SERIES OF TALES iDTHORESS OF BY CATHERINE SINCLAIR, 66 MODERN ACCOMPLISHMENTS," "HILL AND VALLEY," ETC. ETC. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 260ct 1927 tone & Webster. G PREFACE. "Of all the paper I have blotted, I have written nothing without the intention of some good. Whether I have succeeded or not, is for others to judge.” SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. THE minds of young people are now manufactured like webs of linen, all alike, and nothing left to nature. From the hour when children can speak, till they come to years of discretion or of indiscretion, they are carefully prompted what to say, and what to think, and what to look, and how to feel; while in most schoolrooms nature has been turned out of doors with obloquy, and art has entirely supplanted her. When a quarrel takes place, both parties are generally in some degree to blame; therefore if Art and Nature could yet be made to go hand in hand towards the formation of character and principles, a graceful and beautiful superstructure might be reared, on the solid foundation of Christian faith |