AUTHOR'S PREFACE
	FIRST EDITION
	At such a time as this when the necessity there is for educating the fair sex of our land, has been fully shown. when the natives of this presidency have been brought to feel the want of such education, when exertions are put forth in various quarters to establish schools for the education of females, and when the Government have made arrangements for establishing a female Normal School, with a view to educate them most effectually, indeed, no apology is needed to publish a book on the training and education of females.      This book consists of two parts, the first being advice to females, written in Tamil metre, on the manner of behaving themselves, with rules and principles to guide them, supplemented by four lyrics on the characteristics of a good wife as compared with those of a bad one, and on the necessity of educating females, and the manifold advantages arising from their education. The whole of this part, with the exception of the lyrics, was originally written for the use of the author*s own daughters' and with a view that others also may be benefited by the study of it, he has thought it best to print it as a part of the work now presented to the public. This part is divided into