It was chiefly designed for new scholars; a copy of it was presented to each on the day of her admission to the school, and it was made her first duty to read it attentively.
[Footnote 4: The author was still connected with this school at the time when this work was written.] The system which it describes is one which gradually grew up in the institution under the writer's care.

The school was commenced with a small number of pupils, and without any system or plan whatever, and the one here described was formed insensibly and by slow degrees, through the influence of various and accidental circumstances.

I have no idea that it is superior to the plans of government and instruction adopted in many other schools.

It is true that there must necessarily be _some_ system in every large institution; but various instructors will fall upon different principles of organization, which will naturally be such as are adapted to the habits of thought and manner of instruction of their respective authors, and consequently each will be best for its own place.

While, therefore, some system--some methodical arrangement is necessary in all schools, it is not necessary that it should be the same in all.