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THE CHILD’S OWN STORY BOOK:ORTALES AND DIALOGUES FOR THE NURSERY.BY MRS. JERRAM,(Late Jane Elizabeth Holmes.)

THE CHILD’S OWN STORY BOOK:

TALES AND DIALOGUES FOR THE NURSERY.

BY MRS. JERRAM,

(Late Jane Elizabeth Holmes.)

Illustrated with numerous Engravings. Elegantly bound, with gold stamp on the side. New Edition, with additional embellishments. Price 50 Cents.

Author’s Preface.—In writing the following pages, my most earnest desire has been to awaken in the hearts of little children, kindly and affectionate feelings towards each other, submission and loving confidence towards their parents, and reverence and love towards God. This I have attempted in describing scenes and objects, most of which must be familiar to every child. The language I have used is the easiest I could command, so that a child of three years old may understand it.

“One short sentence at the end of the story respecting ‘the little plant that grew in a deep valley,’ will fairly unfold the character and spirit of the book.

‘This simple white blossom is like a good little child, dwelling not in the sunshine of pride and self-conceit, but in the calm shade of meekness, in the deep valley of submission. Such a little one will the Lord of Heaven behold and love.’

Wayward as we ourselves may be, we wish that our children may be all that is amiable, and good, and one way to make them so is to put the ‘Child’s Own Story Book’ in their hands; they will imbibe knowledge and strengthen virtue by the perusal of it.“—Courier and Enquirer.

“Our juvenile friends will be thankful to the publisher for so beautiful a present. It is a book which parents may safely put into the hands of their children.”—Banner of the Cross.

A NEW BOOK OF FAIRY TALES.THEPRIZE STORY BOOK,CONSISTINGCHIEFLY OF TALES,TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, FRENCH, AND ITALIAN;TOGETHER WITHSELECT TALES FROM THE ENGLISH.ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS FROM NEW DESIGNSOne thick volume, 16mo., neatly bound in cloth gilt.

A NEW BOOK OF FAIRY TALES.

THE

PRIZE STORY BOOK,

CONSISTING

CHIEFLY OF TALES,

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, FRENCH, AND ITALIAN;

TOGETHER WITH

SELECT TALES FROM THE ENGLISH.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS FROM NEW DESIGNS

One thick volume, 16mo., neatly bound in cloth gilt.

“Should children and young people be permitted to read fairy tales?” Those who are best qualified by learning, piety, and extensive observation of mankind, to form a correct judgment in the case, reply yes, by all means. The reason is obvious; well chosen fictions of this class improve the heart by delighting the fancy. They strew the path of instruction with the most brilliant flowers of imagination. They approve themselves naturally to all classes of readers. They compose a part of the literature of all nations—and that the most ancient and most rational part. They form a delightful portion of every well informed person’s recollections of childhood. They have become like the classical mythology of Greece and Rome, the subject of allusions throughout all modern literature. Every well read scholar understands these allusions, and every young person should qualify himself to understand them by reading the stories, while the memory is fresh and strong.

LUCY AND ARTHUR;A BOOK FOR CHILDREN.ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.Elegantly bound in muslin.PRICE FIFTY CENTS.

LUCY AND ARTHUR;

A BOOK FOR CHILDREN.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

Elegantly bound in muslin.

PRICE FIFTY CENTS.

Contents.—I. The Nursery. II. The Little Black Pony. III. The Little Gardens. IV. The Day’s Work. V. The Walk. VI. Mamma’s Stories. VII. Papa’s Stories. VIII. Sunday.

“This is a book in advance of the ‘Very Little Tales,’ and intended for older lads and misses, to whom it will doubtless prove an acceptable gift.”

“The embellishments are well engraved, and the ornamental work is in a novel style, quite attractive and appropriate. The humorous and pathetic verses scattered through the volume, will prove a very popular feature among the young people. Mr. Appleton has judged well in commencing a series of juvenile books, in which the matter and the embellishments are made the objects of sedulous attention. Such juvenile books are wanted; and parents are willing to make some little sacrifice in order that the moral and intellectual tastes of their children may be gratified with appropriate food.”—U. S. Gazette.

“It is delightful to survey the increasing facilities for the diffusion of knowledge, and especially among children. Not always, it is true, does the enlargement of intellect insure the increase of virtue, but it is an efficient method to counteract the tendency to vice, and to elevate the taste above the grovelling pursuits of life. It was a wise saying of Newton—‘if I want a bushel of wheat without any tares, all I have to do is to fill the bushel first with wheat.’ Thus, we say, if it is desired to keep a child in the path of security and uprightness, fill its mind with the principles of love, of decorum and truth.”—Courier and Enquirer.

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BOOKSELLER, PUBLISHER AND IMPORTER,

No. 148 CHESTNUT STREET,

OPPOSITE THE ARCADE,

PHILADELPHIA,

HAS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A CHOICE STOCK OF ENGLISH BOOKS,

In Theology, History, Biography, Poetry, Voyages and Travels, Architecture and Engineering. His stock of American publications is unusually large, comprising all the important publications of the day, including a large assortment of Miscellaneous, School, Classical and Juvenile Books.

All new publications received as soon as published.

Strangers visiting the city would do well to call and examine his extensive stock in every department of Literature.

Persons at a distance desiring any particular work published in Europe or America, can have the same carefully forwarded.

Booksellers, Country Merchants and News Agents, supplied with Books at a very liberal discount.

All orders will meet with prompt attention.

Gentlemen forming libraries will do well to favour him with their orders, as they will probably save 20 per cent. in price, and will have the satisfaction of having their orders carefully attended to.

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CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE;A Romaunt.BY LORD BYRON.One Volume, 16mo. Beautifully illustrated with eight Engravings.Elegantly printed on the finest paper; and boundin splendid binding.

CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE;

A Romaunt.

BY LORD BYRON.

One Volume, 16mo. Beautifully illustrated with eight Engravings.

Elegantly printed on the finest paper; and bound

in splendid binding.

Childe Harold, undoubtedly the greatest poem of its noble author, will exist as an imperishable monument of his genius, and be admired as long as there remains a love of the true and beautiful in poetry. Had it been the only poem that Byron ever wrote, he would still have ranked amongst the first of English poets.

From its acknowledged merit and great popularity, it is surprising that a handsome edition should not have appeared before in the American market. To supply this obvious want, and to furnish a splendid present at a small price, which would be acceptable to every one, has been the aim of the publisher. The present edition is issued in a convenient and beautiful 16mo. size, printed with new, clear type, on paper of the finest quality manufactured expressly for it. The illustrations, eight in number, are taken from theedition de luxe, published by Murray in London, designed by the first artists, and are the most beautiful wood engravings ever executed in this country. The binding, either in cloth, silk, or morocco, is executed in the very best and most tasty style. The book is truly

A MOST SPLENDID PRESENT.

SKETCHESOFIRISH CHARACTER;BY MRS. S. C. HALL.

SKETCHES

IRISH CHARACTER;

BY MRS. S. C. HALL.

Splendidly illustrated with 60 engravings on steel and wood, engraved in the finest style. One volume, royal 8vo. Richly bound in cloth, extra gilt edges, $3 50, or magnificently bound in morocco, $4 00. With the steel engravings coloured, $4 50.

Of these delightful sketches it is almost unnecessary to speak, as the extensive sale of the work, and the unqualified praise it has received both in England and this country, have now classed it among standard works of its class. For profound knowledge of the Irish character, for depth of thought, for sprightliness and vivacity of style, for a deep knowledge of the main springs of the human heart either excited by love or anger, and for the art of touching the soul and exciting the sympathy of the reader for her heroes or heroines in her tales of passion and violence, these sketches stand unrivalled, drawn by a woman, and in such a style as only a woman of so great power as Mrs. Hall could do. The illustrations, typography, and binding, are in keeping with the high character of the book, and render it

A TRULY SPLENDID PRESENT.

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