FOR THE USE OF FEMALE SCHOOLS, AND PRIVATE LIBRARIES. DELIVERED TO THE PUPILS OF Troy Female Seminary. BY MRS. ALMIRA H. LINCOLN PHELPS, AUTHOR OF FAMILIAR LECTURES ON BOTANY, ETC. BOSTON: CARTER, HENDEE & CO. [Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by CARTER, HENDEE & Co. in the Office of the Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.] LATELY PUBLISHED, LECTURES ON SCHOOL KEEPING. By Samuel R. Hall. Third edition. This work is intended to be a complete school teacher's manual, and contains all the necessary practical directions for their observance in the instruction and management of schools. It has been productive of much good, and were it in the hands of every teacher and carefully studied, it would produce an improvement in our common schools, almost beyond belief. So sensible of this are the enlightened legislators of New York, that they have passed an act authorising the commissioner to procure a copy for every district in the State, and it is to be hoped for the cause of education, that the example may be imitated by other States. It has received unqualified praise from all the Journals, and from all the teachers who have examined it. LECTURES TO FEMALE TEACHERS on School Keeping. By Samuel R. Hall, author of Lectures on School Keeping. Extract from the Preface. The author has aimed to render all the directions practical, and make the volume a general directory for properly discharging the responsible duties involved in the office of the Primary Teacher. The work is designed, not merely to be read, but to be studied; it may also be made a daily manual, during the time devoted to teaching. INFANT SCHOOL MANUAL, OR TEACHER'S ASSISTANT; Containing a view of the system of Infant Schools. Also, a variety of useful lessons, for the use of teachers.-By Mrs. Howland. New edition enlarged. The rapidity with which the two first editions were sold, is evidence of the want of such a work as this. This edition has been improved and enlarged, and will be found a valuable assistant to those who are engaged in, or are desirous of qualifying themselves for teaching Infant Schools. It will also be useful to every teacher of young children in common schools or families. WAITT AND DOW'S PRESS, BOSTON. DEDICATION. To MADAME LOUISE S. W. BELLOC, AND MADAMOISELLE ADELAIDE DE MONTGOLFIER, Το you, sisters in affection, and united in your ef forts to promote human virtue and improvement, associated with the friend and benefactor of America the good Lafayette, in the important care of selecting a national library for your beloved country, the following pages are respectfully and affectionately inscribed by one, who is proud to have been acknowledged by you as a friend and an associate in the cause of education. For this distinguished honor, as well as the affection manifested by you for my beloved sister, during her residence in France, permit me thus publicly to express my grati tude. May the friendship which in so interesting a manner has been commenced between us be elevated and permanent in its nature, as the objects which have given rise to it are noble and imperishable. ALMIRA H. LINCOLN PHELPS. Mont Cervus, Guilford, Vermont. 213785 •Reclassed 11-32 tuan PREFACE. THE following Saturday Lectures were delivered to the pupils of Troy Female Seminary, while the Author presided over that Institution, during the visit of the Principal in Europe, in 1830 and 1831. Although in being revised for the press, they have received alterations and additions, they are now offered to the public substantially the same, as to the plan and execution, as they were originally delivered. This volume, which comprises the first series of a course of Lectures on Female Education, is principally devoted to subjects connected with Intellectual Improvement. It is the author's intention to prepare the remaining series for publication within the ensuing year. The second series will, in part, be devoted to the consideration of those Affections of the Mind called Emotions, comprehending our Moral and Religious Feelings, the Duties of Woman in domestic life, as a teacher of youth, in society, and towards her Maker. It was at first designed that the whole series should be comprised in one volume; but the subjects which presented themselves were too numerous and important to be compressed within the small compass at first intended, and there seemed also to be a natural division between the subjects which constituted the whole course. Although Intellectual Improvement is not in reality to be separated from Moral Cultivation, since both should proceed together, it is more convenient to treat of them separately. Thus we may give the distinct history of |