e deriving from it
useful lessons for the guidance of their personal affairs, will also be
imbibing valuable instruction in an important branch of political
economy. We wish it could be placed in the hands of all our
youth--especially those who expect to be merchants, artisans, or
farmers.--_Christian Intelligencer_, N. Y.

In this useful and sensible work, which should be in the hands of all
classes of readers, especially of those whose means are slender, the
author does for private economy what Smith and Ricardo and Bastiat have
done for national economy. * * * The one step which separates
civilization from savagery--which renders civilization possible--is
labor done in excess of immediate necessity. * * * To inculcate this
most necessary and most homely of all virtues, we have met with no
better teacher than this book.--_N. Y. World._

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Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.

_Sent by mail, postage prepaid to any part of the United States, on
receipt of the price._

[Illustration]

THE DARWINOGRAM.

The object of this game is to discover from what prehistoric animal you
are descended. You select any one of the numbers, and follow the line to
which it belongs with the point of a pencil to the other end, and there
you will find your original ancestor, according to the theory of Mr.
Darwin. It may prove to be a butterfly, or it may prove to be a goose.

[Illustration]

THE LITTLE SPANISH DANCER.

This lively little fellow is very easily made. Take an old kid glove and
cut off the fingers--this is for the foundation. Upon it you may sew any
bits of bright silk or cloth you like to look like a jacket, and hide
the doubled-up fingers. Make two little mittens, and two little socks
with stuffed toes, remembering to stuff one sock higher than the other,
as your forefinger is shorter than your middle finger, and you want your
dancer to have both legs the same size. After dressing up your hand to
your satisfaction, paint on the back of the wrist a face with
water-colors, mixing a little gum with them if they will not "lay," and
the little Spaniard is ready to dance as long as it pleases you.

CHARADE.

My whole most mischievous appears;
Yet, if I you offend,
Cut off my first, and swiftly will
You bring me to my end.

Freed from my last, I'm gayly off,
Yet would you me detain;
Cut off my last, and, lo! for time
Withou