If it be asked why I have thought it desirable to place before this Protestant country a book from the pen of a Roman Catholic relating to religious education, I can only answer that though the critical reader would readily detect the Author's creed, yet I did not see anything in it likely to spread opinions repugnant to the leading Articles of the Faith of all Protestant Churches, to which I would be permitted to say I am most sincerely attached. If this little book should be found in any degree to facilitate to the rising generation the acquisition of sound habits of reasoning along with the knowledge of Grammar; and above all, if it should lead mothers and teachers to imbue their instructions with a more religious tone, while avoiding the danger of an irrelevant introduction of religious observations, I shall feel amply rewarded for any trouble the publication may have involved. GROSVENOR SQUARE, Feb., 1847. E. 2 The Conditions which regular Instruction in Language must, in this point of view, fulfil On the Intellectual Faculties of Pupils entering on a Course |