The same is the case with my present book, which relentlessly treads upon the incredible follies and lamentable errors of the times.

I am quite prepared for opposition of any kind.
MRS.SOLID.I should like to suggest to you that there are other teachers who have given themselves a great deal of trouble, and who are very particular; but it is not their good fortune to have daughters like yours to educate.
DOMINIE.

Have given themselves a great deal of trouble?
What do you mean by that?
If they do not take pains in the right way, or at the right time and place, it is all labor in vain.

Of what use is mere unskilful, stupid industry?
For instance, when a teacher, in order to correct a stiff use of the fingers and wrist, and the general faulty touch of his pupil, gives some wonderful etude or a piece with great stretches and arpeggios for the left hand, and gives himself unwearied trouble over it, it is a proof of abundant painstaking; but it is labor thrown away, and only makes the imperfect mode of performance the worse.
And now with regard to my daughters.

It has been their fortune to have had me for a father and teacher: they certainly have talent, and I have been successful in rousing and guiding it.