a young lady moving in good society. Particular
attention is given for the attainment of a refined
English accent.

It is a high privilege to have a daughter to
send (and fifty pounds that can be paid over) to
a lady more than eminently "qualified by her
sphere in which she has moved to convey by
example a high-toned accomplishments, so
necessary for a young lady moving in good
society." They always "move" in good
society; never stagnate, never become
dummies. Then how delightful it will be when
our girl, who now shouts like a child about
the house, comes home at Midsummer with a
refined English accent? English accents stand
in so much need of refining.

As much freedom from all that is vulgar,
and as much contempt of the mob, is to be
found in the announcement issued by a
schoolmaster in Ireland who keeps a day-school at
two-pence halfpenny a week. A copy of the
schoolmaster's advertisement was sent to me
some time ago, and I am reminded of it by
the lady of pre-eminent attainments and
experience. Thady Murphy's proclamation is a
piece of ornamental penmanship, which begins
with a Psalm in short hand, two quotations
from Shakspeare, and some other matter;
then runs thus:

EDUCATION.—To show the age the very
fashion of the time, its form and pressure,
THADY MURPHY, Mercantile, MATHEMATICAL and
Scientific Scholiast, Plain, occult, fashionable,
ornamental Penman and general Amanuensis, will
open SCHOOL in Shannon Street on Monday.
He avers that his best exertions shall be used in
order to elucidate the Branches he professes which
he deems will more incontestably authenticate his
abilities than the most pompous prospectus, his
terms will be moderate, and attention most assiduous.
Knowing that malevolent petty-fogging Pedants are
hostile to true merit, he openly defies competition,
solicits literary discussion and will never shrink
from the most critical investigation. READ: IT MAY
CONCERN YOU! Inhabitants of Bandon, I appeal to
your discernment and conscience, claiming your
kind patronage only in proportion to my merit as a
general scholar and my care and ability as a monitor.
There are three ways of knowing a GENERAL scholar,
viz. by works of genius Scriptic, documentary and
oral arguments, I am willing to have my course of
EDUCATION tested either way, but if you employ an
ignorant vulgar Pedant merely because he happens
to be a favourite of THE MOB, you discover a morbid
apathy to the welfare of your children, and that
yourselves are sunk in deplorable carelessness, in ignorance
and barbarity.

My wife being at this point sunk in sleep,
I said no more to her, and have since that
evening had no opportunity of showing my
scholastic information orally. Because,
however, the matter has much occupied my mind,
I have put down these remarks, and proceed to
display some other of my researches in a
documentary or scriptic form. I am not
apathetic, ignorant, or barbarous. I care
about the welfare of my children, and have
spent much time during the Christmas
holidays over announcements and prospectuses.
Such lights as I have found amongst
them ought, without doubt, to be set upon
a hill.

Can any parent resist the tempting offers of
affection for his offspring which, at this season
of universal good-will, fill daily three or four
advertising columns of the Times?   It is not
only that our boys are beckoned to their
tasks with a sweet smile by every teacher
who announces the day on which he "will be
happy to receive his young friends;" it is a
great deal more. One kind lady of high
connections is, I observe, absolutely desirous
of adopting two young ladies; and she puts
her intention, as she should, in a distinct way
in small capitals before the public. This
lady tells us that she is "desirous of ADOPTING
TWO YOUNG LADIES into her domestic establishment.
She has resided as finishing governess
in an Ambassador's family abroad, where she
presented her pupils, in the drawing-room, and
is still in correspondence with families who
held the highest positions in Louis Philippe's
Court."

There is nobility—though to be sure chiefly
French nobility—in this.

The following is characterised rather by
sweetness:

Any Christian gentleman desirous to have his
daughter's educational course finished, may
hear of a good, select school conducted on principles
of piety and love.

A select school of piety and love—a circle
of selected Christians. Happy the father
who has a daughter qualified for admission
among the elect in such a Paradise. It very
properly is called a Good school, and I should
be disposed to say of it what I find appended
to a more business-like scholastic advertisement:
"This would suit parties deprived of
maternal care."

There are so many advertisements, however,
suited to motherless "parties," that I am sure
orphanhood ought never to be felt by children.
I see that for from fourteen to sixteen guineas
a year, little children can have "EDUCATION
AND MATERNAL CARE," without extras or
holidays. "The pupils are carefully initiated
in every elementary branch of Christian
instruction—including music, singing, drawing,
and French." It will be seen here that
music, singing, drawing, and French are
included among Christian graces. I need not
point out what an enlarged sense of duty
must, in such a school, accompany maternal
cares.

Who would not give twenty pounds a year
to take his meals with Mrs. P.? She is a
lady, perhaps, not partial to noise, who
advertises more especially for children with
weak lungs. "The pupils at all times take
their meals with Mrs. P. Terms twenty
pounds a year. No extras or vacations." The
climate being "remarkably favourable for