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Mr. Smiles always writes pleasantly, but he writes best when he is telling anecdotes and using them to enforce a moral that he is too wise to preach about, although he is not afraid to state it plainly. By means of it, self-help at once became a standard book. And character is, in its way, quite as good as self-help. It is a wonderful storehouse of anecdotes and biographical illustrations. Examiner, London. Self-help. Self-help with illustrations of character, conduct, and perseverance by Samuel Smiles. New edition, revised and enlarged, Duodessimo cloth $1. The writings of Samuel Smiles are a valuable aid in the education of boys. His style seems to have been constructed entirely for their tastes. His topics are admirably selected and his mode of communicating excellent lessons of enterprise, truth, and self-reliance might be called insidious and ensnaring if these words did not convey an idea which is only applicable to lessons of an opposite character and tendency taught in the same attractive style. The popularity of this book self-help abroad has made it a powerful instrument of good, and many an English boy as risen from its perusal determined that his life will be molded after that of some of those set before him in this volume. It was written for the youth of another country, but its wealth of instruction has been recognized by its translation into more than one European language. And it is not too much to predict for it a popularity among America boys. New York World. Thrift. Thrift by Samuel Smiles, Duodessimo cloth $1. The mechanic, farmer, apprentice, clerk, merchant, and a large circle of readers outside of these classes will find in the volume a wide range of counsel and advice. Presented in perspicuous language and marked throughout by vigorous good sense, and who, while deriving from it useful lessons for the guidance of their personal affairs, will also be imbibing valuable instruction in an important branch of political economy. We wish it could be placed in the hands of all our youth, especially those who expect to be merchants, artisans, or farmers. Christian Intelligencer, New York. In this useful and sensible work, which should be in the hands of all classes of readers, especially of those whose means are slender, the author does for private economy, what Smith and Ricardo and Bastiat have done for national economy. The one step which separates civilization from savagery, which renders civilization possible, is labor done in excess of immediate necessity. To inculcate this most necessary and most homely of all virtues, we have met with no better teacher than this book, New York World, published by Harper and Brothers New York, sent by mail postage paid to any part of the United States on receipt of the price. Perpetual motion. Tommy was only 10 years of age, but still he was determined to obtain it. At last, one day, he ran into his father's office in ecstasies and shouted, Harrah, Pop, I've got it. Not what, my son, perpetual motion, cried Tommy. I've been watching it for the last half hour, and it works bully. Then, grasping Pop by the hand, come up in the garret and see it. His father went up and sure enough, there was perpetual motion. That is, as long as there was any life left in the dog and that piece of roast beef hung to his tail. The soap box to come, or homemade magic lantern. Would you like to have a magic lantern? Very well, I will tell you how to make it. In the first place, you must procure a burning glass, such as you can get at any toy store for a few cents, or you may perhaps have the glass out of an old telescope. You also want a soap box, or any other kind of square box, a cigar box, and a piece of white muslin or linen, as large as a pocket handkerchief. Make a hole in the cigar box to fit your magnifying glass and put the glass into it. Now look at figure one and see how the cigar box is placed inside the soap box. Stretch the muslin over the opposite side of the soap box, from which of course you have removed the bottom, and tack it to the edges of the box. Put a lighted candle in the cigar box, as represented in the illustration, and if you hold a drawing or a photograph opposite the glass in the cigar box, it will be reflected on the muslin stretched over the end of the soap box, and you have a magic lantern. One thing more. By looking at figure one, you will see that there are two bars and a crossbar to hold the picture. These can easily be fixed and will save you the trouble of holding the picture in your hand, and will be more steady. By carefully looking at the different drawings, you will soon see how to make one yourself. A brave princess. In one of the sandwich islands in the South Seas is a volcanic mountain with a huge lake of ever-burning fire. This was the reputed abode of the goddess Pele, and her fiery companions, the worship of whom was the central superstition of the islanders. The young princess Capiolani was converted to Christianity through the teaching of the missionaries. Grieving for the ignorance and misery of her people, she resolved to visit the burning mountain of Kilauea, and dare the dreaded Pele to do her worst. There a priestess met her, threatened her with the displeasure of the goddess if she persisted, and prophesied that she and her followers would miserably perish. In defiance of this threat, she and her Christian followers went down to the edge of the burning lake and standing erect she thus spoke. Jehovah is my God. He kindled these fires. I fear not Pele. If I perish by the anger of Pele, then you may fear the power of Pele. But if I trust in Jehovah, and he should save me from the wrath of Pele, then you must fear and serve the Lord Jehovah. Charade. First, I am rocked in the arms of the sea, or tossed on the flowing main, then fold my white wings in some peaceful bay, and imbound to the earth with a chain. Second, there's a fruit with its hue of gold from the land of the tropical sun. I make it a cooling draft to hold to the lips of the thirsty one. Whole, with the tread of many feet, and the changeless roll of the drum, with the deadly volley my foe to greet, mid the flash of steel I come. End of section 9 End of Harper's Young People, Volume 1, Issue 18, March 2, 1880