DEDICATION. MY DEAREST FATHER AND MOTHER, What can I say by way of dedication? I can only say that this book is the result of your education, and that I dedicate it to you with all the feelings of love and respect due to you, and freely and willingly given by Your ever affectionate And devoted November, 1846. DAUGHTER. INTRODUCTION. ONE day my brother asked me if I had never tried writing anything; I said yes, but never anything very useful, that I had merely written little stories of very trifling merit. He replied, "Well, neither have I, but I should like very much just to try my hand upon some important subject. Now what do you think of education, surely that is important enough?” I answered, How could you think that we, who have hardly finished ours, can possibly know enough of it to write upon it? Think how we should B |