pieces are good, and the selections are very judiciously made; the whole forming a variety of matter which cannot fail to amuse and interest youth, as well as point out to them the way to become useful and happy members of society.

The author thus very pleasantly speaks of himself:

It is my desire to give you PLEASURE and PROFIT, and did I happen to know what would please you the most, I would commence with that subject; but as I do not, suppose, to make a beginning, I say something about myself.

When I was a child, I cried and laughed like other children. I ran around the room, played with my play things, climbed upon my father's knee, and rocked in my mother's lap, as children love to do.

When a boy, I ran with my schoolfellows in merry games, played "trap and ball," "I spy," and "hoop." I tried hard in my class to be a good scholar in arithmetic, geography, and grammar, and puzzled myself to comprehend the terrestrial and celestial globes.

When I became a man, I read and traveled, saw much of the world, reflected on what I saw, and had many opportunities to converse with wise and good men. And now, as I have been young myself, if I have any ability to amuse and instruct you, who are still young, it will afford me great pleasure to do so.

I love to talk, when I can give instruction as well as amusement to the young folks around me.

You may fancy, perhaps, that I have but little method in what I say; that I bring things which have no natural connexion with each other, and fly from little to great, and from great to little things, without order or apparent design. But consider, the bee does not devote one hour to roses, and another to violets, but roams indiscriminately from one flower to another, gathering honey from them all.

Now I wish to do the same thing, and if I bring you all the honey, surely you ought to be satisfied. What a world would this be if the people it contains were to be systematically placed, like soldiers, in masses and classes!—if all the oak trees of the earth grew by themselves, in one part, and all the elms in another! It is the mixture of the whole that it contains, which constitutes the beauty of the earth. When you see one thing in nature, you do not know what next the eye may gaze upon.

But I need not weary you with illustrations. Order is an excellent thing, and system is, at times, indispensable; but the world was never intended to be divided with the regularity of a checker-board. I shall tell you many stories. Some will be principally for your amusement; others will give you information that will be of value to you, or will contain good instruction, such as will, if you follow it, make you happier and better boys, and have some influence in making you, when you grow up, happier and bet

ter men.

We think the author has succeeded remarkably well in doing what he thus promises. He has not only gathered a great variety of flowers, but they are of the prettiest and sweetest kinds.

SCRIPTURE GEMS, morocco gilt. Price

25 cents.

Says the New-York Evangelist.

SCRIPTURE GEMS.-A verse for every day in the year. The smallest, prettiest, wee-bit of a thing we ever saw-designed for "grown folks."

PLEASURE AND PROFIT, Vol. III. or MARY AND FLORENCE. By Uncle Ar

thur. 18mo. Designed to convey religious instruction to the young-a good book for Sabbath School Libraries, &c.

MEMOIR OF THE EARLY LIFE OF

WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, with an Appondix, from the second London Edition. Price 37 cents.

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