Practical Notes on Moral Training

This little volume on education appears without the name of the writcr to whom we are indebted for it. For one reason this is to bc regrctted, since the name of the authoress would be a guaranted that this is not the work of a stay-at-home traveller, who is only pilfering from the diaries of those who have borne the burden and the heat of the day, but a volume of genuine jottings by the way. The writer has travelled over every foot of the ground described. Possibly this is one reason why the volurnc is not bulky. For as it is said that sermons are shorter when the preacher is careful to practise all that he preaches before he goes into the pulpit, so is it natural that a volume on education should be short if all the suggestions it contains are the results of hard-earned experience. The authoress of these pages has spent her best days in the school-room, either forming directly the minds of children or training their teachers in their difficult art. As might therefore be expected, this is a volume well stocked with practical hints on a great variety of subjects connected with education, both as regards the culture of the intellect and the formation of the moral character. I am much mistaken if it do not become a very popular book, not only in convents and houses of education, but also in family drawing-rooms. Fathers and mothers will, I think, when they have read a few pages of this little treatise on education, be struck with the value of the suggestions which they meet with in every chapter, and will wish that they had become acquainted with it at an earlier stage of their married life.