ABSTRACT
Passing on from these to the Reading Societies, we find no fewer than twenty-eight in various parts of the country mentioned, and the terms of subscription are so low in most of them that no girl need be without the requisite stimulus to induce her to continue study after her school life is over. . Many of them only stipulate for six hours' steady reading in the week, which seems to us rather a small allowance. After this list comes another of thirteen Essay Clubs. The rules are various, but all require au original essay at least once a year: Eight Magazine Societies are next recorded, and these are followed by the Musical Practising clubs, of which there are seventeen. With regard to these last, some sensible and kindly suggestions are given of which the students might not. themselves think, but of which they will all gladly avail themselves, how to avoid making their amusements a source of annoyance to others--such as insulating the piano to lessen the sound, and shutting the windows before singing, as is now obligatory in some parts of Germany. · We have already mentioned the Drawing and Painting Clubs, the Needlework Societies, some of which are for plain work. and some embroidery; and the Languages and Handwriting Clubs, of which there are ten. There are also Religious clubs. Perhaps the societies most characteristic of our healthy English temperament are the Early Rising and Exercise Societies, and there is one "Early going to Bed" club. which we hope will find more imitators.
