Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-07-25
% BOYS AND GIRLS LIBRARY

been projected IN tins Inventive aye to facilitate
mental and moral culture We have met with none
which has struck us as being better adapted 10 eff
'ee' ms great end OF social being than the plan o.
a Boy and Gitl's Library" for which the pub
he Is indebted to the untrins perseverance and ia.
dclons taste OF those cncfprlsns publishers. the
Messrs. Harpers OF New York As the title of this
series OF works indicates, II is intended especially
Tor the youns--tGr those whose faculties not vet
Wafnrel are incapable of penetrating into the deep
mysteries of science and philosophy bu, whose
plastic minds may be made To receive and com
prehcnd the elementary truths upon which science
and philosophy are built
W. have nav before Us eight Nos oftlis luve-
nile Library, embracing SIX distinct works, which
the ,eader viii perceive, by their titles. consist OF
detached subjects, any one more Of Which may
be procured, should be deemed unad.sable to oh
'aln the wholn series
|. " LircS Of tte AoostieS amd eaJiy HnfiBts, -
vol.-ihls work brings ir,o the narrative form,
and thereby renders more readily comprehensive
the lives, abe AMI DEATH, of some of the first
disciples of Chts,, and Is adapted 10 the capacity
of children OF quite tender years
" TIE SiciSs Fhmft9 Rg5ipson," vols. We
have not MT with any work, nj his character for a
long time, which we petusoi with deeper inter
est dian this. Although intended for chillr,n, ant
easily co nprehcni j by them, 1t my imparl in
srucion ii may btan,brs If natural history and
science, rs we'll IN moral dutes 10 their fathers
and mothe's Ii is the story oil shlpwrccbcI
family, cast on an uHpcoplcd coast, on1hrown en-
tIrely upon thero resources for the means o,
sustaining life and IN The language efs ui,clous
critic L" has all that Wild ch'r OF adventure aud
discovery winch has made Robinson Crusoc such
a wonder TO every generation since IT was written
We hope the publishers viii meet with, and pub
| 81, tho seque! of Robnsous adventures.
3. " Saaday EesainsS," vol. Tins volume
consists of series Of narratives, taken from the
Pentateuch, and written ina language and form
calculated 'r ineres, and attract the young
d. 4 Tn Son ofa Gsaius," by Mrs Holland,
vo.-Fhis beautifully written and aflec ting sto-
. reliance upon what men dcnomInate geniwS
without giving to II proper direction and sulta-
bic impulses, and placing it under proper restraints.
1t may be read wlth advantage Ivy the old as well
by the young
). Une'c I'aHlp'S C,nptrSati0nS,' vol-A
I5erusa Of this ule volume cannot fail to interest
the reader, of whatevcr age Though the simplicity
fits style is peculiarly adopted 10 the young, yet
the Indignation ii conveys cusht no, be less de
sired by adults, very many Of whom VIC doubt
not, are unpossessed oft 1t is treatise on Na-
tural History, in familiar Conversations :; and re-
vcas It, US capacities, instincts aud powers IN the
lower orders OF the ANNA, creation IN the lit,le
insects which crawl unnoacd under our feet, and
buz almost unhenrd around our cars which loudly
declare the hand that made them is divine, ard
which cannot fail to cxalt our conceptions Of the
Great Creator from whose fat sprung the humble
ant and the INDECENT solh well as the gigautlc
elephant and the intelligent man, and whose " ten
in short, minute and charming description ofna-
tural wonders. which every day pass unnotcei,
only because OF their familiarity.
i. Mdian Tralts, - in vols. by b. E. That
cher, Esq--These volumes contain sketches OF
The Cu~toms, Manners and Character of the North
American Indians ard constitute excellent Sc
drel 10 the Lives of eminent Indian Chiefs and
Warriors, from the same pen, which we some
l. 4 . ol, min
are themselves rapidly passing away, we are glad
to see an effor, made TO snatch from the sea of OBJ
lvon TO which they are Fastening the manners
and customs by which they are distinguished from
old States in which were once numerous tribes OF
these sons of the forest, their habits of life
longer remembered, even additionally -and soon,
when expelled
From their hunting grounds and fountains,
" They're driven backward to the Rocky Noun
tains,"
Their peculiarilies Of dress, religion, anuse-
mcn,s, &c. will exist only they are now sketched
by those who take an intcres, in their fate. MIR.
Tha,cl or has made himself we'll acquainted with
their manners and customs, and has furnished the
public, in his two volumes Of Traits, with an anu.
sing and instructive work.
We ough, to add that each Of these volumes is
embeished with beautiful cngravings, Illustrative
of its contents.
s.- To the exclusion of other matter, we publish
the entire correspondence between Ihos. " o''-
mer and VIM. C. Rivts, Esqrs. which preceded
and led to the late unfortunate rencontre between