Horace Carleton's Essay; "Charity Vaunteth Not Itself; Is Not Puffed Up" New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1870. [7689]
Maroon cloth with gilt spine titles, 4 x 6 inches, some light flecking to the covers, frontispiece wood engraving of a young boy reading a book while leaning against a rowboat, 112 clean pp., tight, chapters with head & tail pieces, one additional plate of a boy at a writing desk with quill pen, listening to a younger girl holding a book.
The story of a boy whose writing led to his college expenses being paid for him.
Chapters are: The Widow's Son; The New Pupil at Cliff House; Little Gerty; Which was the Bravest?; The Skating Party; Horace's Book-Box; Humility before Honor.
WorldCat records just one location. No copies found for sale (March, 2022).
