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The historical souvenir and literary cabinet
The present volume lays claim to notice for these two reasons ; — first, its contents, — secondly, its plates.
Its contents have been so formed as to suit it in a pre-eminent degree as a present for youth. Its sketches are those of places and events which have peculiar interest— whether the gorgeous scene, with forest and mountain and river, or the mighty castle, or the tented battle-field, where liberty made a stand against oppression. Its tales are such as inculcate morality, and teach that the road to happiness is that of virtue. Its plates are beautiful alike for the engraver's art as the scenes they depict. Illustrating some great point, they serve to fix the attention to the truths — and thus
" Through the eye correct the lieart."
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