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6 street near Central Park, is one well known for beauty and healthfulness. It is the choice residential section of New York. The buildings are in perfect condition—extensive, commodious, well lighted, and well ventilated.

There is discipline, but the spirit of the School is one of courteous thoughtfulness and harmony, securing the necessary good order without repression of natural childhood. Each branch of study is taught by the newest and most approved methods. Arithmetic, especially, so often a bugbear to the young, is from the first so taught as to give a complete grasp of the subject. The tiniest tots soon lose all fear of the intricacies of the multiplication-table, and in a very short time are able to play with it in a way delightful to themselves and their instructors. They learn it like little human beings, not like parrots, and can use it with readiness and accuracy. In fact, in this School the multiplication-table is a foe overcome and harnessed for daily service.

And what is asserted of the elements remains true as the pupil goes forward in the science of numbers. The digits become friendly little helpers, instead ef perplexing imps. In the study of English, also, every child receives that best of training, daily usage of correct language, and is taught to make the written words as ready to her hand as words are to her tongue. Correct English is required in all school exercises, and soon becomes a habit. English spelling is admitted to be something that, in spite of Dogberry, does not come by nature. Miss Pryde, who teaches spelling throughout the Junior Department, uses an original method peculiar to the School, securing admirable results. This is not the place to set forth the method, but a visit to the School will enable it to be understood by actual