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[Illustration: _Maria Montessori_]




  A
  MONTESSORI
  MOTHER

  BY

  DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER

  Author of “The Squirrel-Cage”

  _ILLUSTRATED_

  [Illustration]

  NEW YORK
  HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
  1913




  COPYRIGHT, 1912,

  BY

  HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

  Published October, 1912

  THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS
  RAHWAY, N. J.




  _DEDICATED
  BY PERMISSION
  TO
  MARIA MONTESSORI_




PREFACE


On my return recently from a somewhat prolonged stay in Rome, I
observed that my family and circle of friends were in a very different
state of mind from that usually found by the home-coming traveler.
I was not depressed by the usual conscientious effort to appear
interested in what I had seen; not once did I encounter the wavering
eye and flagging attention 