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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 127

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    * XIX.—NOTICES OF BOOKS. ^»

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    Woman Lectures 's Ri delivered ght to La...

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    The Mental And Personal Qualifications O...

    A proper knowledge of accounts and arithmetic , "but no sort of skill _infractiotis .

    . ; A more than a tolerable good voice , and a little ear for music ; and a capabilitof sining a canzonet or a song ( in company ) but

    no etc . peculiar and y intimat g acquaintance with minims , , crochets , quavers , ,

    _ISTo enthusiasm for the guitar . Ready at her needlebut more devoted to plain work than to fine

    , No enemy to knitting . Not always in the parlor , but sometimes in the

    kitchen-More skilled in the theoretic , than in the practical part of cookery . To tea and coffee no objection .

    Fonder of country dances than minuets . An acquaintance with domestic news , but no acquaintance with

    foreign . Not entirely fond of quadrillebut a little given to whist .

    In conversation , a little of the , lisp , but not of the stammer . Decently but not affectedly silent .

    _SOITJS ET _SirMPTTJS ,

    Worcester , January 12 > th , 1761 .

    Notices Of Books. 127

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 127

    * Xix.—Notices Of Books. ^»

    * XIX . —NOTICES OF BOOKS . _^»

    Woman Lectures 'S Ri Delivered Ght To La...

    Woman Lectures ' s Ri delivered ght to Lahor in Boston ; or . Low November Wages and 1859 Sard . BCaroline Work , In H . Thre Dall e .

    Boston : , Walker , Wise , & Co . , Sold by " _WTiitfield , y Strand , London . This little bookfrom the en of an American ladypossesses a

    touching interest , its readers p , in being one of the last , tributes of respect and affection ever offered to one who has passed away . It

    is dedicated , by one who never saw her , to " Anna Jameson , in grateful commemoration of her Letter to Lord John Russell ; " and

    thoug of gratitude h long did delayed not arrive in their too passage late . across the Atlantic , the words

    In her preface to the lectures , Mrs . Dall says , " Shortly after these essays were written , —in June 1859 , —I received from London Mrs .

    from James expressing on's ' Letter here to the Lord deep John emotion Russell with ; ' * which and I I cannot read what refrain she

    had silver written hairs to of him her upon sixty the years same like subj a crown ect . , Well if onl may y throug she wear h their the

    sanction she may speak such noble words . But' Earnest purposes do age us fast ;'

    bear and many witness a true with -hearte her . " d woman , far younger in years , would gladly

    * Letter to Lord John Russell . By Mrs . Jameson . Longman and Co .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/55/