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THE CHOICEST WORKS

IN EVERY BRANCH OF LITERATURE

MADE OBTAINABLE BY ALL.

HARPER &- BROTHERS, determined to render their press subservient
to the Widest Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, so indispensable
to the support of public liberty, and personal usefulness, intelligence, and
virtue, in a free community, will hereafter issue their best publications at so
reduced a price, that families or in dividuats, with the most moderate means,
may easily procure a well-selected and extensive library; the advantages of
which in every household, whether for its improvement or happiness, cannot
be too highly appreciated.

That they may be enabled to accomplish the object here proposed, they have
introduced into their establishment the most approved and efficient machinery,
combining every possible economy and despatch in printing, &-c., and
will dispose of their books for cash only, at a very inconsiderable advance
on the actual cost, trusting to a liberal patronage and large sales to sustain
their enterprise.

The Family Library,
already numbering 157 volumes, to be extended to 200, as works of a high
character can be obtained, will be issued entire, one volume weekly,

AT TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A VOLUME!
just half the price they have been sold at heretofore, and then decidedly the
cheapest books in the market. These volumes will be illustrated and embellished
with numerous engravings, as in the previous editions, printed on
paper equally good, and bound in fancy French covers.

The publishers feel that it is wholly unnecessary to speak particularly of
the merits of this Library, so extensively known, and which has obtained a
circulation and a degree of public favour unequalled by any similar collection.
It comprises works in every department of science and general literature,
by the ablest writers, English and American, in a popular style, and
designed for the instruction and entertainment of all classes in the community.

Brande's Encyclopædia of Science, &c.

A Dictionary of Literature, Science, and Art; comprising the History,
Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human
Knowledge; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in
general use. General Editor, W. T. Brande, F.R.S.L. & E., of Her
Majesty's Mint; Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution; Professor
of Chemistry and Materia Medica to the Apothecaries' Company,
&c., &c. Assisted by Cauvin, Gwilt, Lindlev, Loudon, Merivale,
M'Culloch, Galloway, Owen, &c. To be completed in 12
Numbers, at 25 Cents each. The cost of the English Editionis fourteen
dollars—the American reader will be put in possession of the same work
for three dollars.

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