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the value of such senseless gibberish as what here follows even after we 

 admit that it is beneficial that a girl should run upon a grass plat ? 



* FIRST EXERCISE. Moveme?its of the Arms. At the word ATTENTION, 

 the pupil must lay the left hand on the chest, the thumb and fore finger spread, 

 and the three others shut ; the right arm is to be turned behind the back ; she 



right 



right and left alternately, and lastly with both together! /" 



What human creature can discover any meaning or utility in this, or 

 in the trash that follows ? 



" TENTH EXERCISE. High Step complicated. -The pupil placed with the heels 

 on a line, the body erect, and the arms a-kimbo, must execute this by hopping 

 twice on the toes of the left foot, raising the right leg sideways as hiyh as pos- 

 sible ; then hopping twice on the riyht foot, raising the left leg in the same 

 manner, she must bring the heels on a line; the same is to be done by raising 

 the right leg forward and the left behind ; and by a double hap change legs, 

 bringing the left before and \hz right behind ; then return to the walking pace. 

 This exercise is to be performed without stopping /.'" 



With a hundred and fifty pages more of mountebankery about 

 " Simple pace jumping" " Forward and Backward" " Skipping, and 

 touching behind" " Crossing legs in place"-" Zig-zag step" " High 

 step" " Double step" " Galloping pace" and ' Flying round I" 



There can be no doubt that children, left to themselves, and with 

 opportunity for exercise allowed to them, will always be inclined to take 

 as much exercise as is necessary or advantageous for their health ; but 

 the fact is, that the whole system of our " Female Boarding School", 

 education excepting that followed in the very highest class of establish- 

 ments, which are about as one to twenty in the whole number is of the 

 very worst possible description. A wretched and insufficient stipend only 

 is "charged for the (cense) maintenance of the children, and for all the 

 useful or necessary instruction which is to be afforded to them ; the 

 consequence being that they are ill fed, ill lodged, and their health, or 

 moral guidance except so ar as consists, for the first, in their being 

 dragged along the dusty streets or roads, in ranks, for what is called a 

 "" walk," three times a week ; and for the second, carried twice 

 to church they go and return, and that of course is all that can be 

 desired on a Sunday ; and the subsistence of the mistress for " sub- 

 sistence" it is barely she gets no profit is made out of her per centage 

 upon the teaching of a long list of useless and affected " accomplishments," 

 of which the nominal learners, notoriously, never acquire even the first 

 rudiments, but which serve to extract some species' of payment from the 

 parents' pockets which otherwise could not be obtained by setting -up 

 their vanity and insolence in opposition to their avarice and rapacity. 



Here is, for example " At Birch Grove" crammed among the soap 

 manufactories at Clerkenwell or among the new buildings, where not a 

 breath of air is to be obtained since the " improvements," were made, in 

 the Ptegent's Park " a limited number of young ladies are received" 

 who are " boarded, and instructed in English, writing, arithmetic, and 

 needle-work, for twenty-two guineas per annum !" Here is all that the 

 creatures need learn, and a great deal more than, properly and completely, 

 they do learn, offered, with maintenance and lodging to tc young ladies," 



