Among the needs he discovered was this:--'By the bye, good cheap
Bible prints would be very useful; large, so as to be seen by a large
class, illustrating just the leading ideas. Schnorr's Bible prints
by Rose and Bingen are something of the kind that I mean, something
quite rude will do. Twenty-four subjects, comprising nothing either
conventional or symbolical, would be an endless treasure for
teachers; the intervening history would be filled up and illustrated
by smaller pictures, but these would be pegs on which to hang the
great events these lads ought to know. Each should be at least
twenty-four inches by ten.

'Try to remember, in the choice of any other picture books for them,
that anything that introduces European customs is no use yet.
Pictures of animals are the best things. One or two of a railway, a
great bridge, a view of the Thames with steamers rushing up and down,
would all do; but all our habits of social life are so strange that
they don't interest them yet.

'When I next reach Auckland, I suppose my eyes will rejoice at seeing
your dear old likenesses. When we build our permanent central
school-house at Kohimarama, I shall try to get a little snuggery, and
then furnish it with a few things comfortably; I shall then invest in
a chest of drawers, as I dare say my clothes are getting tired of
living in boxes since March 1855.

'I can hardly tell you how much I regret not knowing something about
the treatment of simple surgical cases. If when with W---- I had
studied the practical--bled, drawn teeth, mixed medicines, rolled
legs perpetually, it would have been worth something. Surely I might