The Pearl of Days; OR, THE ADVANTAGES OF THE SABBATH TO THE WORKING CLASSES. WRITTEN BY A LABORER'S DAUGHTER. The circumstances which have produced this volume are highly important and interesting. A wealthy gentleman of Glasgow offered three prizes for the three best essays on the privileges conferred by the Sabbath, to be written by laboring men. Three months produced more than nine hundred and fifty compositions on the subject. Amongst the essays was one by a female, which the adjudicators thought so worthy of publication, that they wrote for the sathor's permission to do so, and also requested a sketch of her life to accompany it. With both these requests she complied, and the volume was by permission dedicated to the Queen, and has already had a very large sale in England. The book contains the original illustrations, and an introduction by an American clergyman, and is sold in neat paper covers at 25 cents; in cloth, 37 cents, and cloth, gilt edges, 50 cents, with the usual discount to the trade. Copies in paper covers may be sent by mail to any part of the country for about 5 cents postage. For $1 sent postpaid, 5 ecpies will be forwarded; for $2, 12 copies. For sale by all Booksellers. Please send orders to SAMUEL HUESTON, 139 Nassau street. RECOMMENDATIONS. We have read the volume with profit and delight. We cannot adequately express our thankfulness to God for such a testimony to the value of the Sabbath. The sketch of the author's life is modestly written, and is replete with good sense, and with excellent practical suggestions to Christian parents. The essay on the value of the Sabbath is well adapted for the end proposed. It should be widely circulated among the working classes and their employers. On the particular topic of which it treats, we consider it superior to any essay within our knowledge, and even to the excellent compilations which constitute the series of "Sabbath Manuals." It is written rom experience. Were it not for hindering the sale of Mr. Hueston's beautiful volume, we should republish it entire.-Independent. It is a book to be read and admired, both for the cireumstances of the author, her touching and instructive "Sketch," and the forcible illustration which she gives of the beauty and sweetness of a filial, fireside, Sabbath-keeping piety.-Boston Reporter. This beautiful reprint of a work which has excited great attention in England, we should have noticed before. It is, as it purports to be, a defence of the Sabbath, written by a laborer's child, whose main instruction was received on the day for whose observance she so touchingly and eloquently pleads. It is written in a remarkably pure and graceful style, and the arguments and considerations which it adduces in behalf of the Sabbath, are original and striking. Its circulation, particularly among the young of the writer's sex, would do incalculable good. The preatory sketch of the writer's life is very interesting. We should think the friends of the Sabbath would do a good service, by procuring them in quantities for gratuitous circulation.-N. Y. Evangelist. The essay is excellent; written with perspicuity and graceful ease; and it treats the subject in a manner worthy, in point of force and truthfulness, of a mind more practised than the author's, in the science of composition.-South-western Baptist Chronicle. This beautiful volume is a reprint of an English edition, which has had a large circulation in Great Britain. We understand it has done "good service" there, in promoting the better observance of the Sabbath by the working classes. May its career through the United States be equally useful.-Christian Alliancé and Visiter. This treatise, showing the advantages of the Sabbath to the laboring classes, was called forth by an offer of a premium, and it has secured the patronage of the Queen of England. These circumstances, added to its intrinsic worth, will secure for it a wide circulation on both sides of the Atlantic.-New-England Puritan. a This is a novelty in literature. The work of a Scotch girl, the daughter of a laboring man, who was without the advantages of school instruction, gathering her knowledge from the lips of her poor but pious parents, and the few books that were at her command. In sound views of the subject discussed, and in the diction in which they are conveyed, it is indeed a remarkable performance.-Presby terian. In the first place, this is a very beautiful little bookpearl in its way, in the printing and embellishments. Then it is the work of a poor Scottish gardener's daughter, whose school in childhood was in the room where her mother did the work of the family; her mother, at the wash-tub or some other work, her principal instructor for six days in the week, but whose chief means of education (aside from systematic daily industry,) were the well-employed Sabbaths of a Christian household. The biographical sketch shows what parents of sound good sense and Christian principles may do with the slenderest external advantages, for making their children intelligent and virtuous, and in every way worthy. And the essay itself has intrinsic excellencies enough to be commended for general circulation.-Vermont Chronicle. family. Parental counsels and example formed her charThis was written by one who received her training in the acter. The hallowed influence of the Sabbath contributed and child may read this book with profit.-Boston Rec. very much in making her what she was. Every parent close of last year, a gentleman in Scotland, (John HenderThe history of this book is interesting. Towards the son, Esq., of Glasgow, we believe,) proposed some prizes for the best essays on the Sabbath, especially as an institution for the laboring man, and his best earthly inheritance, and invited laboring men to become competitors. In the course of the first three months of the present year, no less than nine hundred and fifty such essays, written by working men, were presented, many of them possessing great merit. One of the best was offered by a young woman, the daughter of a laborer,-as was ascertained when the envelop which accompanied it was opened. Although she merited a prize, she could not receive it, be cause, by the terms, these essays were to be furnished by the book, dedicated to the Queen, was published in beaumen. Nevertheless, a handsome reward was paid her, and tiful style, and has had a wide and well-deserved circulation in Great Britain. May it find the same in this coun try.-N. Y. Journal of Commerce. This is a most beautiful and interesting little volume. The "Laborer's Daughter" has drawn a lovely picture of the Christian Sabbath, as a legacy to "the working class. es." Every Christian family in the land ought to have "The Pearl of Days," and we need scarcely say, ought to To these pages the philosopher may go for instruction, and learn the true theory of social regeneration; and in the sketch of her life, all may see one of the most charm-read it. The composition is so beautifully chaste, and the ing family pictures that ever cheered the heart of man. scenes painted so life-like, that it will scarcely remain long All things considered, it is a most remarkable work. It on the table, without being read by all the members of will have, as it deserves, immense circulation.—Michigan the family, and being read, will certainly leave its impres Christian Herald. sion.-Christian Age, Cincinnati. 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