Improvement Era, 1898 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion

Book Review.

Popular Customs.

We have received from the house of J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia,

a copy of "CURIOSITIES OF POPULAR CUSTOMS, AND OF RITES, CEREMONIES, OBSERVANCES AND MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUITIES," by William S. Walsh. The work is a volume of more than a thousand pages, and yet of such form as not to be an unhandy volume. It is profusely illustrated with many rare cuts and engravings that add a charm to the subjects treated. It is a valuable encyclopedia on the curiosities of popular customs, and yet is an amusing as well as an instructive volume. One that will help the "busy man" pass a pleasant hour, as well as being indispensable as a work of reference to the student; for Mr. Walsh seems indeed to have explored all the odd nooks and corners of literature, and has brought from their hiding places and mingled with more serious information, and abundance of amusing anecdotes and queer sayings. In the libraries of our Improvement Associations it would be a very great help in furnishing materials for lectures and essays, and as such we commend it to the consideration of the librarians of our associations and to young men generally.

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