☞ Other volumes of this popular series are in course of preparation. The series will embrace the most interesting and important events which have occurred in the United States since the settlement of the country. They will be adapted to the popular mind, and especially to the youth of our country, and will contain numerous fine engravings. There will be twelve or more 16mo volumes, of about 300 pages. Each volume to be complete in itself; and yet, when all are published, they will together form a regular Series of American Histories.
PLEASANT PAGES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE;
OR, A BOOK OF HOME EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT.
By S. Prout Newcombe. With numerous Illustrations. 75c.
☞ This work is designed for the pleasure and profit of young people; and, as the title indicates, intended as an aid to Home Education. The great variety of subjects presented, consisting of Moral Lessons, Natural History, History, Travels, Physical Geography, Object Lessons, Drawing and Perspective, Music, Poetry, etc., and withal, so skilfully treated as to make truth simple and attractive, renders it an admirable family book for winter evenings and summer days.
A very excellent book. History, philosophy, science, stories, and descriptions of games are all mingled together, and he who does not like the compound must be hard to please.—Post.
Pleasant pages, containing information on a great variety of subjects. Here we have science and art made plain and captivating. The lessons in drawing and perspective alone are worth the price of the volume. And then a thousand questions which the intelligent young mind raises are here answered.—Parlor Magazine.
This is indeed a home book of endless amusement.—Boston Atlas.
An admirable book of home education. We commend it to families.—Alb. Spec.
A work admirably adapted to the instruction and amusement of the young.—Reg.
A pleasant book, full of all sorts of information upon all sorts of subjects.—Jour.