We were yesterday and the day before with Mons. and Madame de Lagaraye, whilst they fulfilled a duty, which appeared to us not one of their least interesting or useful occupations. In a word, we saw Mons. de Lagaraye surrounded by children, reading moral instructions on the duties of men in general, and of those in their situation in particular. This course of morality, comprised in one little volume, is written with as much clearness and exactness as simplicity. It is divided into chapters, of which he never reads more than one at a sitting, making frequent pauses, either to question some one of his auditors, or to explain any part he thinks beyond their comprehension. It is really very pathetic to see with what kindness he answers or questions them; and that he may be more clearly understood, adapts his comparisons and expressions to their capacities. The children listen to him with an attention that nothing can disturb. Mons. and Madame de Lagaraye gave me a copy of their respective lectures; I spent a night in reading these two little volumes; the truths and good sense I found there not suffering me to quit them. These works, though extremely simple, appeared to me both interesting and useful. Their value is increased by being made for an obscure class, forgotten or disdained by all former writers. The children are admitted into these schools at twelve years of age, and remain till fifteen, the priest having previously instructed them in their catechism; so that a fresh set of twelve, taking the places of those who are fifteen, the school is renewed every three years. During the first six months Mons. de Lagaraye reads to them his work, which is succeeded by the Gospel, which takes up eighteen months; they and just designs, a vast and cultivated understanding, the fortunate union of all these virtues, would produce nothing really useful, without an happy concurrence of circumstances, and the advantages of rank and fortune.