The books children read in 1789.
A great Variety of
Children's Books
Neatly printed, and adorned with elegant Cuts, are ſold by T.C. CUSHING, at the Printing-Office in Salem—viz.
Little ROBIN RED-BREAST.
Memoirs of a PEGTOP.
The SUGAR-PLUMB; or, ſweet Amuſement for leiſure hours.
The JUVENILE BIOGRAPHER, containing the Lives of little Maſters and Miſſes.
Be MERRY and WISE; or, the Cream of the Jeſts, and the Marrow of Maxims, for the Conduct of Life.
The HOLY BIBLE abridged.
Hiſtory of little KING PIPPIN.
Hiſtory of GILES GINGERBREAD.
Hiſtory of TOM JONES.
Hiſtory of Maſter JACKEY and Miſs HARRIOT.
Hiſtory of CHARLES CAREFUL and HARRY HEEDLESS.
Mother GOOSE's Melody.
The Exhibition of TOM THUMB.
Tom Thumb's SONG BOOK.
The FATHER's Gift.
The MOTHER's Gift.
The BROTHER's Gift.
The SISTER's Gift.
Nurſe Truelove's NEW-YEAR's GIFT.
Death and Burial of COCK-ROBIN.
The ROYAL ALPHABET.
The HERMIT of the Foreſt, and the Wandering Infants.
Salem Mercury.
A new way to cure insanity.
A CURIOUS IDEA.
Knowledge is attained with the greateſt difficulty; we have it not by intuition, but acquire it by many unſucceſsful trials and long experience. One gives a hint, and the other improves it; but prejudice and ignorance too often ſtand in the way: "That cannot be," or "I cannot believe that," has cruſhed many an uſeful project. How incredible did the recovery of drowned perſons appear at firſt! When the report reached England, that many abroad had been brought again to life, after laying under water ſome time, who gave it credit? But experience has ſince convinced us of its poſſibility.