Illustrated with one hundred engravings. 1 vol. 12mo. Price $1. "A book which children will laugh over by the hour, and read and re-read with renewed pleasure." A POETRY BOOK FOR CHILDREN. Illustrated with many engravings. 1 vol. 12mo. Price 75 cents. "This volume is a collection of poetical selections, illustrating the beauty of natural objects in simple language, and which, unlike many of the books for children, is adapted to their taste as well as their comprehension." LEISURE MOMENTS IMPROVED. A collection of History, Biography, Travels and Adventure for Youth. Illustrated with colored engravings. 1 vol. 16mo. 75 cents. "This is an exceedingly entertaining volume for children from 8 to 12 years of age." THE ORIENTAL STORY-BOOK. A collection of Tales translated from the German. Price 75 cents. "This is an entertaining volume of Tales, similar to the Arabian Nights." THE MERRY CHRISTMAS BOOK; OR, NUT-CRACKER AND MOUSE KING. By MRS. ST. SIMON. With colored illustrations on wood. Price 50 cents. "This is a capital volume for a Christmas present. It shows them how our little folks spend Christmas in Germany." UNCLE JOHN'S FIRST BOOK; OR, THE FIRST STEP IN This is an admirable volume for young children just commencing to read. The stories are selected with a regard for their instruction, moral improvement and amusement. Specimen of Engraving in UNCLE JOHN's First and Second Books. UNCLE JOHN'S SECOND BOOK. Illustrated with nu merous Engravings. Price 37 Cents. This volume is intended to be a step in advance of the previous book and will be an excellent book to follow up the instruction already received by the perusal of the First. ७ PETER PARLEY'S JUVENILES. I. By A WINTER WREATH OF SUMMER FLOWERS. S. G. GOODRICH. 1 vol. 8vo. cloth, illuminated, gilt edges. Price $2 50. From the Boston Transcript. A very handsome Souvenir for girls, printed, bound, and illustrated in an exquisite manner. It consists of alternate verse and prose, entertaining, unexceptionable and often instructive. It is a beautiful gift-book, and we believe the only one intended for the same class of readers that has appeared this season. The novel style of engraving and typography will attract purchasers whom the contents will not disappoint. II. THE WANDERERS BY SEA AND LAND. By PETER PARLEY. Illustrated with 12 engravings. 1 vol. 12mo. $1 12; cloth, gilt, $1 50. From the Palladium. If any of our young friends wish to go to Paris, let them by all means get this volume. Peter Parley will give the most authentic and entertaining accounts of the delights of that great capital which can be found without taking a Collins' steamer, and we trust our juvenile friends prefer to remain at home and study their books until they are old enough to have finished their education. III. Illuminated. FAGGOTS FOR THE FIRESIDE; OR, FACT AND FANCY. Come, girls and boys-black eyes and blue- Lay down your books, John, Tom and Bob; Old Peter Parley's rhyme would set before ye. IV. PARLEY'S PRESENT FOR ALL SEASONS. By S. G. GOODRICH. Illustrated with 16 fine engravings. 12mo. bound in illuminated covers, $1; gilt edges, $1 25. This is a very rich and choice work, consisting of many pleasant stories by that most popular of all writers for the young folks, Peter Parley, and llustrated with a dozen or more superior engravings.-Albany State Reg. THE MYSTERIOUS STORY BOOK; OR, THE GOOD STEPMOTHER. By Whom? With a Preface by CATH ERINE M. SEDGWICK. tions. 1 vol. 16mo. Price 75 cents. CONTENTS: With illustra THE BROTHERS; OR, IT'S ONLY HIS WAY, OUR OWN LITTLE EFFIE, LIFE SCHOOL, THE SLEIGH-RIDE; OR, WHO OLD TOFE, MARIETTA AND HER CAT, THE BROKEN Hearted, THE PICTURE PLEASURE BOOK. Illustrated with five hundred engravings, from drawings by eminent artists. 4to. size, beautifully printed on fine paper, and bound in fancy cover. First and Second Series. $1 50 each. Almost every thing which can please and delight the youthful family circles, will be found both narrated and illustrated in these pages. No book of equal fascinations for young people has ever been published in this country. The Picture Pleasure Book is really the child's joy, for it gives him a volume of woodcuts, executed in the best style of art, teaching him natural history, educating his eye to good drawing and graceful forin, and telling stories in pictures. It is an admirable design, and no house that holds children should be without it.-Critic. THE HAPPY DAYS OF CHILDHOOD. By AMY MEADOWS. Illustrated with 24 large engravings from drawings by HARRISON WEIR. 4to. $1. the same, finely colored, $1 50. These are charming pictures of scenes and pastimes in the country, which are familiar to all young people. They are described in a lively, fascinating spirit, and accompanied with numerous embellishments, and will delight all the young folks. THE WEEK'S DELIGHT; OR, GAMES AND STORIES FOR THE PARLOR AND FIRESIDE. One neat volume, 16mo. With engravings. Price 75 cents. From the Southern Literary Messenger. This is a charming little juvenile: we have read nothing so pleasing for a long while, and the simple fact that we have had an hour's “delight over its pages, is no small compliment we beg to assure our readers. We assure the readers of the Messenger that there is something in "A Week's Delight"-unambitious as the title sounds. It is simply a work for good little girls and boys, and professes no higher end than pointing out to them the means of spending winter evenings pleasantly :-this it worthily ac complishes, and in a way which none but a woman could have devised. |