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MY reading has been ntably desuory ahodical. odd, out of the way, old English pys, and treatises, hae supplied with st of notions, and ways of feeling. Ihing that retes to sce, I aa whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. I should hae scarcely cut a figure ang the franklilen, in king Johns days. I know less geography than a school-boy of si weeks standing. To a p of old Ortelius is as authentic as Arrowsth. I do not know whereabout Africa rges into Asi whether Ethiopia lie in one or other of those great diisions; nor forthe retest jecture of the position of New South Wales, or Van Diens Land. Yet do I hold rrespondeh a ery dear friend in the first-nad of these two Terrae Initae. I hae no astrono. I do not know where to look for the Bear, or Charless Wain; the pce of any star; or the na of any of theat sight. I guess at Venus only by her brightness -- and if the sun on so portentou;big;/bigs ro ke his first appearan the West, I erily beliee, that, while all the world were gasping in apprehension about , I alone should stand unterrified, frosheer incuriosity and want of obseration. Of history and ology I possess so ague points, such as o help pig up in thurse of seous study; but I neer deliberately sat down to a icle, een of own try. I hae st diapprehensions of the freat narchies; and sotis the Assyrian, sotis the Persian, floats as first in fancy. I ke the widest jectures i, and her shepherd kings. My friend M., with great painstaking, got to think I uood the first proposition in Euclid, but gae oer in despair at the sed. I aentirely unacquainted with the dern nguages; and, like a better n than self, hae quot;sll Latin and less Greek.quot; I aa strao the shapes aure of the orees, herbs, flowers -- not frothe ciry being town-born -- for I should hae brought the sa i spirit into the world with , had I first seen it in quot;on Deons leafy shores,quot; -- and ano less at a loss ang purely town-objects, tools, engines, ic processes. -- Not that I affect ignorance -- but head has not ny nsions, nor spacious; and I hae been obliged to fill it with such et curiosities as it hold without ag. I sotis wonder, how I hae passed  robation with so little discredit in the world, as I hae done, upon so agre a stock. But the fact is, a n y do ery well with a ery little knowledge, and scarce be found out, in ed pany; eery body is so ch re ready to produce his own, than to call for a dispy of your acquisitions. But in a tete-a-tete there is no shuffling. The truth will out. There is nothing which I dread so ch, as the bei alone for a quarter of an hour with a sensible, well-inford n, that does not know . I tely got into a dilea of this sort. -
In one of daily jaunts between Bishopsgate and Shacklewell, thach stopped to take up a staid-?lookilen, about the wrong side of thirty, who was giing his parting dires (while the steps were adjusting), in a tone of ld authority, to a tall youth, who seed to be her his clerk, his son, nor his serant, but sothing partaking of all three. The youth was disssed, and we droe on. As we were the sole passengers, he naturally enough addressed his ersation to ; and we discussed the rits of the fare, the ciility and punctuality of the drier; the circe of an oppositioach haiely set up, with the probabilities of its suess -- to all which I was eo retury satisfactory answers, haing been drilled into this kind of etiquette by so years daily practice of riding to and fro iage aforesaid -- when he suddenly ard by a startling question, whether I had seen the show of prize cattle that in Sthfield? Now as I had not seen it, and do not greatly care for such sort of ehibitions, I was obliged to return ld ie. He seed a little rtified, as well as astonished, at decration, as (it appeared) he was just e fresh frothe sight, and doubtless had hoped to pare notes on the subject. Howeer he assured that I had lost a fireat, as it far eceeded the show of st year. We were n Norton Falgate, when the sight of so shop-goods ticketed freshened hiup into a dissertation upon the cheapness ottons this spring. I was now a little i, as the nature of aocations had brought into so sort of faliarity with the raw terial; and I was surprised to find how eloquent I was being oate of the India rket -- when, presently, he dashed incipient anity to the earth at once, by inquiring whether I had eer de any calcution as to the alue of the rental of all the retail shops in London. Had he asked of , what song the Sirens sang, or what na Achilles assud when he hid hielf ang won, I ght, with Sir Thos Browne, hae hazarded a quot;wide solution.quot; My panion saw earrassnt, and, the alhouses beyond Shoreditch just ing in iew, with great good-nature aerity shifted his ersation to the subject of public charities; which led to the paratie rits of proision for the poor in past and present tis, with obserations on the old nastistitutions, and charitable orders; -- but, findiher diy iressed with so gliering notions froold poetic associations, than strongly fortified with any specutions reducible to calcution on the subject, he gae the tter up; and, the try beginning to open re and re upon us, as roached the tur Kingsnd (the destiernation of his journey), he put a ho thrust upon , i unfortunate position huld hae chosen, by adang so queries retie to the North Pole Epedition. While I was ttering out sothing about the Panora of those strange regions (which I had actually seen), by way of parrying the question, thach stopping relieed froany further apprehensions. My panioi;dfn9９ｌｉｂ?;/dfnng out, left in the fortable possession of ignorance; and I heard hi as he went off, putting questions to an outside passenger, who had alighted with hi regarding an epidec disorder, that had been rife about Dalston; and whibsp; friend assured hi had gh fie or si schools in that neighbourhood. The truth now fshed upohat  anion was a saster; and that the youth, whohe had parted froat our first acquainta hae been one of the bigger boys, or the usher. He was eidently a kied n, who did not seeso ch desirous of prooking discussion by the questions which he put, as of obtaining infortion at any rate. It did not appear that he took any i, either, in such kind of inquiries, for their own sake; but that he was in so way bound to seek for knowledge. A greenisloureat, which he had on, forbade to surse that he was a clergy-n. The adenture gae birth to so refles on the differeween persons of his profession in past and present tis.
[Footnote] *Urn Burial.
Rest to the souls of those fine old Pedagogues; the breed, long siinct, of the Lilys, and the Linacres: who belieing that all learning was tained in the nguages which they taught, and despising eery other acquirent as superficial and useless, ca to their task as to a sport! Passing froinfancy to age, they dread away all their days as in a graar-school. Reoling in a perpetual cycle of desions, jugations, syntaes, and prosodies; renewing stantly the oupations which had chard their studious childhood; rehearsing tinually the part of the past; life st hae slipped frotheat st like one day. They were always in their first garden, reaping harests of their golden ti, ang their Flori and their Spici-legi in Arcadia still, but kings; the ferule of their sway not ch harsher, but of like dignity with that ld sceptre attributed to king Basileus; the Greek and Latin, their stately Pa and their Philocle with the oasional duncery of so untoward Tyro, sering for a refreshing interlude of a Mopsa, or a Daetas!
With what a saour doth the Preface to lets, or (as it is sotis called) Pauls Ae, set forth! quot;To ehort eery n to the learning of graar, that ih to attain the uanding of the tongues, wherein is tained a great treasury of wisdoand knowledge, it would seebut ain and lost bour; for so ch as it is known, that nothing surely be ended, whose beginning is either feeble or fauy; and no building be perfect, whereas the foundation and ground-work is ready to fall, and uo uphold the burden of the fra.quot; How well doth this stately preale (parable to those which Mion eh as quot;haihe usage to prefi to so sole w, then first prolgated by Solon, or Lycurgusquot;rrespond with and illustrate that pious zeal for ity, epressed in a sueeding cuse, which would fence about graar-rules with the seerity of faith-articles ! -- quot;as for the diersity of graars, it is well profitably taken away by the kiies wisdo who foreseeing the inenience, and faourably proiding the redie, caused one kind of graar by sundry learned n to be diligently drawn and so to be set out, only eerywhere to be taught for the use of learners, and for the hurt in ging of saisters.quot; What a gusto in that which follows: quot;wherein it is Profitable that he orderly dee his noun, and his erb.quot; His noun!
The fine dreais fading away fast; and the least of a teacher in the present day is to inculcate graar-rules.
The dern saster is epected to know a little of eery thing, because his pupil is required not to be entirely ignorant of any thing. He st be superficially, if I y so say, oist. He is to know sothing of pics; of chestry; of whateer is curious, or proper to ecite the attention of the youthful nd; an insight into ics is desirable, with a touch of statistics; the quality of soils, c. botany, the stitution of his try, cuis aliis. You y get a notion of so part of his epected duties by suing the faus Tractate on Education addressed to Mr. Hartlib.
All these things -- these, or the desire of the-- he is epected to instil, not by set lessons froprofessors, which he y charge in the bill, but at school-interals, as he walks the streets, or sauhrough green fields (those natural instructors), with his pupils. The least part of what is epected frohi is to be done in school-hours. He st insinuate knowledge at the llia teora fandi. He st seize eery oasion -- the season of the year -- the ti of the day -- a passing cloud -- a rainbow -- a waggon of hay -- a regint of soldiers going by -- to inculcate sothing useful. He receie no pleasure froa casual glise of Nature, but st catch at it as an object of instru. He st interpret beauty into the picturesque. He ot relish a beggar-n, ipsy, for thinking of the suitable iroent. Nothio hi not spoiled by the sophistig diuof ral uses. The Unierse -- that Great Book, as it has been called -- is to hiio all is and purposes, a book, out of which he is dood to read tedious holies to distasting schoolboys. -- Vacations theeles are o hi he is only rat;rk?;/rkher worse off than before; for only be has so intrusie upper-boy fastened upon hiat such tis; so cadet of a great faly; so ed lu of nobility, entry; that he st drag after hito the py, to the Panora, to Mr. Bartleys Orrery, to the Panopti, or into the try, to a friends house, or to his faourite watering-pce. Whereer he goes, this uneasy shadow attends hi A boy is at his board, and in his path, and in all his ents. He is boy-rid, sick of perpetual boy.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, ang their tes; but they are unwholeso panions frown people. The restraint is fe no less on the one side, than oher. -- Een a child, that quotything for an hour,quot; tires always. The noises of children, pying their own fancies -- as I now hearken to theby fits, sp on the green before window, while I aengaged in these grae specutions at suburbareat at Shacklewell -- by distance de re sweet -- inepressibly take frothe bour of task. It is like writing to sic. They seeto dute  eriods. They ought at least to do so -- for in the oice of that tender age there is a kind of poetry, far uhe harsh prose-ats of ion. -- I should but spoil their sport, and dinish own syathy for the by ngling in their pasti.
I would not be dosticated all days with a person of ery superior capacity to own -- not, if I know self at all, froany siderations of jealousy or self-parison, for the oasional union with suds has stituted the fortune and felicity of life -- but the habit of too stant inturse with spirits aboe you, instead of raising you, keeps you down. Too frequent doses inal thinking froothers, restrain what lesser portion of that facuy you y possess of your own. You get entangled in another ns nd, een as you lose yourself in another ns grounds. You are walking with a tall arlet, whose strides out-pace yours to ssitude. The stant operation of such potent agency would reduce , I aio iecility. You y derie thoughts froothers; your way of thinking, the uld in which your thoughts are cast, st be your own. Intellect y be iarted, but not eas intellectual fra. -
As little as I should wish to be always thus dragged upwards, as little (or rather still less) is it desirable to be stunted downwards by your associates. The truet does not re stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its prooking inaudibility.
Why are we neer quite at our ease in the presence of a saster ? -- because we are scious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of pce, in the society of his equals. He es like Gullier froang his little people, a fit the stature of his uanding to yours. He eet you on the square. He wants a point gien hi like an indifferent whist-pyer. He is so used to teag, that he wants to be teag you. One of these professors, upon  ining that these little sketches of ne were any thing but thodical, and that I was uo ke theotherwise, kindly offered to instrubsp; ihod by whien in his senary were taught to pose English thes. -- The jests of a saster ararse, or thin. They do not tell out of school. He is uhe restraint of a forl and didactie hypocrisy in pany, as a clergyn is under a ral one. He o re let his intellect loose in society, thaher his inations. -- He is forlorn ang hi-eals; his juniors ot be his friends.
quot;I take b to self,quot; said a sensible n of this profession, writing to a friend respeg a youth who had quitted his school abruptly -- quot;that your nephew was not re attached to . But persons in ?９9liｂ. situation are re to be pitied, than well be igined. We are surrounded by young, and, sequently, ardently affeate hearts, but we eer hope to share an atoof their affes. The retion of ster and schor forbids this. How pleasing this st be to you, how I eny your feelings, friends will sotis say to , when they see young n, whoI hae educated, return after so years absence froschool, their eyes shining with pleasure, while they shake hands with their old ster, bringing a present of ga to , or a toy to wife, and thanking in the warst ter for care of their education. A holiday is begged for the boys; the house is a se of happiness; I, only, asad at heart -- This fine-spirited and warhearted youth, who fancies he repays his ster with gratitude for the care of his boyish years -- this young n -- in the eight long years I watched oer hiwith a parents ay, neeuld repay with one look of genuine feeling. He roud, when I praised; he was subssie, when I reproed hi but he did neer loe -- and what he now stakes fratitude and kindness for , is but the pleasaion, which all persons feel at reisiting the se of their boyish hopes and fears; and the seeing on equal ter the n they were aced to look up to with reerence. My wife too, quot;this iinrrespo goes on to say, quot; once darling Anna, is the wife of a saster.-- When I rried her -- knowing that the wife of a saster ought to be a busy notable creature, and fearing that gentle Anna would ill supply the loss of dear bustling ther, just then dead, who neer sat still, was in eery part of the house in a nt, and whoI was obliged sotis to threaten to fasten down in a chair, to sae her frofatiguing herself to death -- I epressed fears, that I was bringing her into a way of life unsuitable to her; and she, who loed tenderly, prosed for sake to eert herself to perforthe duties of her new situation. She prosed, and she has kept her word. What wonders will not wons loe perfor? -- My house is naged with a propriety and de, unknown in other schools; boys are well fed, look heahy, and hae eery proper aodation; and all this perford with a careful ey, that neer desds to anness. But I hae lost gentle, helpless Anna ! -- Whe down to enjoy an hour of repose after the fatigue of the day, I apelled to listen to what hae been her useful (and they are really useful) eloynts through the day, and what she proposes for her to-rrows task. Her heart and her features are ged by the duties of her situation. To the boys, she neer appears other thaers wife, and she looks up to as the boys ster; to whoall show of loe and affe would be highly iroper, and unbeing the dignity of her situation and ne. Yet this gratitude forbids to hint to her. For sake she subtted to be this aered creature, and I reproach her for it? quot; -- For the unication of this letter, I aied to sin Bridget.
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