WILEY & PUTNAM'S ADVERTISEMENT. xxi 



" This is the eighteenth number of Wiley & Putnam's series of* Books 

 which are Books.' The Proverbial Philosophy of the same author, a work 

 from which we have frequently made selections, has established his repu- 

 tation. The present tale is characterized by so much genuine feeling, and 

 such a healthy moral tone of sentiment, that we trust the favor with which 

 it must be received will tempt the publishers to give us the Proverbial 

 Philosophy, and other productions of the author, in the subsequent numbers 

 of* The Library of Choice Reading.'" Protestant Churchman 



" This is a rural novf:l, purporting to give the history of a poor laboier 

 nd his family, who from a life of peaceful and contented drudgery, becama 

 discontented and unreconciled to the doings of an all wise Providence, and 

 gradually involved in various domestic arid serious troubles. 1 ' Boston 

 Traveller. 



" This interesting tale excited considerable attention on its first appear- 

 ance, on account of the skill and dramatic interest of the narrative, and the 

 moral lessons it conveys." Christian Intelligencer. 



" A powerful tale, by Martin Farquhar Tupper, author of Proverbial 

 Philosophy. The design of the story is to teach the bitterness of sin, now 

 and always, and most terribly is this truth taught, in the tale and in the 

 episodes of the author, which are in the strongest style of lay preaching." 

 New York Observer. 



" This book, like others from the same hand, is chiefly remarkable for 

 the purity of moral feeling it evinces. There are, however, passages and 

 traits o4 considerable power in the description of the struggles in Roger 

 Acton's mind when tempted by the greed of Gold, and in the Murder 

 Scene. The Twelfth Chapter we give as one of the best painted interviews 

 between humble lovers, extant, and because it well bears being detached 

 from the rest of the book, besides giving a favorable specimen of it." 

 Tribune. 



"Another really good book, added to a series of good books. Mr. Tup- 

 ptir's prose writings, if we may take this book for a sample, are excellent'* 

 Saturday Emporium. 



" This rural story may be emphatically described as the opposite of a 

 fashionable novel. An admirable moral is kept in view always, and there 

 is a religious feeling to be noticed as cormnunioating solemnity to the sen- 

 timent, and not unfrequently coloring the style, and giving a scriptural turn 

 to simple expressions. On the whole * The Crock of Gold' is a book to do 

 the reader good." London Examiner. 



" I predict that Mr. Tupper will yet be one of the best known and most 

 icved authors whose books have crossed the waters to us." J\T. P. 

 Letter from London 



