The Youth's Coronal

It is a poetry book. In preparing the following pages, my aim has been, to produce a book alike entertaining and instructive;—one which, in the reading, should afford an amusement to the mind, pleasant as the spring blossoms on the tree; and, in its influences on the heart in after life, be like the good fruits that succeed and ripen, to refresh and nourish us, when the vernal season is over and gone, and the voices of the singing-birds are lost in the distance. Choosing an appropriate title for such a presentation, I have borrowed my idea from the words of the wise king of Israel:—'Hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother; for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head', &c., and other Scripture passages of similar figurative meaning; for, though often given in a sportive way, it is my design that no moral shall be conveyed in the volume, but such as a good and judicious parent would wish a child to imbibe.