THESE FORTY YEARS: AUTHOR OF AND OTHER SKETCHES AND NARRATIVES. BY 66 G. E. SARGENT, THE STORY OF A POCKET BIBLE, "THE CITY ARAB," "TWO NEW YEARS' DAYS," ETC. THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY; 56, PATERNOSTER ROW; 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD; 164, PICCADILLY. 250. m. 304 AND PREFACE. Nor much need be said by way of preface to the collection of sketches and stories now presented in a new and improved form to the reader. Like the former volume of this series, the separate papers of which it consists were written at considerable intervals of time, and appeared in several successive volumes of the "Tract Magazine;" and the writer, while expressing his gratitude to God for having enabled him through so many years to advocate in this way the interests of evangelical piety, ventures also to hope that the present republication of some of his occasional contributions may give pleasure and profit to many of his unknown friends. It is a serious and responsible thing to use the pen for religious purposes, and especially so, perhaps, to call in the aid of what may be |