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examples, to draw them with a clear, unbroken line, without taking the penfrom
the paper until
it is done. Be not discouraged. at repeated failures, but try again and again,
until you suc-
ceed.  You doubtless begin to find that you require more than the command
of your fingers in
drawing: your wrist, and the whole arm, must be brought under proper government.
 And here,
as a valuable assistant, the blackboard can not he too strongly recommended.
                                  23.,       on the blackboard might be made
a profit-
                               able exercise and subject of emulation in
schools. The chalk
                               should be placed in a long port-crayon, or
reed, held, at arm's
                               length; and 'the greater part of the examples
contained in these
                               primary instructions, should be attempted
on th~ hoard-the
                               larger the better. The examples p B S T are
given expressly
                               with a view to this. Let the teacher fix the
points ( o ), if
                               the pupil is not capable of doing it. The
pupil then should
                               connect the points, so as toform a square
(8); that done, let
                               him draw the circle within the square-another
on the outside