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Rh people. Indeed, the neceity of a mater's giving the parents ome ample of the boys abilities, which during the vacation is hewn to every viitor, is productive of more michief than would at firt be uppoed. For they are eldom done entirely, to peak with moderation, by the child itelf; thus the mater countenances falehood, or winds the poor machine up to ome extraordinary exertion, that injures the wheels, and tops the progres of gradual improvement. The memory is loaded with unintelligible words, to make a hew of, without the undertanding's acquiring any ditinct ideas: but only that education deerves emphatically to be termed cultivation of mind, which teaches young people how to begin to think. The imagination hould not be allowed to debauch the undertanding before it gained trength, or vanity will become the forerunner of vice: for every way of exhibiting the acquirements of a child is injurious to its moral character.

How much time is lot in teaching them to recite what they do not undertand? whilt eated on benches, all in their bell array, the mammas liten with atonihment to the parrot-like prattle, uttered in olemn cadences, with all the pomp of ignorance and folly. Such exhibitions only erve to trike the preading fibres of vanity through the whole mind; for they neither teach children to peak fluently, nor behave gracefully. So far from it, that thee frivolous puruits might comprehenively be termed the tudy of tion;&ensp;