ted with them. He has endeavored thus to destroy the
personality of the narratives, without injuring or altering their moral
effect.

From the very nature of our employment, and of the circumstances under
which the preparation for it must be made, it is plain that, of the many
thousands who are, in the United States, annually entering the work, a
very large majority must depend for all their knowledge of the art
except what they acquire from their own observation and experience, on
what they can obtain from books. It is desirable that the class of works
from which such knowledge can be obtained should be increased. Some
excellent and highly useful specimens have already appeared, and very
many more would be eagerly read by teachers, if properly prepared. It is
essential however that they should be written by experienced teachers,
who have for some years been actively engaged, and specially interested
in the work;--that they should be written in a very practical and
familiar style,--and that they should exhibit principles which are
unquestionably true, and generally admitted by good teachers, and not
the new theories peculiar to the writer himself. In a word, utility, and
practical effect, should be the only aim.

Boston, June 20, 1833.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.--INTEREST IN TEACHING.

Source of enjoyment in teaching. The boy and the steam engine. His
contrivance. His pleasure, and the source of it. Firing at the
mark. Plan of clearing the galleries in the British House Of
Commons. Pleasure of experimenting, and exercising intellectual and
moral power. The indifferent, and inactive teacher. His subsequent
experiments; means of awakening interest. Offences of pupils.
Different ways of regarding them.

Teaching really attended with peculiar trials and difficulties. 1.
Moral responsibility for the conduct of pupils. 2. Multiplicity of
the objects of attention. Page 11

CHAPTER II.--GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Objects to be aimed at, in the General Arrangements. Systematising
the teacher's work. Necessity of having only one thing to attend to
at a time.

1. Whispering and leaving seats. An experiment. Method of
regulating this. Introduction of the new plan. Difficulties.
Dialogue with pupils. Study card. Construction and use.

2. Mending pens. Unnecessary trouble from this source. Degree of
importance to be attached to good pens. Plan for providing them.

3. Answer