PLEASANT PAGES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE;OR, A BOOK OF HOME EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT.
PLEASANT PAGES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE;OR, A BOOK OF HOME EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT.
ByS. Prout Newcombe.With numerous Illustrations.75c.
☞ This work is designed for the pleasure and profit of young people; and, as the title indicates, intended as an aid to Home Education. The great variety of subjects presented, consisting of Moral Lessons, Natural History, History, Travels, Physical Geography, Object Lessons, Drawing and Perspective, Music, Poetry, etc., and withal, so skilfully treated as to make truth simple and attractive, renders it an admirable family book for winter evenings and summer days.
A very excellent book. History, philosophy, science, stories, and descriptions of games are all mingled together, and he who does not like the compound must be hard to please.—Post.
Pleasant pages, containing information on a great variety of subjects. Here we have science and art made plain and captivating. The lessons in drawing and perspective alone are worth the price of the volume. And then a thousand questions which the intelligent young mind raises are here answered.—Parlor Magazine.
This is indeed a home book of endless amusement.—Boston Atlas.
An admirable book of home education. We commend it to families.—Alb. Spec.
A work admirably adapted to the instruction and amusement of the young.—Reg.
A pleasant book, full of all sorts of information upon all sorts of subjects.—Jour.
One of the most delightful works for young people we have ever met with. Few persons, young or old, could examine its pages without gaining knowledge of a useful kind. It is one of the most successful combinations of the pleasant with the useful to be found.—Daily Advertiser.
A book of not only “pleasant pages,” but of singularlyinstructivepages. Even people not so very young might be profited by its perusal.—South Boston Gazette.
It presents much solid information, and opens before the young new fields of observation. The youngsters will clap their hands with joy.—Scientific American.
There is a great deal of valuable information communicated in a very simple and easy way. While it is full of useful instruction to children, it is also suggestive to those who are called to conduct their education.—Puritan Recorder.
We like this book: it is well fitted for the family library. The young like facts; when these are set forth in a pleasant way, the interest is greater than fiction ever awakens, unless the fiction is made to appear like truth.—Godey’s Ladies’ Book.
THE GUIDING STAR; or, The Bible God’s Message. ByLouisa Payson Hopkins.With Frontispiece.16mo, cloth, 50 cts.
An excellent work to put into the hands of youth. It is written in conversational style, and opens up most beautifully, and with great simplicity, the great leading evidences that the Bible contains God’s message to man. Those seeking after truth will find it worthy of frequent perusal.—Dr. Sprague,in Albany Spectator.
We cordially commend the work to parents, children, and Sabbath schools.—Cong.
This volume should be in the hands of every youthful reader, and adult persons would find it not only interesting, but instructive.—Ch. Chron.
The popular author of this book has conferred a favor on the public, for which she deserves something more thanthanks.—Ch. Secretary.
One of the most valuable books for youth that we have seen.—Cong. Journal.
A book of more than common excellence. How often have we wished that all the youth of our land might become familiar with its contents.—Ch. Mirror.