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42 denial, for a few hours, or put by, occasinallyoccasionally [sic], a single twelve and a half cents. My catalogue would include the following works: The entire list, as several of them are abridged, may be purchased for less than three dollars. But the value of such a Library to a youth, just starting into life, would be incalculable. And no better service could be done the cause of pure speech, correct diction, and earnest thought, than a general effort to put a Library of this kind within the reach of every intelligent boy in the country, of 15 years of age. (d) But besides the correct training of the young, I beg to insist upon the great necessity of special care being bestowed upon the culture of the female mind in Liberia. I feel that I cannot exaggerate the importance; of this duty. The mothers, sisters, and daugh-