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EDUCATION AND SCHOOL BOOKS. 
THERE is no department of Literature in which the inferiority of the last to 
_ ‘the preceding year is so strongly marked as that which is treated of in the pre- 
sent chapter, Of the works relating to the science of Education there is not one 
i: whose very title will not be forgotten in the course of a twelvemonth; and the 
1 books intended for the use of young persons will probably share the same fate, 
with the exception perhaps of Messrs. Bruce’s Introduction to Geography. 
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} Z I. Friendly Admonitions to Parents, and the Female Sex in general; with Reflec 
tions on Moral and Religious Subjects; intended for the Benefit of the vising Generation. 
A 
IN these unassuming pages will be 
found some sensible and useful reflec- 
tions on the present system of female 
education. The exclusion of domestic 
_ concerns from the modern system of in- 
struction is justly condemned, and the 
evil consequences represented, which 
those more particularly in inferior sta- 
‘tions of life must experience from a cul- 
“tivation of exterior ornamental accom- 
@ Art. II. 
i ners and Education. 
my: THIS little rigmarole volume con- 
_ tains one passage so truly original that 
" we will preserve it. It is an apology 
or Eve, showing that she was right in 
eating the apple. 
_ _ * By the creation of woman, the great 
4 design was accomplished—the universal sys- 
_ tem was harmonised.—Happiness and inno- 
cence ivigned together: but, unacquainted 
with the nature or existence of evil—consci- 
ous only of good, and imagining that all 
were of that essence around her—without 
advantages of the tradition of fore-fathers 
relate, or of ancient records to hand down, 
Eive was fatally and necessarily ignorant of 
the rebellious disobedience of the fallen an- 
s, and of their invisible vigilance and 
tombination to accomplish the destruction 
f the new favourites of heaven. 
*¢ In so momentous an event as that 
lich has ever been exclusively imputed to 
r, neither her virtue nor her prudence 
—@ught to be suspected: and there is little 
, to doubt that, if the same temptations 
een, offered to jer husband, under the 
Axn. Rev. Vor. Il. 
| Sy Cuagrorre Bancer, /ate Cuartrorre WainwriGurT. 
8vo. pp. 162. 
plishments to the neglect. of solid and 
essential duties. Among various topics 
which are touched upon, Mrs. Wain- 
wright dwells on the palpable incom- 
petency of a large proportion of those 
who assume the character of gover-~ 
nesses, to the arduous and responsible 
task of tuition: her advice to parents on 
this subject is particularly worth attend. 
ing to. 
Letters on the Importance of the Female Sex; with Observations on their Mane 
By Miss Hatrienp. 
8vo. pp. 157. 
same appearances, but he also would have 
acquiesced in the commission of this act of 
disobedience. 
«* Eve’s attention was attracted by the 
manner in which the serpent first made his 
attack: he had the gift of speech, which she 
must have observed to be a faculty peculiar 
to themselves. This appeared an evidence of 
something supernatural. ‘The wily tempter 
chose also the form of the serpent to assist 
his design, as not only in wisdom and saga- 
city that creature surpassed all others, but 
his figure was also erect and beautiful ; for it 
was not until the ofiended justice of God. de- 
nounced the curse, that the serpent’s crest 
was humbled to the dust. 
*¢ During this extraordinary interview it 
is evident, that Eve felt a full impression of 
the divine command, which she repeated to 
the tempter at the time of his solicitations. 
She oa ha. they were not to eat of éhat 
tree:—* And the woman said unto the ser- 
pent, We inay eat of the fruit of the trees of 
the garden, but of the fruit of the tree that 
is in the midst of the garden; God suid, ye 
shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, 
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