ALFRED L. SEWELL, in his new monthly for boys, Home Arts, published in Chicago, writes as follows:— A philosopher has said that true education for boys is to “teach them what they ought to know when they become men.” What is it they ought to know, then? 1st. To be true—to be genuine. No education is worth anything that does not include this. A man had better not know how to read,—he had better never learn a letter in the alphabet and be true and genuine in intention and in action, rather than being learned in all sciences and in all languages, to be at the same time false in heart and counterfeit in life. Above all things teach the boys that TRUTH is more than riches, more than culture, more than any earthly power or position. 2d. To be pure in thought, language, and in life—pure in mind and in body. An impure man, young or old, poisoning the society where he moves, with smutty stories and impure examples, is a moral ulcer, a plague spot, a leper, who ought to be treated as were the lepers of old, who were banished from society and compelled to cry unclean, as a warning to save others from the pestilence. 3d. To be unselfish. To care for the feelings and comfort of others. To be polite. To be just in all dealings with others. To be generous, noble, and manly. This will include a genuine reverence for the aged and things sacred. 4th. To be self-reliant, and self-helpful, even from early childhood. To be industrious always, and self-supporting at the earliest proper age. Teach them that all honest work is honorable, and that an idle, useless life of dependence on others is disgraceful. When a boy has learned these four things;—when he has made these ideas a part of his being—however young he may be, however poor, or however rich, he has learned some of the most important things he ought to know when he becomes a man. With these four properly mastered, it will be easy to find all the rest.