HYACINTH: OR AFFECTION'S GIFT. A CHRISTMAS, NEW-YEAR'S AND FOR 1846. PHILADELPHIA: HENRY F. ANNERS. ENTERED, according to act of Congress, in the year 1845, by HENRY F. ANNERS, in the clerk's office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. KING & BAIRD, Printers. PREFACE. IN presenting to the public the second volume of the Hyacinth, the publisher cannot neglect the opportunity of expressing his thanks for the very flattering manner in which the previous edition was received; and he trusts that his offering for the present year will be found in no respect less deserving of patronage than the one which has preceded it. All the articles inserted have as their chief object, the intellectual and moral improvement of the young. |