deserving of the term "creation" than that of "manipulation." Many workmen never rise higher than the first or second grade; and those who have taken the highest rank have shown very early precocity. Boys commence as takers-in at about eight years of age, and advance to the highest grade by degrees, if clever or industrious. Unless they have learned to read and write before that period, (their evenings being employed in the factory on the first four days of the week,) it is only on the Sunday and the latter part of the week that they can devote any time to mental improvement. A school on the premises, for instruction on Fridays and Saturdays, is a great desideratum for the boys as well as men, who wish thus to employ a portion of their leisure time; and the expense to proprietors would be amply repaid by the subsequent gratitude, and improved intelligence and conduct of their workmen.

Perhaps, there is no employment so much dependent upon steadiness of nerve, self-possession, and skilful manipulation, as Glass-making. It requires adroit adaptations of the simplest tools, for the rapid production of manifold forms and designs, upon the most pliant of material, while it retains its heat; and perfection depends not altogether upon long-continued practice, but upon a certain innate tact, without which no workman can ever rise to eminence. There can scarcely be, chemically, and in reference to the preparation of the crude materials, a manufacture of greater simplicity or of easier management than Flint Glass; but, like the delicate machinery of the watch, or the skilful management of a musical instrument, no small practical experience is needed to keep everything in time and tune, and in its place, for working out the harmonious arrangements of the whole, and