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“ALL’S
NOT GOLD
That
Glitters”

D. APPLETON & CO.
New York.

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“All’s not Gold that Glitters;”
OR
THE YOUNG CALIFORNIAN.

BY
COUSIN ALICE,
AUTHOR OF “NO SUCH WORD AS FAIL;” “CONTENTMENT BETTER
THAN WEALTH,” ETC. ETC.

NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & COMPANY,
346 & 348 BROADWAY.
M.DCCC.LIX.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
D. APPLETON & COMPANY,
In the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New-York.

In her last note of introduction to the Home circle,Cousin Alice partly promised to tell a story of Virginialife when she came to them again. She has toconfess that she has not redeemed this now, thoughshe is sure the trials and adventures of the youngCalifornian will prove not less interesting, and thereare other days to come when her little Southernfriends shall be introduced.

American boys, perhaps more than those growingup in any other country, are thinking of money-gettingbefore they are fairly out of school; but thehistory of King Midas, which most of them read there,teaches that the possession of gold is not happiness,and they will find it out, as our young hero did, whenthey come to earn it for themselves. There is anotherlesson shadowed forth in the title,—all fair promisesare not to be trusted, though we know there is one[6]hope that never fails, one friend that never deceives.

Cousin Alice has no more earnest wish than thatthis hope, and this friend, may be theirs throughlife.