HARPER’S
STORY BOOKS
No. 1
BRUNO.
DECEMBER, 1854.
PRICE 25 Cts
HARPER & BROTHERS
FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK.
“Bruno forgives him, and why should not I?” said Hiram.
HARPER’S STORY BOOKS.
A SERIES OF NARRATIVES, DIALOGUES, BIOGRAPHIES, AND TALES,
FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND ENTERTAINMENT
OF THE YOUNG.
BY
JACOB ABBOT.
Embellished with
NUMEROUS AND BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.
BRUNO;
OR,
LESSONS OF FIDELITY, PATIENCE, AND SELF-DENIAL
Taught by a Dog.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
in the Clerk’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
PREFACE.
The present volume is the first of a proposed monthly series of story books for the young.
The publishers of the series, in view of the great improvements which have been made within a few years past in the means and appliances of the typographical art, and of the accumulation of their own facilities and resources, not only for the manufacture of such books in an attractive form, and the embellishment of them with every variety of illustration, but also for the circulation of them in the widest manner throughout the land, find that they are in a condition to make a monthly communication of this kind to a very large number of families, and under auspices far more favorable than would have been possible at any former period. They have accordingly resolved on undertaking the work, and they have intrusted to the writer of this notice the charge of preparing the volumes.
The books, though called story books, are not intended to be works of amusement merely to those who may receive them, but of substantial instruction. The successive volumes will comprise a great variety, both in respect to the subjects which they treat, and to the form and manner in which the subjects will be presented; but the end and aim of all will be to impart useful knowledge, to develop the thinking and reasoning powers, to teach a correct and discriminating use of language, to present models of good conduct for imitation, and bad examples to be shunned, to explain and enforce the highest principles of moral duty, and, above all, to awaken and cherish the spirit of humble and unobtrusive, but heartfelt piety. The writer is aware of the great responsibility which devolves upon him, in being thus admitted into many thousands of families with monthly messages of counsel and instruction to the children, which he has the opportunity, through the artistic and mechanical resources placed at his disposal, to clothe in a form that will be calculated to open to him a very easy access to their attention, their confidence, and their hearts. He can only say that he will make every exertion in his power faithfully to fulfill his trust.
Jacob Abbott.
New York, 1854.