The design of this New Series is to include no books except such as are peculiarly adapted by their high tone, pure taste, and thorough principle, to be read by those persons, young and old, who look upon books as upon their friends—only worthy to be received into the Family Circle for their good qualities and excellent characters. So many volumes now issue from the press low in tone and lax in morality that it is especially incumbent on all who would avoid the taint of such hurtful matter to select carefully the books they would themselves read or introduce to their households. In view of this design, no author whose name is not a guarantee of the real worth and purity of his or her work, or whose book has not been subjected to a rigid examination, will be admitted into “The Lily Series.”
1. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s Life. By the Author of “Faith Gartney’s Girlhood,” “The Gayworthys,” &c.
2. The Gayworthys, a Story of Threads and Thrums. By the Author of “Faith Gartney’s Girlhood.”
3. Faith Gartney’s Girlhood. By the Author of “The Gayworthys.”
4. The Gates Ajar; or, Our Loved Ones in Heaven. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
5. Little Women. By the Author of “Good Wives,” “Something to Do,” &c.
6. Good Wives. By the Author of “Little Women,” &c.
7. Alone. By Marion Harland, Author of “The Hidden Path,” &c.
8. I’ve Been Thinking. By the Author of “Looking Round,” &c.