384 Education of the Teeth. matters of mere haphazard, say to this, if they knew the whole means by which an end so happy, is secured? We wish such persons would pay the school a visit. SCHOOL BOOKS. During a recent session of the Essex County Teachers' Association, at Ipswich, Committees were chosen to examine the various books, intended for schools, and to report, at the annual meeting, on the excellencies and defects of each, with a view of promoting the substitution of those esteemed the best, for those of inferior merit. The following gentlemen were chairmen of the Committees. Upon Arithmetics-Rev. G. B. Perry, Bradford. Reading BooksRev. L. Colman, Andover, South. Grammars-David Choate, Esq., Essex. Geographies-M. P. Parish, Esq., Sale n. EDUCATION OF THE TEETH. The reader may smile at the title of our article, but really it is no laughing matter to lose one's teeth; and we beg to be considered as in our sober senses, when we say that teeth are lost, to a very great extent, for want of suitable education. We were led to this remark by reading a small book entitled 'Observations on the Structure, Physiology, Anatomy and Diseases of the Teeth,' in two parts; the first by Harvey Burdell, M. D., and the second by John Burdell, Dentist, and published in New York, by Gould & Newman. The book is exceedingly valuable to the community, abounding in drawings and sterling remarks. Notwithstanding the fact that it sets down hot food, and especially animal food, as a fertile source of injury to the teeth, against which doctrine the Editor of the Boston Medical & Surgical Journal appears to be at war, he does not hesitate to say, in his last number, of the little work in question, 'it is valuable above almost any manual of the kind we have seen for a long time, because it shows, to the most common understanding, how the teeth may be preserved in good condition in childhood and age.' He wishes, moreover, that five or six thousand copies of it could be distributed thro' the country, and introduced into families.' This is a great deal for Dr Smith to say; but we are thankful for a little, from one who dreads so much the evils of popular knowledge on certain subjects of very great and acknowledged importance.-As to Burdell's book, we wish five or six hundred thousand could be circulated, at the least; and not only circulated, but studied. VALUABLE SCHOOL BOOKS. 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I have endeavored to set forth the dangers to our rising country from this source, and to show how they may be avoided; to present to the minds of " our daughters," an object worthy of their loftiest and most benevolent ambition, and to show them how they may obtain it; to convince them that the right cultivation and truest excellence of the female character lie at a much higher point than has been usually supposed, and to set before them the means and motives to become (in that elevated and holy state of society called the kingdom or reign of Christ, to which we aspire, and which we confidently expect) "as corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace." If the design, is effectual to its object in any degree, the author's humble efforts will be well rewarded." H. W. CONTENTS OF PART II.-CHAP. 1. Causes of Female Influence. 2. Importance of Letters to Woman. 3. Importance of Religion to Woman. 4. Christianity, the Source of Female Excellence. 5. 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