VI PEEFACE. 



their appropriate places; and thus those pupils who in so large numbers 

 stop short of the High School and Academy, will not go out into the world, 

 as they now do, destitute of that knowledge which not only embraces the 

 principles lying at the basis of the arts and trades into which many of them 

 will enter, but will add greatly to their usefulness and happiness, even if 

 their business be such as to call for no practical application of this knowl- 

 edge. 



W. HOOKER. 

 November, 1863. 



