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Otago Daily Times, Issue 1789, 24 September 1867, Page 7

PUBLICATION, , mHE FAMILY HERALD : A Domestio -*- Magazine of Useful Informatitai and Amusement. • - , rr\HE FAMILY HERALD, Weekly, Id. fFHE FAMILY HERALD, Monthly, 6d. rnHE FAMILY HERALD, .= Anima -*• Volumes, 7s 6d* TIIHE FAMILY HERALD, Complete Sets, ■ -*■ Twenty-three Volumes,; £9. >TIHE FAMILY HERALD. ' . ■*■ All the back numbers are in print, an may fee had by order of any Bookseller. rjIEE FAMILY HERALD. ■ •*■ Registered for transmission abroad. The SATURDAY REVIEW says:— "The 'Family Herald' stands at the head, both in age and popularity, of all the penny serials. The editor is the confidant\and confessor in every station of life. The answers to correspondents cannot be fictitious, a romance and a life history being - embodied in almost each of them." . •' •- ' The ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWB, inrefetence to pure literature, says :•— y. "The:« Family Herald,' that joy to tens o£ thousands o£ innocent English ". households." ;.;■•. ; :. : ,•- , ;-, ,;■:--, v The BRITISH QU^TJEPiY REVIEW says:—" The'Famiiy Herald'is well considered, -with reference to its aims, and is various and amusing, -with a fair amount of utility intermixed., Of all these weekly serials, w® are inclined to consider, the ' family Herald' the best." . -;; " ; : . The LITERARY GAZETTE says :-^"lt must be said of the * Family Herald' that it is the purest reading of all purely amusing literature." The BOOKSELLER says:—"For amusing reading, such as may be admitted to One's household without fear of conquences, we may recommend the 'Family Herald.' You get"portions of a well-written novel, novelettes, useful information mtei'sperse& throughout, answers to correspondents, alone worth, the money, and other matters, which will ttiake readers either merrier or wiser, or perhaps both." LEIGH HUNT, in his " Autobiography," says:—"l call out every week for my 'Family Herald,' a penny publication qualified to inform the best of its con- : ••: temporaries." : LEADING^and SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES. " There jg a -well-conaidered 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 novels and tales are quite as well written as the best circulating library stories." "Saturday. Review.'' " Under ■= thehead of the * Story Teller,' we have novel and tales simpler and purer in structure than in the pages of the other penny serials."—" 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— Its correspondence is great upon curious matters, and opening up forgotten treasures."—" Gloucester Chronicle." "The answers to correspondents afford an insight to the operations of the heart and mind of society, ; which cannot be obtained elsewhere." —"The Welchman." POETRY.—"There are charming verses let into its pages, likesunshine, to brighten them." — "British Quarterly Review." "Its poetical contributions are, of a high character, and show that a clever supervision i 3 exercised over this interesting department of the paper."—"Derby Telegraph." RANDOM READINGS.—"An anthology 6f stray humor, most judiciously selected."—"British Quarterly Review.' '.'■lts.Random Readings are the recognised modem Joe Miller."—' • Brighton Gazette." ; : . FAMILY MATTERS.—" Recipes and instructions in household matters, excellent 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." THE REDDLER.—" A fund of amusement is 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; 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 extenso.—"Cambridge Chronicle." London: W. Stevens, 421, Strand. And may be had by order of every Book? seller in Otago.