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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
EDUCATION THE FIRST THING.
INTRODUCTORY.
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A New Attempt. Indefatigable Student. Embryo of
Immortality. Learning to see. How the Little Child
learns. Labour makes beautiful. A Great Work.
Will subdued. The World of Fancy. Where is the
Attention? The Wild Colt. Napoleon's Memory.
Somewhere and Somebody. Investigate and reason.
Garden of Life. For Eternity. Better than Wealth.
The Polished Jewel,
CHAPTER II.
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THE SCHOOL-GIRL AWAY FROM HOME.
Home Education. The Opening Flower. Parents unfit
Teachers. Private Instruction. All need a Standard.
Influence of Nunneries. Teaching a Profession. It
is a Trial. On a larger Scale. A Pleasant Plan.
Clothes and Shoes. Longing to turn back. Weather
changed. Counting the Weeks. A Critical Point.
Character developing. Best of every Thing. Back-
bone Work. An Angel's Wing drooping,
CHAPTER III.
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THE SCHOOL-GIRL AT STUDY.
The Great Trial. Trunks full. Nothing forgotten. A
Vacant Stare. Two Thirds lost. Memory wanting.
Xenophon's Retreat. All need Judgment. Learn to
Discriminate. Best Taste in Town. Select the Best.
Knowledge running away. Loose Change. Where
to look. Society of a Lapdog. Not a Short Job.
Iron-hearted Bell. Habit of Toil,
CHAPTER IV.
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HOW TO STUDY.
Witch Stories. The Question proposed. Study dry
Work. Look it out again. Bishop Jewel's Memory.
Conquer, step by step. A High Standard. A Finished
Young Lady. Capacity wanted. Chain the Attention.
Author of this Mischief. Dr Gregory. Ship obeying
the Helm. Algebra forgotten. Waters filtered.
Cambridge and Oxford. Taste cultivated. Duty be-
come Pleasure,
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CHAPTER V.
SOCIAL DUTIES OF THE SCHOOL-GIRL.
Power of Oratory. Constant Impression. Almost a
Nun. Poor Relations forgotten. Small Coin of Life.
Professor Francke's Advice. Crows' Nests. A Beauti-
ful Comparison. The always Miserable. Mirth and
Cheerfulness. What you will desire to recal. Se-
verest Punishment. Out of our own Shadow. School-
girls not Matrons. One Burden lightened. Desperate
Intimacies. Carry Sunshine with you. Not afraid of
Responsibility,
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CHAPTER VI.
TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS.
Friends will be
No Excuse for
New Trials. Better Scholars than you.
disappointed. Wonderful Blacksmith.
you. Rock Slates and Sea-Egg Pencils. Not too late.
So much done. Parents' Mistake. A Good-for-nothing
Machine. Too great a Difference. The Best Response.
Letters like Chimneys. Starving Pupil. Genteel
Prisons. Why not spend Money? School not for the
Rich alone. Daniel Webster's Congratulation. East
Winds must come. Coward won the Day,
CHAPTER VII
READING.
Now is the Time to
One Dish at a Time.
The Tedious Day. How to read.
begin. Nothing to build with.
Great Men raised up in Times of Commotion. One
hundred and twenty-four Volumes. A Book read in
Six Months. Books of Pewter and of Bank-notes.
Starving on Jellies. Changing Horses at Paris. Con-
vent in Portugal. Chain of Memory. Three Hours a
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Week. Let Nothing interfere. Poetry its own Re-
ward. None, safest. Giant cracking Nuts. Phos-
phorus and Honey,
CHAPTER VIII.
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USE OF THE PEN.
How to preserve Thought. Fresh as ever. Not a Little
Undertaking. Composition dreaded. Watered by
Tears. Theory mistaken. No Time for Newspapers.
Factories near the Waterfall. Whitefield's Pathos.
Passion-flower. Women must do the Letter-writing.
Chain kept bright. How Letters are treated in Tur-
key. Graceful Handwriting. First Specimen. Learn
to bear the Yoke of Discipline. Graces of Time run
into Glories of Eternity. Economist of Time. Thou-
sand Years before Noah. Arrow ruined. Life hurried, 133
CHAPTER IX.
FORMATION OF HABITS.
Indian Fashions. Dr Chalmers's Handwriting. John
Foster's Regret. Habit of Seeing. Audubon's Bet.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu a Physician. Not
ashamed to ask a Question. Secret of Despatch.
Chinese Student. Always waiting. Reproof warded
off. Just slipping on her Things. Lord Brougham's
Rules. Mr Condar's Speech. A Sure Recipe. Strive
to please. Never-failing Beauty. Haydn's Gladness.
Feast of Joy. Fair Weather will come. Passion
disgusting in Woman. Rejoicing in God,
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CHAPTER X.
HEALTH AT SCHOOL.
Conveniences of our Day. All under Law. Abuses
among Good Men. Dr Payson's Letter. Good Ad-
vice. The Two Extremes. John Howard's Testi-
mony. His Experience in full. Too much Care. The
Conscientious Self-destroyer. Recovery,-a Curious
Case. Hints not Rules. Sleep, how much needed.
Sir William Jones. A Curious Will. Importance of
Habits. Mother's Cupboard. The Young Lady's
Self-control. Exercise indispensable. Dr Franklin's
Experience. Mind corresponds with the Body. Cheer-
fulness essential to Health,
CHAPTER XI.
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THE BIBLE.
No Excuse for us. Bible worn on the Neck.
Eusebius's
Primitive
"Let us
Testimony. Bible committed to Memory.
Custom. Cool Water from the Spring.
begin again." The Embarrassed Merchant. The
Bible Hawker. Fifty Centimes. Garden of the Lord.
Commit it accurately. Eight Thousand Verses a
Year. Do not omit a Day. Bible in the Trunk. Ice
broken. Not a Bad Idea. Sixteen Bible Clerks.
Chinaman's Experience. Bible in Yucatan. Concor-
dance a Help. Let your Faith be strong. A Lamp
to the Feet. Suited to every Thing,
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