Under the tutelage of Reverend Barlow, two boys, one rich, one poor, are familiarized with the emerging bourgeois values of eighteenth-century England.
Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldy father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.
A reprint of three major works: a lengthy poem about temptation and redemption, a collection of nursery rhymes and verses, and a collection of moral fairy tales.