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fruits and harvest as sure as when the husbandman sows his 

 corn upon the well prepared fields. We need not explain. 



Mr. Goodrich, the author of the work entitled Sow Well and 

 Reap Well, is known wherever the young are permitted and encou- 

 raged to read; he has scattered precious seed over the hills of 

 New England, and upon the prairies of the w^est and south of our 

 great country; and even on the shores of Europe it has fallen, 

 and in his own day he has gathered the mature and ripened fruit. 

 The special object of the author of this work is to enforce 

 the doctrine, that none need expect to reap a better fruit than he 

 has sown. The doctrine is based upon a natural law, and is 

 illustrated and enforced by the common results and experience of 

 every day. 



There is a proper time for sowing. Does the farmer sow in 

 autumn, expecting to gather a harvest before the snows whiten 

 the field ? There is a preparation of the ground: does the 

 farmer sow his seed upon the hard unbroken earth, or upon a 

 rock? The spring is the time to sow; so infancy and youth is 

 the time to put in the seed of knowledge. The field must be 

 broken up, plowed. 



But there is another point; there are persons whose duty is 

 emphatically theirs to sow. Parents have this duty, and in them it 

 is paramount ; all others are but aids. Sow Well and Reap Well 

 is a volume, then, which is entitled to a place in every parent's 

 library. It is written in a style and language which is well 

 adapted to secure the objects of its publication; and though edu- 

 cation is really a subject upon which all talk and write, and talk 

 and write much better than they practice, still, the author has no 

 common place matter upon his pages, no dull chapters which 

 may be omitted. It may be read by the young and old, and by 

 its aid the former may be assisted in correcting the errors into 

 which he has fallen, and supply many deficiencies, which in con- 

 sequence of age and limited experience he may be ignorant of, 

 and thus avoid the mistakes and errors to which he is exposed 

 when left without a guide. 



It is by such books as this circulating throughout our country, 



