PREFACE. This Reading Book is not intended to supersede, in Female Schools, the use of the Third and Fourth Books of Lessons. The Lessons here given convey information, which will be found more generally useful for Girls, than that contained in the Fifth Book. (RECAP) CONTENTS. The Philosopher and the Young Lady Effects of Art in changing the Form and Playthings-Amusements-Employments - 31 37 41 43 48 51 51 53 58 61 62 62 64 - 66 White Anon. Mrs. Child Aids to Development Moore Anon. Cottage Comforts Howitt and Buffon Mrs. Parkes - Jolinson & Collingwood Ledyard Anon. Chambers Jesse, Palmer, &c. Dr. Caldwell Davis Sir H. Davy Mrs. Fry Oberlin's Memoirs Fawcett Mrs. Parkes Back-woods of Canada Nursery Discipline Evenings at Home Jane Taylor Nursery Discipline Captain Parry Anon. Jane Taylor Mrs. Child Addison Anon. 72 78 80 82 100 106 112 114 118 123 127 128 130 . - - Paga The Manufacture of Pins and Needles Book of Trades The Government of the Thoughts Influence of Christianity on the Female Great value of Water in Hot Climates Saturday Magazine 191 Methods of Improving in Knowledge Anon. Successive States of Human Life Advice to those Attending on Sickness The Physician Principal Manufactures of England Mrs. Chapone 238 Deceiving Parents Abbott's Reader 239 Proper Improvement of a Child's Birth-day Anon. 243 Detached Pieces Baxter, &c. 245 Bread Saturday Magazine 248 . . Pago Ventilation and Household Cleanliness British Almanac The Bustling Way and the Quiet Way Abbott's Reader Importance of Exercise to Females Memorable Mornings in Scripture - Gillespie Gracious Rain Anon. On Dreaming of my Mother 11. F. Lyte The Orphan Girl's Recollections of a Mother Anon. The Song of the Bees Miss Goula The Exile B. Barton The Flight of Years Anon. On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture Cowper The Coral Island J. Montgomery To my Son Grahame To my Brother Elizabeth Cory 105 . |