Lately published, by the same Author, in 4 vols. 8vo, 84s., with Nine

Steel Portraits and 342 Illustrations on Wood,

Lives of the Engineers;

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR PRINCIPAL WORKS, AND A HISTORY OF INLAND COMMUNICATION IN BRITAIN.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, &c.

"There may be many here who have made themselves acquainted with a book that cannot be too widely brought into public notice-I mean the recent publication of a popular author, Mr. Smiles, entitled 'The Lives of the Engineers.' There may be those here who have read the Life of Brindley, and perused the record of his discouragement in the tardiness of his own mind, as well as in the external circumstances with which he determined to do battle, and over which he achieved his triumph. There may be those who have read the exploits of the blind Metcalfe, who made roads and bridges in England at a time when nobody else had learned to make them. There may be those who have dwelt with interest on the achievements of Smeaton, Rennie, and Telford. In that book we see of what materials Englishmen are made. These men, who have now become famous among us, had no mechanics' institute, no libraries, no classes, no examinations to cheer them on their way. In the greatest poverty, difficulties, and discouragements, their energies were found sufficient for their work, and they have written their names in a distinguished page of the history of their country. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone at Manchester.

"I have just been reading a work of great interest, which I recommend to your notice I mean Smiles's 'Lives of the Engineers.' No more interesting books have been published of late years than those of Mr. Smiles-his 'Lives of the Engineers,' his 'Life of George Stephenson,' and his admirable little book on 'Self-Help' -a most valuable manual.". The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote at Exeter.

"Mr. Smiles has profoundly studied, and has happily delineated in his lucid and instructive biographies, that remarkable succession of gifted minds which has, not by lucky guesses, but by incessant labour and by life-long thought, gradually erected that noble example of dominion of man over the earth-the science of Engineering; and we are proud to know that there are men yet among us who can wield the arms of the invincible knights of old, and who will leave no meaner memory behind them."Quarterly Review.

"We cannot but refer in passing to the captivating and instructive volumes which Mr. Smiles has devoted to the Lives of the Engineers,' a record not before attempted of the achievements of a race of men who have conferred the highest honour and the most extensive benefits on their country. Who are the great men of the present age?' said Mr. Bright a few nights ago in the House of Commons,-Not your warriors-not your statesmen; they are your Engineers.""-Edinburgh Review.

"A chapter of English history which had to be written, and which, probably, no one could have written so well. Mr. Smiles has obtained a mass of original materials. It is not too much to say that we now have an Engineers' Pantheon, with a connected narrative of their successive reclamations from sea, bog, and fen; a history of the growth of the inland communication of Great Britain by means of its roads, bridges, canals, and railways; and a survey of the lighthouses, breakwaters, docks, and harbours constructed for the protection and accommodation of our commerce with the world."-Times.

"In two handsome volumes, richly illustrated and luxuriously printed, Mr. Smiles begins what is in fact a History of the results of Engineering Science in this country. He puts his history into the most interesting form by developing it through successive stories of the Lives of the Engineers. Although his subject is one of the most curious and important in the whole history of civilisation, and abounds in details that are known to delight even our boys, the ground Mr. Smiles traverses is to a remarkable degree his own peculiar possession."--Examiner.

Lately published, by the same Author, post 8vo., 6s.,

Industrial Biography:

IRON-WORKERS AND TOOL-MAKERS.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"Mr. Smiles has hit upon a rich vein of ore, and works it with great success. He has the art of biography, which is by no means so easy of attainment as, judging from the number of persons who attempt this species of composition, one would imagine t to be. Memoirs are countless, but the number of biographies that can be accepted as successful works of art are very few indeed. Mr. Smiles is not only a skilful workman, but he has chosen a new field of work. Many of the facts which he places before us are wholly new, and are derived from the most likely sources. Thus, Maudslay's partner Mr. Joshua Field, and his pupil Mr. Nasmyth, supplied the materials for his biography. Mr. John Penn supplied the chief material for the memoir of Clement. And so of the other memoirs; though they necessarily go over much well-trodden ground, they contain also much original information, expressed with great clearness, and with a practised skill which renders the reader secure of entertainment in every page."-Times.

"This is not a very large book, but it is astonishing how much individual, conscientious, and thoroughly original research has been required for its composition, aal how much interesting matter it contains which we possess in no other form. Mr. Smiles rescues no name, but many histories, from oblivion. His heroes are known and gratefully remembered for the benefits they have conferred on mankind, but our knowledge of our benefactors has hitherto been mostly confined to our knowledge of the benefit. It was reserved for Mr. Smiles to discover in the workshop heroes as true as ever hurled their battalions across a battle-field, and to present us with much-enduring, muchendeavouring, and brave men, where hitherto we had been content with disembodied, almost meaningless names. The present work is farther distinguished, not indeed from its predecessors, but from much of the current literature, by the exquisitely-pellucid English, the vigorous but unobtrusive style, in which the narratives are conveyed. The value of the work before us is doubled, and the time required for perusing, and especially for consulting it halved, by the full and minute index in which its contents are tabulated."—Edinburgh Daily Review.

"Mr. Smiles, in his well-known, sensible, straightforward way, has given us in this 'Industrial Biography,' first, a rapid sketch of the history of iron and the smith in Britain, then of the beginnings and progress of the iron-manufacture here, and the 'mynurs' who perfected it; and, lastly, of the mechanical inventions, and the inventors. that turned into tools and machines the metal which the manufacturers produced. The book is a history of iron in Britain, in the most interesting form that such a history can take-a series of the biographies of the men whose brains invented the successive improvements in the treatment of the ore and metal; and the lives are told in the style fitted to them-plain, vigorous, untricky English, fit for man and boy to read."-Reader.

"This is one of the most delightful books we have ever read. It is at once praetical, instructive, and suggestive. Whoever wishes to benefit his young friends wid present them every one with a copy of this book. Whatever struggling mechanic who, feeling that there is something beyond what he now knows or can execute, yet hesitates or fears, let him read this book. It is a sovereign panacea for doubt or cowardice. Whoever takes delight in watching the development of knowledge and in ascertaining the sources of the privileges which surround him, let him possess himself of this book, and we can promise him a treat of no ordinary character.”—Shemed Daily Telegraph.

"Mr. Smiles has a fluent pen, and a simple, elegant, captivating style, which lenis to his narrative the greatest possible charm. Altogether unpretending in itself, the book is one of the most valuable of recent contributions to our literature. It des not profess to be exhaustive of the subject of which it treats; but it will be far Lore widely read, and much more valuable to the student, than many a much more pretentions production. It is, indeed, impossible to read it without profit; and we are disposed to class it, without disparagement of others, as the best and most interesting of the valuable books which Mr. Smiles has written.' - -Morning Star.

Lately published, by the same Author, post 8vo, 5s.,

"Self-Help;

OU CARACTÈRE, CONDUITE, ET PERSEVERANCE

ILLUSTRÉS A L'AIDE DE BIOGRAPHIES.

TRADUIT DE L'ANGLAIS, PAR ALFRED TALANDIER,

SUR LE TEXTE REVU ET CORRIGÉ PAR L'AUTEUR.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"Le succès de cet ouvrage, qui s'est répandu comme par enchantement dans les mains de la jeunesse, dans les bibliothèques des villes et des villages, dans les cottages des ouvriers, est un remarquable indice des tendances du génie anglo-saxon. Le titre à lui seul est à peu près intraduisible: Self-Help' (aide-toi toi-même). Une grande sagesse qu'on pourrait appeler la splendeur du bon sens, comme Platon définissait le beau la splendeur du vrai, tel est le caractère qui distingue surtout Self-Help.' La traduction de M. Talandier est à la fois fidèle, nerveuse et élégante; elle contribuera à propager en France les saines idées de M. Smiles."-Revue des Deux Mondes. "Le Self-Help,' ou Caractère, Conduite et Persévérance,' est un livre honnête et sérieux qu'on lit à petits coups, en le savourant; il est écrit pour les enfants avec une simplicité voulue; il vous dit que la pauvreté est sainte, que l'homme ne doit se soucier que de sa conscience; il honore l'industrie, enseigne le courage, relève les faibles, humilie les forts, vous dicte des maximes pour toutes les circonstances de la vie, et appuie tous ses conseils d'une anecdote qui sert d'exemple."-Le Monde Illustré.

"Le livre de M. Smiles est une nouvelle Morale en action,' mais elle a l'avantage d'être complète, méthodique, raisonnée, et surtout appropriée aux goûts et aux tendances modernes. La plupart des ouvrages de morale (cela est triste à dire, mais vrai), sont ennuyeux; les auteurs semblent trop compter sur le mérite de leur sujet, et ils ne se donnent pas la peine d'ajouter quelques ornements à la vérité. Il en résulte que la sévérité de la forme nuit aux sérieuses qualités du fond, et que plus d'un bon livre reste lettre close pour ceux qui auraient le plus d'intérêt à le connaître. 'Self-Help' est écrit dans un genre tout différent : c'est la morale la plus pure et la plus saine présentée sous la forme la plus attrayante: c'est un ouvrage dont la lecture offre, plus que toute autre, plaisir et profit."- Revue de l'Instruction Publique.

"Ne t'attends qu'à toi seul, c'est un commun proverbe,' a dit notre immortel Lafontaine. Cette utile vérité vient d'être mise en lumière, ou pour mieux dire, développée, dans un bon livre anglais dont je veux vous parler. Self-Help, S'aider soi-même,' c'est ne pas hésiter devant le travail du jour, c'est résister à sa paresse, à son égoïsme, à la pente de ses vices de toute sorte, et en un mot, se vaincre soi-même. Quelle victoire! Rappelez-vous ce mot d'un ancien: Si tu parviens à te vaincre toi-même, tu vaincras le monde.' . . . Bref, le 'Self-Help,' qui vient d'être traduit en français, est un plaidoyer éloquent en faveur de la confiance en soi-même, sans orgueil toutefois et sans mépris des autres, et de l'aristocratie humaine et sociale du travail dans toutes ses applications. Vous qui voulez apprendre à quelle école se forment les hommes, j'entends de ces êtres rarissimes que cherchait Diogène à la lueur de sa lanterne,-lisez et méditez le 'Self-Help.'"-La Sentinelle du Jura.”

"Je veux vous parler ici d'un bon livre. Les livres abondent; mais, dans ce fatras de papiers imprimés et réunis en faisceaux de toutes formes et de toutes dimensions, à quels signes particuliers reconnaîtrons nous les bons livres ? . . . M. Ampère définissait ainsi un grand nombre d'ouvrages parus en ce temps: Ce sont des œuvres qui intéressent et souvent même qui attachent: mais, quand on a fini de lire, on éprouve une singulière impression: il semble qu'on ait besoin de brosser son habit et de se laver les mains.' Les bons livres sont une nourriture plus ou moins délicate, mais saine et fortifiante, qui procure la santé de l'âme et de la conscience. On se sent meilleur, plus heureux même, à mesure qu'on en suit les douces pages, et, plus tard, c'est avec un esprit content qu'on s'en souvient. Il en coule, en effet, de l'espérance et de la foi, tout ce qu'il nous faut pour être satisfaits du présent, et pour affronter paisiblement l'avenir. 'Self-Help' est un livre précieux à tous ces titres, et je ne saurais trop vous le recommander.. Le livre de M. Smiles, traduit en français par M. Alfred Talandier, obtiendra tout le succès qu'il mérite, le succès d'une bonne et vertueuse action."-Le Moniteur du Soir.

Lately published, by the same Author, post 8vo, 6s. each,

James Brindley

AND THE EARLY ENGINEERS.

[ABRIDGED FROM "LIVES OF THE ENGINEERS."]

Story of the Life of George Stephenson,

CONTAINING ALSO A MEMOIR OF HIS SON, ROBERT STEPHENSON,

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[ABRIDGED FROM LIVES OF THE ENGINEERS."]

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"We have taken the facts in this account of Brindley from a delightful popular edition of that part of Mr. Smiles's 'Lives of the Engineers' which tells of him and of the earlier water engineers. Of Mr. Smiles's 'Lives of George and Robert Stephenson' there is a popular edition as a companion volume, and therein all may read, worthily told, the tale of the foundation and of the chief triumphs of that new form of engineering which dealt with water, not by the river-full but by the bucket-full, and made a few buckets of water strong as a river to sweep men and their goods and their cattle in a mighty torrent from one corner of the country to another."-All the Year Round.

"It would be impossible to have selected two more valuable works for general circulation in a cheap form, or to have given the working-classes a better incentive, not to rest and be thankful' with their present position and attainments, but to become convinced that the path of success is always open to those who, by patience and perseverance, are determined to pursue it. No one knows better than Mr. Smiles how to promote this important object; and no one is a greater benefactor to his fellow-men than himself, since by his talent and discrimination he incontestably proves how 'Heaven helps those who help themselves.'"-Bell's Weekly Messenger.

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"The Story of the Life of George Stephenson' (including a memoir of his so Robert Stephenson), is a cheaper and more compact form of a work which, on its first appearance, was received with universal approbation. Now we have it cheaper and handier-and better than ever. Is it not enough to say this much? Could we say more? James Brindley and the Early Engineers' was originally published in "The Lives of the Engineers.' Two volumes like these cannot fail to be as widely circulated as is the reputation of those whom they commemorate. They will go through the length and breadth, and into the nooks and corners of the land; and they deserve to go wherever the English language prevails, for they are models of their kind."— Standard.

"The life of James Brindley' is partly a reproduction of the Life of Brindley, originally published in the Lives of the Engineers,' and now forms a companion volume to the Life of Stephenson'-the two men having so much in common, that having read the life of one, we look to the other with increased interest; what one achieved for railways, the other achieved for canals, each being great in his particular branch. There are several other lives of engineers given--such as Sir Hugh Myddelton, Vermuyden, and Captain Perry; and a very curious memoir of Pierre Riquet, the French Brindley, whose life is incorporated in the French edition of 'Self-Help,' published in Paris. As in the Lives of the Stephensons,' the liberality of the publisher is evinced in making the work, though adapted for the general public, perfect in every respect; it teems with illustrations of the most curious nature, which evidently, from their character, must have been collected with infinite labour. No one will read the lives of Brindley and his brother engineers without that glow of satisfaction that rises within us from feeling that these men were thoroughly English in every respect, and that the works illustrating their lives are models also of English literature.”—News of the World.

ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON,
October, 1866.

MR. MURRAY'S

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Fcap. 8vo. 48.

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Customs of India. Post 8vo. 2s.

ESOP'S FABLES. A New Translation.

With Historical

Preface. By Rev. THOMAS JAMES. With 100 Woodcuts, by TENNIEL and WOLF. 50th Thousand. Post Svo. 2s. 6d.

AGRICULTURAL (THE) JOURNAL. Of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 8vo. Published half-yearly.

AIDS TO FAITH: a Series of Theological Essays. By various Writers. Edited by WILLIAM THOMSON, D.D., Archbishop of York. 8vo. 9s.

AMBER-WITCH (THE). The most interesting Trial for Witchcraft ever known. Translated from the German by LADY DUFF GORDON. Post 8vo. 2s.

ARCHITECTURE OF AHMEDABAD, with Historical Sketch and Architectural Notes by T. C. HOPE, and JAMES FERGUSSON, F.R.S. With 2 Maps, 120 Photographs, and 22 Woodcuts. 4to. 51. 58.

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