The main thought of the work suggests "_The condition of our
metropolitan population_"--points out the "_true remedy_" for existing
evils--shows us the value of "_lay agency_," and "how much may be done
by individuals of humble rank and least favored circumstances."

Every parent has a personal interest to aid and encourage such
benevolent action. Vice is contagious. Let our seaboard towns become
flagrantly wicked--with "railroad speed" the infection will travel far
and wide. Mothers are invited to peruse this little volume--as an
encouragement to labor and pray, and hope for the conversion of wayward
wandering sons--for wicked and profligate youth.

Roger Miller, whose death caused such universal lamentation in the city
of London, was for many years a wanderer from God, and was at length
converted by means of a tract, given him by the "_way-side_," by an old
and decrepit woman.

"NEWCOMB'S MANUAL"--Is a carefully prepared little volume,
containing Scripture questions, designed for the use of Maternal
Associations at their Quarterly Meetings.

"MARY ASHTON"--Is the title of a little work recently issued
from the press, delineating the difference between the character of the
London boarding-school Miss, and one of nearly the same age, educated
and trained by the devoted, affectionate care of a pious mother. The
influence which the latter exerts upon the former is also set forth
during the progress of the story. Those readers who are fond of
delineations of English scenery and of the time-hallowed influences of
the old English Church, will be pleased with the style of the volume,
while some few mothers may possess the delightful consciousness of