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    suration , surveying , geometry , geography , and navigation , with the most useful branches of the mathematics . ' So profound is he in mathematics * that he evidently considers arithmetic , geometry , mensuration , surveying , &c . mere child ' s play , for he excludes them from the most useful parts of the mathematics . We repel with indignation the insinuation that so learned a person might possibly not know what mathematics mean .

    A lady evinces her desire to advance the intellect of her sex by the following announcement : ' Young ladies are boarded and instructed in the English and French languages , geography , music , drawing , writing , arithmetic , and fancy works , washing included /

    The classification of washing under fancy works is certainly novel , and bespeaks an attention to useful domestic attainments , of which we have not remarked another instance . A second instructress would admit a young lady to complete her education in every solid and accomplished attainment . ' A third lady advertises for a partner in a school , who is to bring pupils and capital ; and continues thus :

    ' Accomplishments will not be considered essential , but accustomed to genteel society . As this establishment will be of the highest grade of scientific knowledge , and a certaiu number of pupils are already secure , the ladies will meet on equal terms . ' This is one of the finest pieces of composition we recollect to

    have read . People talk of women being ill-educated ; let them read the first sentence and blush : they talk of their bad logic ; but let them read the second sentence , and then learn to appreciate this * establishment of the highest grade of scientific knowledge / which only wants pupils , and capital , and a governess to be certain of brilliant success .

    New views meet us at every column . By one gentleman , * General knowledge and familiar instruction are so blended with the ordinarv routine of classical and mathematical instruction as to make study pleasant and profitable . ' It is going great lengths , certainly , to make study profitable ;

    but this gentleman goes further ; he actually ' presumes that his plan is calculated to advance the progress of the pupil / In some teachers we are afraid this would be presumption . Another gentleman takes a still higher flight ; for he advertises that his pupils comprehend what they are taught ; or , to use his own more elegant phraseology ,

    4 introduction to the several branches of education is simplified as much as possible to the age and capacity of the scholar , by which means he is made fully to comprehend the meaning and application of his progressive acquirements . ' One of the greatest strides towards scholastic perfection is to

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    648 The Schoolmaster Abroad .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 648, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/64/