COLONIAL SCHOOL BOOKS. Amongst tho numerous attempts to encourage local industries may bo mentioned tho suggestions that aro nwde afc a great number of the annual meetings of school committees as to the printing of all our School Books in tho colonies. By this means it is thought that an enormous amount of money will be spent on a local in dustry, and also that the books will bo compiled with a viow to making fcbe growing generation familiar with the history of their country and with many other colonial matters that aro not and cannot bo expected to be found in School Books prepared in tbo old country. The objections to this course are that in the first place tho cost of tho books to tho children will bo much enhanced by reason of the greater cost of production in tho colony. Thon owing to tho great initial cost of preparation and print ing tho books cannot be changed afc frequent intervals as is now the case, and lastly that it is far better that our children should bo brought up on broad linos and not have their earliest impressions formed from the perusal of a history that does not reflect much credit on tho principal actors therein, and in fact is hardly ancient enough yet to bo called history ah all. Our children must be brought up on grander subjects than anything the history of our mismanaged colony allbrdfl, and if our rulers are wise they will not meddle with fclio prenont supply of the material from which our rising gener ation has to draw tho pabulum for the satisfaction of ita earliest mental needs.
