After all are done, I will compare them, and see if yours is not the best.' This would be trying to excite emulation.

We must call this boy, then, E.But the time I intended to devote to talking with you on this subject for to-day is expired.

Perhaps to-morrow I will take up the subject again." The reader now will observe that the grand peculiarity of the instructions given by this last teacher, as distinguished from those of the first, consists in this, that the parts of the subject are presented _in detail_, and _in particular exemplification._ In the first case, the whole subject was dispatched in a single, general, and comprehensive description; in the latter, it is examined minutely, one point being brought forward at a time.

The discussions are enlivened, too, by meeting and removing such little difficulties as will naturally come up in such an investigation.

Boys and girls will take an interest in such a lecture; they will regret to have it come to a conclusion, and will give their attention when the subject is again brought forward on the following day.