 
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY; AND A GARLAND FOR THE YEAR. By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A. Contents: Memorable Days of the Year; its Fasts and Festivals and Picturesque Events.—Recollections of Brambletye.—Domestic Arts and Customs.—Glories of a Garden.—Early Gardeners.—Bacon, Evelyn, and Temple.—A Day at Hatfield.—London Gardens.—Pope at Twickenham.—Celebrated Gardens.—Curiosities of Bees, &c. CRITICAL OPINIONS. "This volume is likely to meet with as good a reception as any of its predecessors, for no one can open it without finding something in it that is at once amusing and instructive. All the information which it contains is modestly and pleasantly given.... It will be seen that this volume abounds with diverting and suggestive extracts. It seems to us particularly well adapted for parochial lending-libraries."—Saturday Review. "Full of odd, quaint, out-of-the-way bits of information upon all imaginable subjects is this amusing volume, wherein Mr. Timbs discourses upon domestic, rural, metropolitan, and social life; interesting nooks of English localities; time-honoured customs, and old-world observances; and, we need hardly add, Mr. Timbs discourses well and pleasantly upon all."—Notes and Queries. "This is another of those curious repertories of out-of-the-way facts, to the compilation of which Mr. Timbs appears to have a prescriptive right. The reader must be at once very well-informed and very difficult to please who fails to find in Something for Everybody ample materials both for instruction and amusement."—Spectator. "A collection made by a diligent scholar in a long life of literature, and imparting information in such a manner as to be pleasing to the young and welcome to the old. Mr. Timbs has published many good books, but none better or more deserving of popularity than that to which he has given the appropriate title of Something for Everybody."—London Review. "In this volume the author certainly maintains the position which he has won for himself as a most indefatigable collector and compiler of useful information, in a form at once clear, accurate, and vastly entertaining."—English Churchman. "A very entertaining volume, full of varied information."—Builder. Familiarly Explained. In Six Vols. fcap., price 15s. cloth; Or sold in separate volumes, price 2s. 6d. each, viz.: GENERAL INFORMATION. First and Second Series. 2 vols. "A remarkably pleasant and instructive little book; a book as full of information as a pomegranate is full of seed."—Punch. CURIOSITIES OF SCIENCE. First and Second Series. 2 vols. "There is not a man of science who would not be arrested by this book, on matters which he never knew, and on matters which he had forgotten. At the same time there is not any man out of science who would find Mr. Timbs’s phalanx of extracts uninteresting or unintelligible."—AthenÆum. CURIOSITIES OF HISTORY. 1 vol. "We can conceive no more amusing book for the drawing-room, or one more useful for the school-room."—Art-Journal. POPULAR ERRORS EXPLAINED. 1 vol. "A work which ninety-nine persons out of every hundred would take up whenever it came in their way, and would always learn something from."—English Churchman. LOCKWOOD AND CO., STATIONERS’ HALL-COURT. This day, with a Frontispiece, 5s. cloth, PREDICTIONS REALIZED IN MODERN TIMES. NOW FIRST COLLECTED By HORACE WELBY. Contents: Days and Numbers.—Prophesying Almanacs.—Omens.—Historical Predictions.-Predictions of the French Revolution.—The Bonaparte Family.—Discoveries and Inventions anticipated.—Scriptural Prophecies, &c. LITERARY OPINIONS. "This is an odd but attractive volume, compiled from various and often little-known sources, and is full of amusing reading."—The Critic. "A volume containing a variety of curious and startling narratives on many points of supernaturalism, well calculated to gratify that love of the marvellous which is more or less inherent in us all."—Notes and Queries. MYSTERIES OF LIFE, DEATH, AND FUTURITY; ILLUSTRATED FROM THE BEST AND LATEST AUTHORITIES. CONTENTS. Life and Time. Nature of the Soul. Spiritual Life. Mental Operations. Belief and Scepticism. Premature Interment. Phenomena of Death. Sin and Punishment. The Crucifixion of our Lord. Man after Death. The Intermediate State. Recognition of the Blessed. The Day of Judgment. The Future States, etc. "It is a great deal to be able to say in favour of this book that we have discovered nothing in it which can annoy or offend a member of any Christian denomination; and that many of the quotations are not only valuable in themselves, but have been collected from sources not easily accessible to the general reader. Not a few of the chapters are, however, Mr. Welby’s own composition; and these are, for the most part, thoughtfully and carefully written."—The Critic. "The author and compiler of this work is evidently a largely-read and deeply-thinking man. For its plentiful suggestiveness alone it should meet with a kindly and grateful acceptance. It is a pleasant, dreamy, charming, startling little volume, every page of which sparkles like a gem in an antique setting."—Weekly Dispatch. "This book is the result of extensive reading and careful noting; it is such a commonplace book as some thoughtful divine or physician might have compiled, gathering together a vast variety of opinions and speculations bearing on physiology, the phenomena of life, and the nature and future existence of the soul. With these are blended facts, anecdotes, personal traits of character, and well-grounded arguments, with the one guiding intention of strengthening the Christian’s faith with the thoughts and conclusions of the great and good of the earth. Mr. Horace Welby has brought together a mass of matter that might be sought in vain through the most extensive library; and we know of no work that so strongly compels reflection, and so well assists it."—Lond. Review. W. KENT AND CO., PATERNOSTER-ROW. |
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