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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 419

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    guide " In them the concluding in conducting chapters education of the in work accordance , they will with find the princi progressive p prehending development different of the Mental subject Faculties s of study , . and Until their these natural princi aptitude ples , so for lucidl com y -

    expounded acted on in by the Dr . management Combe , are thoroug of Infant hly Schools understood , these and very systematicall important y which institutions if ri will htlconducted never realise they the could advantages not fail to expected ieldb of training them , — and and

    instructing , g the y young so as , to modify their whole y character , y , and thus promote their welfare , their usefulness , and their happiness throughout life .

    this large 11 To country proportion ( xovernesses have of no , the I consider sooner children left the of the above the upper advice than , and speciall they even y are app middle consi licable gned classes . A to very the in

    care of a governess , , under whose direction nursery chiefly they remain during that plastic period of life in which the character that this is class very of often teachers permanentl should y

    possess formed . such How a knowled important ge of is it the , then physical , and mental constitution of the young and train beings the committed moral feelings to their , as charge well as , as to sh instruct all enable the them mind to ! cultivate Yet , in

    seminaries for the education of young ladies intended for governesses , there is knowled , I believe ge little , no such understood instruction , rarel g y iven even . thoug Unfortunatel ht of , by y , either it is teachers a kind or of

    parents . ; In and yet inion it is no the teach most ers important of any class knowled should ge which be _considered they can possessmy op , COMPETENT FOR THEIR DITTIES TILL THEY HAVE GIVEN PROOF OF _POSSESSING

    A GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OP THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN that body they , and possessed of the laws such knowled of health ge , . before Were they proof were required intrusted of all with teachers the driveto

    make care " Within and Physiology education the last a part few of youth of years their , , Ph school regular ysiology s of course , all in its classes of app instruction lication would . to be health , n has considerable in several seminaries

    been in the taug Birkbeck ht with Schoolsin London success under the enlihtened , more direction especiall and y . . time interest found by the is , even liberal not and far attention at support distant a very of , when of e the arl Mr y pup . Ph age Willi ils ysiology , . , to am It excite is Ellis will to be ; in form and . hoped a an remarkable g it , has essential therefore been part degree invari , that of , abl the the the y

    course " It is of in instruction vain to expect in every that school education . can be rightly in and the successfull nature of y

    the conducted physical , until and the mental Educators constitution themselves of those are whom instructed they undertake to train and instruct

    suggest '' As , regards for . the the consideration instruction of of young those women ladies who in Ph have ysiology gone , I throug venture h to a education with the view to alifthemselves

    systemati as medical c course practitioners of medical , whether devoting their time to qu the instruction y of their sex in the laws of health would not form an equalluseful and a

    ladies adopting more own appropriate would , as their be in sp profession here their of ri action ht than social , the that position hyg of iene a p of h and ysician female assuredl or and surgeon y _wvfantile they ? could life In ,

    have no higher vocation than g that of teaching ; their own sex the y important and duties that which of their devolve offspring on them If as ladies mothers properl , —how educated to manage for their such own duty health —¦

    _^ . , y a they need ies to not this be noble fully work educated they p would hysicians confer —would an inestimable _dsvote their benefit time on and the

    will rising energ iind generation in the _j _> , _resent and merit work , the an excellent lasting gratitude text-book of and posterity a safe . guide They . , too ,

    Notices Of Books. 419

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 419

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/59/