The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-07-02
THE DAILY SPY.
WORCESTER,
JULY ,, 1880.

TuE AsHBuRNHAM SUFFERERS. The Dos
Ton Journal copies our paragraph on the subject, and
remaks thereon as follows
The above we copy from the Worcester Spy
There is a reproof conveyed in the concluding SEN
fences. which we cannot acknowledge to be just
We beheye, that had well-directed efforts been
made, handsome sum would have been realized in
this city. 1t is useless for those interested TO at
tempt enlisting public sympathy, without the AID OF
the press.
We have seen no announcement in any Boston
paper that subscription on foot here, and the
only knowledge we have that paper has been CIR
culated is the statement in several papers that the
subscription has failed. We need scarcely say that
we would gladly have brought the subject to the no.
tice Of our readers had we known that an attempt
was making here to relieve the sufferers, and we be-
lieve that our citizens, who are never backward in
any good work, would have literally responded to
call, the nature of which they fully understood
We with the Journal, in the opinion that the
efforts to obtain relief very udicous, and be-
trayed want of Knowledge in such aotters The
press in this place might have afforded them efficient
aid, and would gladly have done it; but the first init
nation had from the agents in relation to the mat
ter was, when of them called just before the close
Of the subscriptions for contribution it. 1t
by the Journal, that it was managed better in Bos-
ton, and knowing, as we do, that where there is dali
" press, of this kind cannot be efficiently
made till public opinion prepared for it through that
or other agency, do wonder at the failure.
JUVENILE PHILOSOPHY, Or Philosophy in Familiar
Conversations; designed to teach young children to
think. By Richard G. Parker, Author of the
School Compendium of Natural and Experimental
Philosophy, &c. New York. A. S. Barnes s.
Company; 1880
The great competition in the Book trade and es-
peciay that branch which relates to the instruction and
amusement of the young, although attended with evils
has nevertheless been productive of great good KnowI
edge of various kinds to which the avenues were clos
ed, to the of preceding generations, is now, not
only open to ALL but is presented in forms attractive
that few can resist inducements to its acquisition. A
general knowledge Of the sciences is, indeed now al
most indispensable to ALI and to its general diffusion
we owe much of the rapid progress in Improvement of
the present age. The book before us is one of the
best of the kind that we have examined. 1t in the
form of dialogue between mother and child and con-
ssts of nine Conversations Rain, Color, Vision or
Sight, the Eye, Light, Fire, Heat, and Wind. The
illustrations are drawn from Objects familiar
to all children, and the instruction is presented in
form to make it ineligible and interesting At the
close of each conversation, is series Of questions in
tended to elicit the facts and principles developed in
the conversation We think the book will be decid-
ed favorite with the young. For sale at CIRCUITS.
LITTELL's LIVING AGE, No. 800, has several in
teresng articles, the first of which is from the
British Quarterly Review, on Ralph Waldo Emerson
For sale at Tbompson's. ~