But alack-a-dav!

Froebels manv-hued “joint stock concern” (to use

the dialect of the Board ofTrade) fell flat from the start; he had no modern
methods “of bulling the market.” The thousand subscribers never
subscribed, so the big pile of buildings never rose, never even fluttered to
rise. Hence the Universal German Kindergarden, as planned in 1840,
never existed; the kindergarten founded in 1837 did exist and will outlast
this fiasco for a while, though badlv shattered bv its explosion. A great
mistake it is to sav that Froebefs kindergarten was founded in 1840 at
Blankenburg—a statement which has crept into manv books treating of
this subject. (Editor’s note: though in Bad Blankenburg the official
version which is respected is that the first kindergarten, indeed, did
indeed start there.)