The Education of the Feelings. Though not very profound or
very novel, and somewhat too general in its directions to be of much practical utility, this book offers some excellent suggestions on a most important subject—the education of the natural propen- sities, feelings, and faculties, by domestic management during infancy and early childhood. Following the phrenologists' me- taphysical divisions, but without admitting the truth of their system, the author proceeds to throw out hints for training chil- dren in such a manner that the uses of the various faculties may be fully developed and their abuses prevented. Unfortunately for the rising generation, this system not only involves the educa- tion of our children, but the education of ourselves. To prevent the faculty of firmness, for example, from degenerating into obst'- nacy, requires a temper, self-control, and philosophy on the pat t of' parents, which would be far more troublesome for them to ac- quire, than the nipping in the bud of childish obstinacy under a skilful tutor. The fact is, it is not so much from want of knowing what is right, as from the habit of doing what is wrong, that educational and most other evils spring.
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