, and weaponed, he knew
not how, and yet it was done by his own hands."

At a time when it was considered dangerous to society in Europe for the
common people to read books and listen to lectures on any but religious
subjects, Charles Knight determined to enlighten the masses by cheap
literature. He believed that a paper might be instructive and not be
dull, cheap without being wicked. He started the "Penny Magazine," which
acquired a circulation of two hundred thousand the first year. Knight
projected the "Penny Cyclopedia," the "Library of Entertaining
Knowledge," "Half-Hours with the Best Authors," and other useful works
at a low price. His whole adult life was spent in the work of elevating
the common people by cheap, yet wholesome publications. He died in
poverty, but grateful people have erected a noble monument over his
ashes.

How many rich dwellings there are, crowded with every appointment of
luxury, that are only glittering caverns of selfishness and discontent!
"Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred
therewith."

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger,"
says Beecher. "It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or
poor according to what he _is_, not according to what he _has_."

If our thoughts are great and noble, no mean surroundings can make us
miserable. It is the mind that makes the body rich.

Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
--TENNYSON.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
--LOWELL.

PUSHING TO THE FRONT

OR, SUCCESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES, by ORISON SWETT MARDEN. A book
of inspiration and help to the youth of America who long to be
somebody and to do something in the world, many of whom, hedged
in as it were by iron walls of circumstances feel that they
have "no chance in life." ==> Passed through _a dozen editions
its first year_. It is used _in Boston and other public
schools_, and has been republished and heartily received in
foreign countries.

=With 24 fine full-page portraits. Crown 8vo., $1.50.=

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A modern wonder. It should be in the hands of every American
youth.
--_Bishop Newman_.

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