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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 133

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    Notices Of Books. 133

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 133

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    1 . The of Relative Women . Valu A Lecture e of Studie intended s and as Accomp a Contribution lishments towards in the determining Education

    the True Intellectual Standard , of Female Education in the Middle . L Classes adies * . College By Richard , Bedford H . Square Hutton . _, London Professor : Emil of Mathematics y Faithful ! . in the

    2 . Female nations Educatio . A Paper n , and read How at it the would Socia he l Science affected Congress by University , London Exami , 1862 . - . Faithfull

    By Frances Power Cobbe . Third Edition . London : Emily . 3 . On some Women of . the A Paper _Drawbacks read b connected efore the Na with tional the A present ssociatio Emp n for loyment the Pro of - Emil

    Faithfull motion of . Social Third Science Edition . in London London : , Emil June 11 Faithfull th , 1862 . . By y y The growing interest which , is felt in the subject of Female

    / Education has recently been manifested in various ways . The minds of many parents are anxiously occupied with , questions such

    as those proposed by our correspondent , " A Mother of Four Daughters /'— " What ought girls to learn ? Plow should they

    learn ? What may be best omitted , as they cannot learn everything ? " & c . Some answer to these difficult questions is

    attempted by each of the three writers before us . Mr . Hutton begins his task by denning , with admirable clearness

    and exactness , the distinction between accomplishments and studies " a distinction which affectsnot the things taught , but the methods

    , and ends kept in view in teaching them . " Pie points out that almost every subject , may be taught either as a craft or

    accomplishment , or as a study . The difference lies , not in the subject , but in the mode of teaching and the particular powers called into exercise

    scarcel . " To take call a an woman unpromising _lished instance because , arithmetic she was : a proficient no doubt in you decimals would

    tare and y tretor the double accomp rule of three . Yet the ordinary and the true , school mode , of teaching what is called ' mental arithmetic' ' cihering '

    , p , or sense ' reckoning in which , ' I makes have used it almost the term entirel ; that y a is craft it is or taug accomp ht b lishment apprenticeshi in the p

    read as a disci mind pline rather of the than practical of the faculties thinking of faculties the , vigilant eager , imit to ative master y sagacity princip of les a ,

    and grasp y dearl , y their application to particular cases , . _Notice the girls in a good ' they is ci founded phering make ' it in class their anything : own how , beyond how readil e y ntirel b they elief y catch innocent in their hold teacher they of a are new or of else method any practical belief , how in it quickl experi which y -

    , same ence that class it of faculties brings the are sums being out broug right ; ht ' and into how lay can as when you doubt bsimilar that just quick the

    ness of perception , and similar tact in getting hold p of , the right , catch y -notes , they first learn to talkin perfect innocence of the laws of _grammaxv ; or to sing ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/61/