Miss Edgeworth’s devotion to her father was beautiful indeed, but the complete subordination of her genius to his guidance is to be regretted. We must, however, be too grateful for the brightness of this genuine jewel to quarrel with its over-heavy setting. The following are her works: _Letters for Literary Ladies_, 1795. _The Parents’ Assistant_, 1796. _Practical Education_, 1798. This was the joint production of herself and her father. _Moral Tales._ _Castle Rackrent_, 1800. _Belinda_, 1801. _Essay on Irish Bulls_ (a joint work), 1802. _Popular Tales_, 1803. _The Modern Griselda_, 1804. _Leonora_, 1806. _Professional Education_ (a joint work), 1808. _Tales of Fashionable Life_, 1809. _The Absentee_, 1812. _Patronage_, 1814. _Comic Dramas_, 1817. _Harrington_, about 1817. _Ormond_, “” _Thoughts on Bores_, about 1817. _Memoir of R. L. Edgeworth_ (continuation of a Life begun by himself), 1820. _Rosamond_, 1821. This was a sequel to her father’s ‘Early Lessons,’ and was followed by ‘Harry and Lucy.’ _Helen_, 1834. * * * * * [Sidenote: Birth and family.] She was born on the 1st of January, 1767, “a God-given New-Year’s gift” (as, in a letter to Mrs. Hall, she calls herself), to her almost boy-father: for, although she was his second-born, he was barely twenty-two years old when she was placed in his arms. Ultimately she was one of twenty-two children born to Richard Lovell Edgeworth by four wives. S. C. HALL: ‘Retrospect of a Long Life.’ New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1883. * * * * * [Sidenote: Mischievous childhood.] Maria, being very young, remembered little of this visit [to Ireland in 1773, after her mother’s death and her father’s marriage to Honora Sneyd], “except that she was a mischievous child, amusing herself once at her Aunt Fox’s, when the company were unmindful of her, cutting out the squares in a checked sofa-cover, and one day trampling through a number of hot-bed frames that had just been glazed, laid on the grass before the door at Edgeworthstown. She recollected her delight at the crashing of the glass, but, immorally, did not remember either cutting her feet, or how she was punished for this performance.” GRACE A. OLIVER: ‘A Study of Maria Edgeworth.’ Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1882. * * * * * [Sidenote: Maria at school.]