Excerpt from Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations: Containing the History of the World to the Autumn of 1881
The design of the Author has been to attempt the Compression of the greatest body of general information that has ever appeared in a single volume, and to produce a Book Of Reference whose extensive usefulness may render its posses~ sion material to every individual - in the same manner that a London Directory is indispensable, on business affairs, to a London merchant.
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