To be had of the same Publisher, The Rev. 
\V. Lisle Bowles’s Little 
VILLAGER’S VERSE BOOK ; 
Consisting of short Verses for Children to learn by 
heart, in which the most familiar images of country 
life are applied to excite the first feelings of huma- 
nity and piety. 
First and Second Series, price 6d. each sewed, or with a beau- 
tiful frontispiece, neatly bound, gilt leaves, Is. 
“ This is a new edition of one of the sweetest and best 
little publications in the English Language. It is for 
village children : but no children, of city or solitude, 
could dwell upon a page of it without having the finest 
emotions of the heart stirred up, and the purest contented- 
ness of conduct inculcated by its perusal. Like ‘ Watts’ 
Hymns,’ but more poetical and finely polished, these 
charming verses are redolent of simple natural imagery, 
and of simple yet deeply important instruction. We 
may write warmly in their praise, as we have done be- 
fore ; but it will be forgiven when we mention, that ours 
has been the delight to witness their practical application, 
when Mrs. Bowles, in her beneficent ministry, has as- 
sembled her groups of cottage children, after the Sabbath 
service, on the green lawn of Bremhill Parsonage.— A 
sight more lovely can hardly be imagined : here, at least, 
the church needs no reform.” — Lit. Gaz. 
“ Were we to quote all that is ‘ beautiful in this little 
work,’ we should extract the whole.” — Fraser. 
“ A little book of moral and religious verses, such as a 
child may easily learn by rote. They are worthy to be 
learned by heart.” — Times. 
" It is like lighting on a well of sweet water after a 
weary desert journey, to come upon the Bev. W. L. 
Bowles’s ' Little Villager’s Verse Book,’ humble though 
its title be, and unobtrusive its appearance. — Athen. 
