Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education. By Elizabeth Hamilton. In two volumes. Third American Edition. Boston. Samuel H. Parker. 1825. 12mo. pp. 238 & 252.

We are glad to perceive that a third edition of this excellent treatise has been demanded by the American public. We have no room at present for an analysis of the work; and we regret this the less, because its merits seem to be already so well known. But we confidently commend it where it not particularly known, to all who are engaged in the education of the young; and especially to those heads of families, whose first and most anxious cares are the proper development of the faculties of their children's minds, and the proper cultivation of the affections of their hearts. Mr Parker deserves well of the American public for his efforts in bringing out so beautiful an edition. He is also publishing elegant 8vo. editions of the Waverley Novels and Edgeworth's Works; and has already, we learn, put to press, an edition of the former in 12mo, which is to be executed in a style equal to that of Mrs Hamilton's Letters.

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This volume contains descriptions of the different kinds of Rail-Roads used in England, estimates of the expense of constructing them, and statements of their advantages compared with canals. Mr Tredgold shows that the advantages are decidedly in favour of Rail Roads, especially in an uneven country, on account of their offering a less expensive means for ascending and descending from one level to another. And the original expense of constructing them is but half that of constructing a canal. The former being estimated at £5,000 and the latter at £10,000 per mile. If this author may be relied upon, he sets at rest the project of connecting Albany with Boston, by means of a Canal.

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IT would seem that all controversy might be put at rest, on the question of the intention of the charter as to the residence of the members of the Corporation, by inquiring, who were the Corporators, named in the charter. Were they persons residing at Cambridge, or were they, as now, the leading civil and clerical characters of Boston and its vicinity? If the latter were intended, a person versed in the history of our forefathers may almost of himself write down a list of the persons, who must have been selected to fill the first board of Corporation. They must have been the Cottons and Nortons, the Dudleys and Bradstreets. There is every reason that can possibly exist for rendering the first board of the infant seminary, as important as possible in the public eye, for its continued existence is in the breath of the General Court of the Colony and of private benefactors. Its instructers, with the exception of the President, are young and inexperienced men, and they, of course, will be the last persons selected for this responsible station. This, we say, is what we have a right to expect, if the Court, who gave the Charter, intended the Corporation should be composed as it is now composed. Who then are the individuals named in it? Two young men candidates for the ministry, who but three years before, had taken their second degree; a third and a fourth, who not three years before had taken their first degree; and a fifth, who was graduated the preceding Commencement, a

bachelor of arts of scarce ten months' standing. Why were such men designated as the five Fellows? The memorialists say, because they were resident at College,-on the spot, able to attend to its business, whether of instruction, government, or of whatever other kind. It is denied, on the other side, that these five were all residents. Mr Ticknor only admits it as possible, "that one or two," were residents and tutors, at the time the Charter was granted. He does not specify the one or the two; but we may ask, for what conceivable reason the others were designated, young men possitively without a known claim to this distinction?

The answer to this question is, that the College was an insignificant establishment; 66 so humble a school, that it seems to have been difficult, to get suitable persons to serve in the Corporation." This is in direct opposition, however, to the historical progress of the institution. It was incorporated in 1642; the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Magistrates, and Ministers of the six neighbouring towns were the Corporation. The institution, though humble (but not more so than every thing around it in church and state, of course, not comparatively unimportant), was growing; in the words of Hutchinson, speaking in reference to the Charter of 1650, "it became more and more an object of attention," and another Charter of incorporation was given by which a resident Corporation was created. This is the doctrine of the Memorial; and it is a rational solution of all the facts. On the ground assumed against the Memorial, the College, precisely at the moment when it had so increased, as to become 66 more and more an object of attention," was taken out of the hands of the Magistrates and Ministers, who retained only their concurrent jurisdiction and visitatorial power, while the immediate management, choice of President and other officers, and the making of laws was put into the hands of a board, composed of five young men, of whom the majority had not yet reached a second degree. This is inconceivable, incredible. If you suppose, with the Memorial, that these young persons were residents, the affair assumes an intelligible aspect. They were collected on the spot; and this was precisely what the growth of the institution demanded,-an ever present authority. If you suppose them non-resident, you are obliged, contrary to history, to sink the College to a degree of comparative insignifiance, for which there is no foundation in fact; and to admit, that while it was

* Hutchinson, i. 171.

actually growing more and more in the public attention, its immediate control was taken from the most honoured and venerated hands of the colony, and put into those of young men, who had as yet gained no station in society. Mr Ticknor argues, that the College was so humble a school, that it was difficult to get suitable persons to serve on the Corporation, because, in the order of Court, granting leave to bring in a bill for a charter, it is provided, that the Corporation must "not be magistrates, who are to be judges in case of difference [being Overseers], nor ministers, who are unwilling to accept thereof," &c. Now, if residents were not required, what possible objection could any minister have, to take a place in the Corporation. So humble a school! and was it indeed beneath the dignity of the ministers of that day, to condescend to be the governors of a college, which seven years before, had been pronounced "an honorable and most hopeful work, the beginnings whereof and progress hitherto generally doe fill our hearts with comfort; and train them up to much more expectation of the Lord's goodness for us hereafter, for the good of posterity and the churches of Christ Jesus?"* Is it the pious, self-denying, puritan ministers, who are represented as being unwilling to assume the government of such a college, because it was "so humble a school?" On the principles of the Memorial this paradox vanishes; for it was quite natural, that very few ministers would be found willing to leave their parishes, and come and reside at Cambridge on a few pounds a year; and this, we venture to affirm is the only interpretation, that gives any pertinency to the limitation of the Court, respecting ministers unwilling to accept; and agrees with the fact that the ministers designated in the charter were not settled. The case of Samuel Danforth is the only one, which Mr Ticknor has treated, and it is to this, for the sake of brevity, we shall confine ourselves. He states what he considers the facts in this case, viz. that May 12, 1650, Mr Danforth was dismissed the church of Cambridge, to join that of Roxbury, being nineteen days before the date of the charter; that in September 1650, Mr Dan

*"New England's First Fruits," published in London, in 1643, in which the College is spoken of as a curiosity of "an edifice very fair and comely within and without, having in it a spacious ball, where they daily meet at commons, lectures, and exercises; and a large library, with some books in it, the gifts of diverse of our friends, their chambers and studies also filled for and possessed by the students, and all other rooms of office necessary and convenient, with all needful offices thereto belonging."