& 4 Russell 7-7-33 PREFACE. “ Education is the cheap defence of nations," was inquiries would spread a broad dark shadow over the the wise sentiment once utiered by that great states- picture of the march of intellect—that the winnower man, Edmund Burke. By qualifying it with the pre-would find but a few measures of grain in the imfix, correct, we have in this sentiment one of the mense heap of chaff! noblest truths discovered by modern political sages, We have viewed with pain the development of and one, too, that demands large consideration in the this fact, in the slow improvement, in a moral point canons of jurisprudence. By correct education, we of view, of society around us, while general intellimean the cultivation of the moral faculties, in a de- gence is so rapidly increasing. Everybody readsgree commensurate with the improvement of the in- few study. Mind acting upon mind, through the tellect, and, in addition thereto, a corresponding medium of the “cheap literature" of the day, is physical culture. The persection of these three developing on every side a vast amount of hidden combined form the perfect man—the image of God; intellectual vigor, destined to exert a powerful influand where either is wanting, or exists in an inferior ence over the future character of the race. But degree, the symmetry of the whole is marred. The amid all these ministrations to the wants of growing mere cultivation of the intellect—the arousing of the intellect, there is too much apathy on the subject of mental faculties to vigorous action, while the moral corresponding moral culture. There is now a vast sentiments are allowed to remain dormant or become amount of mental dissipation visible around us; and corrupt, too frequently proves a curse to the indi- the more exciting, the more intoxicating, the characvidual and to society, rather than a blessing. Every ter of a publication, the greater is the number of ray of light that illumines the understanding should purchasers—the greater the profits of the vender. also shed its influence over the habitation of the pas. Out of this traffic spring evils as deleterious, and as sions ; and the head and heart should be equally much to be deprecated by the wise and good, as the warmed by the glorious luminary, KNOWLEDGE. This traffic in alcohol; and every true philanthropist mighty power, which is bearing the human race should labor to arrest its progress, and counteract its rapidly onward toward perfection, has many agents degenerating influence. Like those who first raised at work; and every true philanthropist feels solicitous the Temperance banner, such laborers must expect concerning the character of these various ministers small pecuniary reward, but enjoy the present remuto human improvement. The tongue, the pen, and neration of an approving conscience, and the antici. the PRESS-ihe utterer, recorder, and disseminator pation of a final and glorious triunph. With this of knowledge-should all be subservient to the dic-class of men-men who love their kind, and aim to tates of pure morality and sound judgment; and elevate man, by a due improvement of his faculties, whosoever labors for the good of society-whosoever to his proper standard of excellence, we delight to longs for a happy change in the social character of labor, and press onward, shoulder to shoulder in the his race, should strive earnestly for the purification diffusion of useful knowledge. Our humble literary of this triad of forces, now powerfully at work efforts, heretofore, have all been made in this field, wherever the beams of intelligence have shed their and we have the heartfelt gratification of believing radiance. On every side, the Lecturer and the Es- that they have been appreciated by the public at sayist are laboring in the fields of Knowledge, and large, and especially by the thinking class in comthe Press is busy in scattering their seedlings broad-munity. The present volume is the result of these cast over the intellectual soil of society, there, continued efforts, and we send it forth with the arwhether tares or wheat, to germinate and yield a dent hope that it may prove a USEFUL GUIDE TO TRUE harvest in kind, to be reaped and used by the young KNOWLEDGE to those who, through youthfulness, deand inexperienced. In other words (without meta- ficient education, or inexperience, are liable to wander phor), thousands of books, pamphlets, magazines, away from the true path, into the mazes of error. and newspapers, are daily scattered throughout our In the following pages, we have endeavored to land, bearing the sentiments of the thinkers and garner up treasures drawn from every department writers of our day and of past times, and contributing of huinan knowledge. We have endeavored to make largely to the formation of the character of our youth the pen and burine subservient to the best interests of both sexes. of society, by portraying those various truths respectTo the truly benevolent mind, the momentous ing men and things which form such important seaquestions present themselves :-What proportion of tures in the constitution of the social compact. this mass of information is really useful? How From the mines of History, Biography, Natural Hismuch of knowledge thus offered to the intellect car-tory, Moral and Physical Sciences, Fine Arts, and ries with it a salutary moral influence, and while it General Literature, we have prepared the choicest enlightens the understanding, improves the heart? gems, such as emit the purest moral lustre ; and at And as, in a critical sense, information is not a price commensurate with the means of the most knowledge,-superficial and evanescent, not deep and humble in worldly goods, we offer this casket to the abiding,-how much of this vast amount of the daily public, with the sincere desire that it may prove productions of the press contains the seeds of genuine valuable acquisition to the moral and intellectual knowledge? We fear that a correct answer to these wealth of every possessor. -W $-4.5 * TABLE OF CONTENTS. 426 474 184 262 108 Agriculture-Renovation of Soils 46 Despise not small Beginnings 189 Moon, Addresses to the State of, in Normandy 153 | Eccentric Morals Endeinic and epidemic Diseases 399 2. Stepney Church 93 Examples for young Men 156 Feinale Characters of Scripture 364 Niagara District-Western Canada 215 350 First Settlement of the United States 39 Occult Sciences, the Navigation and Commerce 409 Fixed Stars Aniinal Magnetism-Greatrakes, &c. 62 Flowers 393 Public Diversions, Reflections on 104 436 Religion, Connexion of Science with 65 243 Irish Peasantry, their Superstitions, &c. 210 Ruins of Balbec 138 No. 1 423 Carey, Rev. Dr., Sketch of 209 Journeyman Printer 61 No. 2 459 Cathedrals-St. Paul's and St. Peter's 237 Kingston 256 Rural Funerals 17 Catlle 78 Knowledge of the World 342 Samaritans, Account of the 144 Change of Feeling 271 | Language of Signs 328 Self-Education 16 China, its Commerce, &c. 221 | Languages 58 Seasonable Suggestion 167 Chinese Boals 134 Last Supper, the 197 Sherman Roger, Sketch of 223 Christian Missions, their Influence, &c. 5 Leopard, the 361 Shoemakers, eminent 29 Comels 285 Light, in the human Body 48 Sidon 269 Comicalities of Nature 114 Listeners 457 | Signers of the Declaration of Indepen. Constantinople 347 Literary Pursuits, Advantages of 28 dence 252 Country, the 117 Local Memories of great Men Siloam, Pool of 220 Cranberry, the Cultivation of 199 No. 1. Cowper 1 Simoom, the 275 Crane, the 312 2. Burns 49 Singapore 382 Creation, Boundlessness of 208 3. Bacon 89 Sleeping, Thonghts on 196 Cultivation 77 4. Milton 129 Small Birds, their Uses, &c. 408 of mountainous Distrirts 416 5. Petrarch 169 | Snow-Crystals 133 Damascus 152 6. Goldsmith 249 Spirit of the Age 67 Day at a Tobacco Manufactory 40 7. Thompson 329 Springs and Fountains 431 Ship Yard 81 8. Poussin 369 Siandards 470 Hai Factory 118 9. Burke 449 Steam, Wonders of 318 Pianoforte Factory 161 | London, Account of 263 Navigation 453 Bookbindery 200 Love of Nature 367 Stoke Manor-House 76 Sugar-Refinery 279 Malta 30 Struggles of Adolescence 237 Leather Factory 449 Manner 475 Students, Hints for 168 Copper and Lead Factory 477 Marine Animals 55 Study on the Farm 360 Death of Plants 318 May 207 Sun, the 105 Death's Conquest 109 Maxims 92 Swallows 365 Decision 150 Memory 124 Talegalla, the 139 Dew, the 168 Mental Industry 185 Temple of Diana at Ephesus 303 Do we not borst too much? 268 Mirage, the 277 Theory of Winds 332 Dogs 97 Misdirected Efforts 317 Thermometer, the 3-10 INDEX TO THE EMBELLISHMENTS. Page Page 388 Pianoforte Factory - Interior View 161 97 164 389 treble action of Square 164 143 166 156 Action of a Cabinet 166 405 335 220 350 375 Poussin, Portrait and Vignettes 369 180 Presentation of Moses to Pharaoh 289 215 376 227 Numidian Crane 253 396 71 423 Ephesus 425 33 426 126 433 62 434 110 435 303 460 144 the Forum, Rome 452 Rural Funerals 17, 18 322 Hat Manufactory–Battery, &c. 118 Sand-Storın Cutting Machine 119 Seacoast between Tyre and Sidon 271 81 12 Fraine-Timbers, &c. 83 417 121 85 429 269 393 409 384 295 Slaves attending a Chariot 377 Rocky Valley, &c. 133 470 207 298 471 365 Stepney Church—2 Plates 34 240 239 See also six other Plates 442 10 447 Stoke Manor-House, Remains of 76, 77 361 Sugar. Refinery, Interior of, with seven 279 30 Suttee, Burning of a Hindoo Widow, &c. 6 355 139 185 140 339 141 415 244 455 472 457 Turret-Nests 457 209 266 78 New Zealand-Huts and Fence 10 Thomson, Portrait and Vignettes 329 224 260 Horses--by the Drag, &c. 225 338 Thunder-Storm 234 40 228 42 347 262 Cigars, Snuff, &c. See 43 to 46 State Dinner 348 Table, modern 353 Tyre, View of ancient Port of 411 293 Ur of the Chaldees 149 393 Verandahs of modern Oriental House 184 103 Wyoming, View of the Vale of 187 343 COWPER AND HIS LOCALITIES. — Cowper, from a Portrait engraved in Knight's "Gallery of Portraits.” At the upper right hand corner, a View of the Poet's Birth-place, Berkhamstead; and above it, Ruins of Olney Church, and Cowper's House in the Market-place, Olney. At the bottom, the "Summer. house," and the three Leverets." |
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