[Gutenberg 14092] • The World's Fair / Or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when at home.

Excerpt from the opening lines: "It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate the female character, to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects-than to attempt an accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master, namely-woman. It will be seen that we do not set down Woman as a cipher in the account of human beings. We accord to her a full share of importance in the world, and we have not attempted to relieve her from a sense of her responsibility as an accountable being."