...in after lifa. Fewer mothers would have to weep less when their boys come home for the holidays aud tell them what they have endured at school. Fewer...worth while going through so much to learn so little P" and not so frequently should 1 be haunted by the phantom of the master of a grammarschool who once...

...the charity boy's estimate of the value of the alphabet which he had just learnt ; — we questioned whether it was worth while going through so much to learn so little. The task of working out a puzzling sum in arithmetic, or of solving a difficult problem in geometry,...

...the charity boy's estimate of the value of the alphabet which he had just learnt ; — we questioned whether it was worth while going through so much to learn so little. The task of working out a puzzling sum in arithmetic, or of solving a difficult problem in geometry,...

...especially. For the rest the question of whether, as Mr. Weller's charity boy observed of the alphabet, it was " worth while going through so much to learn so little," will depend very much as to its answer upon the standpoint from which the work is regarded. The author...

...the charity hoy's estimate of the value of the alphabet which he had just learnt ; — we questioned whether it was worth while going through so much to learn so little. The task of working out a puzzling sum in arithmetic, or of solving a difficult problem in geometry,...

...ordinary artisan about his education will resemble Mr. Weller's doubt as to learning the alphabet — whether it was worth while going through so much to learn so little. He will shed his school acquirements with astonishing rapidity, because they will seem to him to have...