On this page

• Text (2)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    130 NOTICES OP BOOKS*

  • 

    Children of other Lands. Some Playtime T...

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

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

    head Haggo and , was as a conservative nautical-instrument a horror maker of modern ; and changes she has —steam a very _-Tbakeries remarkable , for

    instance sisters , Johnson —as any who of yon for more could than wish half . S a century of you , kept will a remember crockery- the shop two on

    her Hanover earnings Street ; the , , and other , separated to rest about in a two quiet year grave eized s ago , , hold — at one the of si age the ster old of to fourscore retire on .

    Buekminster The " It spir was it of one Curtis modern of the —who improvement most planted distingui , in has shed Framing since of our s _liam female , the first merch and potatoes honored ants— shop ever Martha friend . set

    Ann in New Bent Eng ent land ered ; on and her you b will usiness start career to hear so that long our ago dear as 1784 , at the age of sixteenShe first entered crockeryand dry-goods firm "butat the

    . a -ware ; , age Street of where twenty we -one remember , established her . herself She soon at Washington became the , centre north of of a Summer happy

    home , where sisterscousinsniecesand friendsreceived her affectionate , care . The intimacy , , which linked , young her name she to contrived that , of Mary to Ware is

    fresh in all our minds . What admirable health keep we may iving judge from for the fifty fact , that she She . dined the at one valued brother friend ' s table of Channin on Thanks g and

    -. g Gannett Day ; and over her character years magnified . was her office , ennobled her condition , gave dignity to labor , and won the love and respect but of the wished worthy to . Less

    first tion than both two years her in and ago Miss , society at the Kinsley to age confer of in ninety this merchantable connection , she left us , value ; because I they taste were . men the

    importers " Instead women the of privilege our importing of selection largely themselves , a and always , they took boug the ht prettiest upon of the New and - nicest York themselves

    p charged ieces out their of every customers case . for As it , they by asking paid for a little this privilege more oil each yard , of so goods they

    than the common dealer . "

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

    She * I was first sitting saw _Mvs up , Hillman reading tho tlxe account clay after of tho it , without destruction glasses of the , and steam eloquent -bakery in behalf at tho of _IsTorth the trade End , .

    and against innovations . Since tho above passage was . written , she has passed away .

    130 Notices Op Books*

    130 NOTICES OP BOOKS *

    Children Of Other Lands. Some Playtime T...

    Children of other Lands . Some Playtime Tales for Children of England . Paternoster

    By Sara Wood . Groombridge and Sons , Row . Innumerable are the volumes yearly brought out for the special

    entertainment and delight of the young' of the present day , and yet we are scarcelever tempted to withdraw our assent to the assertion

    of a celebrated y author of a former age , tliat the most difficult literary undertaking lie knew was to write a good " child ' s book . "

    are can certain honestl of y say welcome , however not , that onl Children from the of ir other little Land Engli s " h y

    contempora very ries , but from many , an elder reader , who like ourselves can enj '' oy Child a juvenile ren of story other . Lands" not only come from Switzerland ,

    Arabia , France , Siberia , Germany and Turkey with the costumes , manners , ways of thought , and character of their respective homes ,

    count vi but gnett they ries es , b ring Mrs even . with Wood fragment the shares m gra s of p hic the peculiar l Very andsc atmosp ap power es , or here which delicat of their g e ives ly native drawn such

    hardl realit y besto to Mi w hig M her artineau praise ' s p ictu like res of forei too , gn there life , re and no l we abored can

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/58/