MODERN ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR, THE MARCH OF INTELLECT. "We have been highly pleased with the volume, and deeply affected by some parts of it; and we should think, if extensively read, that it is adapted to be extremely useful. There are many admirable sentences scattered through the volume, much sound sense, and genuine Christian sentiment."— Christian Instructor. "Miss Sinclair is not only a sensible but also a practised writer; she not only says much that is excellent, but she says it well. In this work Miss Sinclair has not taken a single position which she has not made good. On the whole, whether this book is to be regarded for the good sense with which so many important topics are handled, without descending to mere didactics, or for the interest imparted from the use of machinery so simple and natural, it is equally entitled to be considered as no ordinary performance. We think Miss Sinclair bids fair to continue the line of first-class female writers upon female manners and morals."-The Constitution Newspaper. "The idea of the work is good, and its execution shows considerable literary taste and ability. Its perusal might profitably occupy a few of those hours which too many of the fair sex spend on frivolities, too often misnamed Modern Accomplishments.' Glasgow Constitutional. "Miss Sinclair's vigorous intellect, and her delicate pencilling, pourtray the naked deformity of error, and the consistent beauty of truth, with remarkable vividness and force; and we admire the high tone of moral courage which she has displayed in attacking glaring absurdities, which are deeply injurious in their effects, and are often more easily checked by being thus held up to general observation and to ridicule, than by bitter personalities, or by a graver style of rebuke."-Inverness Journal. By the same Authoress, CHARLIE SEYMOUR. 18mo, neatly half-bound, 3s. coloured Frontispiece. THE NURSERY PLUTARCH. With Frontispiece and Cuts, 18mo, 2s. 6d. *** A concluding volume of "MODERN ACCOMPLISHMENTS" will appear at Christmas. ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR THE MARCH OF INTELLECT. "Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, COWPER. BY MISS CATHERINE SINCLAIR, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART. SECOND EDITION. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO Her Royal highness the Princess Victoria. EDINBURGH: WAUGH AND INNES. MDCCCXXXVI. MD ΤΟ HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS VICTORIA. IN VENTURING TO WRITE ON THE SUBJECT OF FEMALE EDUCATION AND CHARACTER, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO POINT OUT A MORE EXALTED MODEL, FOR THE IMITATION AND ATTACHMENT OF HER YOUTHFUL COTEMPORARIES, THAN THE AMIABLE AND ACCOMPLISHED princess TO WHOM THESE PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HER MOST FAITHFUL AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT, CATHERINE SINCLAIR. |