ADVERTISEMENT.

THE primary object of this selection has been to bring together a mass of sound Christian advice and opinion bearing upon the daily concerns of human life,-for conveying which the epistolary form affords proverbially the best vehicle. Sermons and other didactic treatises are necessarily confined to general expressions; but in the composition of a letter the writer addresses himself directly to the circumstances of his correspondent, and enters into the most minute details of duty. Thus it happens that a well-written letter combines in a remarkable degree both interest and instruction.

The next object has been to introduce, as far as might be, the letters of men whose lives and conversations, should the reader be induced to inquire into their history, would form profitable subjects of contemplation. To familiarise people with the names of Taylor and Hooker, and Nelson and Ken, and Walton and Jones of Nayland, is in itself a good work, and suitable to these times, when there appears to be a decided taste for reading, with but little discrimination as to the manner of gratifying it.

CONTENTS.

CLASS I.

On Education and Entering on Life.

LETTER

1. Sir Thomas Wyatt to his Son

2. Sir Henry Sydney to his Son Philip Sydney, then
twelve years of age, at school at Shrewsbury

3. Rev. W. Jones (on a teachable disposition)
4. Ambrose Bonwicke to his Cousin, an Apprentice
5. Niebuhr to a Student

6. Henry Kirke White to Mr. Maddock

7. The same to the same

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7

12

15

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8. Rev. W. Jones (on good manners)

10. A Clergyman to a Friend (on fasting)

26

9. The same (on temperance)

11. Robert Nelson to his Cousin going abroad

12. Sir Thomas Bodleigh to Sir Francis Bacon,- -same

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33

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13. Mr. Nicholas Ferrar to his Parents, before going

abroad

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14. St. Jerome to Læta, on the education of her Daughter 15. Sir Thomas More, concerning the education of his Children, to Mr. Gunnel, their domestic Tutor

16. The same to his dear Children

17. Admiral Lord Collingwood to his Daughter 18. The same to Lady Collingwood

19. The same to the same

20. Mrs. Trotman, of Shelswell, Oxfordshire, to her only Daughter, at school, and about the age of fourteen 21. Mrs. H. Bowdler to Miss Elizabeth Smith, on confirmation