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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 65
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North America. By Anthony Trollope. In 2...
would tHe same be _' of more Boston surprising , or of all to New an Eng Eng lishman land . , I up do to not that know moment any contrast ignorant that of
_Xion the matter don , and , than then that a free he would school find in _$ _Tew by visiting York . first If he of would all a also free learn school the in number of children that are educated gratuitously in the two cities , and also *
the number in each which altogether lack education , he would , if susceptible degraded Xiondon more of statistics effective is at , , as be least a surprised than rul stigmatized e , mere either also figures b at a ragge th the . at . bad The d But pauper female and seeing or dress pupil and a charity of at hearing the a free charity girl are school ; . always if Wer not in
Englishmen , know well the type y of each , and ges have a fairly correct idea of the amount of education which is imparted to them . We see the result afterwards , when the same girls become our servants , and the wives of our grooms
pauper and porters , nor . a charity The female girl . pup She il is at dressed a free with school the in utmost ] _STew York decency is neither . She is a . whether perfectly her cleanl father y . In has speaking a dollar to a day her , or you three cannot thousand in any dollars degree a guess year .
, _J _^ or will you be enabled to guess by the manner in which her associates thoug treat h her her . father As regards were in her all own respects manner your to equal you . , it As is to al the ways amount the same of her as
I knowled visited ge a , sli I fairl ht y slim confess creature that was it is had terrific . before When me , in to the first lain room to me which the . properties , of g the hypothenuse , I fairly confess up that , as regards exp education ,
X dress . backed , and down general , and behaviour that I resolve . In the d to next confine room my I criticisms was more to at manners my ease _^ , finding that ancient Roman history was on the tapis . ' Why did the Romans
run away with the Sabine women ? ' asked the | mistress , herself a young woman out a little of about girl with three a and cherry twenty mouth . . ' Because The answer they did were not pretty give ' comp simpered lete
satisfaction ; and then followed a somewhat abstruse explanation on the _subject of population . It was all done with good faith and a serious intent , had and in showed truth reached what it was the consideration intended to show of important , —that the subjects girls there and that educated they
were leagues beyond that terrible repetition of A B C , to which , , I fear , that most and I of reader our free were metropolitan we called on school to superintend s are still necessaril the education y confined of . irls You of '
sixteen , , might , not select as favorite points , either the hypothenuse , g or the the ancient European methods side of populatin of the Atlantic g young colonies there will . There be , a may certain be , and amount to us on of
absurdity in the Transatlantic idea that all knowledge is knowledge , and that it should be imparted , if it be not knowledge of evil . But as to the general resultno fair-minded man or woman can have a doubt . That the
lads and girls , in these schools are excellently educated , comes home as a fact to the mind of any one who will look into the subject . That girl could not have got as far as the hypothenuse without a competent and abiding
knowled irls know ge with of much us . that It was is very at least far man beyond ifest the in the putside other . limit examination s of what such that the g irls knew as well as I did who were the Romansand who were , the g
Sabine women . That all this is of usewas shown in the , very gestures and bearings of the girls . JEJmollit mores _, , as Colonel ! N " ewcome used to say .
dinner That young the woman bank whom s of the I Mississi had watched ihad while doubtless she cooked learned her all husband about the ' s Sabine upon women , and I feel assured pp that , she cooked her husband's dinner
wi all th the a better better front for that than knowled she would ge , have —and done faced had the she hardshi been i ps orant of the o world n the subject . gn
• , . " It is not without a purpose that I have given this somewhat glowing account . Women of a _gfrls , as * school they behave in New themselves York so soon in the after streets my li and ttle street picture -card . ' jN It will York , of
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Notices Of Books. 65
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 65
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/65/
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