What good gift have my brothers, but it came
From search and strife and loving sacrifice?"

EDWIN ARNOLD.

"WHAT shall I do with my son?" has become one of the most anxious questions for parents. The first thing is not to give them such an education as must engender a distaste of the life they have to lead. Teach them the dignity of labour, and leave off training them to be "gentle folks." Do not unfit your son for work by habits and surroundings that unfit him for the work; but prepare him, and adapt him to the duties he will have to perform. Appeal to his love of approbation, and stimulate his efforts by praising what he does; interest his mind in the details of the work lie will have to do; elevate the occupation of his life in his eyes, and tell him to trust to his skill and good general business habits for success, and not to try to become rich rapidly, without labour. Parents now, as a last resource, send their sons abroad. Under what conditions or chances of success is the unfortunate lad sent? Has he been educated or trained in any way for the struggle for life which he has to make against nature, or with men armed with long colonial experience, and whose antecedents have made them strong for the battle, and well fitted to run in the race for wealth? Poor boy! He often returns a failure, and is blamed for want of pluck, perseverance, or patience, when the fault should be laid to the charge of those who so recklessly launched