CONTENTS.

The names of American authors are printed in small capitals.

Cultivation of the Mind,

Evils of neglecting the early improvement of the Mind,

Claims of Society on Young Men.-How to meet them,

Benevolence of the Deity,

The same Subject,

Moral Efficacy of the Sacred Scriptures,

Neatness,

The Miser,

The Farewell to the Dead,

Charity,

Formation of Character.-Addressed to Young Men,

Government of the Thoughts,

The Stranger and his Friend,

DENNIE 25

Pollok 27

Mrs. Hemans 28

Mode of acquiring the most comprehensive conception

of the Bulk of the Earth,

Pollok 30

HAWES 32

Jane Taylor 37

Montgomery 42

Magnitude of the bodies. which compose the Solar System,

Magnitude and Number of the Stars,

Rapid Motions of the Celestial Bodies,

Popular Illustration of the Motions of the Earth and

Heavens,

Painful Results of Lying,

The Turban; or the Lie of Flattery,

The Ivy. Addressed to a Young Friend,

Christ stilling the Tempest,

Advantages of History,

Discovery of America,

Reception of Columbus in Spain after his Discovery of

America,

Blessings of a Contented Temper,

Dick 65

HALE 66

Means of producing Contentedness,

Formation of Manners,

Domestic Economy,

Conversation,

Slavery,

Extract from a Parallel between Intemperance and the

Slave Trade,

Another Extract from the Same,

WILCOX 91

HUMPHREY 94

Settlement of Virginia,

BEECHER 102

MRS. OPIE 107

DR. BROWN 110

Dr. Johnson 113

Extract from "The Religion of Taste,”

Another Extract from the Same,

Every man his own Fortune-Teller,

Reflections on the Settlement of New England,

Obligations to the Pilgrims,

Song of the Pilgrims,

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,

The Safe Side of the Hedge,

Of exercising Attention in Reading,

Means of improving the Memory,

Instability of Human Existence,

Rebellion in the State Prison,

Specimen of the Eloquence of James Otis,

of Anger,

Nancy and Rose,

Paraphrase of the Nineteenth Psalm,

The Sacrifice of Abraham,

Retirement,

Duelling,

Moral Sublimity,

Jane Taylor 122

WEBSTER 127

WHELPLEY 130

UPHAM 131

Mrs. Hemans 132

TRENTON EMPORIUM 133

Address to the Survivors of the Battle of Bunker Hill,

Reflections on the Battle of Lexington,

The Banian Tree,

Human Knowledge, scanty as it is, truly admirable,

Savages first seeing a Watch,

WEBSTER 158

E. EVERETT 159

Encyclopædia 161

Burgh 163

Mariner 165

Science enables us to take an extensive Survey of the

Empire of God,

Elegy written in a Country Churchyard,

The Hour of Death,

Skepticism,

Saturday Evening,

The Sabbath,

Dick 166

Gray 169

Mrs. Hemans 173

Campbell 174

TRENTON EMPORIUM 176

The Importance of the Sabbath, considered as merely

a Civil Institution,

Extracts, relating to the Sabbath, from different authors,

Vanity confessed,

The Fertility caused by the Nile,

Forgetfulness,

GUARDIAN AND MONITOR 187

Magnitude of the Objects of Missionary Efforts, WAYLAND 190

Anecdote of an Elephant,

Thoughts on Thinking,

Eloquence of John Adams,

LINDLEY MURRAY 191

CONNECTICUT MIRROR 193

Effects of the modern Diffusion of Knowledge,

Right Use of the Scriptures,

The ways of God are equal,

Of bridling the Tongue,

Indolence,

Idleness avoided by the Observation of Order,

The Art of Printing,