Each Number of this work will contain 48 Pages, duodecimo, printed on good paper and letter, and will be sold at Four Shillings and Six-Pence a dozen, or Six Pence a single number.

This work is designed to furnish Children, from seven to twelve years of age, with a variety of lessons on various subjects, written in a plain, [neat?], familiar style, and proper to lead them from the easy language of Spelling-Books up to the more difficult style of the best writers. Teachers of Schools have long complained of the want of such a work, and the Publishers are happy that they are now enabled to furnish it at a small expence.

The Youth’s Friend and Scholar’s Magazine. Vol. III. (for 1826) 24mo. pp. 194. Published by the American Sunday School Union.

This miniature periodical is well worth the attention of parents and teachers. Its contents are, mostly, short addresses on religious subjects, with conversations, narratives, and anecdotes of the same character. Occasionally there is given an illustration of such passages of scripture as require elucidation from geography or natural history; and a well executed cut usually accompanies the articles in this department.

The work is intended chiefly for Sunday schools; but it furnishes so much interesting and instructive matter, directly conducive to moral and religious improvement, that it is equally well adapted to the use of other schools and of families.

The editing of this publication indicates, on the whole, much acquaintance with the disposition and habits of children, and a happy talent for engaging their attention, and impressing their minds. Every number of such a work, however, cannot be equally successful; and, in some, there seems to be too large a proportion of doctrinal matter. But the guidance of attentive parents

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and teachers, will enable children to obtain from the whole much valuable instruction.

The execution of most of the numbers is uncommonly neat and tasteful; and this circumstance is by no means unworthy of remark, when we advert to the singular cheapness of the work;—the cost of an entire volume of twelve numbers, each containing sixteen 24mos. pages, being only twenty-five cents.

Among works of this class which it is interesting to take notice of at this season of the year, as closing a twelvemonth’s course of instruction and entertainment to the young, we would mention the Youth’s Friend, published in Philadelphia; the Juvenile Magazine, in Utica; the Children’s Friend, in Albany; and the Child’s Magazine, in New-York. These juvenile periodicals have been very successful during the year, and are daily extending the usefulness of Sunday schools.

To the above we would add the Juvenile Miscellany, published in Boston; which, though according to its title more miscellaneous in its character, has aimed steadily and successfully at the improvement of childhood.

A juvenile souvenir, by the intelligent editor of the last mentioned work, has just been published.

The Seasons, and The Youth’s Friend, are the titles of two works issued in beautiful style by the American Sunday School Union, and sold by Mr. Meeks, of this city. The first is attractively written, and derives choicest lessons from the changes and the varied aspects of the seasons. The other is a collection of the numbers of the valuable little periodical published under that title. The excellent moral character of the books needs no further guaranty than the endorsement of the pious and judicious Committee. A little item of news, we may take this occasion to say, which got into our columns a week or two since, respecting the formation of a Methodist Sunday School Union, may have conveyed a wrong impression. The American Union is, what its catholic name imports, an organization which brings its power to the promotion of good in all denominations of the Christian church. To guard against any appropriation of its influence to sectarian designs, its Committee of Publication consists of clergymen of five differen denominations, without the unanimous consent of whom no publication is issued. It embraces within its care and oversight the Sabbath schools of a still greater number of denominations. Its sole object is the doing of good to the young, and well has it exerted its influence for this end. It is deserving the confidence and support of Christians and patriots of every sect and section.

Among works of this class which it is interesting to take notice of at this season of the year, as closing a twelvemonth’s course of instruction and entertainment to the young, we would mention the Youth’s Friend, published in Philadelphia; the Juvenile Magazine, in Utica; the Children’s Friend, in Albany; and the Child’s Magazine, in New-York. These juvenile periodicals have been very successful during the year, and are daily extending the usefulness of Sunday schools.

To the above we would add the Juvenile Miscellany, published in Boston; which, though according to its title more miscellaneous in its character, has aimed steadily and successfully at the improvement of childhood.

A juvenile souvenir, by the intelligent editor of the last mentioned work, has just been published.

New Publication.—We have seen the first number of a little newspaper proposed to be published weekly in this city, by Messers. T. B. Wait & Son, the enterprising publishers of the american Journal of Education, entitled the Youth’s Gazette. The editorial department is under the superintendance of the editor of the Journal of Education, a gentleman eminently qualified to make the work entertaining and useful. The Gazette is designed expressly for youth, and as such it may become a valuable acquisition to the means already in use for the diffusion of useful knowledge among that class of the community. The leading features in the plan proposed are.

1. To prevent extracts from recent publications for youth. This arrangement, it is thought, will be more useful than that of giving formal reviews or notices, to guide the parent or child in making such selections as they would prefer, when disposed to purchase works of this sort.

2. To furnish recent or interesting articles in those departments of science which naturally claim the attention of youth. Geography, history, biography, natural history, and various other branches entertaining and useful to the young, will here be the chief objects of attention.

3. To present a brief view of political and general intelligence foreign and domestic.

4. To select suitable reading for the improvement of hours not otherwise occupied on Sunday.

To “teach the young idea how to shoot,” is surely a delightful task; yet we know of no situation in life, in which a man can be placed, where a greater responsibility rests upon him. Early impressions are not easily eradicated. “Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined,” is a maxim which should be deeply impressed on the minds of those engaged in the instruction of youth, and should have its weight in influencing their conduct. When arrived to manhood, the youth will look back with pain or pleasure on the early admonitions and examples of his preceptor. By them he will be actuated and governed in his transactions through life; and by them led on to virtue or vice.

The same responsibility rests on the conductor of a publication avowedly intended to promote the purposes of education. And in receiving his paper into the domestic circle, and placing it in the hands of our children, we entrust to him the sacred cause of giving a proper direction to their morals, and inculcating those sentiments, maxims and precepts, that are to govern them in manhood, and render them useful or worthless members of society. We have full confidence in the editor of the Gazette, and hazard nothing in recommending his paper as worthy of patronage.

[The Annual Report for Sept. 1827, contains among other things indicative of the usefulness and the prosperity of the above institution, the following intelligence.]

The Juvenile Magazine, which we promised in our last report, commenced with the present year. It has had, such as it is, more than the anticipated success. We circulate three thousand copies. The young readers take a lively interest in it. Of the usefulness to the children of such a publication, there can be but

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one opinion. In our last report, we stated that it was not our idea to make it exclusively religious. It has, therefore, contained various topics of general intelligence, and, in the language of children, has attempted to inculcate useful principles of different descriptions.

What more acceptable or useful New Year’s Present than the Youth’s Companion? It is cheap, one dollar a year; it affords a constant variety of interesting and profitable reading for children; and its crowning excellence is, that it does not grow old, cease to impart pleasure, and fall into neglect after a few days; but it returns fresh and bright with every returning week throughout the year. We have no personal interest in the Companion, as we have no share in the editing or publishing of it; but we think it confers a lasting benefit on every family of children which it visits. It is published at this office.

Among works of this class which it is interesting to take notice of at this season of the year, as closing a twelvemonth’s course of instruction and entertainment to the young, we would mention the Youth’s Friend, published in Philadelphia; the Juvenile Magazine, in Utica; the Children’s Friend, in Albany; and the Child’s Magazine, in New-York. These juvenile periodicals have been very successful during the year, and are daily extending the usefulness of Sunday schools.

To the above we would add the Juvenile Miscellany, published in Boston; which, though according to its title more miscellaneous in its character, has aimed steadily and successfully at the improvement of childhood.

A juvenile souvenir, by the intelligent editor of the last mentioned work, has just been published.

The “Sabbath School Instructor,” from Portland, Maine, has appeared in a new and improved form, and is graced by communications from Mrs. Sigourney.

“The Youth’s Literary Gazette” in Philadelphia, “The Juvenile Rambler” and “Parley’s Magazine” in Boston, are all conducted with great spirit, and form a new and interesting era in Juvenile Literature.

The terms of each are one dollar per annum.

None of the above publications, however, can excel the “Juvenile Miscellany,” which still maintains its just claims to the patronage of parents and children. It has been regularly published for seven years.

The Juvenile Key. This is a very neat 7 by 9 weekly paper, published at Brunswick, (Me.) the mechanical execution of which is entrusted to two children, the one 7, the other 9 years old. We presume it will advocate the Working Men’s Party.

Since commencing our little work, we have become acquainted with two periodicals of a design very similar to our own. The first is a small monthly magazine, printed in New-York, and entitled The Youth’s Temperance Lecturer. The leading object of the Editor seems to be, to fortify his readers against acquiring habits of intemperance. But his design embraces other kindred

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objects, and presents a very pleasing Miscellany of original matter, and choice extracts. The other work is entitled, The Juvenile Rambler, and is printed in Boston. We saw this paper for the first time last week, although it has reached the 37th number. It is remarkable that two persons entirely unconnected with each other should undertake plans so nearly alike, as the Rambler’s and our own. The Rambler, like the Rose Bud, is printed on a small quarto sheet, with three columns on a page, and is issued weekly. Its price is One Dollar perannum; that of the Lecturer seventy five cents. Both were commenced during the present season. Acknowledging these points of sympathy, and regarding the coincidences to which we have alluded as justifying our common objects, we tender to the respective Editors our sincere good will.

Having been often complimented on the pretty and novel name of our newspaper, we were startled, and must confess, somewhat chagrined, when a friend, last week, brought us a monthly publication from Lowell, (Mass.) called “The Rose Bud,” with a vignette somewhat resembling our own, which we find has been in existence since last March. It is got up with great neatness, and seems happily designed for Sunday Schools. Though two great men, Leibnitz and Newton, claimed the same invention in mathematics, and disputed about it for years, we are disposed modestly to yield the right of priority to our Norther rival, while we maintain its originality with us. …

“The Rose Bud” is the title of a periodical for young ladies recently issued in Charleston[,] S. C. Mrs. Gilman, well known for her excellent writings, both in verse and prose, in our “Juvenile Souvenirs,” is the Editor[.] There is no doubt but the publication will be made interesting and useful to the

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class for whom it is designed; but the title is rather too sentimental. We are right glad, however, to find the fashion of editing is becoming frequent among ladies. We think they are the proper judges of the literary character which should be given to works designed for the young of their own sex, especially; and this includes the periodicals designed for the mother’s table as well as the daughter’s toilet. Mrs. Child was, we believe the first lady who attempted this delicate task. It is now about six years since the establishment of her “Juvenile Miscellany,” and she has nobly sustained it ever since. It is a valuable work, and has done much good in promoting education and will, we trust, long continue.

The Southern Rose Bud.—The Rose Bud, an interesting little paper published at Charleston, S. C. which we have heretofore commended to the notice [o]f our juvenile friends, is about to be enlarged and improved, under the title of the Southern Rose Bud. It is still to be edited by Mrs. Gilman, under whose fostering care we trust it will continue to expand, and increase in beauty, until it shall have arrived at full perfection. The first number of the second volume will be issued in its new form on the 31st of August, at $1 per annum, payable in advance.

The Rose-bud.—This pretty word has no connection in our present purpose with the garden of Messrs. Prince and Sons, or the perfumes and essences of Johnson & Co., exquisite as they both are, in their respective ways; but is the title of a charming little periodical edited by Mrs. Caroline Gilman, and published at Charleston, South Carolina, which we shall take occasion, hereafter, to introduce more ceremoniously to our readers.

To our friends in South Carolina we owe much. … Without very animating encouragement either in praise or profit, she has scarcely made an attempt in periodical literature which has not disclosed high intellectual resources. Of one of her more recent enterprises in this way—the Rose-Bud—we sometime since did ourselves the pleasure to speak with the encomia it deserved. The-Rose Bud [sic] has, since then, grown into the Rose—The Southern Rose—and it keeps the promise of its loveliness in youth. It is still edited by a lady, its original projector, Mrs. Gilman—a fine writer herself, as well as a shrewd critick, and with an Ithureal-like perception of talent, however bashful and shrinking in others; she has, besides, an amiableness and an enthusiasm of disposition which stimulates her to tempt that talent forward, wherever discovered, and under the most inspiriting advantages. Hence, though capable of supplying treasures of prose and poetry from her own pen, which would give grace and character to any work, she has invoked around her the delicate spirits of her sunny home, and they have “come when she did call for them,” and made the bright region with their presence brighter. There is a list of female contributors to this valuable little two-dollar-a-year magazine, which would do credit to the best of those which make large pretensions. Among these contributors to The Southern Rose, Miss Martineau has several times appeared; and, in addition to the writings of the sisters, Florence and A. M. W. of Moma, Mary, and others, all evincing intelligence of a high order; to Mrs. Gilman we are, if we have observed aright, entirely indebted for eliciting the first efforts of a youthful poetess whose earlier contributions were subscribed “A Friend,” but who has since distinguished herself over the signature of M. E. L. At some future time we will offer evidence to our readers that we do not over-rate this young lady in predicting for her, if she proceeds as she has begun, great eminence. Of the gentlemen writers who have enriched this miscellany, we have not the leisure to say more than that Bulfinch of Augusta, Georgia, and several others of fine taste and powers; not the least attractive of whom is the Rev. Mr. Gilman, the husband of the lady-editor, whose prose, valuable as it is, will scarcely exceed in excellence his poetry, if he can always throw off stanzas as unaffected and as touching as those in the second number of the present volume so sweetly descriptive of “The Silent Girl.”

The Southern Rose, Charleston, S. C.

This is a semiweekly paper of eight octavo pages, intended for the young. It is rather light and amusing, but for the kind of periodical is exceedingly well conducted;—and its mechanical execution is almost unrivalled. If there be an objection in this department, it is that the type is too small. If it were a size or two larger, we believe the work would do more good.

The “Sabbath School Instructor,” from Portland, Maine, has appeared in a new and improved form, and is graced by communications from Mrs. Sigourney.

“The Youth’s Literary Gazette” in Philadelphia, “The Juvenile Rambler” and “Parley’s Magazine” in Boston, are all conducted with great spirit, and form a new and interesting era in Juvenile Literature.

The terms of each are one dollar per annum.

None of the above publications, however, can excel the “Juvenile Miscellany,” which still maintains its just claims to the patronage of parents and children. It has been regularly published for seven years.

The publishers of the “Youth’s Literary Gazette,” in Philadelphia, give notice, that they will transfer their subscription list to the publishers of “Parley’s Magazine,” in consequence of the increased number of publications of the same kind. We have received the series of the ‘Youth’s Literay Gazette,’ with great interest. Its invariable tendency has been to improve and please the youthful mind.

The Child’s Newspaper. Cincinnati: Corey and Fairbank.

A small sheet, very neatly printed, has just commenced making its semi-monthly appearance in this city, under the above title. It is edited by the reverend Thomas Brainerd, assisted by the reverend B. P. Aydelotte, under the supervision of a committee of the Cincinnati Sunday School Union, composed of four persons of different denominations. All this care seems to be taken to afford a pledge that the paper shall not have any sectarian bias.

There is no doubt on our minds of the great advantage of periodicals for children; which awaken their curiosity, give them the habit of reading, and furnish them with a stated supply of wholesome intellectual nourishment. The Child’s Newspaper is calculated to be a valuable auxiliary in the education of our western youth. The plan is a good one, and has so far been well executed, and we very cheerfuly and cordially wish it success.

The Slave’s Friend.—A new and interesting Number has just been published. Price one cent.

There is a Juvenile Lyceum at New Brunswick, N. J. which meets weekly for declamation, discussion, and the reading of compositions. It has sixtyfour members[.] They have resolved, as an experiment, to publish, every Saturday, their proceedings, in the form of a small newspaper, at fify cents a year. We have seen the first nuber, and it is certainly worth notice. It contains the speeches of seven boys, in the discussion of the question, ‘What curiosity in the United States is the most interesting?’ It also contains several other agreeable and instructive articles. We have seldom seen more of the living voice in a juvenile newspaper;—and we heartily wish it success.

‘The Youth’s Magazine,’ is the title of a small octavo periodical, published monthly by Mason & Lane, New-York, for the Methodist Episcopal Church. The number before us is sent forth as a specimen, with a promise that each succeeding one shall fully equal it. It contains forty pages, and is embellished with two wood engravings. Terms, $1 per annum.

The Magazine is intended for the moral and religious edification of youth in general, and of the Methodist church in particular. The Rev. Geo. Coles is editor, and while under his charge none can doubt its efficacy to do good. Such publications, properly conducted, are capable of doing an incalculable amount of good. While the larger and more elaborate publications of the day are exerting their moral influence upon those of a maturer age, the youth of our land, of both sexes, are denied, to a great extent, the direct benefit of their influence. But a work devoted specially to them, and in language and sentiment addressed directly to their hearts and understanding, will not only make them feel a pride in reading a work of their own, but will scatter a vast quantity of precious seed in rich and fertile soil.

‘Youth’s Magazine.’—We omitted to notice at the proper time, the commencement of the second volume of this very valuable publication. It is issued monthly from the Methodist Book Establishement [sic], in New-York, and is under the editorial guidance of the Rev. George Coles. The current volume commenced in May, and although published under the auspices of a particular religious sect, yet it breathes but one kind of religion and morality—the religion and ethics of Christianity. We heartily commend it to parents of all denominations of Christians, as well as non-professors, as a most excellent moral instructor for their children. It is embellished with numerous engravings. The frontispiece to the first volume is a view of Millbrook, the residence of the late Dr. Adam Clarke. Price only one dollar per annum.

Youth’s Magazine.—This valuable little periodical has now passed the sixth month of its second year of publication. The D[e]cember number is rich in its usual variety of moral and religious instruction, which always shine upon its pages, and embraces the following subjects: Trinity Church, (with a cut); Natural Theology—the Eye; The Drunkard’s Late Residence; The Study and Observation of Nature considered in reference to Music; Heaven; Arm, (with a cut); Charity; Apothegems, by L. E. L.; The Scenes of my Childhood; Taste, by Erastus Wentworth; The Poetry of Life; Obituary. Poetry—A Mother’s Love; Epitaph; From a Lady to her Son on a bed of sickness; On seeing the late John Wesley’s picture. Mason & Lane, New-York.—One dollar a year.

The Youth’s Penny Paper.

This little paper is published weekly at New York, by E. French, No. 146 Nassau Street. The price is fifty cents a year, twentyfive cents for

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six months, twelve and half cents for three months, in advance; or one cent a week. The paper consists of four pages about the size of large octavo pages, and is edited by Theodore Dwight, Jr.

The Youth’s Penny Paper, says the prospectus, is designed to afford entertainment and instruction for the young; to aid them in their studies; to acquaint them with important passing events, as well as the events of seince; to inculcate religious and moral principles, to cultivate taste, and to prepare them for happiness and usefulness as members of society;—also, to assist parents and teachers in training the young. Each number, continues the prospectus, will contain one or more engravings; true tales or anecdotes, designed to improve the mind or character; sketches of real travel at home or abroad; a hymn or song, often with music; or short lessons on various departments of knowledge appropriate to different ages; with brief familiar notices of the news of the day.

We are glad to see such a paper, and from such a source; for what the tact, talent, and perseverance of anybody can do towards sustaining such a paper, we are sure will be done by its untiring editor and zealous publisher. And if they can find men of like spirit with themselves—men we mean who care for something besides money, and who labor, in part at least, for a higher and nobler reward—to act as agents, all over the country, we doubt not their labors will do much good. We do not say—we dare not hope it—that their paper will be popular; for what paper or journal whose main object was to do good, has ever been popular, in this country or in any other? What does not touch our consciences or invade our liberty—our liberty to do as we please with our time faculties and money, without regard to God—may be popular; at least if it espouses some party or sect.

We speak rather discouragingly on this subject, because we have had some experience in these matters. We were employed by the philanthropic proprietor of the ‘Juvenile Rambler,’ to edit that paper for him about two years, till it was merged in Parley’s Magazine. Subsequently we edited Parley’s Magazine four years—we will not say with what success—we leave that to others. We will only say that had we sailed under the flag of a sect or party, and had other people been as willing as ourselves to ‘work for nothing and keep themselves,’ we have no doubt both works would have been better supported than they were; and we might have been willing longer to bear the burden of editing the latter.

We ought, perhaps, to say, that Parley’s Magazine is published by Messrs Joseph S. Francis, of this city, and Charles H. Francis of New York; but who the editor is, we are not informed.

For two reasons the subscriber has discontinued the publication of the “Missionary.” The expense was heavier than the income, and the Youth’s Cabinet, a very interesting paper, had beforehand entered into the same department of labor with the “Missionary.”

Subscribers to the Missionary will be supplied with the Youth’s Cabinet for six months, gratis, on condition they take the paper for one year, by paying Fifty Cents. The editor cannot but hope that his friends will be satisfied with this arrangement—when, instead of the Missionary once a month, the Youth’s Cabinet will visit them weekly through the year, for the small consideration of fifty cents.

Ebenezer McDowall.

I have promised to send the Youth’s Cabinet to the subscribers for the “Missionary,” who paid in advance only on cnodition that they each pay fifty cents to the subscriber, which will entitle them to this paper for one year. Those who do not choose to comply with this condition will please to return ths number with their name and post office marked on it.

N. Southard.

Value of a Temperance Paper.—In a certain town in Connecticut, where the Youth’s Temperance Advocate had been taken in the Sunday School, its discontinuance was advocated on account of expense. A poor woman said it must not be given up; and should not be, if she paid the ten dollars herself, and earned the money by washing; for, said she, I had rather do that than have the little paper discontinued, and my husband be what he was before that little paper came into my family.

New Publications.—Sunday School Monitor. We have omitted to notice this valuable auxiliary to the Sabbath school cause. It is published by N. Southard at No. 9 Spruce street, New-York, in a folio form, every other Thursday, at the low price of fifty cents per annum. Twenty copies will be sent to one address for $5 in advance. We commend it the attention of the Sabbath schools of our village. Subscriptions will be received at this office. …

We have received numbers 1 and 2, volume XI., of the above-named juvenile periodical, published in Cincinnati, and edited by Mrs. H. E. B. Stowe. It has a variety of valuable selections, and some interesting editorial articles, adapted to the capacity and taste of children—with music for the young. With ourselves, the number of its correspondents appears to be sufficiently small. Published the 15th of each month, 24 pages a number, at 75 cents per year—or 50 cents each for 10 or more copies. S. W. Johns, printer and publisher.

Notices of Publication.

Number one of the Sabbath School Repository, a new monthly, in pamphlet form, has been received. It is published at Dover, N. H., by the Freewill Baptist connection, and contains a variety of interesting and valuable articles. We hail it as an auxiliary in the great and good cause of religious education. Let the minds of children and youth be well stored with religious truth, and we still have hope for our country. The usual terms. …

We have received from the office of the Boston Mercantile Journal, a file of their Youth’s Medallion in exchange. We are much pleased with the appearance of this publication, and presume a farther examination will render us equally pleased with its character. The auspices under which it is published are a guaranty of its excellence. It is published semi-monthly, eight quarto pages in a number, at the Mercantile Journal office, Wilson’s Lane, Boston, at $1 a year for a single paper; $5 for six; $15 for twenty, all in advance.

The Youth’s Medallion. Boston: Sleeper, Dix & Rogers.

There should be a New-York agency for this periodical, for it is one of the very best of its kind in the world. It is issued semi-monthly—printed on clear type, and handsome paper, embellished with excellent engravings, and in point of typography is unsurpassed. Uncle Christopher, the editor, makes every thing that he touches clear and interesting, not only to juveniles, but to all of any age, who are willing to learn, and ready to be profitably amused. Our children should not be without the Medallion, though its price were treble what it is.

We are pleased to greet this interesting visiter, and are delighted with its appearance and contents. It is an honor to the church and to the cause of Sabbath Schools. Though it has reached but the 14th number, it has over eleven thousand subscribers, and an increasing list. We are glad to see this extensive patronage, for as the terms are very low, its expenses can be sustained only by a large subscription; and its conductors seem willing to deny no labor or expense to render it worthy of general favor.

The Juvenile Wesleyan.—Bro. Matlack prepares for his little friends, a nice and sprightly entertainment, twice a month, and sends it round to them in the “Juvenile Wesleyan.”

The Juvenile Wesleyan, has made its appearance again, and is welcomed in the list of our exchanges. The first number is filled with very interesting matter for our little radical friends.

The Student.—The January number is on our table, as neat and as valuable as ever. Fowlers & Wells, publishers, New York.—One dollar in advance.

Youth’s Monthly Visitor. Edited and published by Mrs. M. L. Bailey. Cincinnati, Ohio. Terms, twenty-five cents a year.

We cheerfully comply with the request to notice this little paper, of which we have received a file. We had for some time been desirous to know more of the authoress of some beautiful little poems that have from time to time met our eye, and are happy to find her as the conductor of so excellent a work. The tone of the Monthly Visitor is pure and elevated; its original articles combine good taste and good sense; its selections are judicious and instructive, and, what is rare in a journal of a religious character, it is free from bigotry or narrowness without being monotonous and flat. We can heartily commend it to persons of all denominations as worthy to be put into the hands of the young. We know no publication that gives so much for so little money.

The Youth’s Friend is a very neat monthly, the same size of the Gem, published by Longley & Brother, our printers in Cincinnati, O. It is an excellent thing for the children, and has become very popular. Terms, 50 cts. per annum and 25 cts. to clubs.

The early period at which our paper goes to press has prevented our noticing, nearer the beginning of the year, two lively and instructive magazines for youth, which we can cheerfuly commend to those who desire periodicals containing general information and amusement.

Woodworth’s Youth’s Cabinet, published at 118 Nassau-street, New-York, ($1 00 per annum,) is now entering upon its fifth volume. It has an established character for good taste and general excellence.

Forrester’s Magazine, published by Rand, 5 Cornhill, Boston, also at $1 00 per volume, is a new comer to our table, but is already well known and highly appreciated in other quarters, especially in New-England.

Both these monthlies are well printed, and interspersed with pictures. From what we know of the editors and publishers, we are confident that the moral character of both will be found unexceptionable.

In this connection we may also mention the Youth’s Monitor, published at 200 Mulberry-street, New-York, at 25 cents per annum. Monthly numbers are sold at the counter of our Book Room at two cents each. Where monthly rewards are desired in Sunday schools, no cheap publication can be more suitable. The Monitor, as well as the Cabinet and the Magazine, makes an elevant volume at the end of the year.

“The Child’s Paper,” is an excellent little sheet, published monthly by the American Tract Society. It is illustrated with interesting cuts, and from the style in which it is got up, and the superior excellence of its reading matter, it presents a loud claim to the attention of those who wish to do good to children. Its cost is a mere trifle, and it only needs a slight acquaintance with such a paper as this, to show how a little money can be made to do a great deal of good.

The Schoolmate.—We are much pleased with the plan of this periodical, intended as a magazine for children, and as a reading-book for schools. It[ ]is a valuable publication. It is published by George Savage, 22 John st., New York. One dollar a year.

The “Monday Express” is a weekly sheet published by J. Mitchell, jr., for the boys of Little Rock, Ark., at five cents per month. The last number wants to know why the mouth of a river is not in its head. We should like to know too.

Youth’s Banner, Little Rock, Ark.—This spirited little sheet still comes to hand chuck full—so full that the Miscellany was forgotten in the last number. But we are only half mad about it, as they have persisted in saying that the cognomen of the editor was Quinly, and that we were publishing under the name of Sparks, Wood & Co. Whereas but one number was ever graced in

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that way. However we can spare them for this; it is not to be expected that they can keep up with Yankee progress. But my little toddling, you must learn to speak our names plain. Talk it out right, next time. You are improving, and with a little fatherly advice occasionally, may yet do remarkably well.

THE YOUTH’S BANNER is published semi monthly, at Little Rock, Arkansas, by J. G. Mitchel[l] and W. T. Robinson. Terms, 50 cents per annum. It is devoted especially to the developement [sic] of the talent of the young.

The Garland is a new monthly. It is a neat, spirited, and strictly moral paper, devoted to the cause of temperance among the young, and the development of youthful talent. It is decidedly the best thing of the kind that we know of, having a corps of editors who, from their enterprising spirit, have succeeded in giving life to every line of it. It is only fifty cents per annum, monthly. Address J. C. Richardson & Co., Cincinnati, O.

The Little Forester has met The Little Pilgrim, from Grace Greenwood’s home in Philadelphia, and feels very much pleased with his little companion, so well, indeed, that he feels like paying him a poetical compliment.

The Little Pilgrim charges for his monthly visits, half-a-dollar a year.

The Little Wolverine.—We have received a number of this new-comer into the ranks of juvenile literature, and hail it with the heartiest wishes for its success; not only because its editress, Mrs. C. M. Sheldon, has long been a valued friend of the Casket, but because the Little Wolverine is an excellent thing in itself. The Michigan children will feel proud of it, we are sure, and the readers of the Casket, in other parts, would be benefitted and pleased by its perusal. Published monthly, at Detroit, Mich., by Mrs. C. M. Sheldon, at 30 cents a year.

The Children’s Friend.—The children of the Buckeye state, yes, and all other states, if they please, have in this pretty, well-printed sheet, a “friend" worth having. Send on your twenty-five cent pieces, and if you are not pleased with your returns, we are greatly mistaken. Direct to S. Vonnieda, Dayton, O.

From Shepard, Clark, & Brown, Boston, through T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia:—

AGUECHEEK. This is an extremely entertaining and well written volume of sketches of foreign travel and miscellaneous essays, the principal part of which were first given to the public in the columns of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, under the signature of Aguecheek. Though an invalid, their author appears to have been a patient and attentive observer of men and things, and moreover, gives evidence of a calm and unprejudiced spirit of philosophy such as few travellers seem to possess. Price $1 00.

They also send us the second number of a new magazine for the juveniles, comically entitled THE LITTLE PIG MONTHLY. It is richly illustrated, and contains much for the grave as well as for the humorous consideration of Young America. Though a child’s magazine, its funny tales and fairy stories will furnish entertainment for the entire family circle. Price 25 cents a number.

The Favorite, is the expressive title of a new magazine for the young, published in New York, at $1,00 per annum. It is done up in a style of exquisite mechanical beauty, and the contents will be found pleasing and beneficial to those for whom the work is intended.

Attention, readers! By order of the society for the dissemination of a pleasing and wholesome literature, you are hereby commanded to appear immediately at your respective post offices with letters addressed to R. Alley, Olean, Ripley county, Ind.,—15¢ enclosed—with your post office addresses and names—for which you will each receive one year “The Genius of Youth,” one of the most attractive publications of the day. The editor is young, but has thrown his banner to the breeze inscribed with good principles, and since the terms of his monthly are so remarkably low it should be patronized by everybody.

W. Wallace Gurelle, Esq., a new correspondent, will write for the ‘Gem’ occasionally, in future. The ‘Genius of Youth’ contains some fine productions from his pen, both in poetry and prose. Long may he flourish.

We see that our friends out west are driving business, in the way of publishing, on their

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‘own book,’ and considering all things, they make it go very well. The “Genius of Youth,” is the title of one of their publications which we have received, and quite a pretty sheet it is; published monthly by Ross Alley, at Olean, Ia., at 15 cents a year. [Note: Actually, the Genius was published in Indiana.]

The Student and Schoolmate. Jos. H. Allen, editor, 203 Washington St., Boston, is ably edited, containing moral and literary matter, and instructive chapters on science.

A pretty little sheet—The Youth’s Temperance Visitor, by Z. Pope Vose, Rockland, Me., 50 cts, a year, is well calculated to inspire the youthful heart with a love and zeal for the principle of temperance.

The Lyceum Banner, by L. H. Kimball, Chicago, Ill., semi-monthly, at $1.00 per year, is also devoted to the culture, the social and moral training of youth.

The Children’s Hour, $1.25 per year, by T. S. Arthur, Phila. The well known reputation of this author for purely moral stories for children, commend his writings to every household.