BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY PERKINS & MARVIN,

114, Washington Street.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1831, BY PERKINS & MARVIN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

ADVERTISEMENT.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

✓ THE IMPORTANCE OF FEMALE EDUCATION.

CHAPTER IL

EVILS OF THE PREVALENT SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.

INFANT EDUCATION.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

EVILS TO BE APPREHENDED FROM IMITATION.

CHAPTER V.

INDIRECT INSTRUCTION.

CHAPTER VI.

THE USES OF HISTORY IN THE INSTRUCTION OF CHIL-

DREN.

CHAPTER VII.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

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