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Stop!

A Handy Monitor and Pocket Conscience.

THE NEW “COLTON’S LACON.”

By Author of NEVER and ALWAYS.

MRS. MARY J. HOLMES’ NOVELS

Over a MILLION Sold

THE NEW BOOK

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Price, $1.50.

STOP!

A Handy Monitor, Pocket Conscience and Portable Guardian against the World, the Flesh and the Devil.

“Stop! To pause, knock off, let up, cheese it, switch off, give it a rest, cut short, stand like a rock, kick against, shut down, bring up with a round turn, hold hard,” etc.--THESAURUS.

“What would you, sir? I pray you stop, nor yield a hair to vicious promptings!”--MOLIERE.

BY MENTOR.

AUTHOR OF “NEVER” AND “ALWAYS.”

NEW YORK:

COPYRIGHT, 1884, BY

G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers.

LONDON: S. LOW & CO.

MDCCCLXXXIV.

Stereotyped by SAMUEL STODDER, 42 DEY STREET, N. Y.

Introduction.

THE pining need of a work of this kind--an instructive sharpener in book-form, as it were, of the moral faculty--has long been so seriously felt that the author eagerly hastens to supply it.

In “NEVER” and “ALWAYS,” his appeal was rather to the externalities of life. In “STOP,” his aim is to regulate the very springs of impulse, deliberation and resolve. In other words, there is not a temptation that he would not strip of its disguise, not an unworthy motive that he would not pulverize as with a corrective club, not a misleading conceit that he would not skewer to its squirming source.