THE WORIrER IN CHRIST'S VINEYARD. millions of the Tracts were sold in the first year, -a fact perhaps unprecedented in " the annals of printing." One of these Tracts having found its way, through the medium of the missionary Géricke, into the hands of the Rajah of Tanjore, that royal personage declared "he preferred it to the `Rambler,' and liked Mrs. More's books better than any of the English books he had ever read." The exertion required to organize the plan, and to issue three tracts every month for three years-even with the assistance of her sister Sarah and two or three friends-was so great as to seriously injure her already delicate health. The Duchess of Gloucester told Hannah More of " a little adventure " she had had with regard to the tracts. She desired one of her ladies of the bedchamber to stop an orange-woman and ask her if she ever sold ballads ? " No, indeed !" said the woman, indignantly, " I don't do anything so mean -I don't even sell apples !" " This diverted them, as they did not know there were so many ranks and gradations in life. With some difficulty, however, they prevailed on her to condescend to sell some of our little books, and in a few hóurs she came back showing them two shillings she had cleared by her new trade." Hannah More published, in 1799, her admirable " Strictures on Female Education," a work which was read by royalty, and approved of by bishops, some of whom recommended it from their pulpits. 38
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