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TO THE READER.

ALBEIT WE ARE an avowed enemy of Fashion, yet do we vastly
approve the fashion that recognises a short Preface.

All we need say, on issuing a FOURTH VOLUME, lies in a nut-
shell. Our friends are now so numerous-our fair fame is so extensive
-and our Information, gathered from all parts of the World, is so
interesting-that we have only to tender our best thanks to those who
have so bravely supported us; and to express the hope that we shall
win even more laurels ere we meet again.

The Contents of this Volume speak for themselves. An
endeavor has been made to render them amusing as instructive. To
produce, and arrange the subjects, has been a labor of love; and if our
readers feel, whilst perusing them, one twentieth part of the pleasure
we have experienced whilst preparing them for the public eye, then
will our fondest hopes be realised.

NEW ROAD, HAMMERSMITH,

January 2nd, 1854.

WILLIAM KIDD.

INDEX AND CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

Air, Value of, to the Roots of Plants, 250

Animal and Vegetable Sensation, 53

Ant, The, 356

Ants and Earwigs, to Destroy, 189

Arabian Scenery, 121

Ardent Spirits, 198, 312, 373

"Art

of Advertising, The, 222, 367

Art, Triumph of, 334

Ass, The, 63

Atmosphere and its Pressure, 141

Australia, Natural History of, 323

Crystal Palace, at Sydenham, The, 55, 181

Cuckoo, The, 276

Cypress, The, 124

Dardanelles, The, 254

Delicacy, "Extraordinary " Instance of, 192
Destructive Insects, 54

Dog, The, 39, 41, 42, 107, 109, 168, 172, 234,
236, 249, 296, 298, 361, 363, 374

Duration of Human Life, Averaged, 120

Earth, The, An Ocean of Melted Rock, 56

Earthquakes in the Tropics, 125

Auto-Biography of a Dog, 39, 107, 168, 234, 296, Echoes, Remarkable, 64, 249

England, Good by Compulsion, 245

England's National Failing, 32

English Climate, The, 254, 335

Cottage, An, 264

Modesty, 91

Engravings Copied by Iodine, 119

ESSAYS AND SKETCHES.

Autumnal Ramble, by "Our Editor," 209; Christ-

mas, 281, 295, 301, 305, 320, 352; Clouds of

Heaven, The, 260; Condescension, 81; Death,

The, of Summer, 214; Death Viewed as Sleep,

17; Education of Women in England and

America, 142; Essay on Good Taste, 68;

Fashionable Weddings, 272; Fashionable Fol-

lies, 273; First Oyster Eater, The, 95; Gen-

tleness and its Power, 5; Golden Rules of Life,

198;

Hints to Fast Men, 22; Hospitals of

London, 259; How to make Home "Happy,"

221; Human Heart, The, 193; Journey of Life,

The, 270; Little Children, 161; 'Little

Things," 159, 319, 337; Loves and the

Graces, 143; Man's Weak Point, 330;

Musings by a Benedict, 7; Nature's Master-

piece, the Mechanism of the Human Body,

65; Notes upon Notes, 129, 273; Our Mirror

of the Months, 34, 102, 171, 232, 294, 350,

353; Our Moral Nature, 365; Past, Present,

and Future, 321; Puffing Husbands and

Patient Wives, 74; Study of Natural His-

tory, 257; Summer, and more of its "Con-

sequences," 26; Thoughts on a Few Drops of

Water, 93; To-day and To-morrow, 197;

Travelling at Home and Abroad, 179; What

do we all Live for? 1; Wife, The, of a Literary

Man, 131; Wives, Useful and Useless, 86;

Women and Novels, 265; World's Kindness,

The, 203; Wrong Letter-Box, The, 66.