RECOMMENDATIONS. you cordially for the Historical Dictionary, and must request you to tender my thanks and best regards to its author. The work is so well adapted, although on a novel plan, that I feel myself bound to acknowledge how much I am indebted for the acquisition. Already have my sons with their classes gone eagerly through it two or three times. I shall take a great deal of pleasure in introducing it among my friends, and do most devoutly hope it may become extensively known. As a little compend of useful knowledge in Natural History, I regard it as the best work of the size that I have ever seen in our language. The references to authorities from which this valuable miniature is drawn, will be found very serviceable.” The Rev. TIMOTHY Clowes, Minister of the Episcopal Church in the city of Albany, has politely furnished us with the follow ing recommendation : Messrs. WEBSTERS & SKINNERS, Albany, May 24, 1813. At your request I have examined Mr. Sampson's Historical Dictionary, and have no hesitation in stating it as my opinion that the plan and execution of the work are alike excellent. Compilations of this kind are of more use than is generally imagined.The young and the ignorant need them ; the better informed have frequent occasion to be reminded of what they formerly learned. Much is contained in this book which every child ought to know, and with which he has few opportunities of being acquainted in the course of a common school education. What is here compris. ed will have a beneficial tendency to excite curiosity in youth, and direct their attention to works of more established credit and greater pretensions. Were it to be introduced into schools as a class book, it would advance the pupils in the art of reading as rapidly as any other, while at the same time it would impart to their minds a store of useful and interesting knowledge. Yours, TIMOTHY CLOWES. Mr. ROBERT O. K. BENNETT, whose reputation as a public Teach. er of youth in the city of Albany, for many years, is of the first standing, has communicated to us his opinion, in the following note : Messrs. WEBSTERS & SKINNERS, Albany, May 27, 1813. I have no hesitation in saying that I wholly agree in the preceeding recommendations of the “ Historical Dictionary.” Per. haps there is not extant any other book which contains so many useful facts, and such a fund of useful information, in se small a compass. No fewer than eight hundred and fifty articles, of primary importance, are comprised in this small volume. I am heartily rejoiced that a discerning public has demanded a second edi. tion, and those who have undertaken to supply that demand have my best wishes for their success. Yours, R. 0. K. BENNETT. Table of the Contents ; OF WHICH THE ARTICLES MAY BE FOUND IN THEIR ALPHABETICAL PLACES. Antwerp tue A. Antioch Baia Betel Abyssinia Antipodes Baidares Bezoar Stone Acorn Аре Baloon Birdmen Africa Apple Tree Bambarra Bison African Ser. Apollo's Sta- Bamboo Birming- Agouti Arabia Banian Tree Bittern Ajacio Archipelago Barbadoes Black Aleppo Areopagus Barbary Black Oak Algiers Argal's Laws Barein Blood Hound Alligator Arietoes Barley Boiling Amazon Artillery mews Braganza Bastinado Brain Batavia Brass Amsterdam Asphaltites Bavarian Sol- Bread Tree Canal Angora Goat Aurora Bore- Beauty Brunswick Beaver Buccaniers bage Ball Baiting Bull Dog C. Celebes Complexion Denmark pello Celestial Connecticut Diainond Calcutta Ceylon Constance ple Calendar Chactaws Constantino. Dionea California Chaimois ple Dismal Camel Chairabes Copper Diving Bell Tree Cherokees Cormorant Couquar Earth Canal Project China Onion Creoles Eclipse Canary Bird China Paper Crocodile Ecliptic Canary Isl China Wall Crosswise Egypt ands Chirimoya Mark Electric Fluid Candia Chiven Crusades Elephant Canthacis Climate Cuckoo Embalming Canton Clock Cuttle Fish England Cloth Tree Cydnus English Navy Carline This Snake Dagon Eri Lake Carnabis Cochineal Dancing Ser- Esquimaux Carthagena Cod Fish Danube Europe Cashmere Coffee Darien European Caspian Sea Coffee Tree Dark Days Languages Chair Colopaxi Deaf Persons Evaporation Fire Damp Gold Coast Herculaneum Inflammable Fire Spouts Golden Vul. Herschell Ink Flanders Cape Hindostan Insects dens Grand Canal Historical Iron Wood Tree Green Moun. Holland, New Italy Jackall Grey Squirrel Hornet Jamaica Fox Hottentots Japan France, Isle of Guinea Pig Monkey Java Freshet Gulf Streamin Bay Jerusalem Frigid Zones Gum Tree Hudson's Ri. Jesuits Frost Hugonots Jews Humane So- Jiboya G. H. Humming Judicial As- Bird trology Gazette Harmattan Hurricane Juno Georgia Harmonic Hyena Jupiter Gin-Seng Ichneumon Kelp Glaciers Hecla Ignis Fatuus Kennebeck Gnat Indulgencies Kilda Killer Long-Island Missisippi N. Hampshire Glass Mocking Bird N. York City Louisiana Mohawks Niagara Knout Madagascar Moloch Nightingale Monati Nightshade Monks Nineveh Monongahela Nootka Sound Monsoons N. America Month N. Carolina Mufti Obi Lebanon Mecca Mumbo Jum- Ohio River Murex Mercury N. Lima Merino Sheep Nantucket Ordeal |
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