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THE YOUNG LADY'S BOOK. 



New Edition. 



The Young Lady's Book : A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pur- 

 Buits. Third American Edition. Boston ; A Bowen, and Carter, Hendee and Co. 

 12 mo., 1832. 



[When we say that this is the handsomest book ever printed in Amer- 

 ica, we will assure our readers that we speak of one of its slightest mer- 

 its. The choice selection of its subjects, the extreme neatness and just 

 execution of its embellishments, and the purity and simplicity of its 

 style, render it alike useful, instructive, and delightful. It is truly said 

 of the English copy, by the London Literary Gazette, that, ' a few years 

 ago. all the talents of England could not have produced such a work.' 

 It is no less calculated to be valuable to the student of nature, than to 

 be a distinct chart of the useful and ornamental departments of a lady's 

 education. ' Instead of being an Annual flower, to bloom and be for- 

 gotten, it aspires to be a perennial, an Evergreen^ that shall form a suit- 

 able memorial for all seasons and all times.' The following extract will 

 perhaps better show the object of the work and imperfectly serve as a 

 specimen.] 



The Cabinet Council. 



Seated in front of a splendid specimen of the ingenuity of the 

 Chinese, — a gik and richly inlaid table, covered with a variety of 

 bcautifid minerals, shells, and articles of virtu, — the Editor, after 

 having been duly announced by Prudence, her bower-woman, 

 found his cousin Penelope, on his entrance into Lady Mary's 

 brilhant boudoir. Lady Mary was standing attired for a ride, 

 near her fair kinswoman ; and Aunt Elinor, the very pearl of the 

 ancient sisterhood of spinsters, entered the apartment before the 

 usual greetings were concluded. 



' Your cousin, yoimg ladies,' said Aunt Elinor, ' wishes to look 

 round Lady Mary's boudoir again, to see if anything has escaped 

 Lis nolice.' 



