s history minutely, we
should see the explanation of the case to be, that he had a better
head or a better heart than others. Now we know of no works so well
calculated to mould the head and heart aright as those of "Peter
Parley."

Those parents who wish to have their children "go ahead" in life,
should place Parley's Cabinet Library within their reach. We have
never seen a work better suited to bestow instruction, or that
inculcates truth in a more pleasant fashion.

_From the Boston Courier_,

They are exceedingly agreeable books, and such as young and old may
peruse with pleasure and profit. The moral and religious account to
which the author turns every subject must render the work
peculiarly suitable to the family and the school library. We
cheerfully commend the work to the public as one of sterling value.

_From the Boston Atlas_,

It is a compact family and school library of substantial reading,
which is delightful in point of style, and wholesome in its moral,
social, and religious tendency.

_From the Boston Post_,

We hardly know when we have been better pleased with a publication
than this.

_From Hunt's Merchant's Magazine_,

This work, now complete, is the most elaborate of the works of the
author for the young; and we think it quite the best. It is a
_library of facts_, and seems intended to cultivate a taste for
this kind of reading. It is said that "truth is stranger than
fiction," and no one who has perused these pages can feel any
necessity for seeking excitement in the high-wrought pages of
romance. Every subject touched by the author seems invested with a
lively interest; and even dry statistics are made, like steel
beneath the strokes of the flint, to yield sparks calculated to
kindle the mind. In treating of the iron manufacture,--a rather
hard subject, it would seem,--we are told that, every "working day,
fifty millions of nails are made, bought, sold, and used in the
United States;" and, in speaking of the manufacture of cotton, we
are informed that the Merrimack mills of Lowell alone "spin a
thread of sufficient length to belt the world, at the equator, in
two hours."

The work was doubtless intended for the young; and we think it
quite equal, for this object, to any thing that has been produced;
yet it is also suited