PUBLISHER'S NOTE

The German originals of these letters have never been published, and they are probably no longer in existence.

In Seyffarth's edition of Pestalozzi's complete works, Blandenburg, 1872, this book under its English title is mentioned in the supplementary bibliography on page 395 of Vol. 16. The edition is given as of London, 1851. In Mann's edition, Langensalza, 1883, I In the colfind no reference whatever to this book. lective edition of Pestalozzi's works published from 1819 to 1823, there is no mention of these letters. The 9th volume, published in 1822, contains miscellaneous writings with other letters, but no reference to these.

Biber in his Life of Pestalozzi (1831) remarks, page 467:

"His letter on religious education, from which the above abstract is taken, closes the work How Gertrude Teaches Her little Ones', and that work itself closes the series of Pestalozzi's writings so far as they come within the plan of the present volume. The few publications connected with our subject which ap

peared subsequently under Pestalozzi's name are as we have already hinted the productions of his school rather