young people, of a more advanced age, a few Tales, that shall neither
dissipate the attention, nor inflame the imagination.

In a work upon education, which the public has been pleased to notice, we
have endeavoured to show that, under proper management, amusement and
instruction may accompany each other through many paths of literature;
whilst, at the same time, we have disclaimed and reprehended all attempts
to teach in play. Steady, untired attention is what alone produces
excellence. Sir Isaac Newton, with as much truth as modesty, attributed
to this faculty those discoveries in science, which brought the heavens
within the grasp of man, and weighed the earth in a balance. To inure the
mind to athletic vigour is one of the chief objects of good education;
and we have found, as far as our limited experience has extended, that
short and active exertions, interspersed with frequent agreeable
relaxation, form the mind to strength and endurance, better than
long-continued feeble study.

Hippocrates, in describing the robust temperament, tells us that the
_athletae_ prepare themselves for the _gymnasium_ by strong exertion,
which they continued till they felt fatigue; they then reposed till they
felt returning strength and aptitude for labour: and thus, by alternate
exercise and indulgence, their limbs acquire the firmest tone of health
and vigour. We have found, that those who have tasted with the keenest
relish the beauties of Berquin, Day, or Barbauld, pursue a demonstration
of Euclid, or a logical deduction, with as much eagerness, and with more
rational curiosity, than is usually shown by students who are nourished
with the hardest fare, and chained to unceasing labour.

"Forester" is the picture of an eccentric character--a young man who
scorns the common forms and dependencies of civilized society; and who,