IN FOUR VOLUMES.

BY MARIA EDGEWORTH.

VOL. III.

CONTAINING THE CONTINUATION OF

FRANK;

AND PART OF THE CONTINUATION OF

ROSAMOND.

THE SEVENTH EDITION.

"Cosi all' egro fanciul porgiamo aspersi

"Di soave licor gli orli del vaso ;

"Succhi amari ingannato intanto ei beve

"E dall' inganno suo vita riceve,"

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DEDICATION

TO

MY LITTLE BROTHER,

FRANCIS BEAUFORT EDGEWORTH.

SIXTEEN years ago I dedicated a volume of Early Lessons "To my little brother William."-He has grown up to be a man. I now dedicate this Continuation of Early Lessons to you, my dear little brother Francis. You are now four years old; just the age your brother was, when Frank was written for him and read to him. He could not then read; and you cannot now read. But the time will come when you will be able to

read; and then I hope you will receive pleasure from what I am at this instant writing: and I am sure that you will feel pleasure in reading Harry and Lucy, because, in this book, you will recollect all those little experiments which your father tried for you, and which you then understood. And you will, I think, be glad to find that you are able to comprehend the account which he has written of them.

I hope, my dear little brother, that when you grow up you will be such a man as your brother William now is; and then you will give your father and mother as much pleasure as that brother William now gives them.

Dec. 8, 1813.

MARIA EDGEWORTH.

ADDRESS TO MOTHERS.

IN offering these little books to those kind mothers who attend to the early instruction of their children, the authors beg leave to prefix a few observations, on early education, which have occurred to them since the former parts of these books were published.

We found, to our high gratifications, during a visit which we lately paid to England, that the attention of parents, in every rank of society, was turned to the early education of their children.

Formerly a child was left, during the first eight or ten years, to chance, in every part of its education, except its book, and keeping its clothes clean-the mother or the nurserymaid attended to the latter, for their own sakes

the father, remembering the praise that had been bestowed upon himself when he