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Whilst lately at New York we paid a visit to the
educational establishment of our friends, the Misses
Palache, and had the pleasure of instituting a brief
examination of the pupils in Hebrew reading,
translating, catechism, French, definitions and
music, all that our limited time permitted us, and
we must say that we were much gratified at what we
witnessed. It was peculiarly pleasing to hear little
children repeating the French catechism of Mr. S.
Cahen of Paris, understandingly and clearly, and
proved more than anything else, that the principal
is fully qualified to do justice to the important
business of instructing the youthful mind, in which
she has been successfully engaged now about ten
years. We were peculiarly struck, as on former
occasions, with the attachment which the children
manifest for their teachers, which shows that,
whilst exercising a strict supervision, they have
the happy faculty of winning the affection of those
they guide. The progress of those who learn music
under the instruction of Miss Rachel Palache, the
sister of the principal, was every way satisfactory,
and we are sure that parents will not have any cause
to fear that their children will not acquire this
elegant accomplishment in a thorough manner, when
sanding them to be instructed by our friends. We
were especially impressed with this at witnessing
the performance of one young lady who
<<159>>executed some difficult pieces, and who has
had no other teacher than Miss R., and that of
another, a native German, who has been a boarder for
about one year only. The tuition, so far as we could
judge, is conducted on correct principles, and in
no school are the moral and religious interests of
the scholars better attended to than in the seminary
of these ladies. They have assistant teachers to aid
them in the labours of the school, which has now
about fifty pupils, belonging to both the
Portuguese and German congregations.
We
may freely state that the comforts of the boarders
are thoroughly watched over, and they always appear
cheerful and happy. We deem it therefore our duty to
call the attention of our distant readers to the
subject, and to assure them that both boys and girls
intrusted to the charge of the Misses Palache will
be carefully attended to both as regards their
physical comfort and their mental and moral
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