ADVERTISEMENT. THIS Small Volume is designed both to excite in Children a love of reading, and also to gratify those in whom this feeling exists. As far as possible it has been attempted to make the pieces simple, so as to be adapted to very young children; and also short, that they might not weary by their tediousness. It will be seen that variety is the order of the book, from the beginning to the end. The design of the whole is to interest, to please, and to instruct. No sectarian sentiments will be found in its pages, but a constant reference to those self-evident Bible Truths, in which all Evangelical Christians are agreed. Many of the articles are selections from a wide range of |