But I, who have got a good Bible to read,
    And parents so anxious and kind,
  Shall prove myself vile and ungrateful indeed
    If I still am perversely inclined.

  These blessings will rise at God’s terrible bar,
    If I do not grow better by them;
  And my Bible, neglected, will also be there,
    And my friends and my teachers condemn.

  Then let me attend, and make haste to improve,
    With every fresh season that’s given,
  And pray to the Lord of all mercy and love
    To train me for virtue and heaven.

BOOKS PUBLISHED FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

* * * * *

Napoleon Bonaparte: 

Sketches from his history.  Written for the young.

No person, young or old, that takes up this book will wish to put it down before it is finished; and no reader will fail to be profited by its perusal.  We doubt whether in the same space there can anywhere be found a better summary of the history of that wonderful man, or a clearer picture of the folly of his extravagant ambition, or the cruelties it led him to perpetrate, and of the downfall in which it terminated.  False views of the character of warriors and conquerors have ruined thousands.  Need any other fact be stated to show the importance of giving the young, especially, timely and correct views of these characters?

If there is one class to whom more than another this book is particularly commended, it is to that large class of boys, between the ages of five and fifteen years, who often think, and sometimes say, “I would like to be a soldier.”