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 Children hould be permitted to enter into converation; but it requires great dicernment to find out uch ubjects as will gradually improve them. Animals are the firt objects which catch their attention; and I think little tories about them would not only amue but intruct at the ame time, and have the bet effect in forming the temper and cultivating the good dipoitions of the heart. There are many little books which have this tendency. One in particular I recollect: The Perambulations of a Moue. I cannot here help mentioning a book of hymns, in meaured proe written by the ingenious author