Excerpt from The Autobiography of a Landlady of the Old School: With Personal Sketches of Eminent Characters, Places, and Miscellaneous Items

Tn: author has not had an undue desire for book making, but having had some experience in the world, and being, as will be seen from the work, one of the old schoo she has thought that the present gen cration might be benefited by reading an account of their fathers and mothers. Not persons only, but customs and habits have essentially changed, within the last fifty years. Education has taken new forms, but whether for the better on the whole, is a question for the wise to consider.

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