PREFACE. WE again appear before our Readers in the form of a Volume of the good old Friendly style. A happy New Year to our Circle. May our friendship every year become stronger, and our happiness be increased. As the distinguishing feature in our future arrangements, we make an announcement which we know will be received with great pleasure by our Subscribers. MRS. ELLIS,-the eminent Authoress of "Family Secrets," "The Women of England," etc.,-has undertaken to write a New Tale for the FAMILY FRIEND, entitled "THE MOTHER'S MISTAKE." The Tale will be illustrated in the best style, by ANELAY, and will commence in the First Number of the Third Volume of our New Series (No. 27). This statement, we know, will be hailed with great satisfaction by our vast Family Circle; and will be instrumental in conveying the FRIEND, with its wholesome moral influences, into thousands of homes where it may not yet have been introduced. 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An The whole issue of the FRIEND now amounts to Eight Volumes. excellent set of books for the Family Library-always pleasing, and constantly useful. It is a sort of domestic text-book; assisting wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, and children, in every duty of life. We hope that all who have subscribed to our Work in Numbers, will avail themselves of this stage of our progress, to order the Numbers that may be required to complete their sets, and thus place upon their bookshelves a work of lasting utility. We wish, not merely to be the Friend of to-day," but for years;-to shed our lustre over lives, not merely over a few leisure moments Neat covers can be had for binding the Volumes uniformly, and all the back Numbers may be obtained, if applied for immediately: sryone In the FAMILY TUTOR, Natural Philosophy, by Dr. Draper, will form the leading subject of the New Volume, To this will be added, papers upon The First Principles of Chemistry," by Professor. Silliman a System of Elocution, with special reference to Gesture, to the treatment of Stammering, and Defective Articulation, by Andrew Comstock, M.D.; together with a course of Lessons in French, by a Professor of Modern Languages. These subjects will be varied by miscellaneous matters, calculated to form a pleasing addition to those subjects which are specially introduced. ખ્વા ४ 008 T Andrews, Bishop 202. FEMALE CHARACTERS OF THE BIBLE. Baxter, Biehnedd.[7/34 Ether, Queen (with Illustration) 246 Boerhaave, Dr. Herman... Gardener, Calniel James feesto ist Jephtghter Suffolk, the Countess of of 200 of dieto GARDENING. Warwick, the 5032010T WHHdeges in Winter....... GAMES BETWEEN 98 368 Ginger Cup 28 Carpets, Economy of 42-9946-4) (58 Cement for Alabaster, Marble, &c.. 58 200 Cheese-cakes, to make Bread.. 376 329 58 Cheese-cakes, Orange 130 Black 20 Flowerden. and Shrubbery...... 78 Crickets 374 Curds and Whey for the Anderssen, Hers, and Alaughþdien / 90 .... 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