IN sending forth a Second Edition of this little book, I desire to mention that I have learned with much satis faction that many of the National School Teachers of the country have received it very kindly. Their appreciation of my notice of some of the great labourers in the schools of morals and philosophy, showed a sympathy with these subjects in a position very different, indeed, from that of the ancients, but still connected with youth and the formation of character. Such a Spirit in the teacher of an elementary school would probably, I would conceive, diffuse itself among his scholars; and its spread, I cannot but think, would be of far greater value to the youth in their after-life, than many of the subjects of his school course, on which he laboured very diligently and properly to earn result fees. Seeing the admitted failure of the ancient moralists, we are on the way, I trust, to value the vantage ground from which, in more favoured times, the principles of life and conduct may be taught.

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