denial, for a few hours, or put by, occasinally, a single twelve and a half cents. My catalogue would include the following works:
| Locke on the Mind. | Life of Benjamin Franklin. | |
| Bacon's Essays | Life of James Watt | |
| Butler's Analogy. | Life of Mungo Park. | |
| Paley's Natural Theology. | History of Rome. | |
| Wayland's Moral Philosophy. | History of Greece. | |
| Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. | History of England. | |
| Robinson Crusoe. | Milton's Poems. | |
| Alison on Taste. | Cowper's Poems. | |
| Watts on the Mind. | Burder's Self-Discipline. | |
| Channing's Self-Culture. | Todd's Student's Manual. |
The entire list, as several of them are abridged, may be purchased for less than three dollars. But the value of such a Library to a youth, just starting into life, would be incalculable. And no better service could be done the cause of pure speech, correct diction, and earnest thought, than a general effort to put a Library of this kind within the reach of every intelligent boy in the country, of 15 years of age.[1]
(d) But besides the correct training of the young, I beg to insist upon the great necessity of special care being bestowed upon the culture of the female mind in Liberia. I feel that I cannot exaggerate the importance; of this duty. The mothers, sisters, and daugh-
- ↑ Just here, while speaking of books, it is no more than duty to acknowledge the vast debt of obligation Liborian citizens owe Benjamin Coates, Esq., of Philadelphia, U.S.A. Scores of persons in Liberia will join in this expression of gratitude. The families are not a few, who, as in my own case, beside other books, have likewise their valuable Coates' Library.
