PREFACE.

... No apology is necessary for presenting a new, re-
_ yised, and improved edition of Dr. Arxry and Mrs.
BaRBAULD’s Hvenings at Home. The well-earned and
long-established popularity of the work has entitled
it to every attention on the part of the publisher ;
and so far as regards paper and print, binding and
pictorial illustration, he is happy in the opportunity
of offering to his young friends a Gift-Book for the

_ Season—for ANY seasun—worthy of their acceptance. —
In bringing the present -edition before the world,

the advance of time, and the consequent advance ot |
literature, science, and the arts, called for some edi-

torial application. Accordingly, obsolete and rugged .

expressions have been modernised or polished ; and,
wherever it mav have been judged necessary, new and ©
useful information has been inserted. With tho
original plan or tendency of the work, however, not
the slightest liberty has been taken. All that has
becn attempted is to render it more in accordance with
the general and improved taste of the age. Oo

Thus, happily interspersing and blending instruction :
with amusement, Evenings at Home will, under the —