ABSTRACT
Workhouse Oirr.. By Margaret Elliot. A LITTLE pamphlet which is a copy of a. journal that was kept by the author and her sister fifteen years ago, before the subject of the advantages or disadvantages of training girls in large schools was generally discussed. Miss Elliot shows a way in which ladies might do much quiet good where a. committee does not exist. She fully endorses Mrs. Senior's views on the unpractical nature of the teaching; we sympathise with the kindly, but overworked mistress, who says, "Lor, ma'am, the
~l don't know so much as to take the kettle off the fire 11 it boils over, and as for the baby, would as lief hold it upside down as not." "Small blame to them either," said another, "in them institutions they only think of
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