Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life
by Myra Kelly
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About This Book
A passage from the book... Four weeks of teaching in a lower East Side school had deprived Constance Bailey of many of the "Ideals in Education" which, during four years at college, she had trustingly acquired. But, despite many discouragements, despite an unintelligible dialect and an autocratic "Course of Study," she clung to an ambition to establish harmony in her kingdom and to impress a high moral tone upon the fifty-eight little children of Israel entrusted to her care. She was therefore troubled and heavy of heart when it was borne in upon her that two of her little flock--cousins to bo...
Chapters (14)
- LITTLE CITIZENS
- TO MY MOTHER
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- A LITTLE MATTER OF REAL ESTATE
- THE USES OF ADVERSITY
- A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR A LADY
- LOVE AMONG THE BLACKBOARDS
- MORRIS AND THE HONOURABLE TIM
- WHEN A MAN'S WIDOWED
- H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF HESTER STREET
- THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE
- A PASSPORT TO PARADISE
- THE TOUCH OF NATURE
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