The "Golden-Kule" Story Books. The following Twenty-four Books are Published, Price Threepence each. HIS interesting and attractive series of Stories for Young People is primarily intended, as the title imports, to inculcate in an unobtrusive manner the "Golden-Rule." The old proverb saith truly, "Precepts may lead, but Examples draw." It will be found that these Stories bear upon the cardinal elements of character-quietly and naturally showing the necessity of their culture-bringing out in a pleasant, genial manner the teachings of experience, and the true aims of life. "These are books to make girls lay aside their dolls, and boys forget their hoops for hours together. A bright-eyed child called from play an hour or two ago to receive one or two of them, has scarcely looked up since, and replies to the question whether she has read every word,' by saying, Yes, every word, except the good little bit at the end.' And the good little bit at the end' is not always present, and it is never needed. The story tells its own moral and conveys its own lesson "Baptist Magazine. 2S a general rule, the Story Books are equally suitable for Boys and Girls. By help of the titles given, it will be easy for Parents, Teachers, and Friends, quick to mark the dispositions and habits of the Young, so to choose, if need be, as to bring a good Story to bear upon a weak point or a fault-to instruct, to inspire, or to warn. It may be Industry and Sobriety; Firmness and Suavity; Patience, Self-denial, and Cheerfulness; Order, Punctuality, and Contentment; Filial Obedience; Respect for Experience, or Reverence for Age; all these, and many other of the nicer essentials to a fine character and a noble life, are distinctly traced in the "Golden-Rule" Story Books. Printed in clear, bold type; every book illustrated by Wood Engravings; and published in 24 Books Packets of Four Books, 18. per Packet. S 3d. Or the whole in a neat Each. Wood Cabinet, 8s. 6d. A handsome wooden box, into which are neatly fitted twenty. four little story books, most of them with more than one story. They are neatly printed, copiously illustrated, and neatly got up in variously coloured wrappers, and altogether form a pretty as well as useful present."-Scotsman. |