ALL Articles intended for insertion in the next Volume, should reach the Publisher's before the end of July, 1831.

LONDON: Printed by W. J. RUFFY, 29, Budge Row.

PREFACE.

In the preparation of this little Volume, the Editor did not cease to remember that he was providing for the entertainment of the young; and now that it is completed, he is encouraged to hope that it will please intelligent children and judicious parents.

It contains scarcely one article in which instruction is not conveyed under the guise of amusement: certainly nothing which is contrary to the purest moral and religious principle. Many of the tales are designed to correct the little errors and vices into which children fall, through a natural proneness to form hasty conclusions:—a useful but neglected branch of education; for

"Wayward humours in the boy,

Uncheck'd, the manly mind destroy."

Remembering that children consist of boys and girls, the Editor has attended to the claims

of each; inserting here a story for the former, and there another for the latter; but none so peculiarly fitted for the one, as to be unsuited to the other.

The Editor cannot omit this opportunity of returning his grateful thanks to the various individuals whose contributions, he ventures to say, confer a high degree of value on the present volume.