chapters treating of the following subjects: viz., Piety; Respect due to Priests; Honor due to Parents; Advice; Obedience to Husbands; Chastity; Training of Children; Benevolence; Wisdom; Sin; and good Works. The second part contains an Essay on Female Education, in writing which, the author endeavoured to draw all illustrations from facts that Hindus are acquainted with, and to show the absurdities of their prejudices and objections in the most agreeable manner possible, without religious bias, and thus to adapt the Essay to the taste of Hindus in general without distinction of class or creed. One of the crying evils of the land being the degradation to which females are subjected in their domestic and social life, the writer has dwelt at some length on this evil, and has endeavoured to convince the reader, by facts and illustrations, by a reference to the old Shastras, &c., to the right that the softer sex of our land have to be treated by their husbands, &c., with greater kindness and regard than what, by the pernicious custom of this country, fall to their lot. Should this humble production of the author in any way conduce towards raising the social condition of women of India, he will consider himself amply repaid.
	MAYAVARAM 12th May, 1869.	S. VEDANAYAKAM PILLAY