“He cometh to you with a tale, that holdeth children from
play and old men from the chimney-corner.”--_Sir Philip Sidney._
NEW-YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, CLIFF-STREET.
1841.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Clerk’s Office of the Southern District of New-York.
Stereotyped by
RICHARD C. VALENTINE,
45 Gold-street.
TO THE
YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES,
IN THE HOPE THAT HE MAY DO SOME GOOD IN HIS DAY AND GENERATION,
BY ADDING SOMETHING TO THE SOURCES OF RATIONAL
ENJOYMENT AND MENTAL CULTURE,