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Heath's Pedagogical Library--4




EMILE:

OR, CONCERNING EDUCATION


BY

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU


EXTRACTS

_CONTAINING THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF PEDAGOGY FOUND IN THE FIRST THREE
BOOKS; WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY_


JULES STEEG, DEPUTE, PARIS, FRANCE



TRANSLATED BY

ELEANOR WORTHINGTON

FORMERLY OF THE COOK COUNTY (ILL.) NORMAL SCHOOL




D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS

BOSTON -- NEW YORK -- CHICAGO




Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the year 1888, by

GINN, HEATH, & CO.,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.



Printed in U. S. A.




TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

M. Jules Steeg has rendered a real service to French and American
teachers by his judicious selections from Rousseau's Emile.  For the
three-volume novel of a hundred years ago, with its long disquisitions
and digressions, so dear to the heart of our patient ancestors, is now
distasteful to all but lovers of the curious in books