vented by Rousseau, a modern
development of which is the Cheve system now widely used on the
Continent. In England the tonic-sol-fa notation, which uses syllables
instead of figures, but which rests fundamentally on the same
principles, is much more familiar.

[48] _"Geht und schaut, es geht ungehuer (ungeheuer)."_

[49] The miserable quarrels between Niederer and Schmid, which so
distressed the later years of Pestalozzi, are here referred to.

[50] A Consistorium in Germany is a sort of clerical council or
convocation, made up of the whole of the Established clergy of a
province, and supervising Church and school matters throughout that
province, under the control of the Ministry of Religion and Education.
No educator could establish a school or take a post in a school without
the approval of this body.

[51] That is, the education of other minds than his own; something
beyond mere school-teaching.

[52] _Einertabelle_; tables or formulas extending to units only; a
system embodied to a large extent in Sonnenschein's "ABC of Arithmetic,"
for teaching just the first elements of the art.

[53] Like other matters, this, too, has been left undone, as far as the
present (unfinished) letter is concerned.

[54] _Erdkunde._

[55] _Recht schreiben._

[56] _Recht sprechen._

[57] One of Arndt's pamphlets, then quite new.

[58] 1827.

[59] He would have refused to countenance Froebel's throwing up his
engagement.

[60] Georg Friedrich Seller (1733-1807), a Bavarian by birth, became a
highly-esteemed clergyman in Coburg. He wrote on religious and moral
subjects, and those amongst the list of his works, the most likely to be
alluded to by Froebel, are "A Bible for Teachers," "Methods of Religious
Teaching for Schools," "Religious Culture for the Young," etc.

[61] Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825). No doubt the celebrated
"Levana," Richter's educational masterpiece, which was published in this
same year, 1807, is here alluded to.

[62] 1808.

[63] This is in 1827. But the expression of his thought remained a
difficult matter with Froebel to the end of his life, a drawback to
which many of his friends have borne witness; for instance, Madame von
Marenholtz-Buelow.

[64] Probably done with the point of a knitting needle, etc. The design
is then visible on the other side of the paper in an embossed form.

[65] This account is dated 1827, it is always necessary to remember.

[66] After all, the work was l