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BOY'S AND GIRL'S LIBRARY.

XVII.

THE

CLERGYMAN'S ORPHAN;

OR,

THE CHILD OF PROVIDENCE.

BOY'S AND GIRL'S LIBRARY.

PROSPECTUS.

The publishers of the "Boy's And Girl's LIBRARY" propose, under this title, to issue a series of cheap but attractive volumes, designed especially for the young. The undertaking originates

not in the impression that there does not already exist in the treasures of the reading world a large provision for this class of the community. They are fully aware of the deep interest excited at the present day on the subject of the mental and moral training of the young, and of the amount of talent and labour bestowed upon the production of works aiming both at the solid culture and the innocent entertainment of the inquisitive minds of children. They would not therefore have their projected enterprise construed into an implication of the slightest disparagement of the merits of their predecessors in the same department. Indeed it is to the fact of the growing abundance rather than to the scarcity ol useful productions of this description that the design of the present work is to be traced; as they are desirous of creating a channel through which the products of the many able pens enlisted in the

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