MRS. SHERWOOD'S WORKS 



TO PARENTS, GUARDIANS, SUPERINTENDENTS O? SUNDAT 

 SCHOOLS, AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY. 



The Subscribers beg leave to solicit attention to their proposed 

 republication, in a cheap and handsome edition, of the works of 

 Mrs. Sherwood; being certainly one of the most admirable 

 family series from the pen of a single writer in the EngUsh lan- 

 guage. It is a fact somewhat remarkable, considering the great 

 merit of these writings, their extensive and increasing popularity 

 in England, and the favour with which such as are familiar to 

 American readers have been received, that many of them have 

 never been republished in this country ; while some of the works 

 pubhshed as Mrs. Sherwood's are in fact not her productions. 



The Subscribers have recently been favoured with a letter 

 from the accomplished author, enclsoing a complete hst of her 

 works, which are more numerous than is commonly supposed. 

 The subjects are exceedingly various, and adapted to different 

 degrees of capacity, from that of opening youth, to the matured 

 intellect of riper years; but in all, the sentiments, the spirit, and 

 the influence upon the mind are such as to command the warmest 

 approbation of every enlightened Christian ; while in their apti- 

 tude for the cultivation of the understanding and the improve- 

 ment of the heart, they challenge competition. These features 

 render the works of Mrs. Sherwood peculiarly suitable for the 

 libraries of Sunday-schools, and for families in which there are 

 young persons ; at the same time, most of them are of such a 

 nature as to afford both profit and delight to readers of every age. 



Impressed with these considerations, sensible not only of the 

 value of the works themselves, but also of the benefits their 

 more general dissemination will be instrumental in producing, 

 the Subscribers have determined upon their immediate repubU- 

 cation in a form worthy of their intrinsic merit. The editions 

 heretofore produced in the United States, even of those portions 

 that have been republished, have been, for the most part, inferior, 

 and in some cases the works selected have been materially in- 

 jured by alterations and abridgments. The contemplated edition 

 will be printed in the same style as the edition of Miss Edge 

 worth's Tales published by the Subscribers,— -with illustrations 



