Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Fairy-Land of Science
The publishers of the Fairy-land of Science, with the assistance of the talented authoress, have considerably extended the original volume, adding to it more or less extended notices of the latest scientific discoveries in the departments treated, and amplifying with fuller detail such portions as have grown in importance and interest since the first publication of the work more than twenty years ago. A careful revision has, as far as practicable, eliminated all errors and also all words which, on account of their almost exclusive use in England, are not likely to be easily understood by children in the United States. American instead of English examples are given to illustrate statements of general scientific truths, and, in fact, the whole letter-press has been carefully and thoroughly edited in the endeavour to adapt it to the use and enjoyment of our children at home.
The work has also been largely re-illustrated.
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