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Rh Works of fancy are very amuing, if a girl has a lively fancy; but if he makes others do the greatet part of them, and only wihes for the credit of doing them, do not encourage her.

Writing may be termed a fine art; and, I am ure, it is a very ueful one. The tyle in particular deerves attention. Young people are very apt to ubtitute words for entiments, and clothe mean thoughts in pompous diction. Indutry and time are neceary to cure this, and will often do it. Children hould be led into correpondences, and methods adopted to make them write down their entiments, and