be at once paralyzed and degraded, by casting their households on that stinted bounty whose root is taxation. To enforce his theory he went into many details of great minuteness and simplicity, advising, among other things, the keeping of simple sewing-schools by ladies, two hours of two days in the week, for the indigent female children in their neighborhood; and frequent visiting, on the part of philanthropists and Christians, to the abodes of ignorance and vice, that the kindly sympathies thus mutually awakened might be enlisted in the great work of reformation.
The Normal Seminary at Glasgow is an object of interest, to those who feel the importance of a right education in a manufacturing community. Its design is to train teachers, by giving them an opportunity of coming in contact with the young mind, according to the rules of a thorough, and what would seem a correct and beautiful, system. Hundreds of children are assembled in a spacious building, judiciously divided into class-rooms, galleries, &c., and with five play-grounds, furnished with abundant apparatus for sport and exercise, where the teachers mingle with their pupils, carefully superintending their modes of intercourse and the development of their dispositions and affections, in what they expressively call the "uncovered school-room." I was delighted with their bright countenances, and with the promptness and naiveté which marked the replies of some of the youngest classes to the questions of their teachers.
