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    bility of another gentleman extorts from him an apology to the public for the unpleasant fact that a vacancy had occurred in his school , in the following terms : * The present vacancy is caused by one of the pupils having entered the university with every prospect of distinction . ' A philanthropical desire to confer those benefits on the younger pupils , which he has hitherto confined to older ones , prompts another gentleman to inform the world , that Although hitherto accustomed to prepare students for the university , he would not object to receive a few junior pupils whom he might model from the first on his own system of instruction . * For the health of another gentleman we are under considerable apprehensions , on account of his c unceasing anxiety * ( many times advertised ) for the domestic comforts and general welfare ' of the pupils . One announcement rather puzzled us , but we have ended with the conviction , that the institution alluded to must be intended for the education of grown-up ladies and gentlemen ; and we shall do our best to recommend it to many of our adult acquaintance who stand in need of a little instruction ; it runs thus :

    * Parents are invited to examine into the merits of this establishment , to which only those of respectability are eligible . * We like to see a man exerting himself to raise the reputation of his profession ; but really , when * A superior writing master , of more than ordinary experience in that beautiful and fashionable art , &c . ' thus characterises his profession , we must beg to demur , being convinced , by painful experience , that few really fashionable persons ever advance so far as pot-hooks and hangers . As we purchase food and raiment , religion and justice , education and government , why may we not also buy and sell pupils , without those difficulties which are so significantly hinted at in the following advertisement ?

    l To Schoolmasters . —The principal of a school near town , consisting of fifty boys , wishing to add ten or twelve to the number , would be happy to treat with any gentleman ; and flatters himself that the eligibility of the situation , and a thorough personal introduction , would obviate many of the difficulties which usually stand in the way of such transfers . ' A jovial gentleman cries out in the Times— ' Wine wanted ?— - and proceeds to state that , being desirous of possessing several pipes of good liquor , any person , who will send him two or three pipes , may send with them as many pupils , to be educated free of cost ; but he insists particularly on the wine being good . Again , many schoolmasters advertise so strong a desire to advance the moral and intellectual condition of the sons of grocers ,

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    850 The Schoolmaster Abroad .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/66/