574- Garden Calls: — Godalming Subscription School^ 



but still they lead us to conclude, that, as it is found to be so extremely 

 difficult to alter the habits of grown up people, the greatest exertions 

 should be made to form in them good habits in their earliest youth, by 

 properly conducted infant schools, and by cultivating the heart and mind 

 of every individual to a high degree. It appears to us to be the duty of 

 the legislature to facilitate the means of applying this degree of cultiva- 

 tion, by obliging every parish to establish proper schools, and to render it 

 illegal to employ any young person after a certain year, who cannot pro- 

 duce a certificate, which may be a copy of the Parochial Gazette {Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 77.), proving that he or she has undergone a certain 

 degree of education. Even this state of things would not extinguish 

 crime from the annals of society, and especially from a society with an 

 overflowing population, and in a progressive state of improvement ; but it 

 surely cannot be doubted that it would greatly lessen its amount, and that 

 the description of crime committed would be less horrible. We think 

 we can see something of its effects in the mild and philosophic character 

 of the murders and suicides of the present day, as compared with that of 

 those perpetrated before a sense of the influence of what is said in news- 

 papers, and a knowledge of chemistry, was less perfect and less generally 

 extended. 



The Godalming Subscription School. August 7. — It is gratifying to know 

 that some schools on the Lancasterian plan, supported by voluntary sub- 

 scriptions, have been established in this part of the country. There is one 

 in Guildford, which we had not time to look into ; that at Godalming is 

 principally supported by Quakers. It is a plain substantial building in a 

 dry open situation, in the outskirts of the town ; and at present is attended 

 by 150 boys and 120 girls. We entered the girls' school, and saw them 

 take their places, go through their preparatory mancEuvres, and execute a 

 lesson in arithmetic, under the direction of Miss Ehzabeth Mills, a most 

 agreeable young woman, who, though not more than 16 or 17 years of age, 

 seems to be a perfect mistress of the system of teaching, and to have her 

 pupils in a state of excellent training. In proof of our approbation, we 

 have sent Miss Mills Conversations on Botany, for her own perusal, and a 

 small microscope for the purpose of gratifying the children with sights of 

 flies and other minute objects, occasionally, and on holydays, as sug- 

 gested in Magazine of Natural History, No. VIII. (vol.ii.) p. 286., which 

 Number v/e have also sent her. We have sent the articles through Mr. 

 Sawer, an ingenious young botanist, residing with Mr. Donald at Gold- 

 worth, who will be so good as to explain at length the uses of the microscope 

 to Miss Mills. 



Lea House, near Godalming ; J. and E. Leach, Esqrs. August 7. — The 

 Turkey oak-tree has been very extensively planted here between 60 and 70 

 years ago; and there is a fine plantation of them along the Hasleraere road, 

 which, from the size of the trees, must have been regularly thinned out as 

 it advanced. Though not very extensive, it is still the greatest assemblage 

 of this tree that we have hitherto seen. 



Stroud House, near Haslemere ; Miss Perry. August 8. — A small villa 

 exhibiting a perfect model of order and neatness in the house and grounds, 

 and quiet, elegant, rural retirement in the family. The road from Godal- 

 ming to Haslemere, a distance of eight miles, is one of the most grand and 

 romantic in Surrey or Sussex. It is chiefly through natural woods and 

 open woody commons, and it passes over two or three hills, from the 

 highest of which, between Stroud and Haslemere, a very extensive prospect 

 is obtained. Stroud House {fig. 1 1 5.) is built in a glade in the skirt of an 

 extensive natural oak copse near the road, with a lawn in front and behind, 

 the kitchen-garden and oifices at one side, and an orchard and gardener's 

 cottage at the other. Two or three paddocks or ploughed fields, and exten- 

 sive copse woods, with a winding brook and circuitous walk, complete the 



