Miscellany: Juvenile Books

Public attention is beginnirig to be directed to the depnrtment of education more than it hitherto has been. i! it be regarded in its consequences. il is of more impontince thnn nny other, ns the miiid tlirougli lile partakes tnore or loss of tho direction given t in childhood. If this early period be lost, or be injudiciously directcd, nfter jifc is wiisied in acquiri ng what should have been before attaincd, or unleair.iiig Icssons, wliich it werebetier ncver to have been tauglit. ÍJeretofora, legislators linve opened the public coflbrs to colleges and acfldemíca without ever exiending on encouraging hand to the more important, because more general souice of education, our primhry schools. The latter. however. nte now rcceiving that attfiition tmrl ptttroirage wliich their very great importancc entities thcm to, nnd the carlv education of the younjr is held to be of the higliest moment, both in a civil and moral intpo of view. Philnruliropis's -in our cities are directing the public niind to this important topic, nnd we havelately witnessed in our own metrcipolis, a most benutiful examplc of the nnion of Christinn charity and tjncf)Uiri;ci)i(M)t of education, in the public sde of anieles for the support of