Anecdotes for Girls: Entertaining Narratives and Anecdotes Illustrative of Principles and Character. E-book. Formato PDF Harvey Newcomb   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Ir was my intention to illustrate the several topics noticed in my two last works for Boys and Girls, with entertaining and instructive anecdotes; but I found the matter increasing on my hands so much, that I was obliged to abandon this purpose. Those works have met with so much favor, that I have been encouraged to carry out this design in separate volumes. In these works, I have had the same general object in view as in the former, namely, the early formation of character. But I have not confined myself to the same topics; and the matter of these two books, unlike the former, is entirely dtfi'erent, no anecdote being introduced into one, which is contained in the other.

How to Be a Man: A Book for Boys, Containing Useful Hints on the Formation of Character. E-book. Formato PDF Harvey Newcomb   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Judges, ministers, lawyers, and physicians, — after the best model; and, from the kind reception Of my former attempts to benefit American youth, I trust they will give a candid hearing to the few hints contained in the following pages. It is intended for boys, or, if you please, for young gentle men, — in early youth, from eight or ten to fifteen or sixteen years of age. It covers substantially the same ground occupied by a work for girls issued simultaneously with it; and some Of the chapters are identical in the two books, while others are entirely different, and some partially so. It is the hope Of the Author, that every one who reads it, will strive to be a man, in the highest sense Of the term.