t is emphatically a splendid work.--_Middletown Whig_.

Its worth and cheapness should place it in every person's
hands who desire to read an interesting book.--_Odd Fellow,
Boonsboro_.

"The Methodist Preacher," "Seed Time and Harvest," "Dyed in
the Wool," are full of truth, as well as instruction, and any
one of them is worth the whole price of the volume.--_Lowell
Daystar, Rev. D.C. Eddy, Editor_.

There is a fascination about these sketches which so
powerfully interests the reader, that few who commence one
of them will part with it till it is concluded; and they will
bear reading repeatedly.--_Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald_.

Those who have not perused these model stories have a
rich feast in waiting, and we shall be happy if we can
be instrumental in pointing them to it.--_Family Visitor,
Madison, Geo_.

No library for family reading should be considered complete
without this volume, which is as lively and entertaining in
its character, as it is salutary in its influence.--_N.Y.
Tribune_.

The work is beautifully illustrated. Those who are at all
acquainted with Arthur's writings need hardly be told that the
present work is a prize to whoever possess it.--_N.Y. Sun_.

We know no better book for the table of any family, whether
regarded for its neat exterior or valuable contents.--_Vox
Populi, Low_.

The name of the author is in itself a sufficient
recommendation of the work.--_Lawrence Sentinel_.

T.S. Arthur is one of the best literary writers of the
age.--_Watchman, Circleville, Ohio_.

The name alone of the author is a sufficient guaranty to the
reading public of its surpassing merit.--_The Argus, Gallatin,
Miss_.

Probably he has not written a line which, dying, he could wish
to erase.--_Parkersburg (Va.) Gazette_.

THE WAY TO PROSPER, AND OTHER TALES,

12mo, over 200 pages, with six illustrations.

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

This is one of Mr. Arthur's best books. His object, and he
always has in view a noble one, is to recommend family union,
a firm adherence to the law which requires us to respect the
holy tie of family union, which requires brother to assist
brother, and sister, sister. By means of a lively and pleasing
narrative, he shows that this principle is not only right, but
politic, and that the law of family unions i