Messrs. TRUMAN & KNIGHTLEY, Ltd., Educational Agents, SHEFFIELD HOUSE, 158 to 162 OXFORD STREET, LONDON, W. ASSISTANT MISTRESSES' DEPARTMENT. Ladies seeking appointments in Public or Private Schools for JANUARY should apply as soon as possible to Messrs. TRUMAN & KNIGHTLEY, who will be pleased to give their requirements prompt and careful attention. The following is a selection from a large number of Vacancies for next Term, for which Messrs. TRUMAN & KNIGHTLEY have already been instructed to select and put forward candidates : ENGLISH AND GENERAL FORM MISTRESSES. Mistress of Method for Church of England Training College. Degree and training essential. Res. £100 to £120.-A 19835. English Mistress for high-class Boarding and Day School in London. Good qualifications and highclass Boarding School experience essential. Res. £50 to £60.-A 21376. Form Mistress for Public High School, to teach Latin, Mathematics, and English Literature. Games. Degree or Cambridge Higher Local Honours Certificate essential. Non-res. 100.A 21326. English Mistress for high-class Boarding and Day School near London, to teach English, with elementary Latin and Mathematics. Graduate with Boarding School experience essential. Res. £50 to £60-A 21390. Geography Mistress for large Church of England Secondary School near London. Degree or equivalent and Public School experience essential. Non-res. 120 to £150.-A 21719 English Mistress for Public High School in North of England, to teach History and English. Oxford or Cambridge Honourwoman or London Graduate and Churchwoman essential. Non-res. £100 to £110.-A 21450. English Mistress for Dual Secondary School in the Midlands, to teach English Literature and French. Degree or equivalent, qualifications and experience or training. Non-res. £120.-A 21680. History Mistress for High School in Cheshire. Honours Degree preferred. Non-res. £120.A 21687. Form Mistress for high-class Private School in London, to teach general subjects with Geography and Mathematics. Good qualifications and experi ence essential. Non-res. £80 to £100.-A 21587. English Mistress for Girls' Public School, to teach English subjects generally, including Language and Lirerature. Graduate essential. Res. £50.-A 21289. English Mistress for high-class Public Boarding School on South Coast, to teach English with con. versational French or Ablett's Drawing. Boarding School experience essential. Res. 45 to £50. A 21579 English Mistress for high-class Boarding School on South Coast to teach English Literature with Latin, Mathematics, and some Science. Good qualifications and experience essential. Res. £80, or non-res., £120.-A 21551. Head English Mistress for small high-class Boarding School on South Coast. University woman with experience essential. Res. £80 to £100-A 21624. Second English Mistress for high-class Board ing School on South Coast to teach General Subjects, with Geography and Arithmetic. Good qualifications aad experience essential. Res. £50 to £60.-A 21577. English Lecturer, able to criticize lessons, required for Training College in London. University Degree and experience essential. Res., £120 to £160.-A 21534. CLASSICAL MISTRESSES. Classical Mistress for Church of England Public School in Yorkshire. University Honours Degree or equivalent. Anglo-Saxon or Drawing a recommendation. Churchwoman essential. Non-res., £105.-A21575. Assistant Mistress, to teach Latin and English Literature in Church of England Boarding and Day School in India. Degree, experience, and Churchwoman essential. Res., 120 and passage. - A 21459. MODERN LANGUAGE MISTRESSES. Modern Language Mistress for Church High School, to teach French and German, acquired abroad, and English Subjects. Res. £40. -A 21404. French Mistress for high-class Boarding School. Graduate, with residence abroad and experience essential. Res. £80 to £90, or equivalent non-res. -A 21253. Modern Language Mistress for Endowed Grammar School, to teach French, German, and some English Experience essential. Res. £80. -A 21677. Modern Language Mistress for County Secondary School, to teach chiefly French on modern lines. Non-res. £110.- A 21650 Senior Mistress for mixed County School, to teach French and History. Degree with Honours in French. Experience essential. Non-res. £110 to 6120-A 21637. French Mistress for Public Secondary Boarding School. Good qualifications long residence abroad, and experience essential. Res. 80.-A 21300. MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENCE MISTRESSES. Second Mistress for Secondary Boarding School, to teach Mathematics and general subjects. Botany and elementary Science a recommendation. Good qualifications, experience and Church woman essential. Res. £55, increasing -A 2099). Mathematical Mistress for high-class Boarding School on South-East Coast to teach Mathematics and Geography. Training and experience and Churchwoman essential. Res. 60.-C 21204. Science Mistress for Public High School, to teach Physiology and Practical Hygiene with other subjects. Good qualifications and Churchwoman essential. Non-res. £100 to £110-A 21604. Mathematical Mistress for Public High School. Degree or equivalent. Non-res. post with good salary.-A 21507. Mathematical Mistress for Endowed Secon. dary School near London. Good Degree with experience or training. Non-res. £120.-A 21519. Mathematical Lecturer for Church of England Training College. Good qualifications and experience essential. Res. £70.-A 21574. Science Mistress for London Day School. De. gree in Chemistry and Physics essential. Nonres. 120-A 21478. Science Mistress for Church of England Public School, to teach Botany, Geography, and Chemistry, with some Physiology and Hygiene. Graduate or equivalent and Churchwoman essential. Non-res. £120.-A 21463. KINDERGARTEN MISTRESSES. Kindergarten Mistress for Private Day and Boarding School on West Coast, with some Ablett's Drawing and Botany. Higher Certificate and experience essential. Res. up to £45.-B 21600. Kindergarten and Lower Form Mistress for Private Boarding and Day School, to teach Botany, Nature Study, and Swedish Drill. Higher Certificate and experience essential. Res. £40.B 21750. ART MISTRESS. Art Mistress for good Private High School on West Coast to teach Drawing on Ablett's System, with elementary Piano or some other subjects. Ablett's Teacher Artist's Certificate. Experience essential. Res. £40.-B 21565 GYMNASTICS MISTRESSES. Gymnastics Mistress for high-class Dual Preparatory School, to teach Swedish Gymnastics, Drilling, and Games. Madame Osterberg's training essential. Res. £60.-B 21408. Assistant Mistress for Church of England High School, to teach first-rate Dancing, Drilling, and Games. Experience. Res. £40 to £50.-B 21385. Gymnastics Mistress able to train students in Physical Training College. Swedish Training and experience essential. Res. post with adequate salary. B 21432. Gymnastics and Games Mistress for large Public School near London, to teach also Dancing, Swimming, Elocution. Res. £60.-B 21548. TECHNICAL MISTRESSES, Technical Mistress for Public High School with diplomas for Cookery and Dressmaking. Non-res. 100.-B 21011. Technical Mistress to teach Cookery, Laundry, and Dressmaking in High School. Res. £50, or non-res. £80.-B 21425. Technical Mistress with Diplomas in Cookery and Needlework for London Day School. Nonres. £120.-B 21479. MUSIC MISTRESSES. Music Mistress for Public High School in West Indies. L.R.A.M. or equivalent. Performer. Res. £80 and passage. -B 21661. Music Mistress for Church High School, to teach Class Singing on good methods. Voice Production and some Pianoforte. Churchwoman essential. Res. £45 or more.-B 21632. FOREIGN MISTRESSES. Foreign Mistress for high-class Boarding School, to teach good French, German, and Needlework. Res. 40 to £60.-F 21549. Second French Mistress for Boarding School of the highest class near London, with very good Needlework. Res. £30 to £40.-F 21531. German Music Mistress for high-class Boarding School on South Coast. English experience essential Res about £50.-F 21585. German Mistress for high-class Boarding School near London, to teach German, elementary Drawing, and Needlework. Res. £35 to £40.-F 21697. STUDENT-TEACHERS. Messrs. TRUMAN & KNIGHTLEY always have on their books a large number of Vacancies for Student-Teachers on mutual terms or at moderate premiums. LADY MATRONS AND HOUSE MISTRESSES. Messrs. TRUMAN & KNIGHTLEY assist qualified Lady Matrons and House Mistresses to find Appointments in Boys' and Girls' Schools. Ladies desiring further information of any of the above and of other suitable Vacancies should write fully to Messrs. 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There is no date, but, from internal evidence, it must be after 1837 (ours is a second and revised edition), and the publishers are Milner & Co. The poems are intensely moral according to early nineteenth-century ideas of morality. Virtue is always rewarded and vice punished in the nursery, with extra rewards and punishments in the next world. Charlotte does her work neatly, and a fine doll with curly hair instructs her: This appeal touches them nearly, and they all fall on their knees and offer up a prayer : Almighty God: Mamma is ill; Grandmamma sends a plum-cake, and mamma piles up a plateful for each child and adds some nice ginger wine. All behave nicely except guzzling John, who gobbles his up and is packed off to bed, while the others receive a double portion. The Generous Girl divides her private store of apples and cakes and sugar-plums with the rest, and Mamma, to reward such goodness, promises the Agapemone : That though you of sweetmeats have had a good deal, Poor children, what nightmares they must have had ! Greedy Samuel fills his mouth too full at dinner and sputters. His Mamma tells him he is "like an Abyssinian while eating the live bull." Samuel, as soon as he is articulate, asks for an explanation, and is treated to a discourse on the manners and customs of the ancient Abyssinians, not to be found in Herodotus or "Rasselas" or Layard's "Nineveh." At their feasts they tie a live bull to the door and cut off the flesh smoking hot. The ladies then hand it to the guests, and stuff it into the gentlemen's mouths with their fingers. And he who makes the greatest noise Is thought the most genteel. We may be sure that Sam was not tempted again to eat live bull, even if offered him by ladies. But a far more heinous sin than gluttony is Sabbath-breaking, which brings its own punishment without any maternal intervention. No extract could do justice to this gem. WRONG TO PLAY ON SUNDAY. "Come, Julia, let us have some play "; No, no," said Ann, 'tis Sabbath-day. So do sit down and quiet be, And learn your hymn along with me." "These hymns," she cried, "I cannot bear, For they so unamusing are." So up she climbed to get a book, That she might at the pictures look. She reached too far, and sad to tell, Miss Julia on the fender fell; And she so badly cut her head They feared some time that she was dead. 'Twas very long ere she could be Removed from bed, or even see; But never more she wished to play, Or clamber, on the Sabbath-day. One more specimen of the repentant sinner. Naughty Charles pushes Edward down, and is thus rebuked by his mother: You, Charles, now look like such another Charles pleads for pardon : "O do forgive me, dear Mamma, He said: "Mamma, am I like Cain? He killed his brother with a stick I did not such a wicked trick." "True, Charles; but when in girls or boys Such very wicked passions rise, Though sorry when the mischief's past, It often gets them hang'd at last.” We pass to the more solid portion of the volume-the instruction of the juvenile part of youth in the beautiful and varied operations of Nature, as the author elegantly phrases it. Poetry makes a more lasting impression than prose (how else can we account for the numerous poetical quotations in juvenile literature ?), and those who have committed to memory these simple rimes will have laid a solid foundation of cosmogony, astronomy, physiology, and botany. The Watts children are all natural philosophers: they are always asking questions, and Mamma's knowledge is cyclopædic. Heptarchy and Kings of England, planets and comets, the theory of tides and of dew, the body and the soul-she is omniscient as Solomon, and only once does she confess her ignorance -the exact latitude and longitude of Heaven and Hell she cannot tell, though she has no doubt about the road that leads to either place, and hopes that Mary Ann |