PUBLISHED FOR WILLIAM KIDD, BY WILLIAM SPOONER, 379, STRAND; AND PROCURABLE, BY ORDER, OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. AGENT FOR DUBLIN, JOHN WISEHEART; EDINBURGH, J. MENZIES; M. DCCC. LII. TO THE READER. THE TIME HAS NOW COME for us to present our good friends, the Public, with our collected Thoughts of the last Six Months. If they experience only one-half the pleasure in reading, that we have felt whilst writing, our object will have been fully attained. So much, as regards ourselves. We need add nothing further,—excepting indeed a hearty acknowledgment of the kind offices rendered us by our literary friends and allies in the paths of Science. We owe them a heavy debt of gratitude for favors received, and for their having cheered us on by the way. Many have been our besetting difficulties; but by their aid, we have survived them all. Let us solicit a continuance of the same friendly offices; then shall we again appear in December-and with a still more interesting Volume, perhaps, than the present. NEW ROAD, HAMMERSMITH, July 1st, 1852. WILLIAM KIDD. |