THE

FLOWER BASKET;

A TALE FOR YOUTH.

FROM THE GERMAN OF SCHMID.

TRANSLATED

BY REV. T. J. SAWYER.

NEW-YORK:

P. PRICE, 130 FULTON STREET.

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1842.

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2504

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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by

P. PRICE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

PREFACE.

The following tale, exhibiting as it does so beautitiful a picture of christian life, and of the watchful and beneficent character of Divine Providence, can hardly fail, it is believed, of meeting with a favorable reception among youthful readers without reference to sect or party.

The author stands among the most pleasing and instructive writers for youth in Germany, and his numerous works in this department of literature have acquired a merited popularity wherever the German language is read.

Of the translation here given, I need say no more than that it has been my design to make a faithful transcript of the German. This I deemed no more than my duty both to the author and my readers. In accordance with this design, I have neither omitted nor softened down certain expressions which appar

ently inculcate, in a quiet and unobtrusive way, religious opinions to which I should myself except. But the business of a translator is to give his author's, not his own sentiments and opinions; and it seems to me that very little can be found in the volume to which any true christian can object, and much which all must admire.

Such as it is, I commend "The Flower Basket," in its present English dress to my young friends, and shall feel myself amply rewarded for the hours of labor its translation has cost, if it shall prove the means of quickening them to a higher love of virtue-a deeper piety towards God, and a true, living, christian charity towards their fellow men.

Should this little volume meet with a favorable

reception, I may be induced to give the public a series of tales from the German suitable for the moral and religious culture of youth.

THE TRANSLATOR.