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Otago Daily Times, Issue 1690, 31 May 1867, Page 7

PUBLICATION. «\HE FAMILY HERALD: A Domestic ■*• Magazine of Useful Information and Amusement. \ mKE FAMILY HERALD, Weekly, Id. mSE FAMILY HERALD, Monthly, 64 WEE FAMILY HERALD, Annual -*> Volumes, 7s 6d. mSE FAMILY HERALD, Complete Scte, *• Twenty-throo Volumes, £0. \ mHE FAMILY HERALD. ■*• All the back numbers are in print, art may be had by order of any Bookseller. fJIHE FAMILY HERALD. ■*• Registered for transmission abroad. Tho'SATURDAY REVIEW says:—"The 'Family Herald' stands at the head, both in age and popularity, of all the penny Beriala. The editor is tho confidant and confessor in every station of Ufe. The answers to correspondents cannot bo fictitious, a romance and a life history being embodied in almost each of them/ The ILLUSTRATED LONDON HEWS, inreference to puro literature, Bays:— "•The 'Family Herald,' that joy to , tens of thousands of innocent English households.'* The BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW ! B»ya t—" The «Family Herald' is well ' considered, with reference to its aims, and is various and amusing, with a fair amount of utility intermixed. Of aS ties© weekly aerials, wo aro inclined t© consider tho 'Family Herald* the : best." The LITERARY GAZETTE says ;—« *It most be said of the ' Family Herald* that it is the purest reading of all purely amusing literature." Tho BOOKSELLER says:—"For amusing reading, such as may be admitted to ©no's household. without fear of conquenees, wo may recommend the * Family Herald.' You get portions of a well-written novel, novelettes, useful information interspersed throughOut, answers to correspondents, alone worth the money, and other matters, which will make readers either merrier or wiser, or perhaps both." LEIGH HUNT, in his "Autobiography," says :—"I call out every week for ray * Family Herald,' a penny publication qualified to inform the bewt of ita contemporaries." LEADING and SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES. "There is a well-considered leading article or essay, every week, upon some subject of an instructive or thoughtful character,"-— "British Quarterly Review.* "The essays are excellent specimens of strong, vigorous writing.' —" Cheltenham Journal." NOVELS AND TALES.—"Its novel* and tales are quite as well written as tho best circulating library stories." — "Saturday Review." "Under tho head of the 'Story Toller,' we have novel and tales simpler and purer in structure than in the pages of the other penny aerials."—" British Quarterly Review." "Many of its tales, if given as three-volume novels, would find their way to every reading-room and library in the kingdom."—" Plymouth Herald." ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.— Ita correspondence is great upon curioQa matters, and opening up forgotten treasures. *'— " Gloucester Chronicle," "The answers to eon-espon. dents afford an insight to the opera, tiona of the heart and mind of society, which cannot be obtained elsewhere," —"ThoWelchniau." POETRY.—"There are charming verses let into ita pages, like sunshine, to brighten them." — "British Quarterly Review," "Its poetical contributions are of a high character, and show that a clever supervision is exercised over this interesting department of the paper."—"Derby Telegraph." RANDOM READINGS.-" An anthology of stray humor, most judiciously selected."—" British Quarterly Review.' "Its Random Readings are the recognised modern Joe Miller,"—" Brighton Gazette," FAMILY MATTERS.—"Recipes and instructions in household matters, ex* cellent in their way, are given week by week."—" British Quarterly Review." "It contains admirable instructions to housekeepers, the choice of provisions, and housekeeping generally."—"Derbyshire Advertiser." THERIDDLER.—"A fund of amusement v afforded to the home circle in its capital riddles, puzzles, enigmas, charades, and rebuses."—"Brighton Examiner." "The beginner will learn considerably from its arithmetical and mercantile questions j while the more practised will find much to work at in the mathematical, astronomical, nautical, and scientific questions, with the advantage of solutions, which are given in exienso.—-"Cambridge Chronicle.* Loadoa: W. Stkvess, 321, Strand. And may be had by order of every BookBslieriaOtago. *