Binding herself by statute, to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains, The rudiments of letters; and to inform The mind with moral and religious truth."'* * Wordsworth-" The Excursion." THE SCHOOL TEACHER'S MANUAL. LETTER I.-TO A FRIEND. OBJECT OF THE WORK. VARIOUS motives, my dear friend, have influ̟enced me in determining, without further delay, to attempt the preparation of a small volume for the use of teachers. It is just seven years since I entered upon my present engagements, and became exclusively devoted to the furtherance of popular education in connection with the British and Foreign School Society. Can I commemorate the completion of this period better, or express my gratitude to the Author of all good for the mercies of seven happy years more suitably, than by endeavoring to gather up, for the benefit of others, the fruit which, in that time, one would suppose, experience must have dropped into the lap even of the most unobservant? I know not why I should be ashamed to confess, |