ENGLISH EDITION.

In Miss McIntosh we fondly and proudly greet a transatlantic sister, and
as delightedly introduce her, a "CHRISTMAS GUEST," to our own home
circle. She is worthy of all honor and affection.

Miss McIntosh's writings are eminently pure in feeling--tender,
graceful, and elegant in manner. Their moral, simply and unstrainedly
developed, is invariably excellent--generously exciting, stimulating,
encouraging all the noblest energies of our nature. To use her own
words, addressed to her friends in America, and with equal propriety may
they be accepted by the rising generation, and by every grade of
society, at every period of life, in her unforgotten fatherland--"From
the examples she will present to them, they may learn that to the brave
and true and faithful heart, 'all things are possible'--that he who
clings to the good and the holy amidst temptation and trial, will find
peace and light within him, though all without be storm and darkness;
and that in a right understanding and unfaltering performance of
duty--not in the pomps and pleasures of a self-indulgent life, lie our
true glory and happiness."

Not a tale, not a sketch, not an appeal to the heart or to the mind in
any form, does our fair sister commit to paper, that is not pervaded,
though unobtrusively, by a strain of the sweetest, gentlest, most
cheerful and soul-elevating piety; it is hers at once to soothe, to
charm, and to exhilarate.

Our "CHRISTMAS GUEST" well knows how to furnish forth a feast of
infinite variety. Few, if any, will arise from a perusal of her
delightful "word-painting" of life, incident, adventure, and character,
without being wiser, better, happier; without enjoying a more entire
confidingness in Heaven--in HIM, that _God of love and goodness_, whom
Christians unite to worship.

LONDON, December 4, 1850.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY, 9

CHAPTER II.
"THE MAIN CHANCE," 17

CHAPTER III.
THE CRADLE-SONG; A FREE TRANSLATION FROM KOeRNER, 35
THE BROTHERS; OR, IN THE FASHION, AND ABOVE THE FASHION, 37

CHAPTER IV.
LOSS AND GAIN; OR, HEARTS VERSUS DIAMONDS, 48

CHAPTER V.
THE BIRD'S RELEASE. BY MRS. HEMANS, 70
THE YOUNG MISANTHROPE, 72

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