ADVERTISEMENT.

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WITHOUT insisting upon the value of Fables, in the direct business of education, the pleasure with which they are almost universally perused by young people, and the agreeable facility with which they may, consequently, be made the medium of a certain kind of instruction, cannot be denied. however, singularly happens, that, of the numerous collections published from time to time, a large majority, and particularly some which are known as School Editions of Esop's, and of Gay's, Fables, abound in subjects and expressions, not merely repulsive from their coarseness, but more gravely objectionable, from their anti-social, and, frequently immoral, tendency.

The grounds of such objections have been avoided in the present collection, into which it is hoped and believed, that nothing has been admitted of which parents and teachers will disapprove. Most of the favourite old Fables in the best Collections are retained; but, in accordance with the plan of this