J. c. derby's publications. 



THE WHITE DOVE, AND OTHER BALLADS 

 FOR CHILDREN. 



BY MBS. E. W. T0WNSE2TD, 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 



16mo., Illustrated. Price, 50 cents ; full gilt sides and edges, 75 cents. 



"Dean Swift, or Sterne, or Doctor Johnson, or somebody else, when in doubt about the 

 quality of any new literary effort, used to read it to the housekeeper. If she understood 

 and liked it, no doubt it was true to nature. Adopting this plan, we called up a little boy 

 and girl to try this book upon. The boy flung himself into a chair and put his leg over 

 the arm, as if he expected to be bored. The small damsel took to the rug as for a nap. 

 We tried the Snow Storm about Bruno and his children, with success highly flattering 

 to the authoress. The small damsel sat up, pushed back her curis and opened her eyes 

 very wide. The boy looked away off out of the window, and swung his cowhide boots 

 about as if he didn't care. But the tears, not few nor small, glistened in the eyes of both, 

 We think the book will do." — Vermont Statesman. 



" Good rhymes for children are rare indeed, and this will make this elegant little volume 

 a welcome addition to the juvenile library. The lady holds a graceful and familiar pen, 

 and the children will know her poems only to love and remember them. Many a boy and 

 girl will be happier for its cheerful pictures, pretty thoughts and good sentiments. A book 

 like this is worth a hundred copies of ' Mother Goose ' or any of her family. Those who 

 would form a taste for good reading in the young, should place such books as this in their 

 hands." — Worcester Palladium. 



" Tbe sweetest and happiest productions in that class of writing that we have met with 

 for a long time. The conceits are full of the finest and most delicate fancy, and the 

 versification is music itself. The narratives are so simple and natural that childhood will 

 comprehend and enjoy them, while the delicately-drawn pictures of life and nature possess 

 a charm that may well beguile the hours of age."— U. S. Magazine. 



" Here's a nice book for nice little people ; full of poetry, pictures and beautiful stories, 

 printed in large type, on fine white paper, and bound to be read. Children who love good 

 books will be largely indebted to those who publish such excellent ones as The White 

 Dove."— Gospel Banner. 



" The writer has succeeded in clothing the purest sentiments in natural and touching 

 verse. Love of nature, and sympathy with the young, have been admirably blended in 

 the composition of the volume." — AT. Y. Tribune. 



" We have looked through them carefully. They are well written— are moral, sensible, 

 and noble in their ideas— and they contain nothing to offend any parents creed, for their 

 religiousness is that of every true human he&i't."— Boston Post. 



" Here is a beautiful little volume that will make many a young heart sing for joy, when 

 old Santa Claus leaves a copy of it in the stocking in the chimney corner, next 

 Christmas." — Maine Farmer. * 



* A charming collection of poems for children— simple, natural, and graphic ; such »a 

 the heart of a child dotes upon."— N. Y. Independent. 



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