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Title: Holiday House
A Series of Tales

Author: Catherine Sinclair

Release Date: June 14, 2010 [EBook #32811]

Language: English

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HOLIDAY HOUSE:

A SERIES OF TALES.

Dedicated to Lady Diana Boyle.

BY CATHERINE SINCLAIR,

AUTHORESS OF "MODERN ACCOMPLISHMENTS," "MODERN SOCIETY,"
"HILL AND VALLEY," "CHARLIE SEYMOUR," &c. &c.

"Young heads are giddy, and young hearts are warm,
And make mistakes for manhood to reform."

Cowper.

NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY ROBERT CARTER,
NO. 58 CANAL STREET.

1839.

New-York:
Printed by Scatcherd and Adams,
No. 38 Gold Street.

PREFACE

"Of all the paper I have blotted, I have written nothing without the
intention of some good. Whether I have succeeded or not, is for
others to judge."
Sir William Temple.

The minds of young people are now manufactured like webs of linen, all
alike, and nothing left to nature. From the hour when children can
speak, till they come to years of discretion or of indiscretion, they
are carefully prompted what to say, and what to think, and what to look,
and how to feel; while in most school-rooms nature has been turned out
of doors with obloquy, and art has entirely supplanted her.

When a quarrel takes place, both parties are generally in some degree to
blame; therefore if Art and Nature could yet be made to go hand in hand
towards the formation of character and principles, a graceful and
beautiful superstructure might be reared, on the solid foundation of
Christian faith and sound morality; so that while many natural weeds and
wild flowers would be pruned and carefully trained, some lovely blossoms
that spring spontaneously in the uncultivated soil, might still be