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Frank and his Father is an attempt to explain, or

rather perhaps to expand, the mysteries of the Creation, the Fall, and the Re- demption, in a series of dialogues, in which various texts of Scripture arc commented on, and sometimes doctrinally expounded, sometimes illustrated by modern discoveries in physical science. The dialogues arise naturally ; they are smoothly written, and agreeably varied by facts and poetical quotations; and although their statements and reasonings are by no means secure from the objections of the instructed inquirer, the volume will answer the purpose for which it was composed—that of pointing out a way by which parents and teachers may induce the young to study the Scriptures, instead of merely reading them.