The Little VirtuesAs far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones So begins the titular essay in Natalia Ginzburg's extraordinary collection, which takes little subjects shoes, meatballs, moneyboxes and turns them into subjects of great significance. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, the effects of World War II, the horrors of British food, the craft of writing, the importance of