volume may prove useful to those who are engaged in the culture of youthful minds. Such pieces only have been chosen as contain chaste and pious sentiments, calculated to refine and elevate the feelings, and to impress christian truths and moral obligations, in a form at once pleasing and instructive. If this desire of benefitting young persons be in any degree realized, the time occupied in culling this fresh bouquet will not have been spent in vain. M. S. |