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    345 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    or filling society creditabl Our y schemes any position for middle , to which -class lie education may rise have in tlie evidentl mercantile y originated _"world

    . in very different concex 3 tions of what is needed by that class . " We mentioned in our last brief notice a paper on Girls' Industrial

    Training , by tlie Rev . J . P . Norris . That paper is the result of ten years' experience as an Inspector of Schoolsduring which , time the

    , writer has given special attention to girls' schools , and made them the subject of special inquiry . In answer to the complaints _niade

    of the bad character and inefficiency of domestic servants , he maintains that though there is groundfor such a complaint , it is

    exag-, gerated , and the fault is often attributable to the carelessness of masters and mistressesand due not to the over-education , on which

    , it is sometimes laid , but to a sad want of education . He says : — tli sanguine e " good Moral behaviour ventured ly the succe , to in _fss antici after of our pate life schools , . of Testimony the has girl been s who comes even have to greater me attended from than all our the sides scliools most to

    regularl service . y . "Wh But y is it this must ? be Some admitted places that of , service as a general , such rule as , they too many do not of enter our dairy farmand public housesquite uniit for irlwho have self

    s , are gs any - respect so small or a sense minority of propriety , there is . just And now well a - great educated deman girls d for being them as I in have other " shown

    emnursery ployments -governesses preferable , to or as service apprentices . They to arc various wanted branches as pupil of -teachers skilled female , or as labor willing ; l or , retained if they have . This comfortable competition homes with and domesti wish c to service stay there is sound , they and are

    healthy , y forcing those who wish to have good , servants to learn to treat them selfish more as man members can wish of the to cheapen family and _ivomarfs less as labor hirelings in Eng " . None land " hut the hopelessly

    Referring to the plan of Industrial Training-, sketched out in his report to the Committee of Council , 1853 , now carried out in many

    j ) laces with excellent effect , he says the value of the training- consists not so much in the instruction given in any _sj ) ecinc art , as in the

    cultivation of the homely instincts and homely virtues of the girl , the giving her a sense of the gracefulness and dignity of household

    ministrations . In the Liverpool Report on Education , in dealing with the question of Industrial Training , the Rev . Mr . ITowson

    mentions the fact that in Liverpool there are three Roman Catholic institutions , aided by the Privy Council , for the industrial training

    of girls ; one attended by forty pupils is a laundry , another is a lace schoolattended by one hundred and sixty-six , and the third ,

    at-, tended by twenty-six , trains domestic servants . He adds : " Few things are more important than the watching over girls after they

    have left school and _g-one to service . It is a duty of the higher and better informed classes ; but without some special organisation it is

    difficult of accomplishment , in consequence of the local separation of rich and poor . "

    An interesting paper on "The Professional Training of Teachers , " by the Rev . J . G . Fitch , Principal of the Normal College of tlie British

    thir nncL ty Forei -soven gn Training School Society Colleges , states , for the that education there are of schoolmasters Great _Britain or

    345 Notices Of Books.

    345 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/57/