University of Virginia Library

NEW WORKS
RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY
HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW-YORK.

WEALTH AND WORTH;
OR,
WHICH MAKES THE MAN?

ALSO, BY THE SAME AUTHOR,
WHAT'S TO BE DONE!
OR,
THE WILL AND THE WAY.

Such are the titles of two new American tales for the
young, the first of which has received the warmest commendations
of the press and the public. The following
are but a few of the complimentary notices which followed
the publication of “Wealth and Worth.”

From the Southern Literary Messenger.

The truthfulness and delicacy with which every character
in Wealth and Worth is delineated, the perfect purity
of style that characterizes the whole work, the spirit of
quiet patriotis a by which it is pervaded, and the healthful
and winning tone of piety that speaks from every page,
prove how well the mental and moral qualities of the author
are adapted to the task he has undertaken.

From the Knickerbocker Magazine.

A work well worthy the extraordinary praises, it has
elicited on all sides.

From the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette.

We have often had occasion to notice the numerous valuable
publications for the young that have been issued during
the last two or three years by the Harpers. There is
none among them that will bear away the palm from the
very clever story of Wealth and Worth; or, Which makes
the Man?

From Graham's Philadelphia Magazine.

Its spirit is vigorous and healthy—thoroughly American;
its style of composition is chaste, simple, and natural;
and many of its descriptions are drawn with exquisite
grace and beauty. No juvenile work has fallen under our
notice which we can commend so heartily.

From the Albany Evening Journal.

The style of this story exhibits great facility and experience
in composition, though, for aught we learn of the author,
it is his first appearance. His descriptive powers are
of a high order. His characters are admirably individualized.
The incidents are well arranged, and the plot well
developed. The work will be read with great interest even
by “older children” than those for whom it is especially
designed.

From the Journal of Commerce.

Our young friends have been so wearied by books foreign
to their habits and tastes, that they will appreciate a hearty
and healthful domestic story, and particularly coming in a
style of such eminent literary merit as distinguishes the
volume before us. If you are in search of a gift for the
season, we can recommend this handsome little book.

From the New-York Sun.

This promises to be the most popular juvenile book of
the day, and one of the most suitable for holyday presents.
It is different from any other that has come to our hands
for a long time—a perfect novel in miniature; not a patchwork
of baby's talk, and the commonplaces of the schoolbooks,
but a healthy, hearty, original domestic story. We
bid the author hail, and wish him speed in his generous
enterprise, for the application of such superior powers of
style and description to works of this character entitles
him to an enviable pre-eminence among our writers.

From the New-York Tribune.

American, and therefore entitled to our friendly consideration;
but not so much on that account as because it is a
credit to American literature in style, sentiment, and construction.
Among the large number of juvenile tales that
has appeared in this country, we know of none superior
in merit to the volume before us, and few that can compare
with it.

From the New-York Brother Jonathan.

This is a pleasantly-told story, simple in its style of narrative,
and practical and American in its lessons. It is
just the work to be bought and read, and to do good into
whose hands soever it may fall.

From the National Intelligencer.

The library now publishing by the Messrs. Harper, commenced
under the supervision of Hon. John C. Spencer,
while Secretary of State of New-York, contains an admirable
selection of useful and entertaining works, but none
of higher literary merit, or better calculated for permanent
popularity, than the volume before us. The style of Wealth
and Worth is excellent, and many of its descriptions of
natural scenery are sketched with exquisite grace and
beauty.

From the New World.

The style is uniformly neat, chaste, and accurate—as
simple and natural as that of the Vicar of Wakefield. We
cannot too highly appreciate the devotion of such talents
as are exhibited in this little work to this class of literature;
for we are of those who would emancipate the young
American mind from the blind attachment to foreign scenes
and interests, which the exclusive perusal in early life of
the productions of foreign writers must inevitably induce.

From the New-York Commercial Advertiser.

Many writers have succeeded in depicting life as it often
appears in America, tinctured with European conventionalism,
and vain attempts at European exclusiveness and
display; but this writer has given us American life as it
aims to be.

From the New-Orleans Bee.

To whom we are indebted for this really beautiful little
work does not appear, though it is obviously no first effort,
if we can judge anything from the agreeable current of the
composition, or of its artistical construction and development.

From the Louisville Gazette.

We cannot too highly recommend to American readers
this unpretending, but highly meritorious and interesting
volume, for which we are pleased again to acknowledge
our indebtedness to the Brothers Harper. The volume
forms quite an appropriate holyday gift for the young.

From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.

It is announced as the first of a contemplated series of
“American Family Tales.” Send them out. We cannot
have too many such.

From the Boston Atlas.

The moral tone of the work is unexceptionable, while
there is a lightness, cleverness, and humour in its pages
which cannot fail to give it an extensive and permanent
popularity.

From the Albany Argus.

It is a tale of our own times. Its characters and incidents
are such as we meet with in real life, and that, too,
the real life of the United States, not of England or the
Continent. The style is easy and elegant, the story increasing
with a dramatic interest to the finale. The author
sometimes labours his descriptions with a minute and exquisite
beauty. He is entitled to the credit of having produced,
altogether, one of the most charming little volumes
of the day.

From the New-York Mirror.

It is printed uniformly with Miss Sedgwick's “Live and
Let Live,” “Rich Poor Man and Poor Rich Man.” The
sketches of character are highly graphic and entertaining,
and the story is wrought with great skill, in a manner to
enchain the interest of both young and old. A more appropriate
gift for the holydays could not be devised.