Darton and Harvey; which contains judicious hints relating to the education of the poor, and some excellent economic methods of teaching a great number of pupils by a single superintendent.

There are wanting among us SCHOOLS where young people might acquire necessary and useful knowledge, without learning to ape the vanities and follies of their superiors, who formerly had the privilege of enjoying them exclusively. I never knew but one school of this kind, and that sunk when it's founder and pillar was removed. A young woman of low birth and slight education but possessed of a good understanding and many useful qualifications, raised a school in a country village, on a very plain and simple plan. She took twenty pupils; which were afterwards increased to thirty. They assisted her in doing the business of the house; they made the beds, and swept the rooms in turn; after which, they sat down to needlework of the most useful kinds. They were taught to read in a plain and natural way. At washing times, they starched and ironed the linen; every one her own articles. The mistress was elegantly neat in all her habits, and in every respect properly qualified to preside over a school of this description. The school flourished for ten years, when the mistress attracted the notice of the 'squire of the parish, and her good-fortune destroyed the establishment. She married the 'squire. In her school she moved with dignity and was truly respectable, but as a gentlewoman she was awkward. The school was transferred to another, incapable of supporting it; and it sunk never more to rise. I heartily wish to see more such schools and such women to govern them. The middle stations of life are too much inclined to

educate their children too highly for their destination. Numbers of young women thus educated are turned loose on the world, without means to support themselves and disqualified to earn their living. There are indeed very few trades left for women; the men have usurped two-thirds of those which formerly belonged to them; the remainder are overstocked, and they have few resources. If women be handsome and amiable, their dangers are so much greater. Man, their natural friend and protector, becomes their betrayer, and abandons them both to shame and poverty, [Clara Reeye on Education.]

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INDEX.

Accomplishments in gener-
al, page, 384.
Acquirements should be mat-
ters of choice, 415.
Aged, of respect for, 150,
Agriculture, Gardening, and
Rural Affairs, 356.
Ale and beer, improper for
children, 24, 25.
Ambition as an excitation to

Authors, contemporary, their
asperities, 206; on forming
independent opinions of,
214.

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Bathing, or Washing, 8.
Bed-rooms, or Nurseries, their
necessary qualities, 33 a
copious portion of fresh air
should be admitted into
them, 33. pust
Beds for children should not
contain more than one, 31;
those of feathers pernici-
ous, 33; of Madame de
Genlis's boarded beds, 34.

mental exertions, 402,
Amusement, rational means
of, for children, 61.
Amusements of children, in
what manner they should
be conducted, 402; per-Bed-steads, the height which
nicious practice of appoint- they should be placed, 33.
ing one boy a censor, 404; Beer, improper for children,
barbarous amusements,405; 24, 25.

Bishop of London on good
reading, 194.

dress, 405; of amusements Betterton's admonition to the
..which are proper for boys,
and those which are proper
for girls, 406; theatrical en-
tertainments, 407.

Anatomy, 380...

Biography, 351..

Blame, as an excitement to

.i attention, 301.0

Animal diet, unnatural and Book-clubs, among the poor,

cruel, 27.

463.

Animals, of torturing them, Books for children, on the

Antipathies, 445.

choice of, 195 Cuts or En-

gravings necessary, 196;

Application, it's power, 282. Tales most attractive, 197;

Architecture, 359..
Arithmetic, 259.

Arts, fine, 355. mechanic, 356.
Astronomy, 313.

Attention, of fixing, 212.00
"Authority, 161.

Purity of language, 198;
Novels, 191; Fables, 199;
of reciting Speeches out of
Plays, 201; initiatory books
of a proper kind, yet want-
ed, 255.

Books in general, on the Botany, 322.

choice of, 203; generally Brute species should be pro-
too voluminous, 203; a tected by law, 417.
method of facilitating se-Business, 362.

lection, 204; in what the Butter, it's nutrition, 24.

: merit of a book consists,

204; on the happiness a-Candour, 417.

C

rising from a love of books, Caprice, in children, how,
205.
cured or prevented, 13.
Books recommended under Carracci instanced, in favour
the following Heads.
of the power of applica-
ΒΑ series of Reading- tion, 283...
books for Young People, Censorship of one child over
others, 404.

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Poetic Compositions, 207. Character, what may be deem
* Rhetoric and Oratory, 209. ed admirable traits of, in
English Grammars and Crit-youth, 278.9
-bicism, 228.120Chemistry, 314. a to
obLatin School Books, 239 to Child, a description of a de
al
43 2468 habiroda adn O sirable one, 429.
Greek & Grammars, Lexi- Children, improper ways s of
cons, &c. 248 to 251.
French Language, 256.
Translations, 259.

Mathematics,

Logic, 269.

263.

Composition, 271.

Natural Philosophy; includ-

carrying, 41, 42; a method
recommended, 45; Swing-
ing children injurious, 45;
a fatal accident referred to,
46; improper objects offer-
ed to the minds of children,
272.

ing Mechanics, Hydrosta-Chronology, 340.

tics, Optics, Astronomy, Classes, on the method of at-
Magnetism, Electricity, ranging in, 254.

and Galvanism, 312. Classical Learning, 251; the

-Natural History, 322, 323.

Chemistry, 315.

Science in general, 327.

obsurdity of educating the

divine and mechanic alike,

253.

Geography, 354, 336, Top-Clerical Profession, 370.

graphy, Travels, &c. 337. Clothing, 34.

Travelling, 338.

History and Chronology,

343 to 349.

Politics, 550.

Law, $50,

Biography, 352, 354.

Coffee, injurious to children,

25.

Commendation, 146.

Commerce, see Business...
Company, of introducing

School-boys into, 99.

Composition, 269.

mbenevolence; 157; amiable
Conceit in young people, in dispositions described, 418.
what cases to be borne with, Divinity, as a study, 375
- in what reprehended, 279. Dramas, the superiority of
Connexions made at School,

148.

Conversation, it's advantages,
154.

those of Madame Genlis,

200; the general immoral-
ety of plays, 409.
Drawing, 391:

Dress, 405; of extravagance
in, 430; it's luxury should
be corrected by govern-

Correction at school, 146.
Cottage of the labourer, 360.
Critics by Profession, 207.
Cruelty, a habit of, is general-ment, 431.

erable, 24.

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Education, it's power, 2; it's

lly framed at an early age, 55. Drink, what kind is most pref-
Curate in the country, in what
respect his station is re-
spectable and happy, 294.
Curiosity an excitement to
produce attention, 301.
Curiosity of children, 442.
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Dancing, 398.

Deception and Frankness,425.
Demosthenes referred to as an
instance where persever-
ance triumphed over the
supposed want of natural
powers, 283.
Dependance, 165.
Desires in children, how far
to be complied with, and
managed, 57.

end, 3, 411; what it ought
to effect, 3; in what man-
ner it was conducted by the
ancients 5; the national
influence of a good system,
6; it's objects how to be at-
tained, 53; domestic and
public, various considera-
tions respecting, 140; the
grand desideratum, 275.
Education, private, it's supe-

riorities, 150; interference
must be precluded, 156.
Education, public, in what
case to be preferred, 49.

Dictionary of the Latin Lan-Elocution, 209.

guage, a disideratum, 342. Employments becoming age
Digestive organ of children, and sex, 365.

it's treatment, 25.

Employments for Persons of

Dionysius's conduct as a pre- fortune, 367.
ceptor contrasted with the Emulation, 174.
disposition of Henry iv, of
France, 302.
Dispositions of children fre-
quently ruined at an early
age, 54; of exercising their
No. 68.

English Language,225; should
be preparative to teaching
other languages, 226; Dic-
tionaries, 210; Grammars
and Treatises, 228.

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