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The object of this Volume is that of inducing young people to read, to cultivate in them a habit of reading and reflection, and to excite the imagination, the feelings, and the better emotions of their nature in a pleasurable and judicious manner.
The pieces selected are such as will be likely to exert a beneficial influence upon the reader, to inspire him with heroic enthusiasm, and to lead him to despise danger.
In our perpetually migrating population, no one can tell who will not be called upon to brave the vicissitudes of "flood and field;" and to show how perils may be surmounted, and privations endured with energy and patience, is to teach no unimportant lesson.
Nothing whatever has been introduced into this Volume, but such subjects as will teach a dependence upon Divine Providence, in aid of self-reliance and self-sacrifice, while details of war and bloodshed have been studiously avoided.
ARABIAN HOSPITALITY, ETC. HOSPITALITY OF THE ARAB HORRORS OF AFRICAN WARFARE CROCODILE SHOOTING
INDIAN FIELD SPORTS-- METHOD OF CATCHING BIRDS THE HYENA THE BEAR SAGACITY OF THE ELEPHANT ANECDOTES OF THE TIGER
SKETCHES IN VIRGINIA-- ROCK BRIDGE WIER'S CAVE
ANECDOTES, ETC.-- THE ALBATROSS VISIT TO A PENGUIN ROOKERY THE SEA ELEPHANT VISIT FROM THE NATIVES AT TERRA DEL FUEGO CHILIAN MODE OF CAPTURING WILD HORSES FIGHT BETWEEN A WHALE AND A KILLER WAR DANCES OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS HISTORY OF PADDY CONNEL
ADVENTURE IN THE DESERT, AND MURDER OF A SHEIKH
~Arabian Hospitality--African Warfare, &c.~
The following three extracts are from a work of considerable merit, intitled "The Crescent and the Cross." It contains, not only much valuable matter relative to Egypt and Abyssinia, but many interesting anecdotes, of which we give a specimen.