word on which I lay a stress, and mention "In this garden is a delightful that word. perfume of roses." "In our garden all the cherry-trees are in full blossom." Attend now, I shall pronounce three sentences upon the same subject; adding one word more to the second than there was in the first, and one word more in the third than there was in the second. "This garden belongs to a good man. This beautiful garden belongs to a good man. This very beautiful garden belongs to a good man." Take notice, that as often as I pause, I have spoken a sentence. How many times did I pause? how many sentences therefore did I pronounce? which was the first sentence? what word did I add to the second, and what to the third ? Attend now to the following sentences. A sheep is a very gentle animal. A sheep is a very gentle and useful animal. Good children are obedient to their parents. Good children are always obedient to their parents. Good children are gladly and willingly obedient to their parents. The oak has strong boughs and branches. The oak has a large trunk, and strong boughs and branches. The oak has a very large trunk, &c. Now, I shall repeat the names of several animals, in three sentences; adding a new animal, to each sentence. In the forest live deer, stags, hares, and wild boars. In the forest live deer, stags, hares, wild boars, and foxes. In the forest live deer, stags, hares, wild boars, foxes, and wolves. Which animal have I added to the second, and which to the third sentence? Which animals did the first sentence contain? Let us try something similar, in four sentences. In rivers live pike, carp, and tench. In rivers live pike, carp, tench, and trout. In rivers live pike, carp, tench, trout, and perch. In rivers live pike, carp, tench, trout, perch, and salmon. Which name have I added to the second sentence, &c. Listen: "Farmer Thoroughgood had seven children, four boys and three girls. The names of the boys were, George, William, Richard, and Henry. Those of the girls, Mary, Elizabeth, and Ann. How many sons had he, and how many daughters? How did I call the boys, and how the girls? Name the boys now in the inverse order, so that the first will be the last. I visited a sportsman, and saw suspended on the walls of his room, fowling-pieces, pouches, powder-horns, and antlers. Before the door were two hares, one pheasant, one snipe, three partridges, a wild duck, and a dozen larks. Do you think these animals were dead or alive? Why do you think they were dead? Who most likely killed them? and with what? what for? where? Name all these animals, and then say which of them is the largest, and which the smallest, &c. Huntsman Dashwood had six hounds, which he named Snap, Fly, Swift, Leo, Castor, and Brush. Which of you has retained all these names? Which of these hounds did I name first, and which last? The Mother may observe that hunting is a remnant of barbarism, and that she has hopes their education will enable them to find a more rational and profitable exercise for mind and body*. She may caution them against being misled by hearing a trifling, a cruel pastime called MANLY. Surrounded by every object of nature and of art on which to exercise their faculties, on which to expend their time and their money, and from which to extract and to diffuse endless improvement and rational delight, is it credible that if Gentlemen were not sportsmen, they could not drag through an existence passed in their country mansions? This inability, this ignorance of the duties and the pleasures belonging to the profession of country gentlemen, spring from education †. Let Mothers think and act as reasonable beings, as Christians, and not as machines blindly moved and governed by custom and fashion, and through their instrumentality this senseless pastime will be abandoned. In its place, let Parents train their children to the inex * See the merits of hunting, card-playing, and other recreations, of rational beings, discussed in "Three Dialogues on the Amusements of Clergymen." Many things besides hounds and horses, sumptuous houses, and large estates, are necessary to form a comfortable retirement.-Rural Philosophy, Ely Bates. haustible variety, the boundless delight, the ever-increasing knowledge to be found in the study of nature: "Above all, let them be di"rected to those inward resources, without "which every condition of life is inevitably 66 subject to vanity and disappointment. They "that know the most will praise God the "best; but which of us can number half his "works" "Beneath Thy all-directing nod, "Both worlds and worms are equal, God! 66 Thy hand the comets' orbits drew, "And lighted yonder glow-worm too. "Thou didst the dome of heaven build up, "Tunes its sweet voice to worship Thee*.” * That there exists at present amongst us a lamentable want of rural philosophy, or of that wisdom which teaches a man at once to enjoy and to improve a life of retirement, is, I think, a point too obvious to be contested. Whence is it else that the country is almost deserted; that the ancient mansions of our nobility and gentry, notwithstanding all the attractions of rural beauty, and every elegance of |