HARVARU GUILES.

FROM

THE BEQUEST

EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

1918

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:

District Clerk's Office.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twentythird day of October, A. D. 1828, and in the fiftythird year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Bowles & Dearborn, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"THE CASKET: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Children and Young Persons. 1829."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned :" and also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of

Massachusetts.

PREFACE.

SHOULD it be thought, by the readers of this little work, that any of the articles which it contains, come not fully into the comprehension of Children, it is hoped that the difficulty of obtaining, on short notice, matter at once on a level with their minds, and best fitted to improve them, will be sufficient apology.

Nothing, however, has been admitted which may not safely be placed in the hands of children. Whatever is high wrought, or exciting to the imagination, has been studiously avoided. Much of the force, and indeed of the usefulness of the memoir of " Madame Roland," has necessarily been sacrificed; because it was deemed inexpedient to introduce children who are of the age to enjoy the "Water-Spirit," and "Cecilia," to such subjects as the moral causes, and to such scenes as the tragic consequences of the