CONTENTS. On the Art of Reading and Writing. Instructions for learning to write ; with two Copper-plate Spe- cimens. On instructing Children in Religion. On the Study of the Holy Scriptures, On regulating the Affections. Directions for writing Letters. The Black Velvet Pelisse ; a Tale. On the Benefits attending the Study of the Sciences. Religious Bigotry. ceased Husband. Illustrious Examples of Piety. On the Happiness of the future State. Remarkable Discovery of a Murder. Rules for Conversation, and Behaviour in Company. The Advantages of Civility and Politeness. A concise Account of the Progress of Christianity. A Sketch of the principal Religious Denominations. Description of the Pulpit and Preacher. On the Duties of Married Women. Mutual Forbearance recommended. Mrs. Barnet; or, the Excellent Wife. Rules for Matrimonial Happiness. Enigmas, Rebusses and Charades. Directions to Female Servants of every description. Directions for Preserving, Pickling, Brewing, Making Winės, Table of Interest, Weights, and Measures; with a Variety of other interesting and useful Particulars. INTRODUCTION. To form the female mind to wisdom, piety, and virtue, and consequently to utility and happiness, is an object which, from the peculiar circumstances attending it, an instructor of the rising generation, or a contributor to the useful pleasures of more mature age, ought particularly to devote his talents and his time. The youth of the other sex have within their power every mean and opportunity of improvement, and happy it is for the world that so many laudable exertions are made to promote their present and eternal welfare ; although it is to be deeply lamented, that from human depravity and vicious example, there are some who do not profit by the instruction and advice with which the kind providence of God has favoured them. It is an axiom universally acknowledged, that early impressions have a direct tendency in forming the future character; and it is equally true, that the actions resulting from those impressions will have a beauty or deformity, as the ideas which have been inculcated have been good or evil : illustrating that divine maxim, Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Experience indeed has furnished many melancholy exceptions, which have |