the Parliamentary war and the Protectorate
than after the Restoration, when the habits
and manners of a profligate court spread
their baleful influence far and wide, and
dressing and flirtations, visits to the park and
new Exchange in the morning, and to the
play in the afternoon, seemed a fine lady's
whole business. From an incidental remark,
we find that even then girls, if educated
at all, were taught Latin; for she bids
them apply themselves to their grammars,
and not to be discouraged in apprehending
the first principles of the Latin tongue.
She recommends the study, too, of the
French and Italian, Signior Terriano, who
hath lately published a grammar, being the
best teacher of the latter, while Monsieur
Mauger, who has also published a French
grammar, is an excellent instructor in the
latter. Hannah earnestly urges upon parents
the importance of giving their daughters a
really good education; remarking, in phrase
that in its forcible quaintness reminds us of
Thomas Fuller, that too many parents, not
necessitous, " suffer their children to spin away
their precious time, or pore over a sampler
untill they have pricked out the very date of
their life." In a short enumeration of books for
young ladies' reading, we find some rather
voluminous works, and some very dry; but
Hannah Woolley is not at all of the Gradgrind
school, for she boldly declares that it
would be really injurious to proscribe fictitious
works, and she points out how Cassandra,
and Clelia, and the Grand Cyrus, and
Parthenissa— those extravagant but fine old
French romances— but above all the gorgeous
and noble Arcadia of Sir Philip Sidney, are
indeed valuable; for there are few ladies
therein but are charactered as what they
ought to be, while the magnanimity and
courage of the men might entitle them to be
worthy husbands to the most deserving of
the sex.

Fine needlework, and making pretty knick-
knacks, are also to engage their attention;
and lessons are given in the latter part
of the book how to make many pretty ornaments.
Among these we may mention the
fashionable madness of the day— Poticho-
mania, or painting imitations of china upon
glass. There is also a very good plan for
making worsted flowers, and minute directions
how to dress up fire-places for the
summer in best rooms. Two hundred years
ago the stove, even in the best room, greatly
resembled a large fire-basket placed on four
legs. This, when summer and cleaning- up time
arrived, was carried away, and its place was
supplied by large boughs. The ingenuity of
Mrs. Hannah Woolley suggested that a kind of
grotto might be formed there, by aid of moss
and various kinds of shells. She accordingly
gives directions how to make a very
pretty piece of workmanship; and this became
so popular that long after her book was
out of print, and when, probably, her name was
forgotten, the young ladies, as Spring drew
ligh, set about stringing moss sorting small
shells, and making artificial coral with rosin
and vermilion for fire-basket ornaments almost
down to the time when George the Third
was king.

We have next a chapter on general behaviour;
and in it young ladies are especially
warned against awkward shyness at first
entering into company, which, she remarks,
they generally make up for afterwards by too
great forwardness. In illustration, she tells
us how Dr. Heylin having to travel in a
coach— this was before the days of flying
coaches— with a young lady, was greatly
vexed on setting out to find her so reserved
and silent, but how ere long he found that
when her tongue once began, there was no
stopping it, for its continual clicking by the
doctor's watch kept exact time for nine
hours! Still, ladies are to talk, but they
should avoid filling up a narrative with said
he and said she; they are also to be
particular in giving each person the appropriate
title. " In walking, always give your lady
companion the right hand. If three walk
together, the middle is the most honourable
place; if the ladies, at your entrance, do you
the civility of rising, never sit down until
they are seated."  The following anticipates
Chesterfield: " If the lady you visit will do
you the honour to accompany you out of the
room, do not seem to oppose it, for that would
imply she understood not what she went
about; so receive the attention with thanks."

In her general rules for dress, Hannah
Woolley is no Quakeress; indeed, she thinks
rich apparel and jewellery very proper,
provided too much time is not spent at the
toilet. One piece of folly then recently
introduced, excites her vehement indignation
—this is the fashion of wearing patches.
From her remarks, we find that these were
not only in the form of diamonds, half-moons,
stars—such as our great-grandmothers wore
—but were actually of all manner of animals,
castles, and even a coach and horses. Indeed,
she says, " Such is the vanity and pride of some
gentlewomen that they have in a manner
abstracted Noah's ark, and expressed a
compendium on their foreheads and cheeks:
there are birds, beasts, fishes, so that their
faces may be termed a landscape of living
creatures."  This practice, she says, much
reminds her of the Indians, who paint
animals upon their bodies; indeed, she
naively adds, that were any one of these
ladies born with half-moons, stars, castles, or
coach and horses on their faces, they would
give far more money to be freed from them
than a seven years' costly expense in following
the fashion would amount to.

Subsequently she enters her indignant
protest against the practice of tight lacing,
urging upon her young readers the dangerous
consequences of affecting to be as slender
in the middle as the Strand maypole is