FACTS, OCCURRENCES, EXAMPLES, TESTIMONIES, INCIDENTS, "Well selected anecdotes are like striking pictures, gibing the ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY BILLINGS HARTFORD: PUBLISHED BY CASE, LOCKWOOD & CO. 1862. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by CASE, TIFFANY AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. value to THE FAMILY of well selected anecdotes is incalculable. There they may aid parents in teaching their children, and fix in the minds of children, lessons that shall guide them safely in all their future course. Not only by the interest they awaken and by the realities they present, will they destroy the taste for corrupting fictitious reading, but they will implant principles and hold forth examples, that may be the salvation of the individual for time and eternity. Impressed with the correctness of these views, the editor has endeavored to prepare what hitherto he has never met,* a volume of ANECDOTES FOR THE FAMILY. In making his selections, he has carefully examined, and freely made use of such works as the twelve volumes of "Anecdotes" by the London Tract Society, the "Percy Anecdotes," "Buck's Religious Anecdotes," the "World's Laconics," "Arvine's Anecdotes," several volumes of "Missionary" and several of "Foreign Anecdotes," &c., &c., &c. For its range and variety, and the interest and value of the lessons inculcated, it is believed that the present collection may be said to be unsurpassed, if not unequaled, by any hitherto made. And now it is commended to FAMILIES and HEADS OF FAMILIES throughout the land, in the hope and with the prayer, that it may be a source of rich and lasting blessing to many a household. JANUARY, 1855. H. A. D. *Except a single small volume called "Anecdotes for the Family," but which is more properly a collection of anecdotes having reference to family relations. |