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I 'A la; j ljv J. A. STEVENS, Edi i;:iYDAYGI?TFOni A Christian Father's Pre to his Family. The most Splendidly Illustrated and est Work ever issued on the At continent. I CONTAINING MORE TFIAN j PI if Ut i Ea , ENTIRELY NEW AND ORIGIN Designed and Executed by the mo. nent Anists of England and Amek Cott of Preparing the Work, $3 PRICE, $2 50. OB, J The lives and character! of the pri personages recoided in the sacred wrf practically adapted to the instruct! youth and private families; togethej on n nnonrl i Y rnn f a inin r thirtv fliff tions on the evidences of Divine Rl tion, from Timpsons key to the lit liAinrr a rnmnlolfl Xlimmirv of hi knowledge, carefully condensed aK piled from Scott, Doddridge, GUI, I Adam Clarke, rod, Lowth, iiornJ Stowe, Robinson, and other eminc ters on the Scriptures. Robert i Editor. Embellished with severs dred Engravings on wood, illustraj Scripture scenes, manners, custom The following notice of Bible Biograp! written by the Rev. W. C. Brownlee, D. L a careful examination of the volume. Dc beta long known throughout the United) aa one of our most useful, learned, and elor vines. I his candid and impartial review ran, mereiore, io nave great weight with are anxioua to know the real merits of th New Year. Aunt fiih. Th is is, beyond question, one of the n: gant booVeer presented to our fellow-J 'f"v ii is a volume oi dm. containing about 500 engraving a of a mc' resting character. The paper, the type, I gravings, are alt of them such as might en' a successful competition with any of the London publications. It is a superior epl of domestic fabrication, both external anl cal; and it ought, in this respect, to be pal by every patriotic citizen. But this is tf valuable thing about it. The volume r accurate views of eastern customs, habiti Tiers, animals, scenery; and, in addition tl ments given in brief, accurate, and W tails, we have every variety of pictorial exhi which at once amuse, interest, delight and nate. In this volume we have, moreover,! bly well written biographies of all the prf characters mentioned in the Holy Bible. I 'are seiected with taste andsinguiardiscrimir from the best authors extant on the subject there it a crowning excellence in the last hi pages, where we possess a rich treasury of 1 and religious knowledge, carefully condene compiled from 'Timpson'a Key te the Holy t a work accessible to very few. I Mr. Sears' object in presenting this adr and beautiful volume, ought to be duly ap1 ted bv everv minister. nrni an.i i? i nt " a,m ,B to eItead ne interest' Holy Bible to place in the most attractive umiuo uums ana holy precepts, by instr and bv Cultivating T.mnl t. : , make it paramount, in our youths' estimal . ..,vt uuwhb, na an omer things af captivating in the eyes of the youthful a the beaut.Tul,the gay, the sober, the thol and reflecting, his designed to set aside Parauvely significant, tie numerous vo light reading, and utter vanity, and to 1 them, with all their fascinating 1 and tawV ments of types, and plates, and wit, by! more beautilul in art, and more valuable and more fascinating in biography and ar Hence, Mr. Sears has an honest and in' moral claim for patronage and aupport. a! minister and every parent, and every B school ibacher? and on every patriot, act' christian principles. I have only to add,! fnends, and to the people of my numerou? that there if, perhaps, no other book, recer1 the pre, which 1 would, in preferenci beautiful and judicious volume, put and woo them over to the atucly of the an? t'ography, and divin.ruth, of t Bib e. It ought to be in every christiaf for its innate value; and in evefv nYtSf ' TO PUBLISHERS AND PROPRirW NEWSPAPERS THROUGHOUJ?,' STATES AND BRItTsh PROVIN The publisher of the above work reW request, of newspaper proprietor! thH copy the advertisement exactly ? j! 5 and where it is convenient anpracticabl gents in receiving eubscriptio., or ,Pr ' To those who will advertise, and at th1 hme act as agent, for the work, they will f .forded at thelow price of $1,50 per TT iirsgle copy to a thousand volumes CasV allowing the handsome sum of ONE DOLf every subscriber procured, or copy sold V every newspaper proprietor in all our tr sropiii1Lrsiifrshout the unioS'i . , No. 122 Nassau street, N.l jioyembar, 1842. ' i rpLL, atthi January Term, H cc'Jrfi aks- a final 1 rnea Cf OJ account as AdirJnhlraln " of IaX?' tnd ra. oi csiijstraiioa. i ' : MNCY BIARBLE, Adc t !