Many of us were brought up on an encyclopedia which bore the uninviting name of Mangnall's Questions, and doubt remember a most informing poem in it, beginning—we quote from memory "See Europe once a mighty wild, Science and Art unknown No father trained a legal child, by caprice alone, "Till Cecrops came, the friend of Most of us no doubt felt in our hearts that Cecrops might have been the friend of man, but he was not the friend of children, and we should all have been much happier if he had thought better of it before he started out to harmonise the useful plan he from Egyptia bore. We did not grasp very clearly what a "legal child" was; but we felt that if we were legal children we should enjoy ourselves much more if our fathers had continued not to train us, We did not know then that Mrs. Mangnall was all
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