for reference,
would be filled with books of travels, and the nobler English and foreign
classics; the books would be loaned to the pupils as in ordinary
circulating libraries, and a pleasant reading-room would be furnished with
the better class of periodicals and newspapers.

To be deprived for a time of the right to visit the museum or
reading-room, or to borrow books from the library, would be one of the
severest punishments known in the school.

It is hardly necessary to say that the selection of the principal of such
a school as we have indicated is among the most difficult problems of its
establishment. His qualifications should be as near the perfection of
manhood as can possibly be found. Invited by a large and generous salary
(to be dependent, beyond a stated sum, on the number of the pupils), it is
to be hoped such a teacher could be found.

Such a principal, after a fixed period of probation, should not be
removable except on a very large vote of the proprietors of the school to
that effect, but his office should be vacated on his attaining the age of
60 or 65 years. The selection of teachers to assist him in his duties
should be left to himself. The remuneration of the assistant teachers
should also be large, and should be such as not only to enable them to
live in comfort, but to make ample provision for their future when the age
of labor shall have passed.

The chief position in society should be assured to the principal and his
assistants by the proprietors of the school.

The visits of the former to the houses of the latter should be regarded as
an honor, the greatest respect and deference should be paid to them, and
the pupils should be taught to look upon them with love and respect next
only to that they pay their parents.

The best investment a parent can make of his wealth is in the proper
education of his children. Life is not merely to be born, to grow, to eat,
to drink, and breathe. Noise is not music. Life is such as we take it and
make it, or rather as it is taken hold of and made for us by those to whom
the care of our youthful days is intrusted.

Let us endeavor to picture to ourselves the being likely to be produced by
a system of teaching and training, continued for successive generations,
such as we have indicated above. Let us imagine the full development of
the most complex of nature's organisms--a part of the one living organism
of the Universe, the latest product of her laborator