The Hawthorne: A Christmas and New Years Present

Transcriber's note: Minor spelling and punctuation inconsistencies been harmonized. Obvious printer errors have been repaired. Paragraph breaks, as they are in the book, have been retained. Missing page numbers are page numbers that were not shown in the original text.


NEW YORK, J. C. RIKER 129 FULTON STREET. 1845


MDCCCXLV.
NEW YORK: J. C. RIKER,—129 FULTON STREET. 1845.

WEST BROOKFIELD, MASS. C. A. MIRICK, PRINTER.

We call our little book The Hawthorn. We chose the name of a blossom for our young readers, in preference to that of a gem, because the cold glittering beauty of the latter has little in common with the affectionateness, and beaming freshness of the young, to whom the nature of flowers seems more analogous.