1SHERS,

THE

JUVENILE COMPANION

AND

FIRESIDE READER,

CONSISTING OF

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES, AND
SELECTIONS IN POETRY.

BY

THE REV. J. L. BLAKE, D.D.,

AUTHOR OF VARIOUS WORKS ON EDUCATION AND GENERAL
LITERATURE.

NEW-YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

82 CLIFF STREET.

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1840,
By REV. JOHN L. BLAKE, D. D.

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