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Excerpt from The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy Days IN addressing an Annual to the taste of the religious and moral classes of society, the publisher of The Opal has two views to which his success will probably be referrible. He has thought it singular, in reflecting upon the manifest aim of ele gant literature, that so little of it should be expressly adapted to a class so much the largest and most respectable. The serious and thinking portion of this populous country, it is a matter of patriotic congratulation to be able to say, is by much the most numerous as well as the most refined; and, so high is the moral tone in society generally, that those who are not numbered among religious people, still desire, for their own reading, and that of their friends and families, books which, to say the least, can never offend the taste of the most scrupulous. It is in this class that the household affections are warmest, and that fitting tokens of remembrance and friendship are most looked for, at the season of the year consecrated to cheerfulness and good feeling, by the anniversary of the Saviour's birth. That there was no Annual, suited to this class and this particular want. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.