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Excerpt from The Education of Girls
IN this, which has been so aptly termed the woman's cen tury, no book that bears upon the aims and methods that should characterize the training of girls, can fail to possess a certain intrinsic inteiest. The following treatise on that sub ject was written by the Archbishop of Cambray while he was still only the Abbe de Fenelon, for his friend, the Duchess de Beauvilliers, as a practical guide in the education of her children. Given to the public in 1687, it was at once received with the greatest favor, and laid the foundation of that high reputation which afterwards brought such distinguished honors to its author. Lamartine and other critics have compared it favorably with the celebrated Emile of Rousseau, and denominated it a masterpiece of delicacy and reason.
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