Author of "The Young Christian Series," "Marco Paul Series," "Rainbow
and Lucky Series," "Little Learner Series," "Franconia Stories,"
Illustrated Histories, &c., &c.
Few men enjoy a wider or better earned popularity as a writer for the
young than Jacob Abbott. His series of histories, and stories
illustrative of moral truths, have furnished amusement and instruction
to thousands. He has the knack of piquing and gratifying curiosity.
In the book before us he shows his happy faculty of imparting useful
information through the medium of a pleasant narrative, keeping alive
the interest of the young reader, and fixing in his memory valuable
truths. --_Mercury_, New Bedford, Mass.
Jacob Abbott is almost the only writer in the English language who knows
how to combine real amusement with real instruction in such a manner
that the eager young readers are quite as much interested in the useful
knowledge he imparts as in the story which he makes so pleasant a medium
of instruction. --_Buffalo Commercial Advertiser._