instruction with entertainment.

If cards

are one of the resorts of the sedentary, it is quite as well, nay, much better, to furnish young people with those from which they may learn something, than those which present to them only a few painted spots and figures. Fancy works, and suggested by their own tastes, young girls would think it a privilege, and an amusement too, to be permitted to carry on at leisure intervals: by allowing them this, a discovery might be made of some peculiar bent, which indulged, would lead to profit and usefulness afterwards. Amusing histories, which one might read by turns, while others pursue their different works, should be given. I am ashamed to say, that in the house of a lady of the first literary eminence in the kingdom, where a party, chiefly of young people was one afternoon assembled, the entertainment suggested by her, and pursued, was the finding out riddles, anagrams, &c. a worse than puerile amusement, as engaging the mind

deeply in a discovery good for nothing when made; resembling Gratiano's reasons, like two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff, hunted for a long time, and then not worth the search.

London affords many sources of amusement, which at the same time furnish mental instruction, and interest the feelings. When within reach, the sight of them might be allowed, as a reward to merit, and, indeed, as materially assisting the lessons of teachers. Westminster Abbey presents á fund of interest of various kinds. There are many other public buildings worthy to be visited, and many public charities. Du. Bourg's cork models lead to interest in the history of Italy, and its once celebrated city, Rome. The different galleries of historical, and other varieties of paintings, should be shewn. Who can behold that picture of the Saviour healing the sick, without having all the best and most powerful emotions of the heart awakened? Mu

seums of natural curiosities are highly useful: Coade and Sealy's Sculpture Gallery, Pa noramas, exhibitions of needle-work, Wedg-, wood's Collection, glass and other manufactories, printing presses, nurseries for plants and flowers; in short, it would occupy too' much space here, to enumerate the varieties of knowledge and interest to be met with under the name of recreations. There is no occasion to resort to assemblies, or playhouses, or unmeaning visits, or any of "the tricks that idleness has ever yet contrived," when parents and teachers have so wide a field open to them, in which their children and pupils may range with constant pleasure and profit: but they should not be hurried through any place that they may visit, but have time to observe, to examine, and to enquire. Young persons whose minds are thus engaged, will have no inclination for frivolous and idle pursuits, because a desire for information is implanted in them by nature, and it is only when they are taught

to take pleasure in such pursuits that they do so. It is of importance, too, to encourage young people to give their own ideas respecting the objects offered to their notice; these would often afford useful hints. The bee collects honey from every flower that she visits.

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CHAP. VIII.

"WHEN a young man was giving himself airs in a public place, and saying that he was grown wise by conversing with many wise men, I have conversed too,' answered, somebody, with many rich men, but I am not grown rich.'"

The propriety and necessity of cultivating female intellect having been repeatedly urged through the foregoing remarks, it seems scarcely requisite here to enforce them any farther. With becoming respect for the subordination in which they may be placed, young women, girls, should be instructed to think, and judge, and act for