We recommend Time's Telescope as a work replete with curious information, and arranged with much taste and judgment, which may be consulted with considerable advantage by the Antiquary and the lover of Natural History, as well as by all classes of readers who can feel any pleasure in the perusal of an interesting volume.' -Literary Chronicle, Jan. 1, 1820. "This elegantly printed volume is admirably calculated for the important purpose of forming the taste and correcting the judgment of the rising generation. The respectable place which this book occupies in some established seminaries, will doubtless recommend it generally to the attention of such as are engaged in the business of instruction.'-Antijacobin Review, Dec. 1819. "We hail with pleasure the annual re-appearance of Time's Telescope, which presents, in an easy, popular style, with judicious arrangement, clear and copious illustrations of almost every day in the Calendar, not only in regard to Saints' Days and Holidays, but also memorable events of the earliest times down to the passing year. The Naturalist's Diary for each month is interesting to all classes, for the specific information it contains, as well as for the pleasing view it affords of God's Providence at all seasons. He who takes up this little volume must be wiser, and perhaps better, before he lays it down.'-Sun, Jan, 18, 1820. This ingenious and amusing Miscellany has, for some time past, obtained a distinguished rank among the annual publications of the day.'-New Times, Jan. 27, 1820. Notices of Time's Telescope for 1821. TIME flies so rapidly, that a Telescope becomes necessary to look at him when past, and is not less amusing to examine him as he approaches. Time also is that which we can never reform, but still we may improve it: and if it be a mark of wisdom to make the most of our time, it must be allowed that the Editor of the work before us has equally succeeded; for he has not only improved the past to make it useful for the present, but has also made the most of the future, by showing that almost every day in the year is good for something. He who wishes to know why one day is more remarkable than another? Why he must eat mince-pies at Christmas, or Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday? Why he must eat goose at Michaelmas, or be made a goose of on All-Fools-Day?—he who wishes to turn his Telescope on human events, or on the Heavens ;-he who wishes to be directed, agreeably to the season, in his observations of nature, enlivened and illustrated by apt quotations from our best poets; or who, in short, wishes to know what time was and will be, cannot fail of gratifying his curiosity by a reference to this useful little parlourwindow book. It has been before the public for some years, and is M m now considerably improved in arrangement, as well as in quantity; so that those possessed of former volumes will find that the prescut is far from being a twice-told tale: even if it were only for the very popular mode in which the interesting subject of Ornithology is treated, rendering it perfectly intelligible to youthful capacities, whilst older readers may find much that they have forgotten. In short, we wish it, and our readers, a happy new year !— Sun, December 20, 1820. With regard to the poetical citations with which this work abounds, it may be said with truth, that, in collecting the numerous flowers that are continually dropping from the garland of the Muses, the author has contrived to form a tasteful annual bouquet, combining the Elegant Extracts of modern Poetry.'-Gentleman's Magazine, Dec. 1820. 'Time's Telescope blends something of the character which belongs to the Literary Pocket Book with that of a general Almanack ; but at the same time possessing features different from either of these and peculiar to itself; and being altogether much more useful and compendious, than both.'-Baldwin's London Magazine, Feb. 1821. "To" catch Time by the forelock" is an old, homely, but useful saw; but the editor of the work before us seems also to have caught him by the skirt, so multifarious are the subjects which he has rescued from the oblivious grasp of that fell tyrant. There is a time for all things, and this appears to be the eighth time of bringing these very useful reminiscences before the public; not as a mere recapitulation of former editions, but each time with a novelty of selection and a usefulness of reference, that make each edition a new work, whilst they render the series a very convenient adjunct to every library where a ready reference is more particularly required. We trust the author may continue his labours through many new editions; and that WE shall be his reviewers.'-New Monthly Magazine, March 1821. 6 "We feel great pleasure in announcing another volume of this most amusing and valuable series. In conformity with the plan of all the former numbers, which gave each a familiar epitome of some useful and interesting science, the present volume is enriched by an excellent treatise of British Ornithology. In noticing this work last year, we expressed unequivocally our approbation of its plan and execution; but we have since felt that our faint praise' approached something near to injustice-not only to the author and compiler, but to our readers, and especially to that most interesting and important portion of them-to provide whom with innocent enjoyments, and to form whose minds to a temper of sincere piety and inflexible morality, is the first of duties with those who exercise the influence of the Press. Of the moral and religious tendency of 'Time's Tele scope,' (and in this, as in all other respects, the character of all the volumes is uniform) it is not possible to speak too highly; but it unhappily sometimes happens, that moral and religious books, like individuals of the same estimable qualities, limit the sphere of their beneficial influence by a repulsive severity of demeanour, and a contempt for the lesser virtues-the graces of life. Far different is the character of Time's Telescope; every day it offers some agreeable and seasonable subject for conversation or reflection; diversified with a variety, which can never tire; specimens of poetry by living authors, which charm by their merits and their novelty, or the still higher enjoyment of the revived treasures of our antient writers.Astronomy, Natural History, and Botany, carried on regularly through the seasons. History, Chronology, in short quodcunque agunt ho mines, so disposed, as irresistibly to compel the most indolent involuntarily to inform himself, without in the least knowing why. The importance of such an acquisition to the possessor of a limited library, cannot be appreciated; and we speak with perfect sincerity when we say, that we never met a book so well suited to the parlour window, or one so well calculated to steal youth imperceptibly into all the departments of knowledge which form a polite education, and through those up to that wisdom, compared with which, the most exalted results of human science are but as foolishness.'St. James's Chronicle, Dec. 16, 1820. This year's Almanack will be found quite as entertaining and as instructive as the best of its predecessors.'-Antijacobin Review, Dec. 1820. 'Seven preceding volumes have attested the zeal, the industry, and the ingenuity of the author of 'Time's Telescope;' and, although it might be supposed that the customs observed on particular days would have been long ago exhausted, yet something to the purpose is still yielded to diligent research; while the ever varying field of nature presents a rich and exhaustless store on which the author can draw freely, and thus render one great feature in Time's Telescope, the Naturalist's Calendar, perpetually novel and interesting. The Introduction to the present volume gives what is modestly termed the Outlines of Ornithology, but which, in fact, is a brief but connected view of that interesting branch of natural history. On the whole, the volume for the present year is equal to any of its predecessors; and we, perhaps, could not pay a higher compliment to a work which has, for seven successive years, enjoyed so large a share of public approbation.'-Literary Chronicle, Dec. 23, 1820. 'To young persons, either in town or country, this volume will be very acceptable, as it will furnish them, in one case, with much novel and amusing instruction; and, in the other, will prove an agreeable guide to many of those pursuits which are the peculiar charm of a country residence. We know not any publication of a similar nature in which there is a better union of pleasure and amusement.'-Monthly Magazine, Jan, and July 1821. To be had of the Publishers of the present Volume, price 9s. each in boards; the eight following, embellished with elegant frontispieces, TIME'S TELESCOPE for 1815 (second edition), with an Introduction containing the PRINCIPLES OF Astronomy, and an Account of the FASTS AND FESTIVALS OF THE JEWS. TIME'S TELESCOPE for 1816, with an Introduction containing the ELEMENTS OF BOTANY, a Description of BRITISH FOREST TREES, and a HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY. TIME'S TELESCOPE for 1817, with an Introduction containing the PRINCIPLES OF Zoology, SKETCHES OF COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY, and General Index to the first four Volumes. TIME'S TELESCOPE for 1818, with an Introduction containing the OUTLINES OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY, and an Index. TIME'S TELESCOPE for 1819, with an Introduction containing a COMPENDIUM OF CHEMISTRY, a Description of BRITISH FRUIT TREES, and an Index. TIME'S TELESCOPE for 1820, with an Introduction containing the OUTLINES OF ENTOMOLOGY, and an Index. TIME'S TELESCOPE for 1821, with an Introduction containing the ELEMENts of British ORNITHOLOGY, and an Index. TIME'S TELESCOPE for 1822, with an Introduction containing the OUTLINES of CONCHOLOGY, and an Index. J. Compton, Printer, Middle Street, |