so than

a great many ladies and gentlemen much more myself, who have been kind enough to write for your amusement; so that I am sure when we know each other better we shall be very excellent friends.

Well, then, now for this "Little Library" of ours; - I trust, while your sympathies are excited by the trials and sufferings of some of the little heroes and heroines-or while you are enjoying a laugh at the a laugh at the expense of others -- you will bear in mind the moral lesson they teach, and learn to love the truth, and to avoid those qualities calculated to make you disagreeable to others and unhappy within yourselves. Should these wishes of mine be fulfilled, it is probable we may meet again; for I have a great affection for children, and shall be delighted to cater again for your amusement.

To parents and others, who have the selection of books for the young, including uncles and aunts, I would briefly state, that the present volume has been produced with a view to suit every taste; each of the tales may be had separate, and it is almost unnecessary to say, that the respective authors have been influenced by the desire of placing in the hands. of their young readers, only that which was pure in moral and exalted in principle,—a desire which has been anxiously shared by

THE EDITOR.