Excerpt from Gift Book for Young Ladies: Or Familiar Letters on Their Acquaintances, Male and Female Employments, Friendships, &C I have addressed the young woman, because, as Jacob Abbott has well said, no one is apt to think herself old; so that all books, it would seem, in order to be read, should be written for the young. Besides, I have always h0pe of the reformation, or at least of the improvement of the young; while of the old little is to be expected. And Ihave written to a sister, that by having before the mind's eye a reality, I might be at once more earnest, more familiar, and more practical. It has been my purpose, in one word, to show woman, in a plain and direct manner. 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.