A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females

Chapter 17

3. _On the Instruction and Discipline of the Young._--Abercrombie on the Intellectual Powers; Abbott"s Teacher; Abbott"s Mother at Home; Mother"s Friend; Mother"s Magazine; Todd"s Sabbath-school Teacher; Hannah More"s Letters on Female Education.

4. _Ill.u.s.trations of Scriptures._--The Comprehensive Commentary, to be referred to in connection with the study of the Bible; Townsend"s Bible, for its chronological information and notes.

5. _Health._--Combe on the Const.i.tution; Catechism of Health; Carnaro on Temperance.

6. _Travels._--Bruce"s Travels In Abyssinia; Denon"s Travels in Egypt; Belzoni"s Personal Narrative; Humboldt"s Personal Narrative; Clarke"s Travels in Russia; Mackenzie"s Travels in Iceland; Mungo Park"s Mission to Africa; Denham"s and Clapperton"s Mission to Africa; Lander"s Journal; Sismondi"s Italy, France, and England; Dr. Humphrey"s Tour; Rome in the 19th Century; Buchanan"s Researches; The Christian Brahmin; Ramsey"s Journal; Ellis" Polynesian Researches; Stewart"s Voyage in the South Seas; Tyerman and Bennett"s Journal; Williams" Missionary Enterprise in the South Sea Islands; Reed and Matheson"s Journal; Journals of the Missionaries, in the bound volumes of the Missionary Herald.

7. _The Sciences._--Watts on the Mind; Locke on the Human Understanding; Brown"s Lectures on the Philosophy of the Mind; Dougla.s.s on the Advancement of Society; d.i.c.k"s Works; The Bridgewater Treatises; Mrs.

B."s Conversations on Philosophy and Chemistry; Wayland"s Moral Science, and Political Economy.

8. _Belles Lettres._--Hannah More"s Works; Jane Taylor"s Works; Madame de Stael; Johnson"s Ra.s.selas; Selections from the Spectator and Rambler.

Poems of Milton, Young, Dryden, Cowper, Thomson, Montgomery, Hemans, Sigourney, Tappan.

9. _Promiscuous._--Mrs. Farrar"s Young Ladies" Friend; Mrs. Sigourney"s Letters to Young Ladies; Female Student, by Mrs. Phelps.