New and Popular Series for Boys and Girls. ──────────────────── THE AIMWELL STORIES; A SERIES OF VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATIVE OF YOUTHFUL CHARACTER, AND COMBINING INSTRUCTION WITH AMUSEMENT. BY WALTER AIMWELL, Author of “The Boy’s Own Guide,” “Boy’s Book of Morals and Manners,” &c. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. ─────────────── The volumes contain about 300 pages, 16mo, each, bound in cloth, with gilt backs. Price 63 cents. ☞ Each volume is complete and independent of itself, but the series will be connected together by a partial identity of characters, localities, &c. The first five volumes of this series are now ready. They are entitled: OSCAR; or, the Boy who had his own Way. CLINTON; or, Boy-Life in the Country. ELLA; or, Turning over a New Leaf. WHISTLER; or, the Manly Boy. MARCUS; or, the Boy-Tamer. (Now Ready.) JESSIE; or, Trying to be Somebody. (Shortly) NOTICES OF THE PRESS. In the department of juvenile literature, the ‘Aimwell Stories’ have fairly come to rival the ‘Rolla Books’ in the affections of the young people. The author when he conceived the plan of the series, struck a vein which he has since been working with rich and constantly increasing success.—[Boston Transcript. One of the best series for the young ever written. Every family of children ought to have them.—[Chicago Congregational Herald. They are written with great skill for the tastes and necessities of children, and they are written conscientiously, with a moral and Christian effort unobtrusively operative upon every page.—[Congregationalist. A better series of books for children were never written. The author has studied deeply and accurately the feelings, hopes, and thoughts of youth.—[Boston Mail. The author of the ‘Aimwell Stories’ has a happy knack at combining amusement and instruction. Under the guise of a story, he not only teaches a moral lesson, which is or ought to be a leading object of every tale for children, but he gives his readers instruction in philosophy, geography, and various other sciences. So happily are these introduced, however, that the youthful reader must learn in spite of himself.—[Boston Journal. It is the best series of juvenile books with which we are acquainted.—[Northampton Gazette. We have spoken repeatedly, and with unqualified commendation, of this series of juvenile volumes. It would be difficult to exaggerate their merits as a source of amusement and instruction to children.—[American Patriot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NATIONAL SERIES OF AMERICAN HISTORIES. =By Rev. Joseph Banvard.= ────────────────────