Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class; and Moral Culture of Infancy.

What is a Kindergarten? I will now proceed to make a Guide for the conduct of a Kindergarten; in which I shall freely make use of what Madame Rongé has said in her "Englis

pprehension of the use of the word Kindergarten. But it is desirable that there should be a good play-ground attached to the rooms; and

arrange matters, as to have everything ready for every change; that no time may be lost and no confusion arise. In my own Kindergarten, I arrange beforehand the chairs in the play-room in a solid square, into which the children march at the commencement of the exercises. Sitting in them, they sing their morning prayer or hymn, hear the reading, and take a singing lesson on the scale. Then they rise, and, taking up their chairs, march into the other room for their reading lessons, which are always in two classes, sometimes in three. They bring t

tions, at least above the wainscoting; and that the wainscoting should be rather high and painted black, so that every child mig

ot in a glass house, but is the lower floor of a house which has three rooms, with a hall between two of the rooms; a large china closet which I use for the children's dressing, as well as to store many things; and beyond the third room, a bathing room, with every conven

it is of any desirable size, or there is any variety of age in the children. A large play-g

o have them painted in squares of an inch; chequered, or ruled by lines, so

pt all the materials which each child uses,-slates and pencils, blocks, sticks, weav

ecuring uniformity; and it is better to do so always, and to charge a price covering the

ughters, of various accomplishments, might devote their whole house to it, preparing for the writing and drawi

eemed extravagant for a whole family thus to devote their house, as well as thei