Maxwell, Mrs. M. H.; Kidder, Daniel P. [editor]. Christian Love contrasted with the Love of the World: in An Epistolary Narrative. New-York: Lane & Scott, for the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1851. [10693]
Black leather spine, gilt title, marbled boards, 6 x 4 inches, tight. Hand-written label, "M. E. S.S. Library, Enfield, N. H., No. 81" to front paste-down. Wood-engraved frontispiece of a family sitting at at table by candlelight, "The Broken Circle." One additional engraving. 100 pp. plus publisher's catalogue. Pages have some finger smudges and stains. Fair. Hardcover.
The death of a young mother and a child brings trials and temptations to a family. A young girl faces the temptations of city life. The importance of Christian character is emphasized in this Methodist morality tale.
