"Perhaps, sir," he said, "ye may as weel forgie her this ance, as she is but a wee thing." [Footnote A: This school has since become a very important Normal school, from which many others have emanated, the head master being the one I originally instructed: Mr.Stowe, also, one of the directors, has applied the principles of the Infant School System to the instruction of older children, which is called Stowe's Training System; being applied to juveniles, with great success.

I know of no school, except the Dublin Normal Schools, equal to those, and of no masters superior to those I have seen who have been taught there.] The music chosen for children should be easy and simple, fluent and varied.

Hymn tunes should be of a rather lively character, as the more dull and sombrous are not well adapted to the infant ear.

Airs for the tables or exercising songs are required to be very cheerful and inspiring, and then they tend to excite pleasure and liveliness, which should often be aimed at in an infant school.
As children take much interest in singing, and readily learn verses by heart, so as to sing them, although not properly instructed in their meaning or rightly understanding them, singing has been considered by many persons the "soul of the system." This is a grievous error as regards the intellectual advancement of the children, and still worse as regards their health and that of the teacher.

I have at times entered schools as a visitor when the mistress has immediately made the children show off by singing in succession a dozen pieces, as if they were a musical box.