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NOTICES OF BOOKS* 207
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Foreign Literature.
his arrival . Curious to listen to the wisdom with which the schoolmasterMr . Mocklebirdis to impregnate the minds of the young
republicans , , he approaches , the house , or rather hut , the only one of a future streetthe name of the latter being" indicated by an
in-, scription stuck up on a pole . Mr . Mocklebird received the stranger with the
question"' How many bushels , sir ? ' Dr . Moorfield looked bewildered . 'I thoug ht you intended to order onions ird , ' the nian hl added the . lied
" " ' No You , I are came in it to , see sir . Mr A . Mockleb few weeks ago ' s sc I failed , ' in stranger the oil trade rep , an . d lost my fortune , so I established a scho know ol . for I teach the latter my neig hire hbours' assistant children
what Since I this know occupation and what is I neither don't sufficient ; to fill up I my time an nor my . I do a little business in onions also . ' Withthese words Mr . urse
Mockleb p , ird entered the house . The stranger followed , him to the school-The eating room worth . their About dinners teacher eighty , which profited boys , consisted from bthis nine time of to amp to twelve le portions a years free of conversation of meat age , and wer bread e with just .
y y open the his form young of friends an oblong . c square Was I ? not Suppose a fool , ' I he had began constructed , ' to build it round my h like ouse my in hat , what do you think of that ?'
The children , doubtful whether he was in earnest or not , looked at each other in silent wonder . " ' Of what use is a house ? ' he continued . dwell inof the lied
" " * ' To Right ; and , ' who one resides boys in houses rep ?' . " ' People . '
house " ' Well so large , peop ; does le reside a man in require houses . a whole A man house , ah ! to a man himself is so , or small only , a and par a - ticular portion of it ?'
" ' A room . ' properl " ' Ri y g speaking ht ; we call , a man a sing inhabits le inhabitable a room p ; lace does in he a not house P ' a room . Thus ,
"' Yes . ' instance space " ' . Now What mark True need that : refle hav there cting e I of are upon a small whole the bed room matter -rooms to , myself I find which ? « that whil in I e summer may I am spare asleep are some hot for
. , and think sultry ? . For Well my , perhaps own' part I , could I would do without rather sleep a bed in -room the open . But air , I what require do you something to sleep in . '
"' Abed . ' "' Well said , abed . Therefore I may say , during the night I inhabit my bed . '
"' Yes . ' " ' Lads , I am a curious fellow . Just some moments agp I expressed a wish All to have burst a out round laug house hing . . The Well teacher , now , I continued should also : require a round bed . '
" to bed " which would ' Your in be merriment fact sheer our nonsense oblong betrays square , a your round bed op bed inion is would best . You adapted never mean do . for to Is say a that human that what a fi round gure you ,
mean ?' "' Yes . ' " ' To entertain an opinion is all very well , but proof is better still . Well , now for the proof . "Vance ! this come theorem here , ? my boy , here ' s a task for you .
draw Can " The you two teacher undertake perpendicular _p laced to verify the lines boy from with both his sides back ' of near his the bod wall y , and . He a horizontal began to
Notices Of Books* 207
NOTICES OF BOOKS * 207
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/63/
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