'This little book is remarkably well adapted to convey moral and religious instruction to boys and girls from six to ten years of age. The stories are just of such a sort, and told in such a way, as are most likely to interest and impress the heart when the heart is most susceptible of impression.'--_Christian Ambassador._ 'Our children are delighted with 'Gems,' and we sincerely hope that it will have the large sale that it deserves.'--_Dr. Lamb, Hull._ 'I can truly say of 'Gems' that it is one of those books, interesting, pleasing, and profitable, that need multiplying to prevent youthful readers from getting an appetite for that senseless, vicious literature now so temptingly offered to them. If it be read as extensively as it deserves to be, by our young people, the authoress, I am sure, will be abundantly encouraged.'--_Rev. Joseph Wood, M.A., Secretary of the Sunday School Union._ LONDON: Wesleyan Book Room, 66, Paternoster Row: Primitive Methodist Book Room, 6, Sutton Street, Commercial Road, E.; and of all Booksellers. [Transcriber's Notes: Contractions are inconsistently used, such as both "did'nt" and "didn't," and have been retained as in the original in both cases. There were many printers errors and typos in this book. The obvious ones have been silently corrected. Others that might be cases of old spellings have been retained. Page 19--I suspect "of" is missing in the phrase, "that he would have been unworthy (of) the name of a Christian" but I did not change it in the text. Page 120--The paragraph that begins "After the 'Hero's' death" was originally included in the preceding blockquote, but it doesn't seem to be part of the quoted letter, so I moved it out into the surrounding text.] End of Project Gutenberg's The Hero of the Humber, by Henry Woodcock