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Now we are on the subject of letters, we will
give an extract from one lately received from a
highly esteemed correspondent of ours, Mrs.
Harrison Smith, of Washington City, a lady
whose literary talents are the delight of her
frends. She has been known to the public as a
writer of much merit in her graphic work enti-
tled, "A Winter in Washington;"—and pure
morals and religious feelings were promoted by
a subsequent publication, "What is Gentility?"
Her views on Female Education are thus express-
ed in her letter alluded to.

"The culture of the moral faculties should form
the basis of every plan of Female Education. It
is from the culture of the soil that spring those
fruits which constitute the essential nutriment of
virtue and felicity.

"In the existing systems, generally, the moral
is almost sacrificed to the intellectual cultiva-
tion, and this is done in so superficial a manner
that but little benefit results either to mind or
practice. No permanent habits of study are fix-
ed, no solid knowledge can be imparted by a
system which carries a young girl, in the course