and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with seven coloured engravings.&mdash;1s. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">About the Lame Boy,&mdash;the Sea Shore,&mdash;the Cross Boy,&mdash;and the Stray
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+
+<p class="ads2">Square size, with seven coloured engravings.&mdash;1s. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS:</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">the Letters in large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by
+a number of pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PETER PALLETTE'S PICTURES FOR PAINTING:</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Thirteen Numbers, price 4d. each; or bound in 2 vols, 1st series, 2s.
+6d. 2nd series, 3s. 6d.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">WORRET's NEW OUTLINE DRAWING-BOOK;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A series of progressive lessons, by which the principles of the Art,
+as applied to figure, ornamental, and mechanical Drawing, may be
+easily and correctly acquired.&mdash;ON STONE, BY W. HEATH.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">3s. the set of six numbers; or 3s. 6d. in cloth.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">EVERY CHILD'S DRAWING-BOOK; Easy and familiar Subjects by HEATH and
+BARFOOT. In Seven Progressive Numbers.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. the set.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">YOUNG ARTIST'S DRAWING-BOOK of EASY SUBJECTS, in Lithography and Ink.
+By BARFOOT and HEATH. In 13 Numbers.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">1s. the set.</p><a name='Page135'></a>
+
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+
+<h3>GRANDPAPA EASY'S COLOURED</h3>
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+<h4>ORIGINAL AND SPLENDID PICTORIAL TOY BOOKS, SIX-PENCE EACH. SIZE, LARGE
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+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S LITTLE PIG'S RAMBLE FROM HOME. Embellished with eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S LAUGHABLE STORY ABOUT TOM PEPPER. With twenty
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S TWO SISTERS; OR, WHO WOULD NOT BE INDUSTRIOUS? Eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S 'LITTLE GENTLEMAN,'&mdash;GENERAL TOM THUMB. With eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S NEW MOTHER GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGGS. Eight coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S LADY GOLIGHTLY AND HER COUSINS THE GRASSHOPPERS; With
+nine coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S NEW STORY OF THE LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING FOR
+THE CROWN. Eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S PRETTY POETRY, ABOUT TREES, FRUITS, and FLOWERS. With
+twenty-seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S JACKO's MERRY METHOD OF LEARNING THE PENCE TABLE.
+Eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S PRETTY POETICAL SPELLING BOOK. Twenty-eight coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. Embellished with fourteen
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S MARQUIS OF CARABAS; OR, NEW PUSS IN BOOTS. With
+fifteen coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S AMUSING ADDITION; A NEW POETICAL NUMBER BOOK. Sixteen
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDPAPA EASY'S COCK ROBIN ALIVE AND WELL AGAIN; with seven coloured
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+
+<h5><i>All Six-pence each,&mdash;with handsome Coloured Engravings.</i></h5>
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+<br />
+
+<h3>GRANDMAMMA EASY'S COLOURED</h3>
+
+<h5>ORIGINAL AND SPLENDID PICTORIAL TOY BOOKS, SIX-PENCE EACH.&mdash;SIZE,
+LARGE OCTAVO SUPER ROYAL.</h5>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORIES ABOUT THE ALPHABET. With twenty-six
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S MERRY MULTIPLICATION. With seventeen coloured
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORY ABOUT OLD DADDY LONGLEGS. Illustrated with
+eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORY ABOUT LITTLE JACK HORNER. With eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S MICHAELMAS DAY, OR, FATE OF POOR MOLLY GOOSEY. Eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S ALDERMAN's FEAST: A NEW ALPHABET. Illustrated with
+eight coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF LONDON. With
+twelve coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S WONDERS OF A TOY-SHOP. Embellished with eight
+coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORY OF THE QUEEN OF HEARTS. With eight
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S NEW STORY ABOUT LITTLE TOM THUMB AND HIS MOTHER.
+Eight coloured plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE ELEPHANT. Embellished with
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE CAMEL. With nine coloured
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S TRAVELS OF LITTLE MATTY MACARONI. With nine coloured
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+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">GRANDMAMMA EASY'S DAME BANTRY AND HER CAT; A HUMOUROUS TALE; with
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+
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+
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+
+<h3>NEW SERIES OF ORIGINAL PICTORIAL TOY BOOKS,</h3>
+
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+
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+
+<h3>COUSIN HONEYCOMB'S</h3>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING MULTIPLICATION; illustrated and explained, in twenty
+appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING SUBSTRACTION; rendered easy and plain by twenty-three
+appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING DIVISION, made familiar to the opening mind, by twenty-three
+appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">AMUSING PENCE TABLE; in a new, easy, and pleasing manner; with fifteen
+appropriate engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">RAILWAY ALPHABET, shewing all that can be seen in Railway travelling,
+exhibited in twenty-four engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">ALPHABET OF TRADES; exhibiting the working of the several trades, in
+forty-one descriptive engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">NEW ROYAL A, B, C, AND SPELLING-BOOK, in a new and familiar manner:
+with twenty-six pretty engravings, and twenty-six large ornamental
+coloured letters.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PLEASING POPULAR RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY, or, the sayings and singings
+of infancy, in a new dress; ornamented with twenty-six humourous
+engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">PLEASING POPULAR NURSERY RIDDLES, AND PUZZLES; upon the same plan as
+the above; thirty engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">MY AUNT'S BALL; an ALPHABET; shewing who were there,&mdash;what they
+had,&mdash;and how they behaved themselves&mdash;with twenty-four engravings,</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">A PRINCE AND HIS THREE GIFTS; how he used his three gifts; and about a
+good and beautiful lady; with eight large engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">STORY OF LITTLE JOEY, who came up to London a poor little boy, and
+afterwards became a great man;&mdash;with ten engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">TALES OF THE MONTHS AND SEASONS: and what we see and enjoy all the
+year round; with twelve engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE MOUSE AND HER SONS; a rural tale;&mdash;with eight coloured
+engravings.</p><a name='Page138'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>UNCLE BUNCLE'S ORIGINAL TOY BOOKS,</h3>
+
+<h5>SIX-PENCE EACH.</h5>
+
+<h5>EMBELLISHED WITH LARGE APPROPRIATE COLORED ENGRAVINGS, AND IN FANCY
+COVERS,</h5>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR COCK ROBIN, AND THE TRIAL OF
+THE SPARROW FOR SHOOTING HIM. With seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORY ABOUT MASTER NOBODY, and his many wonderful
+exploits. 7 coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's VISIT TO LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN, the best little Boy that
+ever was seen: with 7 coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's TWO LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN, and the means by which
+they became rich. Seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's ALPHABET OF OBJECTS. Embellished with many coloured
+plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW A, B, C. With fourteen pretty and appropriate
+coloured pictures.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS. Seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's COMICAL BOYS, With fourteen coloured plates.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT BIRDS, Seven coloured pictures.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; A NEW AND POPULAR MULTIPLICATION
+TABLE: With fourteen coloured pictures of the Procession by Land and
+Water.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's STORY ABOUT THE SICK LITTLE ROBIN, AND HIS KIND LITTLE
+NURSE JENNY WREN. With seven coloured engravings.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">UNCLE BUNCLE's STORIES ABOUT LITTLE PETER's VISIT TO THE FARM. With
+seven coloured engravings.</p><a name='Page139'></a>
+
+<br />
+
+<h3>CORNER'S HISTORICAL LIBRARY,</h3>
+
+<h5>FOR</h5>
+
+<h5>YOUTH, SCHOOLS, AND FAMILIES:</h5>
+
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+
+<h5>COMPRISING</h5>
+<br />
+
+<h5>A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION IN EUROPE,</h5>
+
+<p class="ads"><i>Uniformly printed, each country in a separate volume; with
+illustrations from Historical Subjects, elegantly engraven on Steel,
+from designs by Franklin, Jones, and Gilbert; and an Accurate Map to
+each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered;</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads">COMMENCING WITH THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF AUTHENTIC RECORD, AND BROUGHT
+DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:</p>
+
+<p class="ads">ACCURATELY POURTRAYING THE</p>
+
+<p class="ads">NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND DOMESTIC HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads">BY MISS CORNER,</p>
+
+<p class="ads2"><i>Author of &quot;Questions on the History of Europe,&quot; a Sequel to
+Mangnall's Historical Questions, &amp;c. &amp;c.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The object of these works,&mdash;peculiarly suited to schools and
+families,&mdash;is to furnish the reader with a faithful history of each
+nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion,
+laws, customs, national characteristics, and domestic habits of the
+people, in the various periods of their history.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">In writing these elementary treatises, one especial object has been
+kept in view&mdash;that of adapting them to the capacities of young people
+and occasional readers: by this means, while they embrace information
+and entertainment for all, they attract the rising generation, by
+simplicity of language, and clearness of detail, and render
+comparatively easy the attainment of a knowledge of the leading events
+of history.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The many high encomiums awarded to these works by the public press,
+and the very considerable acceptance they have met with in schools and
+families, are proofs that the efforts of the author to render
+historical knowledge pleasing, and easy of attainment, are not
+unappreciated by those to whom the care of the rising generation is
+entrusted.</p><a name='Page140'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THESE SERIES OF HISTORIES, BY MISS CORNER, COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A New Edition; with Chronological Table; Twentieth Thousand; 3<i>s</i>.
+<i>6d</i>. cloth, lettered; or bound up with Questions on the History,
+4<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and five Historical Engravings,&mdash;1. Rowena
+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria&mdash;the Peers rendering Homage.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;It is important that history meant for young Englishmen should be
+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score.&quot;&mdash;<i>British Banner</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Academic and Collegiate
+Circular</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's England and Wales, we perceive, has just reached
+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book.&quot;&mdash;<i>Bent's Literary
+Advertiser</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We know no histories more likely to prove useful and agreeable in the
+instruction of children.&quot;&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The style of the book throughout renders it worthy of the support it
+has secured.&quot;&mdash;<i>Gospel Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New Edition; Seventh Thousand; <i>2s. 6d.</i> cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with Questions on the History, 3<i>s</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.&mdash;1. St.
+Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles. 2. Lord Thomas
+Fitzgerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII. 3. Entry of James
+II. into Dublin.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The history before us is well executed.&quot;&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's style of writing will produce habits of
+thinking.&quot;&mdash;<i>Morning Advertiser</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The Historical facts, always correct, are detailed in plain and
+concise language. This is one of the best class books on Ireland, for
+young people.&quot;&mdash;<i>Limerick Standard</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The beauty of composition throughout the writings of Miss Corner is
+singular and fascinating.&mdash;<i>Sun</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner has acquired a deserved celebrity for the
+singularly-attractive and intelligible manner she has in narrating
+history.&mdash;<i>Critic</i>.</p><a name='Page141'></a>
+<br />
+
+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND;</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">New Edition; Ninth Thousand; 2s. 6d. cloth, lettered; or bound up with
+Questions on the History, 3s.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.&mdash;1.
+Coronation of the Infant King David II. and his Queen, at Scone. 2.
+James V. taking refuge at Sterling Castle. 3. Queen Mary's Escape to
+England.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We sincerely recommend this history as peculiarly suited to the
+meridian of schools.&quot;&mdash;<i>Ayr Observer.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;This meritorious work is written in a very easy and agreeeble style,
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+<p class="ads">THE HISTORY OF ROME;</p>
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+<p class="ads2">From accepted English and Foreign authorities, as Macpherson's Annals
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+Chapter, a Chronological Table, and a Map of the Roman Empire; 3s. 6d.
+bound in cloth, lettered.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner's History of Rome will assuredly ere long supersede all
+the Roman histories at present used in schools, it is well written,
+and the historical facts elicited by the learned labours of Niebuhr,
+Arnold, &amp;c., are made to take the place of the fabulous accounts which
+have hitherto passed current as authentic history; at the same time
+the popular early legends are not omitted, but their doubtful nature
+pointed out.&quot;&mdash;<i>Westmister Review.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;An excellent feature in this history is the continual effort to open
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+
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+with Queen Isabella. 3. The Cortez taking the Oath of Allegiance.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner gives a clear and striking account of the different
+kingdoms that at various times were founded in Spain.&quot;&mdash;<i>Edinburgh
+Review.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;So concise and plain as to be at once adapted to the capacities and
+volatility of young people, while they are useful compendiums for
+adults.&quot;&mdash;<i>Times</i>.</p><a name='Page142'></a>
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+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The Writer has borne in mind throughout, that simplicity of style was
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+adapted to give an idea of the events and the customs of the
+successive ages.&quot;&mdash;<i>Baptist Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner appears to be an excellent historian for the school room.
+She narrates with fluency and clearness, and in a concise and lively
+manner, the leading facts, so as to convey the spirit of history, and
+indicate the characteristics of the people and the country, as well as
+the rulers and famous characters.&quot;&mdash;<i>Spectator</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;We look upon Miss Corner's work with great interest, as being
+peculiarly adapted to the minds of young people, and being free from
+that inversion of facts by which history is so often made subservient
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+Submission of the Order of Nobles to Frederick III.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;The two chief qualities of a good book are usefulness of subject and
+cleverness of handling, and these requisites Miss Corner's histories
+exhibit in an eminent degree. The frequent intermixtures of government
+between the three countries have indeed tended materially to embarrass
+this portion of European history, but Miss Corner by an accurate
+arrangement of dates, and a judicious connection of events, has set
+every thing in a clear light.&quot;&mdash;<i>Post Magazine.</i></p>
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+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;This volume forms one of a series of histories for the use of young
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+Poles and Russians being much more instructive and entertaining to
+young English readers.&quot;&mdash;<i>Tait's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;Miss Corner has succeeded in compressing into a small compass all the
+leading events of history, without the slightest obscurity, or without
+sinking her book into a dry chronicle of facts.&quot;&mdash;<i>Britannia</i>.</p><a name='Page143'></a>
+<br />
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+
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+
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+
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+
+<p class="ads2">&quot;To a pleasing, fluent, narrative style, Miss corner unites a nice
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+
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+
+<p class="ads">AN ACCURATE HISTORY OF GREECE.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">From accepted Authorities, English and Foreign; as Grote's and
+Chambers's Histories of Greece, Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities,
+Thirlwall and Wordsworth's Greece, Smith's Mythology and Biography,
+Annals of Commerce, Library of Useful Knowledge, &amp;c. With Questions to
+each Chapter, a Chronological Table, Index, and a coloured Map of the
+Greek States. Price 3<i>s</i>. bound in cloth, lettered.</p>
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+same compass, so large an amount of interesting and valuable
+information. Miss Corner writes concisely, perspicuously, and
+sensibly.&mdash;<i>Westley Banner.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">A concise History of Greece, well adapted for Schools.&mdash;<i>Cambridge
+Independent Press.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">This is a very excellent compendium of Grecian History, and such are
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+
+<p class="ads2">Remarkably clear in its arrangement, while the simple and easy
+style in which it is written, peculiarly fits it for popular
+use, it displays much careful resourch on the part of its
+Author.&mdash;<i>Englishwoman's Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner has the art of writing so as to be understood by youthful
+readers.&mdash;<i>London Literary Journal.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">By far the best introductory School History of Greece we have ever
+seen.&mdash;<i>The British Banner.</i></p>
+
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+detail, admirably adapted for the use of the School-room.&mdash;<i>Douglas
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+
+<p class="ads2">With feminine delicacy, Miss Corner omits what should be omitted,
+giving meanwhile a narrative of the broad character and features that
+mark the progress of a nation.&mdash;<i>Express, Evening Paper.</i></p>
+
+<p class="ads2">The results of the best modern scholarship are here given.&mdash;<i>Leader</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="ads2">Miss Corner's Histories require no recommendation of ours to bring
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+many professedly authentic histories of the Greeks are discarded. We
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The World's Fair, by Anonymous
+
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
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+
+Title: The World's Fair
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Release Date: November 19, 2004  [eBook #14092]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORLD'S FAIR***
+
+
+E-text prepared by The Internet Archive Children's Library, Asad Razzaki,
+and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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+
+THE WORLD'S FAIR
+
+Or, Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851
+
+Describing the Beautiful Inventions and Manufactures Exhibited Therein;
+with Pretty Stories about the People Who Have Made and Sent Them; and
+How They Live When at Home
+
+London: Thomas Dean and Son 35, Threadneedle-Street, and
+Ackermann and Co. 96, Strand.
+
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+
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+
+What a pretty picture we have in the first title page, of the Great
+Exhibition in Hyde Park! This gigantic structure is built of iron,
+glass, and wood; but as, at a distance, it seems to be made entirely
+of glass, it is called the "Crystal Palace." Does it not look like one
+of those magnificent palaces we read about in fairy tales?
+
+The Great Exhibition is intended to receive and exhibit the most
+beautiful and most ingenious things from every country in the world,
+in order that everybody may become better known to each other than
+they have been, and be joined together in love and trade, like one
+great family; so that we may have no more wicked, terrible battles,
+such as there used to be long ago, when nobody cared who else was
+miserable, so that they themselves were comfortable. Only look at the
+thousands of people who crowd the Park,--all so different looking, and
+so curiously dressed. Grave Turks,--swarthy Spaniards and
+Italians,--East Indian Princes, glistening with gold and
+jewels,--clever French and German workmen, in blue cotton
+blouses,--Chinese gentlemen,--Tartars, Russians, energetic Americans,
+and many more. I wonder what they all think of us, whose habits in
+many things are so different from their own?
+
+And what charming things there are in the Exhibition itself! Fine
+porcelain wares, mirrors, books, statues, perfumes, and many more
+articles from various parts of the world,--beautiful fans, books,
+bronzes, and an infinity of other matters, from France in particular.
+Here is a model in miniature of the Crystal Palace itself, in glass.
+
+Ah! talking of glass, what think you of an enormous French decanter,
+in which three persons, having gotten inside by a ladder, can sit and
+dine off a table a yard in circumference? This is quite an exhibition
+in itself, I think. In another part of the building, we have a
+looking-glass, from Germany, which is the largest that ever was made,
+and is encased in a splendid frame of Dresden china. But here is a
+darling little English steam-engine, so small that you could, after
+wrapping it up in paper, lay it very comfortably inside an
+ordinary-sized walnut-shell, while the plate on which it stands is not
+bigger than a sixpence!
+
+In the very centre of the building, a gigantic crystal fountain
+diffuses a delicious coolness around, its bright clear waters
+sparkling, leaping, and playing, as if in delight and astonishment at
+the splendid and wonderful articles surrounding it. And there are two
+immense statues just beside it, looking mightily pleased with the
+agreeable coolness of the water. But here are two large bronze
+lions;--how terrible they look: they seem almost as if they were going
+to jump at us. There are animals of various kinds in different parts
+of the Exhibition; stags, horses, foxes, birds, cats, and even a
+ferocious-looking tiger.
+
+There is a bundle of nails so diminutive you can hardly see
+them--another bundle of three thousand nails, one thousand gold,
+another silver, and the third iron; so light that the whole weighs
+only three grains,--a French watch, smaller than a fourpenny
+piece,--Hindoo stuffs, so thin you can scarcely feel them, yet are
+made from rejected cotton-husks,--a highly-finished model of a palace,
+from Italy; and a handsome carriage, from Prussia.
+
+But among the curious articles we must notice this imitation of a
+camelia japonica tree in china, with buds, leaves, and blossoms, all
+perfect, which came from Germany;--and that painted oil-cloth from
+Manchester, covered with the most extraordinary mathematical
+ornaments, and which took eleven years to complete, and is worth 500
+guineas. And that table, made of 38,000 pieces of wood, of
+twenty-eight different colours, looking like mosaic, which was sent
+from Switzerland. Nor must we forget to look at this piece of gold, on
+which is engraved "The Lord's Prayer," and is yet so small that a
+common pin-head covers it: that came from Portsmouth. And here is a
+German bed, which being wound up, like a clock, to a certain hour,
+throws the sleeper out on the ground, when the time comes; no lazy
+lie-a-beds with that, I fancy!
+
+But here is an odd contribution, also from Germany; it is--what do you
+think?--a piece of lace, darned, and a fine table napkin, also darned!
+however, don't laugh, until I explain to you the reason _why_ it has
+been mended in this way: an ingenious young lady, wishing to show
+industrious lasses that torn clothes may be made to look as if they
+had not been injured in that manner at all, got a piece of cloth, tore
+it for the purpose, and taking up the stitches neatly, worked thread
+after thread till she had darned it in such a way that nobody could
+tell where it had been torn; she then thought of sending a specimen of
+her industry to the World's Fair.
+
+Here are snuff-boxes made of coal, which have been sent from Woolwich;
+and a beautiful little cannon of agate, from Germany; and two violins,
+worth a great deal of money, which have been contributed from America.
+
+I know that the productions of India will delight you by their beauty
+and ingenuity: the costumes the natives have sent are even prettier
+than those of Turkey, Spain, or Persia, and their gold, silver, and
+mother-of-pearl ornaments, are enchanting; what splendid veils,
+dresses, shawls, carved ivory, and curiosities!
+
+I would have you look very attentively at the contributions from
+India, they are so gorgeous; such superb muslins, baskets, and fans;
+with silks, cotton, cocoa-nuts, roots, woods, and such tempting
+fruits. I always like to see Indian articles, they are so magnificent.
+The persons who have sent these things must have worked very hard, to
+make so many beautiful specimens; but then the poorer people of India
+are exceedingly industrious; they live very simply, eating rice,
+boiled with milk and spices, as their principal food, for it is
+against their religion to touch meat of any kind. They would lead
+rather a sorry life, were it not that their tastes were so extremely
+simple, and their wants so few. A Hindoo village looks more like a
+gipsy encampment, than anything else, and bears a very strange
+appearance to a European, at first.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+However, although the poor people live in this way, the princes and
+nobles lead a far different life; an eastern grandee could formerly do
+anything he chose, even to killing of his wives and slaves, and, only
+I do not wish to frighten you, I could tell you many stories about the
+cruelty of the Indian nobles. They live in great state, and are
+always surrounded by a throng of slaves, and attendants, who wait on
+them as they recline lazily on a pile of the softest cushions, which
+are covered with the skins of beasts, and with silks, velvets, and
+satins. When they go abroad they are carried in what is called a
+palanquin, borne on the shoulders of servants, if they do not choose
+to ride on a horse or an elephant.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Their houses are adorned with the utmost magnificence, while the
+gardens or approaches to them are delightfully cool and refreshing,
+being shaded by fragrant trees, and shrubs, perfumed by the most
+beautiful flowers, and cooled by fountains, playing in marble basins.
+The Indian machinery is very clumsy indeed, and the mills are the
+funniest-looking things imaginable: I must show you an oil-mill.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A very cruel custom prevails in many parts of India, which I know will
+shock you very much: when a Hindoo of rank dies, his widow is laid by
+his side on a pile of faggots, which being set fire to, the poor
+creature is suffocated, or else burnt alive, and they pretend that she
+likes to be so destroyed. The ceremony is called a "Suttee," and is
+conducted with great pomp, all the relations of the woman and her dead
+husband being present, in addition to an immense crowd; before getting
+on the pile, the widow divides all her jewels and ornaments amongst
+her friends. Here is a picture of a widow about to bathe in a
+"consecrated" river, before going to be burnt.
+
+Here are lovely specimens of the manufacture of gold, silver, silk,
+jewellery, and Lebanon horns, from Syria, with seeds, fruits, oils,
+and woods; and even ornaments and marble from Jerusalem! Little did
+the Crusaders of old think, when they were fighting in Jerusalem, and
+the Holy Land, that the Infidels, as they very incorrectly called
+them, would be sending in such a friendly way to England.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What splendid caps, slippers, veils, and perfumes, with such
+picturesque guns and swords, from Turkey! The Turks are a fine,
+handsome race of people, and very grave and sensible, except when they
+are angry, when they grow raging and furious; they are fond of ease;
+and the chief delight of those who can afford it is to sit
+cross-legged on a low couch, drinking coffee, and smokeing a long
+curled pipe, called a _hookah_. They often sit by the side of a canal
+for a whole day, looking at children flying kites. Instead of sitting
+at a table to dine, they put the dishes on a carpet of Turkey leather,
+and sit round it on the floor, eating, with wooden spoons, meat and
+rice stewed together, called _pilau_. They are not allowed to drink
+wine, or eat pork. A favourite diversion with them is playing on a
+kind of lute, and sometimes they amuse themselves with chess,
+draughts, and other games; but their principal amusement, like some of
+my little friends, is to sit and listen to stories, told by men who
+earn their livelihood by relating entertaining tales and romances.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Turks do not undress and go to bed at any time, but being seated
+on a sofa, they smoke till they are sleepy, then laying themselves
+down, their slaves cover them over for the night. The poor people of
+the cities carry water, cakes, loaves, and other things, through the
+streets for a living, or act as buffoons, musicians, tumblers and
+wrestlers, at the Sultan's and other of the rich people's palaces.
+
+They cannot use wheel carriages in Turkey, the streets are so narrow,
+and the pavements in many parts so bad; everything is therefore
+carried by men, horses, mules, and donkeys, which is very
+inconvenient, as the mules and donkeys very often tumble down, and
+throw their burdens right in everybody's way; as for a horse, when
+heavily laden, it takes up the entire road; and when two loaded horses
+meet, the bawling and confusion is dreadful.
+
+The markets in Turkey are called "bazaars," and there you can buy
+almost anything you want; and every trade keeps together in knots of
+shops, different from us, in particular quarters, so that you are not
+obliged to walk all over the bazaar in search of a hat or a pair of
+shoes. In these bazaars, it is customary for a dealer to ask much
+more than he means to take, and for a buyer to offer infinitely less
+than he means to give; it is, therefore, rather difficult to strike a
+bargain, and sometimes several days are occupied chaffering about a
+price.
+
+The Turkish houses, above the ground floors, are usually built of thin
+laths, painted of different gay colours, and the roofs made of tiles,
+so that every few months a terrible fire takes place, and several
+thousand dwellings are burnt down; but the people are so accustomed to
+this that they do not mind it, and look on very contentedly while the
+fire rages, smoking their pipes, and drinking coffee.
+
+The Turks are exceedingly charitable, and not only give alms to the
+sick and poor, but even to travellers and strangers; and some of them
+have exercised their benevolence so far that they have left a sum of
+money for digging wells, and for the support of several cats and dogs.
+A very great trade is carried on from many parts of the world with
+them, as their country is famous for its rich brocades, thick soft
+carpets, mattings, baskets, curiously-wrought gold and silver
+embroidery, and balsams. It is also remarkable for its attar of roses,
+spices, figs, and coffee; all very good things, I dare say, you will
+think.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Some things have been sent from China to our Exhibition; but the
+Chinese people do not seem to care much about it. Indeed, I wonder
+they sent at all, for they consider themselves as the only civilized
+nation in the world, and call China the "Celestial Empire," while they
+imagine that the Emperor is an intimate relation of the Sun, Moon, and
+Stars! They are a very industrious nation, however, and the Emperor
+encourages them by his example. The poor work in every way they can;
+and one of their occupations is carrying about water for sale, as they
+have not water brought by pipes into the houses, as we have here.
+Here is the picture of a Chinese water carrier.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They also make the most elaborately carved ornaments, in wood and
+ivory; their toys and lanterns are celebrated for their ingenuity and
+workmanship. Their fireworks are superior to all those of other
+nations; and they excel in tricks and amusing entertainments. The
+cultivation of tea is universal, and agriculture--which, you know is
+the art of tilling the earth--is held in high esteem; the principal
+products being rice, wheat, yams, potatoes, turnips, and cabbages. The
+dwellings of the peasantry too, are not in villages, as in old
+England, but are scattered through the country; and they have no
+fences, gates, or anything to guard against wild beasts, or robbers.
+The females raise silk-worms, spin cotton, manufacture woollen
+stuffs, and are the only weavers in the empire. The art of printing,
+though done in what I must confess is rather a clumsy manner, is much
+exercised amongst them, and gives employment to many people.
+
+I do not think we should like to dine with a Chinese gentleman, or
+Mandarin, as he would treat us to strange dainties, as--a roast dog, a
+dish of stewed worms, a rat pie; or, perhaps, a bird's-nest. But the
+bird's-nest would be the best of the list, for it is not like the kind
+of bird's-nests which you have seen, but is made, I believe, of the
+spawn of fish, and looks something like isinglass. It is the nest of a
+sort of swallow, is about the size of a goose's egg, and is found in
+caverns along the sea shores; so it is not so bad as it seems at
+first. And the rats are as large and fat as some of our rabbits, being
+fed on fruits and grain, purposely for eating; as also are their dogs,
+for eating.
+
+The people of the "Celestial Empire" are celebrated for their fondness
+for making beautiful gardens; but their houses and gardens are quite
+different from ours.
+
+What a pretty scene! what a delicious cool walk is formed by the grove
+of trees leading to the porcelain tower. And those ladies walking
+towards the boat,--or hobbling, more likely; for the Chinese ladies
+have feet not much larger than your papa's thumb, which is there
+considered a great beauty.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The common women cannot afford to have little feet, as the feet of the
+rich girls are bandaged up in iron shoes, when they are two or three
+years old, to prevent their growing larger. These small feet are
+called "Golden Lilies;" but I am glad no such barbarous custom
+prevails in our own dear country. The Chinese ladies, however, are
+extremely accomplished, and can play on many musical instruments,
+paint, and embroider. The merchants of China are not at all remarkable
+for their honesty, though a few of them are very scrupulous. Many of
+them amass great fortunes.
+
+The Chinese have sent in embroidered shawls, table-covers, teas,
+curious and intricate toys, and specimens of handicraft.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Why, we have even specimens of Russian industry, in the Great
+Exhibition; and very good specimens they are, too. Russia is not such
+a pleasant country, in some respects, as any of those I have been
+telling you of; for in the winter the frost is so severe that many of
+the poor Russians die from cold. The rich wrap themselves up in warm
+furs, and ride in fur-lined sledges, instead of the usual carriages;
+but the poor people are forced to continue working out of doors at
+their various employments, being very careful, however, to cover their
+legs, hands, and head with fur, lest they should be bitten with the
+frost, which sometimes seizes those parts and turns them white. Though
+many of the poor women stand for hours together, washing their linen
+in holes cut in the ice, without getting frozen, yet it often happens
+that coachmen and other servants have been frozen to death in the
+streets at night, while waiting for their masters.
+
+At the end of every year, the Russians keep a long fast, and as soon
+as it is over, lay in their store of winter's provisions, at a market
+held once a-year on the river Neva, which is then frozen over. I
+should like you to see this market, it is so full of gaiety and
+singularity, while the high piles of frozen provisions look so
+picturesque along the ice. The Russians are remarkable for their
+cheerfulness and contentment, and are so fond of singing, that they
+are always enjoying a song when at work. Russian songs are very
+different from ours, and sound rather odd to us.
+
+The food of the common people is black rye bread, sometimes, by way
+of treat, stuffed with onions, carrots, or green corn, and seasoned
+with sweet oil. They use eggs, salt fish, bacon, and mushrooms, of
+which last they have a great plenty. The men are ordinarily dressed in
+loose trousers; short coats of sheep-skin, tied with a sash round
+their waists, and folds of flannel, fastened round with pack-thread,
+on their legs, for stockings. The women are dressed just as oddly, in
+short gowns, and with their hair plaited and hanging down their backs,
+if they are unmarried; or a cap and cotton kerchief round their heads,
+if they are married. The peasants' houses are built of wood, and have
+one or two rooms only; they are miserably furnished, with no beds, as
+the family sleep on benches in summer, while nearly one-fourth of the
+principal apartment is filled by an enormous stove, or rather oven,
+upon which they sleep in winter; for the smoke of which, there is no
+chimney beyond a hole in the wall. I don't think you or I would much
+like to spend a winter in Russia.
+
+Many useful things, you may observe, have come from Spain--cheeses,
+honey, dried fruits, salt, lime, wool, oil, flax, and cotton; with
+guns, swords, and also beautiful ornaments; with some precious
+stones, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. The Spaniards are not either a
+very active or a very cleanly people, but they are exceedingly proud,
+honest, and hospitable; they are skilful workers in woollen and silk
+stuffs, and manufacture sword-blades of a very fine kind; while their
+leather is celebrated for its superiority. They also work beautifully
+in gold and silver; and trade in immense quantities of those oranges
+you like so well, lemons, citrons, grapes, raisins, olives, nuts, and
+wines.
+
+The chief amusement of both high and low is one which neither you nor
+I would be pleased with, I hope, for it is bull-fighting; which cruel
+entertainment they learned from the Moors, who once had possession of
+Spain, and built all the beautiful castles and palaces that are in it.
+The manners of the rich people are merely like those of our own
+gentry, but the common people are very peculiar; and all classes
+delight in playing on the guitar, and singing, both of which they
+perform charmingly. They have also two favourite dances, called a
+fandango, and a bolero, both extremely lively and graceful. The mode
+of conveyance in Spain is by mules, and these beasts are surprisingly
+obedient to their masters, and answer to their own names just like our
+own pet dogs. The tails of the mules are oddly decorated, by cutting
+the hair into stars, flowers, and other fanciful designs.
+
+The villages are mostly mean, and the roads narrow; but Madrid, the
+capital of Spain, is a large city, with long, straight streets, many
+of them cooled by noble fountains. The houses in Madrid are built of
+brick, and even the grandest of them have only lattices, instead of
+glass windows, most of which have, however, handsome balconies,
+supported on columns. In the churches, there are neither pews,
+benches, nor chairs; the ground is covered with matting, on which
+every one kneels together, from the grandee to the beggar. In the
+suburbs there are many woods of evergreen oak, vineyards, olive
+plantations, and orchards of mulberry, plum, and almond trees; and the
+flocks of black sheep and goats, grazing in the country meadows, have
+a pretty effect.
+
+I don't think you would find the Spanish cookery much to your taste;
+for the Spaniards are very fond of rancid butter in their meals, and
+of oil that has a very strong smell and flavour; indeed, when they
+are going to cook anything that requires fat, they lift down the lamp
+from the ceiling, and take out what oil they want. Bread, steeped in
+oil, and occasionally seasoned with vinegar, is the common food of the
+country people. Their favourite wine is that which has a strong taste
+of the leather bottles or casks, in which they keep it; and they will
+hardly eat any thing that has not saffron, pimento, or garlic, in it.
+They have, however, even amongst the poorest, such fine grapes, ripe
+melons, and tempting oranges, as my little readers, I know, have
+seldom tasted. In summer, they use a quantity of ice, which is sold in
+glasses, in the streets, for a trifling sum. In place of candles, the
+poor people have a piece of cane, cut with holes through it, which is
+fixed to the ceiling, and from one of the holes a lamp is hung by a
+hook.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The dress of the lower orders is very pretty indeed, and they
+themselves are mostly tall and handsome, with black hair and eyes, and
+dark sun-burnt complexions. The climate is so warm and balmy, that
+they can grow their fruits in the open air.
+
+Some pretty articles have been sent from Portugal, a country which is
+near Spain, and very like it in all respects. It is a very fine
+country, famous for wine, and oil; and the sheep are much prized for
+their superior wool. The ladies of rank still spin flax from a
+distaff, to show their industry. The peasantry are not very well off;
+their only luxury is tobacco, and their usual fare is bread, made of
+Indian corn, with a salted pilchard, or a head of garlic, to give it a
+relish. They are polite and hospitable; but the people of the towns
+have not the least scruple in stabbing any body that offends them; so
+that it is a dangerous thing to affront them.
+
+What elegant tables, pictures, vases, marbles, statues, shells, woods,
+and perfumes, have been contributed to the Exhibition from Italy.
+Here is a table of a most beautiful material, called pietra dura,
+which took one hundred and twenty years to finish, and came from
+Naples.
+
+Italy has always been celebrated for the beauty of the articles
+manufactured there; and the things it has sent us now are certainly
+worthy of its fame. It is one of the loveliest countries in the world,
+in the spring and autumn, and is ornamented with the richest foliage;
+vines, mulberry, olive, and orange trees; and with high hills and deep
+dales, towns, villas, and villages. The soil is extremely fertile, and
+produces abundance of grain, the finest fruits and vegetables, with
+flax, saffron, and manna. The climate is delightful, except in
+summer, when the weather is dreadfully hot, and the winters are so
+mild, that ice and snow are quite rarities, except in the mountains; I
+wonder what my little-boy friends would do there, for a skate on the
+ice, or a merry game of snow-balls?
+
+Rome, the capital of Italy, is a splendid city, full of the remains of
+ancient temples, pillars, arches, and fountains; but many of them
+sadly ruinous and decayed. There are a great many Jews in it, who are
+forced to live in a particular part, called the _ghetto_, which means
+a place for Jews. The city of Rome and the surrounding country are
+very unwholesome during summer, in consequence of the land not being
+properly drained, as it used to be in the times of the ancient Romans,
+so that it is dangerous to dwell near them at that season of the year.
+The numerous vineyards in Italy, are not divided by hedges, but by
+rows of rather fine trees, the vines clinging in graceful festoons
+from one bough to another. In some parts of the country, there are
+various picturesque corn fields and meadows, bordered by olive trees.
+
+The Italians are not a very industrious people, but they make silk
+stockings, soap, snuff-boxes of the lava of Mount Vesuvius, tables of
+marble, and ornaments of shells, besides gloves and caps of the
+filaments of a kind of muscle, which they get off the rocks, where it
+fixes itself by spinning a web from its own body, like the silk-worm
+or spider. These caps and gloves are actually warmer than those made
+of wool, and are of a fine glossy green colour.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There are a great many beggars, I am sorry to say, in fair Italy, who
+are called _Lazzaroni_, and they live on whatever they can get,
+sleeping under porticos, piazzas, or any place they can find, and are,
+as you may guess, excessively idle, like all other beggars.
+
+There are also hordes of thieves, who are called _Banditti_, and who
+rob people in the most daring manner, for there are very few police.
+But there are also numerous persons who are quite well-behaved, and
+do all they can to earn their bread honestly. Among these is a set of
+men called _Improvisatori_, who tell stories, or repeat verses in the
+streets, and get a good deal of money from those who stop to listen to
+them. It must be very pleasant, on a cool summer evening, to sit under
+some magnificent old portico, listening to some interesting poem, or
+hearing a pretty story related.
+
+Throughout Italy, one of the remarkable customs, is keeping of a grand
+festival, which begins some weeks before Lent, and is called the
+"Carnival;" on this occasion, every place is brilliantly adorned, and
+the people go about singing, dancing, joking, and masquerading. The
+most splendid Carnival is kept at Venice, a remarkable city of Italy,
+built upon a several islands, the sea, which runs every where among
+them, serving the inhabitants for streets.
+
+The Italians are very handsome, and have jet black hair, dark roguish
+eyes, and fine figures. The dress of the lower orders is even prettier
+than the pretty Spanish costume. The men wear high-crowned hats, such
+as you may sometimes have seen on the organ-grinders in the streets of
+London, velveteen jackets, gaiters, and open shirt-collars, loosely
+fastened by a silk ribbon; while the women have short scarlet
+petticoats, and jackets of a darker colour, with exceedingly short
+sleeves, tied with bright ribbon, and their long black hair decorated
+with coloured bows of ribbon, and confined by a silk lace net, which
+falls partly over their shoulders. Instead of sending thieves to
+prison in Italy, they are sent on board the galleys, a large kind of
+rowing vessels, where they are chained to the decks, and obliged to
+endure every species of hardship.
+
+What a number of things the Germans have contributed! Bracelets,
+articles of straw, beautiful household furniture, toys, wire, and many
+other manufactures. Here is a splendid tray of polished amber, with a
+little carriage, made according to a proper model, and a large
+chandelier of amber, capable of holding several thousand lights. There
+is a beautiful cabinet made of a collection of pieces of unpolished
+amber, intended to show the different kinds of that mineral, its
+various forms, its peculiarities, and its varieties. Here is a
+bedstead, worth it is said ten thousand pounds; and the most elegant
+furniture ever seen. And here is a piece of white silk embroidered
+with portraits of our Queen and the Prince of Wales, done in a thin
+kind of thread, called "hair thread."
+
+You know a good deal about Germany itself, I dare say, already; but I
+must tell you something about the Germans themselves. They are grave
+and thoughtful, but highly romantic and full of enthusiasm. Their love
+for their country is most remarkable. All classes in Germany are
+well-educated, and many painters, poets, and musicians, have been born
+among them. The art of printing was first practiced in that country,
+and at present the number of books printed there is immense; while
+every year a book-fair is held at the city of Leipzig. The produce and
+manufactures of Germany are exceedingly numerous, and you see they are
+of great variety, such as clocks, watches, woollens, linens, toys,
+wines, ornamental work in iron and steel, worsteds, and silks. In the
+public walks and gardens, on Sundays, the people assemble in great
+crowds, dressed out in their holiday clothes, while ladies and
+gentlemen walk about without the least restraint among the working
+people.
+
+The chase is a favourite amusement with the nobles and gentlemen, and
+is a sport in which they are lustily joined by the peasantry. The
+immense forests with which the country abounds gives shelter to wild
+boars, wolves, and many other ferocious animals. On grand occasions
+there is held what is called a _battue_, when a number of deer are
+driven into an enclourse, and shot at by the sportsmen. The habits of
+the peasants are extremely simple, but the people are industrious and
+ingenious. The villages and cottages are neat and comfortable. The
+peasants make many pretty toys and ornaments, and bring provisions to
+market from a great distance, in light roomy wheel-barrows, made for
+the purpose. The German people are in general fair, with blue eyes,
+flaxen hair, and full figures; but they do not wear any very peculiar
+dress.
+
+In models of ships, in rosewood furniture, in silver embroidery, and
+silver cups,--besides linens, calicoes, and glass beautifully painted
+for windows; many contributions have been sent in by the Dutch. There
+are also soft thick blankets with scarlet borders, which make one warm
+merely to look at them.
+
+The Dutch people are industrious, and cleanly. The women are the most
+active and nicest house-wives in the world; they scour and brighten,
+and rub not only the furniture and inside of their houses, but the
+outside as well; the houses in Holland, by-the-bye, look like painted
+baby-houses, and are roofed with glossy delft tiles, and the rooms are
+lined with smooth square tiles of delft, and the floors paved with
+marble. The people are never idle in Holland, but are always working
+at a great variety of manufactures, among which are leather, woollen,
+and linen articles,--also, paper, wax, starch, pottery, and tiles.
+Large quantities of gin are likewise made, and this liquor is in
+England called "Hollands" for that reason. Carts are not much used by
+the Dutch; their goods are carried on sledges, very light waggons, and
+boats. The reason of this is, that they are afraid lest the wheels of
+vehicles should injure the foundations of their cities, which are
+generally built on piles of huge trees, driven like stakes into the
+bog beneath. The common people are very humane to their cattle; they
+rub down the cows and oxen, and keep them as clean and sleek as our
+English horses. Canals run through the principal streets, and in
+winter they are frozen over for two or three months, when the whole
+country is like a fair; booths are erected upon the ice, with fires in
+them. The country people skate to market, with milk and vegetables;
+and every kind of sport is seen on the frozen canals. Sledges fly from
+one street to another, gaily decorated, and numberless skaters glide
+about with astonishing swiftness and dexterity. No people skate so
+well as the Dutch.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Holland was once a quagmire, almost covered with water; but by making
+canals higher than the land, and pumping the water out of the fields
+into them, the land was drained. The bogs are numerous, and supply so
+much turf that little else is burned. There are no beggars; and the
+people are in general pretty warmly clothed, and comfortable looking,
+with ruddy faces. The townspeople are dressed almost like the
+Londoners, or Parisians; but the costume of the country folks is
+rather funny. A farmer's wife, when out for a holiday, wears a large
+kind of gipsy hat, like a small umbrella, lined with damask; a close
+jacket with long flaps; and full short thick coloured petticoats. Her
+slippers are yellow, her stockings blue, and her cap is without a
+border, being made to fit her head exactly, and gaily ornamented with
+gold filagree clasps; while her costume is finished by a pair of
+earrings and a necklace. The farmer himself wears a hat without a rim,
+and huge silver buttons on his coat; and keeps whiffing away at his
+pipe, which he is seldom without. The Dutch are most excellent
+gardeners, though they sometimes ruin themselves by their love for
+flowers.
+
+Among the articles that have been sent here from Switzerland, are
+several well worth looking at, they are so wonderfully ingenious. Of
+this kind are two boxes, one of white wood, and the other of brown;
+the white has a lovely Alpine rose, with garlands of flowers upon the
+sides, the rose and lid being cut out of one piece of wood, and so
+beautifully made to imitate nature, that the slightest touch with the
+point of a knife or a needle, makes the leaves move and quiver without
+spoiling the flower. This was made by a Swiss peasant. The people of
+Switzerland are very remarkable for their industry, contentment, and
+ingenuity.
+
+Among the villagers, their chief occupations are the management of
+dairies, and the breeding of cattle; and many of the peasantry make a
+living by hunting the chamois, as the wild goat is called. This is
+rather a dangerous employment, yet the chamois-hunters delight in it;
+they carry a long hook pointed with an iron spike, and with the help
+of this, they leap from rock to rock, over frightful chasms and
+precipices; yet such is their surprising activity, that they are never
+killed. Other peasants earn a livelihood by fattening and preparing
+snails for market; for these creatures are considered a great delicacy
+in many parts of Switzerland. In another part of the country the
+inhabitants almost exclusively follow the trade of watch-making, and
+polishing the crystals and pebbles that are found in the mountains,
+Geneva, a city of Switzerland, is celebrated for the watches that are
+made there.
+
+The women are extremely domestic, delighting in their children; and
+all the Swiss are remarkable for their passionate love of home. In
+every village there is a school, established by the Government for
+the instruction of poor children. The Swiss are the most graceful of
+all peasants, and wear very smart costumes. The men wear large hats,
+and their dress is generally a brown cloth jacket without sleeves, and
+puffed breeches of ticking. The women have short blue petticoats, a
+cherry-coloured boddice, full white sleeves fastened above the elbow,
+and a muslin kerchief thrown round their necks; while their hair is
+plaited, and twisted about their heads. They also wear pretty flat
+straw hats, ornamented with bows of ribbon.
+
+The scenery of Switzerland is of the most charming and romantic
+description; there are towering mountains, craggy rocks, steep
+precipices, with foaming torrents dashing down their sides, and dizzy
+heights, which I should be sorry any of my little friends were looking
+down. But these are delightfully intermixed with beautiful valleys,
+adorned with groves of fir, beech, and chestnut trees; clear lakes,
+rapid rivers, cataracts, and bridges of one arch reaching an immense
+distance from rock to rock. Portions of the mountains are covered with
+villages and scattered cottages; and the inside of the dwellings are
+so neat and look so comfortable, that you could almost wish to live in
+one of them, if you were not told that there is a perpetual danger of
+their being buried under one of the enormous masses of snow that
+frequently roll from the tops of the mountains, and destroy everything
+in their way. These masses are called Avalanches.
+
+Between the summits of the highest of the mountains are valleys of
+ice, frozen into many fantastic shapes, formed by one crust of ice
+growing hard over another; but what is more extraordinary, is that the
+borders of these glaciers, as they are called, are fertile:
+strawberries, wild cherries, nuts, barberries, and mulberries, grow
+there; and goats browse on the most inaccessible parts of the rocks,
+and bound with the most surprising agility from one cliff to another.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Several contributions have been sent by the Prussians and Austrians;
+woollens, minerals, linens, china, and other things.
+
+The Prussians are a very polite and well-educated people, and nowhere
+are there more schools than in their country.
+
+Prussia itself is an extremely pleasant place, and the towns are fine,
+with wide, regular streets, and high antique-looking houses; the
+streets are mostly lined with trees, which look pretty enough while
+their leaves are green, but rather prevent the free circulation of
+air. The Prussian ladies delight in fine clothes, and would be much
+vexed if they were obliged to go out without them. The gentry speak
+French, but the common people talk German. The beautiful Dresden china
+we see at the Exhibition, cames from the town of Dresden.
+
+Austria is a very fine country, and contains a great variety of
+people. The principal artizans are tanners, furriers, boot makers,
+lace workers, and cabinet makers. There are also workers in iron,
+copper, alum, saltpetre, besides many others. The general habits of
+the Austrians are like those of the Germans, so I do not think I need
+tell you anything about them.
+
+The Poles and Hungarians have also sent their industrial productions
+to the Great Exhibition; cloth, lace, furniture, brooms, linens,
+woollens, and other articles. I dare say you have heard a good deal
+lately about the Hungarians, when they were fighting against the
+Austrians and Russians. The Hungarian peasants are very hard-working;
+indeed, they cannot help being so, for as the nobility and gentry are
+not taxed, the poor people are forced to pay all the taxes, besides
+being obliged to give money and provisions to their masters, the Lords
+of the Manor, who, I am sorry to say, are excessively tyrannical. They
+are also compelled to pay tithes to the clergy, the magistrates, and
+the soldiers, and to work for nothing on the public works; against
+which bad laws they fought. Agriculture, and the breeding of cattle,
+are carried on to a considerable extent.
+
+Hungary is occupied by a variety of people, with entirely different
+habits; it contains Frenchmen, Sclavonians, Turks, Jews, Spaniards,
+Gipsies, Germans, and Greeks. The Magyar language, the original
+Hungarian tongue, is spoken by the peasants; but in the cities the
+people mostly use German and French.
+
+The Poles live in a cold, flat, marshy country, in the north of
+Europe. The peasantry are in a miserable state, very dirty and
+frequently drunken; and their land is in a wretched condition.
+
+The Swedish and Danish people have made many things to be exhibited in
+the World's Fair. Sweden is in the north of Europe, and the climate is
+very disagreeable, for it is extremely cold in winter, and intolerably
+hot in summer. The people do not live very luxuriantly; their bread is
+not only black and coarse, but so hard that they are sometimes obliged
+to break it with a hatchet; and this, with dried fish, and salt meat,
+forms the chief part of their food. Yet they are very hardy and
+contented. At Michaelmas, they kill their cattle and salt them, for
+the winter and spring. Their favourite drink is beer, and they delight
+in malt spirits; some of them have tea and coffee. Their houses are
+generally built of wood, and their cottages are made of rough logs;
+the roofs are covered with turf, on which the goats browse. The
+Swedish women do everything that men are employed to do in other
+countries; they plough, sow, and thresh, and work with the
+bricklayers; the country women, as well as the ladies, wear veils to
+shade their faces from the glare of the snow in winter, and from the
+scorching rays of the sun reflected from the barren rocks in summer.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The iron mines of Sweden are exceedingly useful; they furnish great
+quantities of metal, to be exported to England, for the use of our
+steel manufactories. The extensive forests supply numerous pine trees,
+which are cut down and sent to foreign countries, for ship and house
+building; while pitch and tar are made from the sap,--a preparation
+which gives employment to many of the inhabitants.
+
+The Swedes contrive to make things from materials we should throw away
+as good for nothing; they twist rope from hogs'-bristles, horses'
+manes, and the bark of trees; and form bridles of eel-skins. The
+coarse cloth they wear they make themselves, for the women are
+continually busy spinning or weaving. Sweden is the birth-place of the
+famous botanist, Linnaeus, and the charming singer, Jenny Lind.
+
+Norway is united to Sweden, but it is still colder in winter and
+hotter in summer. The people live very simply, mostly on milk, cheese,
+and dried fish; and sometimes they have slices of meat, sprinkled with
+salt and dried in the wind. In some parts of the country, the people
+make bread of the bark of the pine tree; and in winter, for want of
+hay, they are obliged to feed their cattle on dried fish. The houses
+are built of wood, and many of the roads are made of the same
+material; while wooden fences are used instead of hedges. The
+Norwegians send metals, minerals, salt, butter, dried fish, and furs,
+to other countries.
+
+Denmark is a very fine country, perfectly level, except a single ridge
+of mountains. Its chief products are grain, tobacco, flax, madder, and
+hops. There are a great many mines, but few manufactures carried on;
+though the Danish gloves are much esteemed. The climate is generally
+rather warm, but very wet. The Danes are mostly well-educated; they
+are like the Swedes in their manners and customs. They have sent many
+specimens of their industry to the Great Exhibition.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Why, who would have thought of seeing Persian and Egyptian
+contributions at the Exhibition?
+
+And such splendid articles as they are! Persia, you know, is a rich
+and fertile country, near Russia, in Asia; but although it has many
+beautiful flowers and fruits, yet is there very little timber; owing
+to which they have no shipping. The Persians delight in fine clothes
+on which they lavish the greater part of their money, and they are
+fonder of scarlet, or crimson, than of any other colour. They are very
+skilful in dyeing, in making silks, shagreen, morocco, gold and silver
+ornaments; and they form excellent swords and weapons. Their commerce
+with Turkey, China, Arabia, and other places, is carried on by means
+of what they call "caravans," which are large companies of merchants,
+who travel together for the sake of security from thieves, by whom
+however, they are often robbed; these companies have frequently more
+than a thousand camels, to carry their luggage and their goods; and in
+consequence of the excessive heat, they are obliged to journey mostly
+in the early morning, and rest during the day. The Persians live
+chiefly on rice, fruit, and coffee, and eat very little meat; they
+luxuriate in baths, and the poorest amongst them endeavour to have a
+horse. They use the Turkish language, and are nearly all Mahometans;
+they used to worship the sun and fire, though very few continue to do
+so still. The Persian ladies never appear in the streets or any other
+public place, without having long veils, in order to conceal their
+faces, as the Turkish ladies do. The Persians are very like the Turks
+in their manners and customs, which I described to you before.
+
+Egypt was, formerly, a mighty empire, and had rich and haughty kings,
+who adorned it with magnificent temples and palaces. I dare say you
+remember what you have read of it in the history of Joseph and his
+brethren, and in that of Moses. It was here that Solomon built his
+magnificent and gorgeous Temple. It is now, however, an exceedingly
+mean country, and is governed by a Turkish Pacha, whose grandfather
+contrived to make himself master of Egypt, as well as of Syria and
+Palestine. The climate of Egypt is excessively hot,--in fact, the
+nights in spring are the only pleasant part of the year. The nights in
+autumn are also very fine,--even delicious; and the rays of the moon
+are so bright that the natives, who sleep in the open air, cover their
+eyes to prevent their being injured by the brilliancy. The greater
+portion of the land is covered with burning sands; but wherever the
+waters of the river Nile have been conducted by canals, and allowed to
+flow over the country, the earth becomes fertile, and fruits thrive
+luxuriantly. There are but few garden flowers, but roses are
+extensively cultivated, the attar of roses forming an article of
+commerce.
+
+There are many valuable minerals found in the earth; and beautiful
+marble, alabaster, salt, alum, and other useful things. The woods,
+marshes, plains, and rivers supply a variety of animals, most of them
+wild and ferocious. It was in Egypt that the Hippopotamus was found.
+The people devote themselves to agriculture, the rearing of bees, and
+poultry; they also carry on an important trade with other countries.
+Most of the Egyptians are strong, of a tawny complexion, and of a gay
+disposition. They luxuriate in water; and esteem it the height of
+enjoyment to sit by a fountain, smoking their pipes; they are
+excessively fond of bathing. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a large
+city, with irregular unpaved streets, and brick houses, with flat
+roofs. There are a good many small manufactories; and some schools, a
+printing-office, and a large library. There are numerous magnificent
+fountains in the city, which are indispensable on account of the
+intense heat; and more than a thousand shops for selling cups of
+coffee, of which the Egyptians are very fond; these coffee shops are
+called _rahwehs_. All along the river Nile the banks show signs of
+industry; cotton, tobacco, and other produce being grown down to the
+water's edge. The Pyramids of Egypt, the time of the building of which
+is not known, are considered one of the wonders of the world.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Greeks have sent some fine stuffs; their silk manufactures are
+really beautiful, and their sculptures and feather-fans are splendid.
+Greece was a famous country long, long ago, in ancient history, but it
+has undergone many sad changes, and was for a long time ruled by the
+Turks. The English, French, and Russians rid it from Turkish hands;
+but its present government is weak and imperfect, for the numerous
+petty chiefs pursue a wicked system of robbery, fighting, and tyranny.
+Indeed, many of these chiefs have fitted out vessels as pirate ships,
+in order to seize and plunder any other vessels weaker than their own
+with which they may fall in. There are, however, many wealthy Greek
+merchants; and a number of rich Jews live in various parts of Greece.
+The Greek people are beautiful and graceful. The women have fine oval
+faces, their eyes are large and dark, their eyebrows and hair are of
+deep shining black, and their complexions are mostly pale. They are
+very splendid in their dresses; the costume of the men is extremely
+like that of the Turks. From having been so long subject, however, to
+their Turkish rulers, the Greeks have become artful and cunning.
+
+The rich ladies and nobles of Greece have fine young slaves to wait
+upon them, and amuse them by singing or dancing. These slaves are
+bought from the Tartars, who steal them from Russia, Circassia, or
+Georgia, and are taken great care of, being taught to embroider, sing,
+dance, and deport themselves with elegance and grace. Their masters or
+mistresses scarcely ever sell them, but when they are tired of them,
+either give them to a friend, or set them free. When they do sell
+them, it is as a punishment for some crime, or for being useless.
+
+There are numerous brigands, or thieves, in Greece, who are divided
+into bands, and rob with the utmost impunity. They manage to hide
+themselves very artfully in the roads where they expect to meet
+travellers, doubling their bodies up behind stones and bushes, or else
+lying flat on their faces on the ground, when they suddenly all start
+up and surround any unfortunate individual who may happen to pass that
+way. There are also honest, industrious people in Greece; and among
+them are the guides, men who show strangers over the curious portions
+of the cities for a trifling sum of money; and there are the cabmen of
+Athens, who are usually very intelligent and well-informed; there are
+a number of cabs in Athens.
+
+The Greek houses have only one story; but there are generally large
+gardens, carefully tended, attached to them. The climate is generally
+mild, but not so much so as formerly, on account of the cutting down
+of the forests. The spring and autumn are delightful; but the summer
+is too hot, and the winter is almost a succession of storm and rain.
+The earth is extremely fertile, and produces corn, wine, and fruits,
+besides the honey and figs you like so much. The people manufacture
+silks and cottons, and export quantities of small raisins, which grow
+very luxuriantly in and about the city of Corinth. Corinth is one of
+the most charming places that you can fancy to yourself, and is
+surrounded by beautiful views and the remains of ancient temples,
+columns, and statues; groves of fine olive trees border the city, and
+the waters of two bays meet near the entrance. The ruins of the
+ancient temples and buildings in Athens, the capital of Greece, are
+still to be seen; but so little do the ignorant and foolish people,
+who have lived in the city in modern times, value these great works,
+that they have for hundreds of years used the greater part of the
+splendid marbles to build their houses, which are only ordinary and
+common-looking.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The inhabitants of Bavaria and Belgium have sent almost numberless
+articles of industry to the Exhibition; furs, lace, machinery, corn,
+books, furniture, and metals.
+
+Belgium was formerly called Flanders, and the people produced superior
+cloth, hats, cutlery, and other useful things, a very great many years
+before the English could make any thing better than the most common
+sort of goods. The Belgians are still celebrated for their ingenuity
+in making toys, lace, cloth, silk, satin, velvet, and other useful
+articles. They are also famous for the culture of flowers, in which
+they excel even the Dutch. Every house has a garden attached, which is
+frequently surrounded by a moat. The country is small, but every part
+of the land is made fertile by the industry of the farmers, of whom
+there are a great number; many of them grow flax, which is woven into
+linen by the women. There is a weekly market for linen, held at Ghent,
+whither the peasantry carry their products for sale, and both men and
+women may be seen standing in two long lines, with benches before
+them.
+
+The farms in Belgium are cultivated with great care and attention, and
+much resemble the market gardens round London; they all have gardens,
+and grow an ample supply of fruit and vegetables. The food of the
+peasants, is rye-bread and milk, for breakfast and supper; potatoes
+and onions, with bacon and beer, for dinner; they eat off pewter; and
+although their fare is simple, it is good and plentiful. Their dress
+is somewhat coarse, but it is neat and clean, the men wear blue linen
+frocks; and the women have printed cotton gowns, linen caps, and
+woollen petticoats.
+
+The towns and villages of Belgium are numerous, and thickly peopled.
+Brussels, the capital, is a fine city, and is celebrated for its
+manufactures, particularly for lace, camlet, and carpets. Ten thousand
+people are employed there in making lace. It is also famous for its
+pottery and porcelain. The other articles made there, are cotton and
+woollen stuffs, silk stockings, and earthenware. The carriages built
+there, are superior to even those of London or Paris; there is a
+specimen of Belgian carriages at the Exhibition.
+
+There are numerous silk manufactories in Brussels; and the beautiful
+linen, called damask, is exported in great quantities. There are
+innumerable breweries, too; for no people in the world are so fond of
+drinking beer as the Belgians. The people carry on a considerable
+trade with foreign countries, by means of the various canals, on which
+a vast number of steam-boats are constantly passing and re-passing.
+
+The upper part of Brussels is magnificent, and has a splendid park
+laid out with shaded walks, and surrounded by the palaces, private
+houses, and public offices; but in the lower part, the streets are
+narrow and crowded, though the market-place is very beautiful. There
+are twenty superb fountains in the city, ornamented with sculpture.
+The Belgians delight in music, and they hold musical festivals every
+year. In the Horticultural Gardens at Ghent, during summer, there are
+several concerts performed in the open air; and even among the
+labouring people, the songs and pieces of music sung together by
+groups of peasants and working people are often delightful to hear;
+for in Belgium, as in Holland, Prussia, and over a great part of
+Germany, even the poorest children are freely taught to sing in
+harmony at school. There are several railways in Belgium, which is a
+very great convenience to travellers. The climate is good; and, in
+winter, snow does not fall deeply.
+
+Bavaria is in Germany also, and is celebrated for its manufactures of
+iron, glass, paper, hardware, clocks, linen, woollen, and fire-arms.
+The people are industrious and careful, excepting in smoking tobacco,
+of which they are very wasteful. Industry is encouraged; and several
+schools have been established for teaching young men agriculture and
+gardening, with the usual branches of education.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We must not forget to see what has come from America. Our Great
+Exhibition has been almost as much talked of there, as it has been at
+home, and an immense number of contributions has been sent from that
+country. Machinery, sculptures, stuffs, carriages, minerals, boots and
+shoes, iron-work, and wines, have been dispatched over to the
+Exhibition.
+
+America was formerly inhabited by numerous tribes of Red Indians,--a
+wild, warlike race,--of whom but few now remain, and those not at all
+civilized; but the greater number of the white people of America are
+the same in their dress, manners, and language, as ourselves.
+
+A large portion of America is called the United States, which is a
+Republic; that is, it is governed by the people themselves, without a
+king, queen, and a royal family; they appoint a President every four
+years. Long ago, the United States belonged to the English, but the
+natives gradually grew more powerful than they had been, and threw off
+all foreign control.
+
+America produces every kind of grain and fruit, as well as spices,
+dye-woods, and balsams. The people export quantities of natural
+productions to Europe, but their manufacturers are not as yet able to
+compete with those of what are called the _old_ countries. The
+principal manufactures are of cotton, woollen, iron, and leather;
+which they exchange with the Red Indians for prepared bark, skins, and
+birds' feathers. Mines abound, particularly for gold and silver; and
+there is abundance of precious stones. The farmers are a very
+industrious and intelligent class, and display much taste and neatness
+in their management.
+
+The finest timber for ship-building is abundant, and easily obtained;
+and there are many excellent harbours. Numerous fishing stations are
+situated along the coasts, and are very valuable; for fishing is
+there a very good employment, and engages many of the natives of the
+Northern States. As these fishermen get accustomed to a sea-faring
+life, and inured to fatigue, they soon become excellent sailors, and
+furnish men for the navy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The whale fishery is also a valuable pursuit, but it requires uncommon
+bravery and skill.--In the United States there are numerous schools
+and academies, wherein the children are educated free.
+
+The rich people in America are free from haughtiness, awkwardness, or
+formality, but they do not display the elegance and refinement of the
+higher classes in England or France. As for the common people, they
+are serious, shrewd, and industrious; but often seem rude and
+uncourtly to strangers, for they wish to show their independance by an
+annoying surliness of behaviour. A great number of turnpike roads,
+railways, canals, and bridges, have been formed, and improve the
+country very much, as you may imagine.
+
+The Americans make works in iron and wood, articles of machinery and
+of husbandry, tanned leather, and dressed skins. They are famous for
+ship-building.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Peru, which is in South America, is a very fine country, and produces
+many useful things, such as tobacco, pepper, jalap, Peruvian bark, and
+indigo.
+
+There are numerous valuable gold and silver mines, which make the
+inhabitants so rich, that at one time, long since, they paved several
+streets with ingots of silver, in proof of their wealth. There are
+whale fisheries on the coasts. Only _one_ specimen of industry has
+been sent from Peru!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mexico is another portion of South America. Its products are numerous,
+but the country suffers much for want of water, though the dew falls
+heavily every night. The soil is rich, and well cultivated, although
+not so carefully as with us. Indian corn is the principal food of the
+natives, and is cultivated so generally, that when the crop fails,
+there is a year of famine. A drink is also made from it, called
+chicha. Sweet potatoes, yams, and quantities of red pepper, together
+with vegetables, and fruits, and tobacco, are grown. A kind of plant,
+called a cacao, is so highly prized that the grains are used for
+money.
+
+For want of streams, of which the country is sadly deficient, the
+mills are mostly worked by animals, and are very inferior; and the
+machinery is so bad, that the cotton is separated from the seed by the
+hands of workpeople. The principal manufactures are cigars, cottons,
+soap, tanned leather, gunpowder, pottery, and hats.
+
+The rich people use a number of silver vessels, and a quantity of
+plate, on account of the want of manufactures of china and glass, so
+that the trade of a silversmith is rather good. Boots, saddles, and
+coaches, are well made: but the furniture, which is mostly of pine and
+cedar, is coarsely and clumsily put together.
+
+The streets of Mexico are rather wide and well paved; the houses
+are ornamental, and the churches and public buildings are
+magnificent.--The rich people pass the greater part of the day on
+their sofas, in darkened rooms; but in the evening, they appear
+arrayed in the most elegant costume, for they are particularly partial
+to parties and brilliant assemblies.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There are numerous beggars, called Leperos, who are very drunken and
+dishonest; but lively, voluble, and extremely civil; though they will
+pick any body's pocket. There are also innumerable Indians, who make
+earthen pots very neatly, and use them instead of iron or copper
+vessels.
+
+You have heard of Canada, which is a part of North America, and all
+that now remains to England of her vast American colonies.--Well, we
+have an enormous canoe from Canada!--I wonder who can have sent that?
+A canoe, as you know, is a kind of boat, which uncivilized people, who
+live near rivers, use. The canoes of Canada are of a very thin
+material, and so light, that the boatmen, in passing overland from one
+river to another, generally carry them on their heads. The canoes are
+mostly covered with bark, the pieces of which are sewed together with
+a particular kind of grass; the bark being usually not more than a
+quarter of an inch in thickness.
+
+The people of Canada, who are called Canadians, are rather
+industrious; they make very fine fans, they hunt, fish, and collect
+sugar from a tree called the Sugar maple. Their houses are built of
+stone, and are plastered, but seldom are higher than one story, except
+in the towns, and are made very warm by means of stoves. The furniture
+is usually made by the Canadians themselves, and is exceedingly
+simple.
+
+The chief article of food is peas soup, with a small piece of pork
+boiled in it, and a dish of thick sour milk. The women and children
+scarcely ever drink other than milk and water, but the men are
+particularly fond of rum.
+
+Winter lasts six months, during which time the greater part of the day
+is devoted to amusement, principally dancing. Most of the women can
+read and write, but the men can hardly do either; and the manners of
+both are very gay and light. There are a few lead mines in Canada, in
+which silver is also found. Their exports are timber, furs, potash,
+grain, and pearl-ash.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Australia has also sent her contributions to the Exhibition. Among
+them are specimens of the skins of animals, dried plants, fine woods,
+and other things.
+
+In Australia, there are scarcely any extensive manufactures, but the
+natives make some useful things, from the various and curious trees
+which abound. For instance, they form the most durable furniture and
+weapons from the casuarina or club tree; they make cloth from the
+finest bark of the paper-mulberry tree, and cord from a peculiar kind
+of flax. There are sago and cocoa trees, which grow to the height of
+one hundred and fifty feet, and are thirty feet round. Figs, lemons,
+oranges, sugar-canes, gum-trees, bread-fruit, and a kind of pepper,
+from which a drink, called ava, is made, are very useful to the
+natives. There are mines of a very rich quality, but they are as yet
+scarcely attended to. The original natives are very idle, and not very
+well off; those who live near the sea shore, catch fish; and those in
+the woods, eat such animals as they can get; or climb up trees, for
+honey, squirrels, and opussums.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The settlers, who are the people who have gone out from England and
+other countries, to dwell there, live in a very comfortable manner;
+they have large farms, with flocks of sheep and herds cattle, fields
+of waving corn, rice, and wheat; pretty huts, or shanties, as they are
+called, and a profusion of the most beautiful plants and creepers. In
+some parts of the country there are thriving towns, with good streets,
+elegant shops, and fine houses, such as there are in London.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+From the West Indies, specimens of industry have also come. Rice,
+fruits, sugar, metals, and plants, are among the contributions.
+
+The West Indians send us sugar rice, currants, raisins, cloves,
+nutmegs, cinnamon, allspice, and mace, for puddings; nice nuts, for
+our little boys and girls; coffee, cocoa, and chocolate, for our
+breakfast and tea; and fine silk, and cotton, for our dresses.
+
+Under the name of the West Indies, there are many countries:--Cuba,
+Jamaica, Hayti, Porto Rico, Barbadoes, and others. In Cuba, are found
+mines of gold, copper, and different other metals; there is a quantity
+of sugar grown there; and the tobacco is finer than that of most other
+islands. The trees are principally ebony, cedar, and mahogany, which
+are hewed down, and sent to foreign countries, to be made into
+furniture of various sorts. Cedar wood is also used to scent clothes
+and papers, on account of its sweet perfume. The Cubans are fond of
+bull-fighting, and of cock-fighting, I am sorry to say. Balls and
+parties are also a favourite and more innocent amusement.
+
+In Jamaica, the principal exercise of industry is in growing sugar,
+indigo, coffee, and ginger. These are cultivated in what are called
+plantations, which are attended to by negroes, who used to be slaves,
+and used to be lashed on to work unnaturally hard with whips; but they
+are now free in all the British colonies, as I hope they will be every
+where, long before any of my little friends, who read this book, may
+die. For not only were men and women kept in a state of slavery, but
+all their dear innocent little children, both little boys and little
+girls were treated as slaves.
+
+The bread-fruit tree is one of the most useful productions of the
+country, it not only supplies food, but other necessaries. Of the
+inner bark is formed a kind of cloth; the wood, which is soft, smooth,
+and of a yellowish colour, serves for the building of boats and
+houses; the leaves are used for wrapping up food; some parts of the
+flowers are good tinder; and the juice, when boiled with cocoa-nut
+oil, is employed for making bird-lime, and as a cement for mending
+earthenware vessels. So you may guess how useful it is to the people
+of Jamaica, and yet it is not a native of the West Indies, but was
+first brought there by English people, within the last seventy or
+eighty years.
+
+Hayti is now a much more flourishing island than it was; the Emperor,
+Faustin Soulouque, does every thing in his power to render it a
+civilized and polite country. He encourages all the arts and
+industrial sciences; and, in his court is kept up the grandeur of a
+great and powerful state; though the Haytians are black people, and
+were for the greater part negro slaves.
+
+Barbadoes is an exceedingly warm country, and is unfortunately liable
+to dreadful hurricanes, which sometimes overthrow whole towns and
+villages. The products are sugar, cotton, ginger, and rum. The tall
+sugar-canes, which grow as high as five or six feet, are set in
+plantations and tended by negroes; and the cotton plants are also
+taken care of by the negroes, who are almost the only persons who can
+work in the open air, on account of the heat. The houses of the
+planters are numerous all over the country; and, with the green hills,
+and the luxuriance of the vegetation, make an extremely picturesque
+scene.
+
+Since slavery has been abolished in our West India islands, schools
+for the children, and chapels for religious worship, have been erected
+at the expense of the negroes; numbers of whom have also become small
+landowners.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What a number of specimens have been despatched to the Exhibition from
+Algeria, Tunis, and the Cape of Good Hope: one, a model of a winged
+head, moulded in fine yellow clay, is really pretty; and the preserved
+fruits have quite a tempting look. And here are some boxes, made of
+most brilliant fancy woods; a few knives, soaps, cigars, herbs, and
+specimens of various woods, in blocks and in polished pieces. Here is
+also opium, paper made from the palm-tree, articles manufactured from
+native woods, with essences, perfumes, and splendid veils, slippers,
+caps, guns, and swords.
+
+Algeria now belongs to France; it was formerly one of the Barbary
+States, in the north of Africa, and many very useful plants and trees
+flourish there; oranges, melons, cucumbers, cabbages, lettuces, and
+artichokes, grow in great luxuriance. The sugar-cane is cultivated
+with success; and everywhere may be seen quantities of white roses,
+from which a sweet essence is extracted. The stems of the vines, which
+the people tend, are sometimes so thick, that a man can hardly put his
+arms round them; and the bunches of grapes are a foot and a-half long.
+Only think of bunches of grapes half a yard long! they must be
+something like those which we read of in the Bible, that were brought
+to Joshua, to show him what a fertile country was the land of Canaan.
+
+Acacia and cork trees grow in the woods of Algeria; the natives obtain
+gum from the acacia. There are many mines, but the Algerines make no
+use of them. The people themselves are strong in body, and of a tawny
+complexion.
+
+Tunis is another of the Barbary States, and contains a great number of
+people,--Moors, Turks, Arabs, Jews, and Christians, merchants and
+slaves. All these carry on a large trade in Morocco leather, linens,
+gold-dust, oil, woollen cloth, lead, ostrich feathers, horses, and
+soap. There are the same variety of vegetable productions that there
+are in Algeria.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Cape of Good Hope is in the south of Africa; it produces fine
+fruits and flowers, grapes, lemons, oranges, and figs, but no nuts.
+The aloe and myrtle grow to a great size, and the almond and wild
+chestnut are very plentiful. There are scarcely any manufactures, but
+the farmers keep immense flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle; and
+there is a vast quantity of fine wool sent every year to England; and
+ships provisions, such as beef, pork, and butter, are supplied to the
+vessels sailing to India, Australia, and many other parts of the
+world; their other chief export is Cape wine.
+
+In some parts of this country are large herds of zebras, antelopes,
+and giraffes, which are usually preyed upon by lions, obliging the
+shepherds to watch their flocks, and the farmers to ride about with
+loaded guns. A strange mode, my little readers will think, of being
+shepherds.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There have been no scarcity of French contributions; rich silks,
+velvets, satins, linens, fruits, woods, herbs, statues, machinery,
+furniture, iron-work, glass, plate, and a heap more of industrial
+products; and such splendid carpets. In the "Arabian Nights'
+Entertainments" we read about the Palaces of Fairies and Genii, with
+the floors covered with the richest carpets, and divans and cushions
+or gorgeous tapestry, and we long to see these carpets in reality; and
+so we shall at the Exhibition, for there are some so magnificent, that
+I do not think the Princess Badroulboudour, or the Fairy Queen Pari
+Banou, ever sat on finer. And charming little models of ships; and
+such beautiful fans. Do you know how many persons it takes to make a
+fan? Fifteen; and although those fans at the Exhibition are each worth
+several guineas, yet, in France, tens of thousands are sold at not
+more than a halfpenny a-piece. The French fan-makers get two shillings
+and six-pence a-day each, for their labour. The people of France are
+our next-door neighbours, almost; and from being our bitterest enemies
+they have now become our most intimate friends, and exchange visits
+constantly with us; steam vessels and railways having made the journey
+one of only a few hours.
+
+Paris is the capital of France, and it is the gayest city in the
+world; there are theatres, balls, processions, feast-days, fairs, and
+more amusements than I can remember. But there are also numbers of
+very poor people, who almost live in the streets, and get food and
+clothing as they best can. Some, who are called cheffoniers, go about
+with a fork and a basket, to pick up pieces of iron, rags, bones, or
+any stray valuables, if they can find them, from holes and corners in
+the streets, and from the dust heaps; others look for the ends of
+cigars, and sell them to be made into pieces of tobacco for the common
+people; and a number, I am very sorry to say, either beg or steal.
+
+Among the peasantry there is a great deal of industry displayed. As
+they are all desirous of having a cottage and some land of their own,
+lads of fifteen or sixteen years of age, hire themselves as labourers
+to the farmers, and receive wages, out of which, and their mode of
+living, they save enough money in a few years, to buy a piece of
+land. If the land is fit for it, they plant it with vines; for the
+vineyards of France yield an abundant harvest, and well repay the
+labour bestowed on them. The French wines are among the finest and
+most expensive in the world.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The cottages of the peasantry are not remarkable for comfort, being
+very rude buildings, frequently having merely a hole in the roof for a
+chimney. They are mostly, however, extremely picturesque, completely
+covered with vines. The wines, called Bourdeaux, Burgundy, and
+Champagne come from France. From the fruit of the olive-trees, which
+grow in vast quantities, a fine clear oil is obtained, and this forms
+a large part of the commerce of the country. The rearing of poultry is
+carried on to a great extent; and most of the eggs sold in London,
+which are used by us at breakfast, for sauces, and for puddings, come
+from France. Most of the cottagers keep one or two small hardy cows,
+which their boys or girls, or old people, are usually leading about by
+a halter, to eat the rank grass in paths or road-ways between the
+fields. Their milk and butter form a good part of the people's food.
+
+In Tours and Lyons, there are numerous manufactories for the most
+superb silks and damasks; some years ago, there were fifteen hundred
+pairs of silk stockings finished each day at Lyons.
+
+The plate-glass of Paris is now much better than that of Venice, which
+was formerly the finest in the world, the plates being of an immense
+size and extraordinary clearness. Their tapestry is beautiful; the
+tapestry of the Gobelin in particular, for it is just like splendid
+painting. Indeed, some of the designs, copied from pictures, surpass
+the originals, in point of beauty and brilliancy. There are many
+specimens of this tapestry at the Exhibition, both in draperies, and
+fitted to pieces of furniture.
+
+The porcelain made at Sevres is exquisitely beautiful, and is used
+for numerous ornamental purposes; vases, tea services, chimney
+ornaments, figures, and other articles. The painted papers, which
+represent various ornaments in painting, sculpture, and architecture,
+serve to employ a great number of people. Watches, cutlery, shoes,
+dresses, bonnets, and jewellery, are also a good source of employment
+among numerous families. All these beautiful things we shall see at
+the Exhibition.
+
+The forests, in France, are very extensive; and as wood is the general
+fuel used, great attention is paid to the growth of the trees. Cattle
+and domestic animals are rather scarce, and the sheep are ill-managed;
+in winter, they are fed on straw and hay, instead of green food, so
+that the French meat is not so good as the English; but they have a
+nice way of dressing it. The country people are very simple in their
+habits and manners, and very frugal in their way of living; they live
+for the most part on black bread, garlic, fruit, and milk. The
+costumes of some of the peasants are exceedingly pretty.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What a many thousand contributions have come from foreign countries,
+yet even a greater number have been sent in from all parts of our own
+dear islands, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Here is a silver
+tea-kettle, manufactured from a fourpenny-piece, by a working man. I
+think that would grace the diminitive tea-table of the Emperor of the
+Lilliputians. And a pair of boat-sculls, made of white ash, and only
+the size of writing-pens, which I dare say, the oars of the King of
+Blefuscan's barge resembled; these, with a magnificent oar, thirty-six
+feet long, are intended as presents for His Royal Highness the Prince
+of Wales.
+
+Here is a scarf, containing twelve miles and a-half of thread, three
+millions four hundred and seventy-five stitches, is nine feet ten
+inches long, three feet wide, and weighs only five ounces and
+a-quarter;--that came from Ireland. Look, too, at that beautifully
+embroidered dress; it came from Ireland, and is worth seventy-five
+guineas.
+
+There are many little models of different buildings; and there is a
+colossal horse and dog; and two gigantic statues; and there is a
+nicely carved oak chair, made by an English ship-carpenter; and here
+are cotton stockings, manufactured so fine, that they look exactly
+like silk. There are also models of carriages, ships and machinery;
+a magnificient epergne of glass, with some large pearls, from Ireland.
+A beautiful piece of sculpture, representing the Scottish games, is
+the most remarkable contribution which has come from Scotland.
+
+The English people are celebrated for their industry and perseverence;
+they manufacture numerous things, and carry on a alrge commerce with
+other countries. The industry of the peasants have made the soil
+produce wheat, barley, rye, oats, beans, potatoes, turnips, hops, hemp
+and flax. Nearly every variety, of vegetables, and a great number of
+fruits, are also grown. There is abundance of timber, which is used
+for many purposes; the oak tree is chiefly employed for building
+ships. The ships of war are called the "wooden walls of England."
+
+The domestic animals are taken great care of; sheep and hogs, when
+killed, are made into mutton, pork, bacon, and ham. The English cheese
+and butter is superior to any other. There are abundance of mineral
+treasures found in various parts of the kingdom; indeed, the English
+people are greatly indebted to the well-worked mines for their wealth.
+At the Exhibition, are several specimens of ores.
+
+In addition to the rich mines, and the vegetable productions, the
+English are celebrated for their superior manufactures, which fame
+they are enabled to enjoy by means of the most ingenious machinery,
+rail roads, and canals, by which they can easily and rapidly send
+their goods, and travel from one part of the country to another.
+Cottons, woollens, linens, silks, iron, jewellery, leather, glass,
+earthenware, paper, and hats, are manufactured in great quantities.
+
+I dare say you would be much amused by a visit to Manchester, in
+Lancashire, where the art of spinning cotton is carried to a high
+perfection. There are more than a hundred and forty cotton factories
+in that city, where men, women, and children, are continually at work,
+minding the machines, which are about twenty thousand in number. When
+you first go into one of these factories, you hear a terrible noise of
+whirling and whizzing, and see an immense number of wheels flying
+round and round.
+
+Halifax and Leeds, in Yorkshire, are the chief places for woollen
+cloth, the manufacture of which employs the greater part of the
+inhabitants. A weekly market is held in Halifax for the sale of
+woollens, in a spacious building called the Piece Hall; but in Leeds,
+the markets are held two days in the week, in the two Cloth Halls.
+
+Staffordshire is famous for earthenware; the reason of this is, that
+there is such an enormous quantity of yellow clay suitable for that
+manufacture, found there. Indeed, there are several towns and villages
+formed into a district called "The Potteries;" and in consequence of
+the innumerable furnaces, which are always blazing, the place looks at
+night as if was on fire. Gloves, lace, and stockings, are mostly made
+in Nottingham, where there are several thousand machines for the
+manufacture of these things.
+
+From Kidderminster, in Worcester, we have very fine carpets; from
+Gloucester, we have cheese and pins; Northampton is celebrated for
+leather; Shrewsbury, for flannel. The great mines are in Cumberland,
+Cornwall, Northumberland, Durham, and Derbyshire. However, if I were
+to tell you of all the places in England, that are famed for
+different manufactures, I am afraid I should both exceed our space,
+and wear out your patience, which I should be sorry to do. So I will
+now tell you something about London.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+London, which you know is the capital of our own dear native land, is
+the greatest commercial city in the world; it has been reckoned that
+the value of the property shipped and unshipped on the river Thames,
+every year, is more than one hundred million pounds. An enormous
+quantity of property is laid in the London Docks, at Wapping; indeed,
+the warehouse for tobacco alone covers a space of nearly five acres,
+while the vaults underneath the ground are more than eighteen acres in
+extent.
+
+More coaches, omnibusses, waggons, vans, and other conveyances, crowd
+the streets of London than any other city in the world. You will,
+perhaps, be a little surprised when I tell you that in one principal
+street, seven thousand vehicles pass to and fro every day. Almost
+every kind of manufacture is carried on in London; silk goods,
+jewellery, clocks, watches, ear-rings, hats, furniture, instruments of
+every kind, porter and ale, with many more that I cannot now remember.
+However, you must not think, from all this, there are no poor people
+in London; for, unfortunately, there are thousands. Some beg, others
+steal, and those who are honest and able to labour, work. But those
+who cannot obtain work are very badly off; and persons die from
+starvation.
+
+The industrial manufactures of Scotland are like those of England; the
+exports are linens, muslins, woollen stuffs, cottons, iron, lead,
+glass, earthenware, leather, and other articles. The chief
+manufacture is linen: but manufactures of stoves, and grates, and
+many other things, from their immense iron works, particularly from
+those of Carron, are also a principal part of the industrial products.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Scotch people are remarkable for their thrift and prudence; the
+lower orders are in general well-educated, and it is the height of
+ambition in a Scottish mechanic, to appear with his family in neat,
+clean dresses, on Sundays and other holidays.
+
+The costume of the Highlanders is very picturesque; the plaid is made
+of woollen stuff, of various colours, with a jacket, and a short
+petticoat called a kilt, which leaves the knees bare; the stockings
+are also a plaid, generally red and white, and do not reach up to the
+knees, but are tied round the legs with scarlet garters. The
+head-dress is a flat blue bonnet, as it is called, ornamented round
+with scarlet and white plaid, and frequently adorned with eagle's
+feathers. The Highland women go without shoes or stockings, and wear
+short petticoats, a plaid jacket, and a plaid scarf.
+
+Most of the Scotch people are intelligent, and so far advanced in
+education, that even the miners in the south have a library, where
+they read, and improve their minds; and yet these poor miners were
+little better than in a state of slavery two hundred years since. The
+favourite musical instrument, with the Scotch, is the bag-pipe; which
+does not, however, sound quite so well to our English ears, as it does
+to theirs. Their national dances are the Highland reel, and fling,
+which they perform with great agility and grace. The sheep and cattle
+are rather small, but give exceedingly good meat; and the sheep, in
+particular, are valued for their fleece, which is almost as fine as
+the best Spanish wool.
+
+Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is, in the new parts of it, a
+fine clean city; the houses in the old town are excessively high, and
+the streets inconvenient; but the streets of the new town are very
+broad, and almost all in straight lines; some of them are a mile long.
+Most of the houses are built of white stone, which sparkles as if it
+was inlaid with diamonds when the sun shines on it.
+
+The manufactures carried on in the city, are mostly cabinet-work,
+furniture, carriages, musical instruments, linens, shawls, silks,
+glass, marble, brass, and iron work. There are also many breweries,
+for Edinburgh has long been celebrated for its ale, large quantities
+of which are sent to London, and other parts of the kingdom, Glasgow,
+which is the principal manufacturing and trading town, contains
+extensive cotton factories.
+
+In many parts of the Highlands, the natives are employed in feeding
+sheep and cattle, for the markets; and in the valleys, and other
+sheltered places, hemp, barley, flax, and potatoes, are cultivated,
+though unfortunately most of the barley is made into whiskey. In the
+more northernly parts the general employment is fishing.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Ireland is a much warmer and more fertile island; it is celebrated, in
+point of industry, for its wool, butter, beef, hides, tallow, cows,
+horses, pigs, sheep, potatoes, wheat, barley, oats, and linen. Linen
+is the chief manufacture. There are numerous mines, from which are
+obtained gold, silver, iron, copper, and lead; all very useful metals,
+I think.
+
+There are also quarries of marble, slate, and freestone; and in
+various parts are found coal and turf. In Ireland, turf is the
+principal fuel used. The brewing of stout, and a strong bittered beer,
+for exportation; and the distilling of whiskey, another strong but
+spirituous drink, are other branches of Irish industry.
+
+Fishing is an important occupation with those peasants who live on the
+sea-shore, and near the rivers or lakes. The making of roads, draining
+bogs, and improving the land, now employ thousands of poor labourers,
+who formerly used to be without any occupation.
+
+The Irish dairies are well-managed and are generally extensive; many
+counties in the south part of the island are occupied almost entirely
+by dairy farms. As many as thirty or forty cows are kept on some of
+them, for butter is the chief produce, and this is sent into England,
+Portugal, and the East and West Indies. Some of the nice butter you
+eat on your bread and rolls comes from Ireland. Sheep and cattle are
+fed in great quantities on large pieces of land devoted to the
+purpose the sheep are large, and have fine wool.
+
+The mud cabin of the Irish peasant is the most miserable cottage you
+can imagine; the walls are formed of clay, which hardens in the
+sunshine, the roof is made of sticks and straw, and the floor is the
+mere damp earth. It has frequently neither door, nor chimney, and
+consists of only one room; the furniture is rarely more than a stump
+bedstead, two or three stools, an iron pot, to boil the potatoes in,
+and a table to eat them from. Generally, there is a small piece of
+land attached to the dwelling, and in this potatoes are grown; the
+peasants of Ireland hardly ever eat anything besides potatoes. When
+they have enough of them to eat, and a little whiskey to drink, the
+poor people are exceedingly jovial and merry; they laugh, sing, and
+joke; and go to weddings, fairs, dances, and what are called in
+Ireland "wakes," which, among the poor, is a kind of laying in state
+before funerals;--but sometimes the crops of potatoes fail, and then
+the unfortunate peasants die by hundreds from hunger. The favourite
+dance of the common people is called a jig.
+
+Dublin, which, I dare say, you know is the capital of Ireland, is an
+elegant city, with fine houses and good streets. The churches, the
+castle, the linen hall, exchange, bank, custom-house, and
+post-office, are all very noble buildings. There are also parks,
+gardens, theatres, canals, and other ornamental places throughout the
+city. From Dublin have been sent models of carriages, specimens of
+metals, slates, and linens, and a model of a house made in granite.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+I have now told you, my dear little friends, a great many stories
+about the industry of all nations, and we have gone through the
+World's Show together. We have seen nearly all the useful and splendid
+things sent to the Great Exhibition from all parts of the world. I
+have told you about Europe, and Asia, Africa, and America; and I must
+soon leave you. But before I go, we must have another look at the
+Exhibition, and one more glance at those few things which we have not
+as yet seen.
+
+We forgot to examine this magnificent chess-board, worth one thousand
+two hundred guineas. You will doubtless wonder why it is such a dear
+board, but your surprise will cease when you observe that the
+"checks," as they are called, are of mother-of-pearl and
+tortoiseshell, while the rim is of beautifully burnished gold, and the
+chessmen are of gold and silver, elaborately wrought, and ornamented
+with the portraits of celebrated historical characters; one of them
+represents the Emperor, Charles the Fifth. I dare say you would like
+to play a game with me on this chess-board. As a companion to this
+beautiful chess-board, is a very elegant colour box, fit for the
+Queen, or the most noble young lady in the land, to use for painting
+with. And here is a model of the town of Liverpool, with several
+thousand little people in the streets; and these figures are so
+exceedingly small, that a thousand of them would fit into an ordinary
+sized pill box.
+
+In contrast to this specimen of a great town in a minute space, we
+have in front of the transept a wonderful clock, which is kept in
+motion by a set of powerful electro magnets, eight in number, on which
+is wound a length of twenty-five thousand feet of copper wire. This
+gigantic time-keeper sets in motion the immense hands on the principal
+dial, which is twenty-four feet in diameter, besides two smaller ones
+which are fixed in front of the galleries, at the east and west ends
+of the building. I am afraid that it would tire you, were I to attempt
+to tell you exactly what electricity is, and must therefore satisfy
+your curiosity, for the present, by letting you know that it is caused
+by the coming in contact of different substances possessing peculiar
+properties, which cause them to vibrate, when they touch.
+
+There is another very curious clock in the Exhibition, which will go
+for a hundred years before requiring to be wound up again; and there
+is one wheel in it which is said would take ten thousand years to go
+round once.
+
+Next there is a case of stuffed birds, which came from Scotland, and
+which we cannot help admiring. There are in this case specimens of all
+the various kinds of birds which are peculiar to Scotland, neatly and
+carefully stuffed; and really they almost look as if they were alive.
+Ah, ah! Mister Eagle, you are not so much to be feared now, I think,
+as you were when you lived in your lofty home in the Highland
+mountains.
+
+And here is another case in which are all the different sorts of
+mother-of-pearl buttons that can be imagined; there is every variety
+of ornament on the buttons, which look exceedingly brilliant.
+
+This immense block of granite, from Scotland, is not quite so pretty,
+though it is, perhaps, more useful; it is twenty feet long, and is a
+piece of the finest kind and colour that could be found. Another very
+useful thing, also from Scotland, is a large lighthouse bell, managed
+so as to ring very loud, to warn any ship that is going too near a
+dangerous rock or shoal, near the lighthouse where the bell may be.
+
+Among the more beautiful specimens of industry, there are several
+elegant vases made of silver, and of a delicate material called
+Parian, which is an imitation of Parian marble; some of them are
+ornamented with blue and gold, and others are ornamented with silver.
+There is also a splendid tea-service, adorned with charming pictures
+of the dear old fables we all know so well,--the "Lion and the Mouse,"
+the "Wolf and the Lamb," the "Dog and the Shadow," and others.
+
+Near the very middle of the building, close by the crystal fountain,
+there are the splendid iron gates from Coalbrookdale, which look very
+magnificent. I fancy Samson would find it rather a difficult matter
+trying to bear off _these_ gates on his back, strong as he was. Close
+by these gates there is a gigantic statue of our good Queen, on
+horseback, which towers high over our heads; and she sits smiling at
+us as if she could see us looking so delighted.
+
+There are several gigantic things at the Exhibition. Here, for one, is
+a monster cake, covered with the most superb ornaments; it is four
+feet high, and weighs about two-hundred and twenty-five pounds. Yonder
+is another monster contribution, an immense map of the busy city of
+Manchester; and there is a huge railway carriage; and still further
+on, there is an iron wire, one mile long. At a little distance stands
+a magnificent bed and bedstead, fit for the Queen to sleep in. It came
+from Edinburgh, and is made mostly of materials which can be produced
+in Scotland. And in this direction, we can see a set of beautiful
+mantelpieces and fenders, from Sheffield, all decorated in the most
+elegant manner. The first mantelpiece we must look at is made of
+cast-iron; the mouldings of the cornice are richly ornamented, and
+supported by little pillars covered with graceful wreaths of
+oak-leaves, while the freize is adorned with a cluster of rich fruit.
+The next mantelpiece is painted white and gold, and has a burnished
+steel grate; while the third is painted blue and gold, and has a
+stove made on a new plan, for it is managed so that its own brightness
+shall help to throw out the heat of the fire in an equal and agreeable
+manner. The fourth and last mantelpiece is painted black, and
+ornamented with ormolu; it contains a polished steel stove. Three
+ormolu fenders, and five bright ones are placed together with the
+mantelpieces; and they certainly make a goodly show. But we must now
+leave them, and go on to see some other wonders.
+
+Here are several most beautiful loo-tables inlaid, and they seem to
+attract a good deal of attention from more than us. You look a little
+puzzled at the word _inlaid_; I think I must explain it to you, by
+telling you that it means pieces of different material let into a
+piece of furniture to ornament it.
+
+There are numerous models of various buildings in the Crystal Palace;
+those of York Cathedral, and Chance's Lighthouse, are particularly
+well made. There is also a model of the Britannia Tubular Bridge; and
+there are models of many of the fine public works of London.
+
+Here is a pair of scissors made in Sheffield, and ornamented in the
+most beautiful way, with a crown for a handle; and yonder are a pair
+of cotton stockings from Ireland, spun so fine that they look exactly
+like silk, and indeed you would be likely to mistake them for silk, if
+you were not told they were merely cotton.
+
+How brilliant this collection of gems looks; how the stones sparkle!
+they have been sent as specimens of the jewels which Ireland produces.
+But here are some pretty English agates; and a huge mass of Irish rock
+crystal, which is very bright and clear. In a compartment, at a little
+distance, we may see a book, bound according to a new method, by which
+the leaves are so firmly placed together, that they would not loosen
+in ten years' time, no matter how the book was tossed about, unless
+they were purposely taken out.
+
+We must now have a look at the machinery department. Firstly, there is
+the great steam-engine that works all the other steam-engines in the
+Exhibition, though, of course, you cannot understand it by looking at
+it; neither can I, although I know so much more than you do. Near it
+is a model of a new agricultural machine for cutting, turning up, and
+making into light mould, the clay of fields, so as to make it ready to
+receive the seeds to be set, without the farmers being obliged to
+plough the earth. There is a machine for making bricks and tiles, so
+that people may, if they like, form those materials for building
+houses cheaper and better than in the usual way. But here is a useful
+machine. It is a measuring machine, by which you could measure to the
+smallest size, even to the hundred-thousandth part of an inch!
+
+Here is a very pretty contribution; it is a model of the house of the
+great play-writer, Shakspeare,--of whom, perhaps, you may have
+heard,--and it is surrounded by figures representing different
+beautiful scenes from Shakspeare's plays. It was made by a workman in
+his leisure time: and it certainly does him credit. It is called the
+Shakspeare Jubilee.
+
+Yonder is another piece of ingenious industry; it is a group of
+figures showing all the various Scotch games; there is one figure
+dancing the Highland fling, another throwing the beam, and all the
+others engaged in similar sports. That came from Scotland, of course.
+
+Let us now go on to look at that splendid design embroidered in gold,
+and intended for a communion cloth. Oh! here it is; does it not look
+beautiful? But here are several lovely specimens of china, and
+earthenware, which would grace the sideboards of the richest house in
+the land, I think. Here is a fine marble font, made of Devonshire
+marble, which is very nicely carved, as well as I can judge. Further
+on, we have some less showy, but more solidly useful articles. Various
+kinds of iron, copper, zinc, lead, silver, and gold ores are
+displayed, with oils, quartz, stones, coal, &c. There are lanterns on
+a new plan, microscopes, barometers, optical and philosophical
+instruments, farming implements, machines for melting metals;--besides
+hundreds of other articles which we cannot stop to notice more
+particularly. There are two or three very interesting models of mines,
+with mining machinery, and plans for improving the air of the mines,
+so as to make the poor miners more comfortable. And there are other
+models of ships, printing presses, looms, and machines for making gas,
+which deserve some degree of attention. There is also a new machine
+for printing cotton on both sides, which will be very useful, as the
+cotton printed with it will be as ornamental on one side as the other.
+
+There are four splendid and very powerful organs, and several
+beautiful piano fortes, in the Exhibition; and there is an accurate
+model of Plymouth Breakwater, with a very very little ship attached to
+it, and all complete, even to the smallest rope ladder. Plymouth
+Breakwater is a vast heap of stones built across the entrance of the
+Sound, so as to leave a passage for ships at each end, but preventing
+the heavy waves of the Atlantic Ocean from dashing into the harbour.
+It has cost more than a million of pounds in money.
+
+Here we have a beautiful writing table for ladies, which is one of the
+most splendid things in the Exhibition, and which came from that land
+of ingenuity and industry, Switzerland. It is made of two kinds of
+wood, white and red, the Swiss national colours; and is cleverly
+managed by machinery, so that by merely pressing a spring, the whole
+contents of the desk is laid before the spectator, while, at the same
+time, a stand for writing on, and a seat, are produced. It is covered
+with figures of men and animals, and with ornaments most exquisitely
+carved; and it is a writing table which the greatest lady in England
+might use.
+
+Along the centre of the aisle, or chief walk, are arranged colossal
+statues, pillars of marble, beautiful fountains, magnificent feathers,
+crystals of alum, crystals of spermaceti oil, specimens of silk
+manufactures, from Spitalfields; and fine cutlery, from Sheffield.
+There is also an immense dome of iron and glass, forty feet high
+which looks very astonishing; and a curious Russian chain bridge,
+which is very ingeniously made. Besides these, we have a gigantic
+telescope, which attracts a great deal of attention from the crowd of
+people who are walking down the aisle.
+
+In the nave there are several beautiful pieces of sculpture. One is a
+colossal group, representing St. Michael conquering Satan; another is
+a figure of the celebrated warrior, Godfrey of Bouillon, mounted on
+horseback; and a third, is an Amazon, who is just about to hurl her
+javelin at a ferocious tiger, who has fastened on the neck and
+shoulders of her frightened horse. Here is also a figure of Mazeppa on
+the wild horse, which is extremely well made, and, perhaps, reminds
+those of my little friends who have seen the play of "Mazeppa" at
+Astley's Amphitheatre, of the scenes where poor Mazeppa was carried
+along on the terrible horse's back, through brambles, thorns, and
+crashing boughs. But what have we here? A grim-looking growling bronze
+lion, from Bavaria, who glares at us as if he would be only too glad
+to eat us up if he were alive, and does not seem at all the kind of
+beast one would like to shake hands, or rather paws, with.
+
+We have a charming representation of Reinecke Fox's adventures, by
+means of stuffed animals, in the German portion of the Exhibition. The
+expression of the different animals is very funny, and makes us laugh
+to almost an inconvenient degree. The first group represents the fox,
+with his rosary in his hand, confessing his sins to the cock, who is
+listening very gravely, and reading him a sermon on his wickedness.
+
+The next group shows the tom-cat, coming to summon Master Reinecke to
+court, to answer the accusations brought against him; the fox sets
+out, and on his way wounds a poor hare, whom he carries with him. But
+we cannot stay to notice all the groups now; only we must just glance
+at the fox lying on the sheep's skin, after his repast, for here
+Master Reinecke's expression shows him to be so well satisfied and
+comfortable that it is very droll.
+
+In the Russian division we may observe a most magnificent pair of
+candlesticks of bronze, gilt, which look exceedingly sparkling and
+brilliant, and are the first objects that meet our eyes as we enter
+the department.
+
+In the transept, at the opposite end to where the gates from
+Coalbrookdale are situated, are another beautiful specimen of
+ornamented gates for a park, in the style of the elegantly wrought
+iron work, made about a hundred and fifty years since, and which adorn
+the entrances to many of the old mansions of England. Some parts of
+these are tastefully gilt, and produce a remarkably pretty effect.
+
+It would take us more than a month to see everything in the Crystal
+Palace, and those who wish to examine all the wonders, must pay
+several visits. But we have, I think, seen enough for the present, and
+will now leave the Exhibition, if you are satisfied. Perhaps, before I
+go, you would like me to describe the ceremony of the opening of our
+Palace of Wonders, by our good Queen? If so, I shall be very happy
+indeed to oblige you, by telling you all I saw on the first of May.
+
+Early in the morning of that day,--soon after dawn,--thousands of
+people in London were wending their way towards Hyde Park; horses
+feet, and carriage-wheels clattered through the streets, and strange
+looking foreigners passed along among the crowd, all eager to see the
+procession.
+
+I dare say you would have been delighted with the grand sight:--first
+there came a long line of splendid carriages, containing various lords
+and ladies, in gorgeous costumes;--diamonds flashing, and feathers
+waving; next came a troop of Life Guards in scarlet coats, bright
+cuirasses, and glittering helmets: they were escorting the Queen's
+carriage, which was followed by a goodly number of other carriages.
+You should have heard how the crowds huzzaed and shouted when they saw
+the Queen, who looked very much pleased, bowing and smiling to her
+people. She entered the building amid the loud cheers and hurras,
+followed by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess
+Royal. After staying a short time in the elegant robing-room, which
+was fitted up in a single night, her Majesty proceeded to her throne,
+between flower stands, and tropical plants, past the Coalbrookdale
+gates, and the fountains and statues with which the centre of the
+palace is adorned. When she appeared, the twenty-five thousand people,
+who were present, rose to welcome her.--Ladies waving their
+handkerchiefs, the gentlemen their hats;--and you may readily guess
+how splendid the scene looked. Even the sun popped out his head from
+the clouds, and poured a flood of golden light in through the
+glittering dome of the transept, to illuminate the brilliant
+spectacle.
+
+As soon as Her Majesty was seated on her throne, one of the organs
+commenced pealing forth the notes of the National Anthem, the choir,
+which was collected for the occasion, singing to the music. After
+this, Prince Albert joined those gentlemen who have directed the
+affairs of the Great Exhibition, and going near to the Queen, read to
+her an account of the Exhibition from the commencement; to which Her
+Majesty answered, when the Prince had finished, that she was much
+pleased with the description of the proceedings, and that she hoped
+the World's Fair would do good to all mankind, by encouraging the arts
+of peace and industry, strengthening the bonds of love between all the
+nations of the earth, and promoting a friendly rivalry among our
+fellow creatures, in the useful exercise of those faculties which have
+been given by GOD for the good and happiness of all mankind.
+
+The Queen having read this answer, the Archbishop of Canterbury
+approached the throne, and offered up a prayer to Heaven, intreating
+the Lord's blessing on the Exhibition; that it might benefit every
+body on earth, making them love and help each other. I hope all that
+heard the prayer, joined in it with heart and soul: and I hope, too,
+that my dear little readers will think of it when they go to the
+Crystal Palace.
+
+At the close of the prayer, the choir sang the Hallelujah chorus, and
+you may form some idea of the effect of this performance, when I tell
+you that all the persons who sing at the Queen's Chapel, at St. Paul's
+Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and St. George's Chapel, Windsor, were
+all singing together, besides part of the band of the Sacred Harmonic
+Society, pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, and many other
+songsters, both foreign and English.
+
+The immensity of the building left scope for the rich volume of sound
+poured forth; and you may imagine what an effect the splendid strains
+had on the feelings of the multitude of spectators. Indeed, one of the
+audience,--a Chinaman, was so excited by the grandeur of the scene,
+and the triumphant music, that he rushed forwards, made his way
+through the crowd of nobles and ladies that surrounded the Queen, and,
+advancing close to Her Majesty, saluted her by a grand salaam, which
+she graciously acknowledged with a smile and a bow. A salaam, you must
+know, is the eastern way of bowing, and consists in bending the head
+until it almost touches the ground.
+
+When the Hallelujah chorus ceased, the procession was formed for the
+Queen to go round the building. First went the heralds, in their
+splendid costumes; then a great number of gentlemen, who were more
+immediately concerned with the Exhibition; after them, the Duke of
+Wellington,--of whom, I dare say you know,--with more gentlemen, and
+the Archbishop of Canterbury; and then the Queen and Prince Albert,
+with the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, both of whom looked
+extremely delighted and astonished with the gorgeous spectacle they
+were viewing. The Royal Family was followed by a number of lords,
+ladies, and attendants, the procession being concluded by heralds.
+
+The train first went to the west end of the nave, on the north side,
+everybody cheering loudly as it passed. The view varied every minute,
+but was always picturesque, and beautiful. Even those persons who were
+most acquainted with the wondrous objects that lay on every side, were
+surprised by the new and charming attractions displayed. The Indian
+collection, and the compartment filled with specimens from the
+colonies, were left behind; the department devoted to sculpture, and
+other finer products of industry, was passed, and the procession moved
+into that portion of the palace which contains the English
+manufacturing products. You might then have caught a glimpse, over the
+heads of the spectators, of the Furniture Court, where the furniture
+is placed; and of the fixed machinery beyond it, the massive iron form
+of each machine looking as much as to say "move me, if you can." Then
+the procession passed the enormous dome of iron and glass, the two
+gigantic statues, the figure of Shakspeare, and the many other objects
+which adorn the centre aisle; leaving behind the furs of bears, and
+other wild animals, hung beneath the galleries, and the carpets which
+lent their brilliant colours to finish the decorations; it reached the
+western entrance, where it was reflected in the immense mirror,
+exhibited at that point. Then, turning round by the model of the
+Liverpool Docks, it was returning on the south side of the nave, when
+the gigantic organ placed there, suddenly hurled forth an immense
+volume of music, which sounded extremely fine: but every one was
+already so much astonished, that I do not think anything more could
+surprise them. At length the procession reached the transept, round
+the south end of which it proceeded, and then swept into the Foreign
+Department of the Exhibition, where great efforts had been made to
+receive it properly. The French had collected together all the
+choicest specimens of their manufactures to grace the foremost part of
+their division; and I am sure you would have admired the tasteful
+manner in which the contributors decorated the collection. Some of the
+other countries, as their exhibitors had sent in their contributions
+sooner than the French, were of course able to make a more
+satisfactory appearance. The two organs, from France and Germany,
+each, in turn, poured forth their music as the procession passed; and
+two or three of the Queen's bands played a march as the pageat moved
+round the eastern end of the building.
+
+At last the procession returned along the north side of the nave, the
+cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs, which had continued all
+the time getting now more joyful than ever; and the Queen returned
+once more to her throne. One of the noblemen, named the Marquis of
+Breadalbane, then called out in a loud tone of voice, that Her Majesty
+declared the Exhibition open; a flourish of trumpets, and a roar of
+cannon, told the people outside that all was now concluded, and the
+Queen, with the royal family and other attendants, left the Crystal
+Palace, the choir again singing the National Anthem.
+
+In order that the workmen and their families, who come to see the
+Exhibition, should live comfortably when they return home again,
+Prince Albert has had a model building erected, with four dwellings,
+or sets of rooms, each containing all the conveniences essential to a
+distinct family-house, with four distinct entrances for the four
+different families, such as he wishes every honest working couple in
+this country, and indeed every honest couple in all parts of the
+world, should possess. And, in order to shew to working men, and to
+builders, and to persons of property who desire to do good, how they
+can usefully assist their fellow creatures to comfortable habitations,
+for the same rent that they now pay for closely-built, unhealthy ones,
+he has erected these four model houses under one roof, each of them
+dry, warm, convenient, fire-proof, and healthy, and yet cheap. They
+are built of very hard hollow bricks, made by machinery, and are
+situate at the corner of the barrack yard, near to the Crystal Palace,
+and will be shown freely to all persons visiting the World's Fair.
+
+Now, boys and girls, good-bye; I know you are sorry to see me going
+away, and you may be certain I am sorry to be obliged to leave you.
+But I hope we shall soon meet again, for I am thinking of coming to
+see you very shortly, to tell you more stories and have another talk
+with you. So, if you say you have been amused, and have learned
+something, by reading these stories, I will pay you another visit
+soon, and tell you something more about other things. But in the mean
+time, let us hope that the suggestions of Prince Albert, the husband
+of our gracious Queen, will do good; and that every body, and every
+nation, may become better, and learn more, and love each other more,
+in consequence of meeting together, in friendship and harmony, at
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+EASY AND INTERESTING HISTORIES, FOR LITTLE FOLKS; BY MISS CORNER,
+Author of the Historical Library, &c.
+
+_Price sixpence each, printed in large type, and embellished with four
+pages of descriptive tinted plates, and sewed in fancy wrappers._
+
+
+THE ANCIENT BRITONS. Describing their Manners and Customs; and how
+they were conquered, and Britain was governed by the Romans. 6d.
+
+
+THE CONQUEST OF THE ROMANS AND BRITONS BY THE SAXONS; and an
+interesting Account of the Saxon Heptarchy, or the Seven Saxon
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+
+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT. an interesting Narrative. 6d.
+Four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE NORMAN CONQUEST; four pages of illustrations. And the manner in
+which the People of England lived during the Reign of William the
+Conqueror. An interesting Narrative. 6d.
+
+
+ENGLAND, AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE FEUDAL TIMES.
+
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+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; WITH THE MANNERS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
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+
+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
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+
+Showing the Condition of the People, and how they lived and dressed
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+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
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+
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+
+_These Eight Histories may be had, bound in One Volume, in fancy
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+
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+
+With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
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+
+6d. Fourteen engravings.
+
+
+MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.
+
+A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
+Directions for Playing each Game, and how to Cry the Forfeits.
+
+6d. with appropriate engravings.
+
+
+ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.
+
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
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+
+Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
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+TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.
+
+6d. Nineteen engravings.
+
+
+A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.--A Trial of
+Charity.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.
+
+6d. Many engravings.
+
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+THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.
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+6d. Sixteen engravings.
+
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+
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+
+
+THE FOUR ELEMENTS:--or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water. Illustrated for
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+
+Price 1s. plain: or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FIVE SENSES,--Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
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+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured
+
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+THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND, Set to Music, for Little Folks.
+Containing, The Queen of Hearts,--Bye! Baby Bunting,--Who comes here?
+a Grenadier!--Little Boy Blue,--and, The Lion and the Unicorn.
+Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done up in Fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,--the Nursery Alphabet,--the Royal
+Family,--the comparative sizes of Animals,--and a "Morland."
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
+
+An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.
+
+With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.
+
+
+VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.
+
+Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.
+
+
+A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,--from whom all Good Things come--the Lost
+Purse,--Self-will,--the Careless Boy,--the Good Boy,--and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.
+
+Square size, with seven coloured engravings.--1s, in cloth.
+
+
+SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,
+
+About the Lame Boy,--the Sea Shore,--the Cross Boy,--and the Stray
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+
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+
+
+LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS: the Letters in
+large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by a number of
+pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.--
+
+In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.
+
+
+GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.
+
+In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.
+
+
+PETER PALLETTE's PICTURES FOR PAINTING: Thirteen Numbers, price 4d.
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+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORY ABOUT MASTER NOBODY, and his many wonderful
+exploits. 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's VISIT TO LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN, the best little Boy that
+ever was seen, with 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's TWO LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN, and the means by which
+they became rich. Seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's ALPHABET OF OBJECTS. Embellished with many coloured
+plates.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW A, B, C. With fourteen pretty and appropriate
+coloured pictures.
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+
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+TABLE: With fourteen coloured pictures of the Procession by Land and
+Water.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's STORY ABOUT THE SICK LITTLE ROBIN, AND HIS KIND LITTLE
+NURSE JENNY WREN. With seven coloured engravings.
+
+
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+seven coloured engravings.
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+each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered_;
+
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+DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:
+
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+HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.
+
+BY MISS CORNER,
+
+_Author of "Questions on the History of Europe," a Sequel to
+Mangnall's Historical Questions, &c. &c._
+
+The object of these Works,--peculiarly suited to Schools and
+Families,--is to furnish the reader with a faithful History of each
+Nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion,
+laws, customs, national characteristics, and domestic habits of the
+people, in the various periods of their History.
+
+In writing these elementary treatises, one especial object has been
+kept in view--that of adapting them to the capacities of young people
+and occasional readers: by this means, while they embrace information
+and entertainment for all, they attract the rising generation, by
+simplicity of language, and clearness of detail, and render
+comparatively easy the attainment of a knowledge of the leading events
+of History.
+
+The many high encomiums awarded to these works by the Public Press,
+and the very considerable acceptance they have met with in Schools and
+Families, are proofs that the efforts of the Author to render
+historical knowledge pleasing, and easy of attainment, are not
+unappreciated by those to whom the care of the rising generation is
+entrusted.
+
+
+THESE SERIES OF HISTORIES, BY MISS CORNER, COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND;
+
+A New Edition; with Chronological Table; Twentieth Thousand; 3_s_.
+6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up with Questions on the History,
+4_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and five Historical Engravings,--1. Rowena
+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria--the Peers rendering Homage.
+
+"It is important that history meant for young Englishmen should be
+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score."--_British Banner_.
+
+"We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book."--_Academic and Collegiate
+Circular_.
+
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+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book."--_Bent's Literary
+Advertiser_.
+
+"We know no histories more likely to prove useful and agreeable in the
+instruction of children."--_Britannia_.
+
+"The style of the book throughout renders it worthy of the support it
+has secured."--_Gospel Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;
+
+New Edition; Seventh Thousand; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound
+up with Questions on the History, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.--1. St.
+Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles. 2. Lord Thomas
+Fitzgerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII. 3. Entry of James
+II. into Dublin.
+
+"The history before us is well executed."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+"Miss Corner's style of writing will produce habits of
+thinking."--_Morning Advertiser_.
+
+"The Historical facts, always correct, are detailed in plain and
+concise language. This is one of the best class books on Ireland, for
+young people."--_Limerick Standard_.
+
+The beauty of composition throughout the writings of Miss Corner is
+singular and fascinating.--_Sun_.
+
+Miss Corner has acquired a deserved celebrity for the
+singularly-attractive and intelligible manner she has in narrating
+history.--_Critic_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND;
+
+New edition; ninth thousand; 2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with questions on the history, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a map, and three historical engravings.--1.
+Coronation of the infant King David II. and his Queen, at Scone, 2.
+James V. taking refuge at Sterling Castle. 3. Queen Mary's escape to
+England.
+
+"We sincerely recommend this history as peculiarly suited to the
+meridian of schools."--_Ayr Observer._
+
+"This meritorious work is written in a very easy and agreeeble style,
+perfectly adapted to the capacities of the young persons for whom it
+is intended."--_Times_.
+
+"We have perused this history with much interest, delighted with the
+ease and perspicuity of style, and with the clearness and force of the
+narrative."--_Chronicle_.
+
+"Peculiarly adapted for instructive family reading."--_Caledonian
+Mercury_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ROME;
+
+From accepted English and foreign authorities, as Macpherson's Annals
+of Commerce, Keightley's Roman History, Smith's and Adam's Greek and
+Roman Antiquities; Dr. Arnold, Niebuhr, &c. With questions to each
+chapter, a chronological table, and a map of the Roman Empire; 3_s_.
+6_d_. bound in cloth, lettered.
+
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+the Roman histories at present used in schools, it is well written,
+and the historical facts elicited by the learned labours of Niebuhr,
+Arnold, &c, are made to take the place of the fabulous accounts which
+have hitherto passed current as authentic history; at the same time
+the popular early legends are not omitted, but their doubtful nature
+pointed out."--_Westmister Review_.
+
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+out to the young reader the household life and social customs of the
+Romans, for without this, ancient history can have no reality for
+children."--_Educational Times_.
+
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+beginning."--_Church of England Journal_.
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+with Queen Isabella. 3. The Cortez taking the oath of allegiance.
+
+"Miss Corner gives a clear and striking account of the different
+kingdoms that at various times were founded in Spain."--_Edinburgh
+Review_.
+
+"So concise and plain as to be at once adapted to the capacities and
+volatility of young people, while they are useful compendiums for
+adults."--_Times_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF FRANCE;
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+
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+
+"The Writer has borne in mind throughout, that simplicity of style was
+essential to her purpose, and has selected those facts which are best
+adapted to give an idea of the events and the customs of the
+successive ages."--_Baptist Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner appears to be an excellent historian for the school room.
+She narrates with fluency and clearness, and in a concise and lively
+manner, the leading facts, so as to convey the spirit of history, and
+indicate the characteristics of the people and the country, as well as
+the rulers and famous characters."--_Spectator_.
+
+"We look upon Miss Corner's work with great interest, as being
+peculiarly adapted to the minds of young people, and being free from
+that inversion of facts by which history is so often made subservient
+to party purposes."--_Nonconformist_.
+
+
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+
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+
+1. A Norwegian Family listening to the Songs of their Scalds, 2.
+Submission of the Order of Nobles to Frederick III.
+
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+cleverness of handling, and these requisites Miss Corner's histories
+exhibit in an eminent degree. The frequent intermixtures of government
+between the three countries have indeed tended materially to embarrass
+this portion of European history, but Miss Corner by an accurate
+arrangement of dates, and a judicious connection of events, has set
+every thing in a clear light."--_Post Magazine_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND RUSSIA;
+
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+
+1. Assassination of Demetrius. 2. John Cassimer, worn out by
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+Inhabitants of Moscow at the approach of the French army.
+
+"This volume forms one of a series of histories for the use of young
+persons; the present volume is, however, more descriptive than
+historical, which we consider an advantage; the living manners of the
+Poles and Russians being much more instructive and entertaining to
+young English readers."--_Tait's Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has succeeded in compressing into a small compass all the
+leading events of history, without the slightest obscurity, or without
+sinking her book into a dry chronicle of facts."--_Britannia_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE; INCLUDING GREECE,
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+
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+Officers of State.
+
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+history attractive even to the very young; and the information is
+conveyed in a style remarkable for its unaffected simplicity and
+clearness."--_Morning Post_.
+
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+and forcibly pourtrayed, while the narrative is distinguished for
+simplicity, perspicuity, and completeness."--_Conservative Journal_.
+
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+William Tell and the other Swiss Patriots holding their nightly
+meetings.
+
+"Brief, clear, and correct; well adapted for young
+persons."--_Leamington Spa Chronicle_.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+intelligent lady, is distinguished for its conciseness, elegance of
+expression, and clearness of detail."--_Manchester Times_.
+
+"A condensed mass of knowledge, well put together, and prettily
+illustrated."--_Church and State Gazette_.
+
+"To a pleasing, fluent, narrative style, Miss corner unites a nice
+discrimination, and never suffers matters which sully the mind to
+appear in her pages."--_Surplice_.
+
+"We cannot too strongly recommend these admirable Histories, and we
+feel satisfied that no parent or preceptor can place better works in
+the hands of a youth."--_Academic and Collegiate Circular_.
+
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+for youth; and each history is illustrated with a map and engravings,
+which considering the price of the work, are of a superior
+description."--_Times_.
+
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+suited to her readers the results of the laborious investigations of
+other scholars."--_Educational Times_.
+
+
+AN ACCURATE HISTORY OF GREECE.
+
+From accepted Authorities, English and Foreign; as Crete's and
+Chambers's Histories of Greece, Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities,
+Thirlwall and Wordsworth's Greece, Smith's Mythology and Biography,
+Annals of Commerce, Library of Useful Knowledge, &c. With Questions to
+each Chapter, a Chronological Table, Index, and a coloured Map of the
+Greek States. Price 3_s_. bound in cloth, lettered.
+
+We have not met with any History of Greece that contains, within the
+same compass, so large an amount of interesting and valuable
+information. Miss Corner writes concisely, perspicuously, and
+sensibly.--_Westley Banner_.
+
+A concise History of Greece, well adapted for Schools.--_Cambridge
+Independent Press_.
+
+This is a very excellent compendium of Grecian History, and such are
+the merits of the Work that we shall not be surprised at its becoming
+a popular educational book.--_The British Mother's Magazine_.
+
+Remarkably clear in its arrangement, while the simple and easy
+style in which it is written, peculiarly fits it for popular
+use, it displays much careful research on the part of its
+Author.--_Englishwoman's Magazine_.
+
+Miss Corner has the art of writing so as to be understood by youthful
+readers.--_London Literary Journal_.
+
+By far the best introductory School History of Greece we have ever
+seen.--_British Banner_.
+
+A combination of simplicity of narrative, with comprehensiveness of
+detail, admirably adapted for the use of the School-room.--_Douglas
+Jerrald's Weekly News_.
+
+With feminine delicacy, Miss Corner omits what should be omitted,
+giving meanwhile a narrative of the broad character and features that
+mark the progress of a nation.--_Express, Evening Paper_.
+
+The results of the best modern scholarship are here given.--_Leader_.
+
+Miss Corner's Histories require no recommendation of ours to bring
+them into notice. This Volume, her History of Greece, is written with
+great clearness and fluency, the fabulous tales which disfigure so
+many professedly authentic histories of the Greeks are discarded. We
+cordially recommend this work for the School-room, or family
+circle.--_Gospel Herald_.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+and the Awkward, Little Girl. By Solomon Lovechild.
+
+1s. sewed,--Square size, with seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+THE THREE BASKETS, Or, THE LITTLE GARDENER, LITTLE PAINTER, AND LITTLE
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+
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+occupied during the absence of their Father. By Mrs. Burden.
+
+1s. sewed,--Square size, with seven coloured engravings.
+
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+DAME WIGGINS OF LEE, AND HER WONDERFUL CATS;
+
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+favourites: written by a Lady of Ninety.
+
+1s. sewed,--Square size, with fifteen coloured engravings.
+
+
+EASY AND INTERESTING HISTORIES, FOR LITTLE FOLKS;
+
+BY MISS CORNER, Author of the Historical Library, &c.
+
+_Price sixpence each, printed in large type, and embellished with four
+pages of descriptive tinted plates, and sewed in fancy wrappers._
+
+
+THE ANCIENT BRITONS.
+
+Describing their Manners and Customs; and how they were conquered, and
+Britain was governed by the Romans. 6d.
+
+
+THE CONQUEST OF THE ROMANS AND BRITONS BY THE SAXONS; and an
+interesting Account of the Saxon Heptarchy, or the Seven Saxon
+Kingdoms in England at one time.
+
+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT.
+
+an interesting Narrative. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+THE NORMAN CONQUEST; four pages of illustrations.
+
+And the manner in which the People of England lived during the Reign
+of William the Conqueror. An interesting Narrative. 6d.
+
+
+ENGLAND, AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE FEUDAL TIMES.
+
+6d. Four pages of Illustrations
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; WITH THE MANNERS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
+IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
+
+6d. With four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
+CENTURIES.
+
+Showing the Condition of the People, and how they lived and dressed
+during the Reign of Henry the Seventh, to the death of William the
+Third. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
+
+
+AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
+CENTURIES.
+
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+lived and dressed from the Reign of James the Second, to that of Queen
+Victoria. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
+
+_These Eight Histories may be had, bound in One Volume, in fancy
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+
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+
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+SQUIRE GRAY'S FRUIT FEAST.
+
+With an account of how he entertained his Young Friends; and some of
+the Pretty Tales he gave to them as Prizes.
+
+6d. Fourteen engravings.
+
+
+MIRTHFUL MOMENTS; or, HOW TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS.
+
+A collection of Mirthful and Pleasing Games and Forfeits: with Plain
+Directions for Playing each Game, and how to Cry the Forfeits.
+
+6d. with appropriate engravings.
+
+
+ANNE AND JANE; or, GOOD ADVICE AND GOOD EXAMPLE.
+
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss J. STRICKLAND.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+SUNSHINE AND TWILIGHT; or, THE PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY OF TWO
+COUSINS.
+
+Exhibiting the sure reward of amiable manners and good conduct.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+TROUBLES ARISING FROM BEING TOO LATE; or THE TWO SISTERS.
+
+6d. Nineteen engravings.
+
+
+A PRINCE IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; or, ROSETTA AND THE FAIRY.--A Trial of
+Charity.
+
+6d. Fifteen engravings.
+
+
+CHARITY WOOD, THE LITTLE ORPHAN.
+
+A Tale for Young Children. By Miss Jane Strickland.
+
+6d. Many engravings.
+
+
+THE LITTLE TRAVELLER'S TRAVELLINGS IN EUROPE.
+
+6d. Sixteen engravings.
+
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+
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+THE FIVE DIVISIONS OF THE GLOBE:--Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and
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+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FOUR ELEMENTS:--or, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water.
+
+Illustrated for Little Folks. And the Old English Nursery Rhyme of
+Simple Simon, set to Music. On Five Large Plates; and done up in a
+fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE FIVE SENSES,--Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling. And
+the FOUR SEASONS,--Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Illustrated for
+Little Folks, on Five Large Plates; and done up in a fancy cover.
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured
+
+
+THE NURSERY RHYMES OF OLD ENGLAND,
+
+Set to Music, for Little Folks. Containing, The Queen of Hearts,--Bye!
+Baby Bunting,--Who comes here? a Grenadier!--Little Boy Blue,--and,
+The Lion and the Unicorn. Illustrated on Five Large Plates; and done
+up in Fancy cover.
+
+Price 1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+THE ROYAL NURSERY PICTURE BOOK,--the Nursery Alphabet,--the Royal
+Family.--the comparative sizes of Animals,--and a "Morland."
+
+1s. plain; or, 1s. 6d. coloured.
+
+
+PLEASANT TALES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
+
+An interesting collection of amusing and instructive Stories, for
+Young Persons.
+
+With upwards of eighty superior engravings, 2s. 6d. bound in fancy
+Green cloth, with gilt edges and side.
+
+
+VISIT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+A pleasing description of this delightful place of fashionable resort,
+and of the nature and peculiar habits of the many rare and remarkable
+Animals contained therein. By J. BISHOP.
+
+Square size, with 12 coloured engravings, and 31 cuts of the animals.
+1s. bound in cloth.
+
+
+A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS; OR, THE GUIDE TO GOOD; About the Good
+Man of the Mill,--from whom all Good Things come--the Lost
+Purse,--Self-will,--the Careless Boy,--the Good Boy,--and the Way
+to Save. In words of One Syllable. By Miss Corner.
+
+Square size, with seven coloured engravings.--1s. in cloth.
+
+
+SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS,
+
+About the Lame Boy,--the Sea Shore,--the Cross Boy,--and the Stray
+Child. By Mrs. Burden.
+
+Square size, with seven coloured engravings.--1s. in cloth.
+
+
+LITTLE CHILD'S ALPHABET OF NOUNS, or BOOK OF OBJECTS:
+
+the Letters in large and small characters; each Letter illustrated by
+a number of pleasing engravings of Objects expressive of the Letter.--
+
+In large 4to., with the engravings neatly coloured.
+
+
+GEOGRAPHICAL ALPHABET; a new and pleasing Introduction to a knowledge
+of some of the most celebrated places, or interesting countries, of
+the habitable world. By B. CLAYTON.
+
+In large 4to., with twenty-six coloured engravings.
+
+
+PETER PALLETTE'S PICTURES FOR PAINTING:
+
+Thirteen Numbers, price 4d. each; or bound in 2 vols, 1st series, 2s.
+6d. 2nd series, 3s. 6d.
+
+
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+
+A series of progressive lessons, by which the principles of the Art,
+as applied to figure, ornamental, and mechanical Drawing, may be
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
+
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+the above; thirty engravings.
+
+
+MY AUNT'S BALL; an ALPHABET; shewing who were there,--what they
+had,--and how they behaved themselves--with twenty-four engravings,
+
+
+A PRINCE AND HIS THREE GIFTS; how he used his three gifts; and about a
+good and beautiful lady; with eight large engravings.
+
+
+STORY OF LITTLE JOEY, who came up to London a poor little boy, and
+afterwards became a great man;--with ten engravings.
+
+
+TALES OF THE MONTHS AND SEASONS: and what we see and enjoy all the
+year round; with twelve engravings.
+
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+THE MOUSE AND HER SONS; a rural tale;--with eight coloured
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+UNCLE BUNCLE's DEATH AND BURIAL OF POOR COCK ROBIN, AND THE TRIAL OF
+THE SPARROW FOR SHOOTING HIM. With seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORY ABOUT MASTER NOBODY, and his many wonderful
+exploits. 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's VISIT TO LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN, the best little Boy that
+ever was seen: with 7 coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's TWO LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN, and the means by which
+they became rich. Seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's ALPHABET OF OBJECTS. Embellished with many coloured
+plates.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW A, B, C. With fourteen pretty and appropriate
+coloured pictures.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS. Seven coloured engravings.
+
+
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+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's NEW STORIES ABOUT BIRDS, Seven coloured pictures.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; A NEW AND POPULAR MULTIPLICATION
+TABLE: With fourteen coloured pictures of the Procession by Land and
+Water.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's STORY ABOUT THE SICK LITTLE ROBIN, AND HIS KIND LITTLE
+NURSE JENNY WREN. With seven coloured engravings.
+
+
+UNCLE BUNCLE's STORIES ABOUT LITTLE PETER's VISIT TO THE FARM. With
+seven coloured engravings.
+
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+
+=CORNER'S HISTORICAL LIBRARY,=
+
+FOR
+
+YOUTH, SCHOOLS, AND FAMILIES:
+
+PUBLISHED BY DEAN & SON, 35, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON:
+
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+
+
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+
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+from designs by Franklin, Jones, and Gilbert; and an Accurate Map to
+each Volume; well bound in cloth, lettered;_
+
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+DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME:
+
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+
+NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND DOMESTIC HABITS, OF THE PEOPLE.
+
+BY MISS CORNER,
+
+_Author of "Questions on the History of Europe," a Sequel to
+Mangnall's Historical Questions, &c. &c._
+
+The object of these works,--peculiarly suited to schools and
+families,--is to furnish the reader with a faithful history of each
+nation, interspersing it with an accurate account of the religion,
+laws, customs, national characteristics, and domestic habits of the
+people, in the various periods of their history.
+
+In writing these elementary treatises, one especial object has been
+kept in view--that of adapting them to the capacities of young people
+and occasional readers: by this means, while they embrace information
+and entertainment for all, they attract the rising generation, by
+simplicity of language, and clearness of detail, and render
+comparatively easy the attainment of a knowledge of the leading events
+of history.
+
+The many high encomiums awarded to these works by the public press,
+and the very considerable acceptance they have met with in schools and
+families, are proofs that the efforts of the author to render
+historical knowledge pleasing, and easy of attainment, are not
+unappreciated by those to whom the care of the rising generation is
+entrusted.
+
+
+THESE SERIES OF HISTORIES, BY MISS CORNER, COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND;
+
+A New Edition; with Chronological Table; Twentieth Thousand; 3_s_.
+_6d_. cloth, lettered; or bound up with Questions on the History,
+4_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and five Historical Engravings,--1. Rowena
+presenting wine to Vortigern. 2. King John signing Magna Charta. 3.
+Henry VII. proclaimed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. 4. Oliver
+Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. 5. Coronation of Queen
+Victoria--the Peers rendering Homage.
+
+"It is important that history meant for young Englishmen should be
+free from political poison, and this book will be found
+unexceptionable on this score."--_British Banner_.
+
+"We have much pleasure in stating that this book is in another new
+edition, and its merits deserve it; it is well written, and admirably
+adapted for a school or reward book."--_Academic and Collegiate
+Circular_.
+
+"Miss Corner's England and Wales, we perceive, has just reached
+another new edition, in which the addition of the chronological table
+will be a great desideratum; the work is well written, and is equally
+adapted for a school, or, indeed, a gift book."--_Bent's Literary
+Advertiser_.
+
+"We know no histories more likely to prove useful and agreeable in the
+instruction of children."--_Britannia_.
+
+"The style of the book throughout renders it worthy of the support it
+has secured."--_Gospel Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has chosen her epochs skilfully, and sketched them in a
+manner to make an adequate impression."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF IRELAND;
+
+New Edition; Seventh Thousand; _2s. 6d._ cloth, lettered; or bound up
+with Questions on the History, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.--1. St.
+Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles. 2. Lord Thomas
+Fitzgerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII. 3. Entry of James
+II. into Dublin.
+
+"The history before us is well executed."--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+"Miss Corner's style of writing will produce habits of
+thinking."--_Morning Advertiser_.
+
+"The Historical facts, always correct, are detailed in plain and
+concise language. This is one of the best class books on Ireland, for
+young people."--_Limerick Standard_.
+
+The beauty of composition throughout the writings of Miss Corner is
+singular and fascinating.--_Sun_.
+
+Miss Corner has acquired a deserved celebrity for the
+singularly-attractive and intelligible manner she has in narrating
+history.--_Critic_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND;
+
+New Edition; Ninth Thousand; 2s. 6d. cloth, lettered; or bound up with
+Questions on the History, 3s.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings.--1.
+Coronation of the Infant King David II. and his Queen, at Scone. 2.
+James V. taking refuge at Sterling Castle. 3. Queen Mary's Escape to
+England.
+
+"We sincerely recommend this history as peculiarly suited to the
+meridian of schools."--_Ayr Observer._
+
+"This meritorious work is written in a very easy and agreeeble style,
+perfectly adapted to the capacities of the young persons for whom it
+is intended."--_Times_.
+
+"We have perused this history with much interest, delighted with the
+ease and perspicuity of style, and with the clearness and force of the
+narrative."--_Edinburgh Chronicle._
+
+"Peculiarly adapted for instructive family reading."--_Caledonian
+Mercury._
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF ROME;
+
+From accepted English and Foreign authorities, as Macpherson's Annals
+of Commerce, Keightley's Roman History, Smith's and Adam's Greek and
+Roman Antiquities; Dr. Arnold, Niebuhr, &c. With Questions to each
+Chapter, a Chronological Table, and a Map of the Roman Empire; 3s. 6d.
+bound in cloth, lettered.
+
+"Miss Corner's History of Rome will assuredly ere long supersede all
+the Roman histories at present used in schools, it is well written,
+and the historical facts elicited by the learned labours of Niebuhr,
+Arnold, &c, are made to take the place of the fabulous accounts which
+have hitherto passed current as authentic history; at the same time
+the popular early legends are not omitted, but their doubtful nature
+pointed out."--_Westmister Review._
+
+"An excellent feature in this history is the continual effort to open
+out to the young reader the household life and social customs of the
+Romans, for without this, ancient history can have no reality for
+children."--_Educational Times._
+
+"Its contents form a correct history of the Roman empire, from its
+beginning."--_Church of England Journal._
+
+
+THE HISTORIES OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL;
+
+New Edition, Fifth Thousand; 2s. 6d. cloth, lettered; or bound up with
+Questions on the Histories, 3s.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,--1. Inez De
+Castro entreating the King to save her life. 2. Interview of Columbus
+with Queen Isabella. 3. The Cortez taking the Oath of Allegiance.
+
+"Miss Corner gives a clear and striking account of the different
+kingdoms that at various times were founded in Spain."--_Edinburgh
+Review._
+
+"So concise and plain as to be at once adapted to the capacities and
+volatility of young people, while they are useful compendiums for
+adults."--_Times_.
+
+THE HISTORY OF FRANCE;
+
+Tenth Thousand, New Edition, with continuation of events to the
+Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; 2_s_ 6_d_. cloth, lettered; or
+bound up with Questions on the History, 3_s_.
+
+Illustrated with a Map, and three Historical Engravings,--1. The
+Coronation of Charles VII. 2. A French Tilt, or Tournament. 3.
+Bonaparte's Expedition across the Alps.
+
+"The Writer has borne in mind throughout, that simplicity of style was
+essential to her purpose, and has selected those facts which are best
+adapted to give an idea of the events and the customs of the
+successive ages."--_Baptist Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner appears to be an excellent historian for the school room.
+She narrates with fluency and clearness, and in a concise and lively
+manner, the leading facts, so as to convey the spirit of history, and
+indicate the characteristics of the people and the country, as well as
+the rulers and famous characters."--_Spectator_.
+
+"We look upon Miss Corner's work with great interest, as being
+peculiarly adapted to the minds of young people, and being free from
+that inversion of facts by which history is so often made subservient
+to party purposes."--_Nonconformist_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY;
+
+2_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and two elegant Historical
+Engravings.
+
+1. A Norwegian Family listening to the Songs of their Scalds, 2.
+Submission of the Order of Nobles to Frederick III.
+
+"The two chief qualities of a good book are usefulness of subject and
+cleverness of handling, and these requisites Miss Corner's histories
+exhibit in an eminent degree. The frequent intermixtures of government
+between the three countries have indeed tended materially to embarrass
+this portion of European history, but Miss Corner by an accurate
+arrangement of dates, and a judicious connection of events, has set
+every thing in a clear light."--_Post Magazine._
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND RUSSIA;
+
+3_s_. 6_d_. cloth, lettered; with a Map, and three elegant Historical
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+
+1. Assassination of Demetrius. 2. John Cassimer, worn out by
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+Inhabitants of Moscow at the approach of the French army.
+
+"This volume forms one of a series of histories for the use of young
+persons; the present volume is, however, more descriptive than
+historical, which we consider an advantage; the living manners of the
+Poles and Russians being much more instructive and entertaining to
+young English readers."--_Tait's Magazine_.
+
+"Miss Corner has succeeded in compressing into a small compass all the
+leading events of history, without the slightest obscurity, or without
+sinking her book into a dry chronicle of facts."--_Britannia_.
+
+
+THE HISTORY OF TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE; INCLUDING GREECE, SYRIA,
+AND THE HOLY LAND;
+
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+Officers of State.
+
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+occasional remarks on individual and national character, as to render
+history attractive even to the very young; and the information is
+conveyed in a style remarkable for its unaffected simplicity and
+clearness."--_Morning Post._
+
+"The leading features of Turkish manners, laws, and policy, are
+accurately and forcibly pourtrayed, while the narrative is
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+_Conservative Journal._
+
+
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+William Tell and the other Swiss Patriots holding their nightly
+meetings.
+
+"Brief, clear, and correct; well adapted for young
+persons."--_Leamington Spa Chronicle._
+
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+
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+
+
+THE HISTORY OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM;
+
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+Engravings.
+
+1. Assassination of William of Orange. 2. Admiral Van Tromp shot
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+
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+intelligent lady, is distinguished for its conciseness, elegance of
+expression, and clearness of detail."--_Manchester Times._
+
+"A condensed mass of knowledge, well put together, and prettily
+illustrated."--_Church and State Gazette._
+
+"To a pleasing, fluent, narrative style, Miss corner unites a nice
+discrimination, and never suffers matters which sully the mind to
+appear in her pages."--_Surplice_.
+
+"We cannot too strongly recommend these admirable Histories, and we
+feel satisfied that no parent or preceptor can place better works in
+the hands of a youth."--_Academic and Collegiate Circular._
+
+"Altogether we do not know of a more agreeable or instructive present
+for youth; and each history is illustrated with a map and engravings,
+which considering the price of the work, are of a superior
+description."--_Times_.
+
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+suited to her readers the results of the laborious investigations of
+other scholars."--_Educational Times._
+
+
+AN ACCURATE HISTORY OF GREECE.
+
+From accepted Authorities, English and Foreign; as Grote's and
+Chambers's Histories of Greece, Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities,
+Thirlwall and Wordsworth's Greece, Smith's Mythology and Biography,
+Annals of Commerce, Library of Useful Knowledge, &c. With Questions to
+each Chapter, a Chronological Table, Index, and a coloured Map of the
+Greek States. Price 3_s_. bound in cloth, lettered.
+
+We have not met with any History of Greece that contains, within the
+same compass, so large an amount of interesting and valuable
+information. Miss Corner writes concisely, perspicuously, and
+sensibly.--_Westley Banner._
+
+A concise History of Greece, well adapted for Schools.--_Cambridge
+Independent Press._
+
+This is a very excellent compendium of Grecian History, and such are
+the merits of the Work that we shall not be surprised at its becoming
+a popular educational book.--_The British Mother's Magazine._
+
+Remarkably clear in its arrangement, while the simple and easy
+style in which it is written, peculiarly fits it for popular
+use, it displays much careful resourch on the part of its
+Author.--_Englishwoman's Magazine._
+
+Miss Corner has the art of writing so as to be understood by youthful
+readers.--_London Literary Journal._
+
+By far the best introductory School History of Greece we have ever
+seen.--_The British Banner._
+
+A combination of simplicity of narrative, with comprehensiveness of
+detail, admirably adapted for the use of the School-room.--_Douglas
+Jerrald's Weekly News._
+
+With feminine delicacy, Miss Corner omits what should be omitted,
+giving meanwhile a narrative of the broad character and features that
+mark the progress of a nation.--_Express, Evening Paper._
+
+The results of the best modern scholarship are here given.--_Leader_.
+
+Miss Corner's Histories require no recommendation of ours to bring
+them into notice. This Volume, her History of Greece, is written with
+great clearness and fluency, the fabulous tales which disfigure so
+many professedly authentic histories of the Greeks are discarded. We
+cordially recommend this work for the School-room, or family
+circle.--_Gospel Herald._
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