Aspire to greater things With heav'n-exalted eye With steadfast tread, and bearing high, And Hope on joyful wings. Press on, with purpose pure, With that which shall endure. Seek but the Good and Great! Aspire to better deeds! With Hope and Love entwined, OF LESSON BOOKS. BOOK VI. INCLUDING READING, SPELLING, AND ARITHMETIC. EDITED BY J. WERNER LAURIE, AUTHOR OF Henry's First History of England. Henry's First Scripture Lessons. Maxwell's General Geography. Maxwell's First Lessons in Geography. Maxwell's Geography of British Empire. Home and its Duties. Trip Round the World: with Conversations. The Playhour Library, 6 vols. THOMAS LAURIE, 38 COCKBURN STREET, EDINBURGH. 3985.f.24 IN a few hours we shall have entered on a new year. It is barely ninety at the present moment. degrees distant from us. It landed on the eastern He was * Hugh Miller was born in Cromarty, October 10th, 1802. He was descended from a family of sailors, and lost his father by a storm at sea when he was only five years of age. educated at Cromarty Grammar School. From his seventeenth to his thirty-fourth year he worked as a stonemason, devoting bis leisure hours to acquiring knowledge and writing poems and |