will find in the volume a wide range of
counsel and advice, presented in perspicuous language, and marked
throughout by vigorous good sense; and who, while deriving from it
useful lessons for the guidance of their personal affairs, will also be
imbibing valuable instruction in an important branch of political
economy. We wish it could be placed in the hands of all our
youth--especially those who expect to be merchants, artisans, or
farmers.--_Christian Intelligencer_, N. Y.

In this useful and sensible work, which should be in the hands of all
classes of readers, especially of those whose means are slender, the
author does for private economy what Smith and Ricardo and Bastiat have
done for national economy. * * * The one step which separates
civilization from savagery--which renders civilization possible--is
labor done in excess of immediate necessity. * * * To inculcate this
most necessary and most homely of all virtues, we have met with no
better teacher than this book.--_N. Y. World._

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Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.

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[Illustration: MORE WILLING THAN ABLE.]

PERPETUAL MOTION.

Tommy was only ten years of age, but still he was determined to obtain
it. At last, one day, he ran into his father's office in ecstasies, and
shouted, "Hurrah! Pop, I've got it!"

"Got what, my son?"

"Perpetual motion!" cried Tommy. "I've been watching it for the last
half hour, and it works bully!" Then grasping "Pop" by the hand, "Come
up in the garret and see it."

His father went up, and, sure enough, there was perpetual motion--that
is, as long as there was any life left in the dog and that piece of
roast beef hung to his tail.

THE SOAPBOXTICON, OR HOME-MADE MAGIC LANTERN.

Would you like to have a magic lantern? Very well: I will tell you how
to make it. In the first place you must procure a burning-glass, such as
you can get at any toy store for a few cents; or you may, perhaps, have
the glass out of an old telescope. You also want a soap box (or any
other kind of square box), a cigar box, and a piece of white muslin or
linen as large as a pocket-handkerchief. Make a hole in the cigar box to
fit your magnifying-glass, and put the glass into it. Now look at Fig.
1, and see how the cigar box is placed inside the soap box. Stretch the
muslin over the oppos