That course of Reading must be unprofitable, which is confined to Novels; and this, I am apprehensive, is too much the case with your Sex. The Press daily teems with these publications, which are the trash to circulating Libraries. There are but few Novels, which have a tendency to give a right turn to the affections; or, at least, are calculated to improve the mind. A perusal of them, in rapid succession, is, in fact, a misemployment of time; as, in most Novels, there is a similarity in the incidents and characters; and these perhaps are unnatural, or seldom to be found in real life: so that young Women, who apply themselves to this sort of Reading, are liable to many errors, both in conduct and conversation, from the romantic notions they will thence imbibe. Novels are the last Books which they should read; instead of being almost the first.