lever to a part of the engine which opened and shut the valve at the precise moment required, and by this contribution to the improvement of his engine Mr. Watt was not slow to profit. Now the intercourse and influence of a teacher on a boy must be cold, languid, and scanty, compared with that of boys or girls with each other, where the influence of sex is thrown into the scale. The advantage is, in the experienced opinion of Dr. Howe, tenfold. Men who live much alone or apart from the bustle of life cannot read characters at sight, and mould them to their purpose, as men bred at Eton. No army could be efficient that had no formation but the drill of a parade. If Mr. Fox had been quietly educated in Holland House instead of Eton, or if Gracchus had passed his youth merely in gremio matris, their eloquence never would have so glowed in the forum, or shaken the resolves of people so grave as those of England and Rome. APPENDIX. FURTHER NOTICES OF THE CASE OF MARGARET SULLIVAN. ABOUT the middle of August this year (1843), I had an opportunity of again calling at the Rotherhithe Workhouse, and thus of ascertaining the present condition of poor Margaret Sullivan. Neither her sight, hearing, nor intelligence appeared to have been improved since I saw her last year; but she had an air of dejection, which was but too well accounted for when I learned, that the two kind and intelligent girls, her interpreting companions when I last saw her, had quitted the workhouse, and that she was left to the care of persons, I hope not less kind, but still less practised in communications so perplexing and obstructed as even Dr. Howe's would be with one so uncultivated and bereaved as this poor woman. Had her social affections never been roused, and G |