age standard of safety can
be ascertained at a single glance.

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History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. By
Samuel Greene Arnold. Vol. I. 1636-1700. 1 vol. 8vo. 574 pages.
$2.50.

"To trace the rise and progress of a State, the offspring
of ideas that were novel and startling, even amid the
philosophical speculations of the Seventeenth Century; whose
birth was a protest against, whose infancy was a struggle
with, and whose maturity was a triumph over, the retrograde
tendency of established Puritanism; a State that was the
second-born of persecution, whose founders had been doubly
tried in the purifying fire; a State which, more than any
other, has exerted, by the weight of its example, an
influence to shape the political ideas of the present day,
whose moral power has been, in the inverse ratio with its
material importance; of which an eminent Historian of the
United States has said that, had its territory 'corresponded
to the importance and singularity of the principles of its
early existence, the world would have been filled with
wonder at the phenomena of its history,' is a task not to be
lightly attempted or hastily performed."--_Extract from
Preface_.

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The Ministry of Life. By Maria Louisa Charlesworth, Author of
_Ministering Children_. 1 vol., 12mo., with Two Eng's., $1. Of the
_Ministering Children_, (the author's previous work,) 50,000 copies
have been sold.

"The higher walks of life, the blessedness of doing good,
and the paths of usefulness and enjoyment, are drawn out
with beautiful simplicity, and made attractive and easy in
the attractive pages of this author. To do good, to teach
others how to do good, to render the home circle and the
neighborhood glad with the voice and hand of Christian
charity, is the aim of the author, who has great power of
description, a genuine love for evangelical religion, and
blends instruction with the story, so as to give charm to
all her books."--_N.Y. Observer_.

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The Coopers; or, Getting Under Way. By Alice B. Haven, Author of _No
Such Word as Fail_, _All's Not Gold that Glitters_, etc., etc. 1 vol.
12mo. 336 pages. 75 cents.

"To grace and freshness of style, Mrs.