86 A POT OF PRESERVES FROM MOUNT PARNASSUS.

opinions, and to which we should be very happy to send our sons, if
they had a turn that way.

The following are a few specimens of the principal “ Poet-
teachers” employed on these not sufficiently appreciated establish-

ments :—

I.—A SPECIMEN OF THE PERPETUAL MOTION, OR SOCIAL
PROGRESS, SCHOOL.

 

Tus school which, from the unbounded benevolence professed by its
disciples, might, not inaptly, be named the Charity School (an ap--
pellation which the occasional homely freedom, not to say “slang,”
of its language, renders all the more appropriate), whatever its per-
formances may be, is certainly promising. Indeed, when we consider
the cheap rate of its publications, and the unheard-of amount of social
and political happiness promised in them, it is astonishing how so

much can be done for the money.