* * * Let eveiy youth peruse u, and we promise tnem they will 

 find their hearts and lives improved by it. — Advocate, Batavia. 



Truth is the basis of the work before us. In it the accomplished au- 

 thoress has done an honor to her sex, and we doubt not secured blessings 

 upon many hous*^holds by the publication of this finished and elegant lit- 

 Ue volunnie. Her former labors have endeared her to children. The 

 present one should secure for her the affection and gratitude ol' -parents.-^ 

 Get^va Courier. 



* * * It is lively without triviality, and replete with interest from 

 the first to the last. — New York Day Book. 



* * * Believing this work adapted to lead mothers to rightly trair 

 the little shoots springing up around the parent tree, and to restrain theii 

 wandering inclinations, we commend it to their perusal. — Student. 



Cousin (>icely is gifted with rare powers. It is of home incidents she 

 writes, and in a manner highly attractive. * * * Traces with graphic 

 force the loved and petted child. The v-lume is full of instruction U 

 parents, and should have a place in every family library — Providence 

 Daily Post. 



* * * Cousin Cicely is well known, md a work from her pen wilJ 

 meet with ready welcome. — Providence h.iily Times. 



* * * Her works are of decided merit, and should be possessed by 

 all. — Rochester Daily American, 



* * * She has got the hearts of pairnts and children tnrough the 

 Silver Lake Stories and Lewie. — Rocliesier Vaily Democrat. 



* * * The moral of the story is good, tnd the plot is so touching, 

 that we cannot wonder at the book's success —A^. F. Commercial Adv. 



* * * Agnes, the sister of spoiled Lewie, \» treated with uumotherly 

 injustice; grows up a character of uncommon oveliness; and, though 

 "only a Governess," marries splendidly. — N. V Church Journal. 



* * * Downright interesting story. It i.' crowded with domestic 

 pictures, true to nature. * * * The short -uii melancholy career oi 

 poor Lewie, shows the importance of properly maaiA^'ing children. — IVcs- 

 tern Literary Messenger. 



* * * The description of an American hom3 i'^ t-ue to the life. Ma- 

 ny of the incidents are truly affecting. * * * P.-'ss.'gos of remarkable 

 beauty of expression and sentiment. We give the f'v lovring as a t^pec;- 

 men "of the tfiought and style which characterizes the woi.'i ; ' It is strange 

 how much a human heart may suffer and beat on and reg \:n tranquility, 

 and even cheerfulness at last. It is a most merciful prox s-on of Provi- 

 dence, that o%r griefs do not always fall as heavily as they do at first, else 

 how could the burden of this life of change and sorrow be b.^rne. But 

 the loved ones are not fo'-golton when the tear ii dried, and *:h€ smile re- 

 turns to the cheek ^ they ire remembered, but with less of sa.li:ess and 

 gloom in the remembrance; and at length, if we can think o.'th<;m as 

 happy, it is onlv i pleasure to recall them to miad."— ^Patriot, Ja/^on 

 Michigan. 



