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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 273

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    to and know recognised that no . backward This progress step has niay been be considered takenand slow that , but work it alread is satisfactory y begun

    , has " been From strengthened the country and we have confirmed some cheering during the proofs past of year progress . . In one of cities ladwrites follows

    occasional our " largest * Eight visitors provincial ladies are these regular ladies a visitors h y ave now in our as worked workhouses steadil : , besides for more three or than four a

    and have done ; much to comfort and aid the poor inmates y . I assure you I year feel , increasing- pleasure in the work service of visiting from ; the I we schools nt yesterday the a round

    of calls and upon it was girl gratifying s who have to entered find how generally the characters during given were past year satisfactory , , and how kindly the mistresses took any little suggestion I made

    as " to From their another treatment provincial . ' city a lady writes that a year ago there seemed prospect of establishing visiting in the large workhousebut that now the

    no , way leased '' ' is The opened and work receive , and is going fourteen us with on very ladie the greatest satisfactoril s are appointed cordiality y , and . She and all the says civility authorities : — , and the seem poor

    inmates p , in the wards are delighted ; it is quite a new thing , they say , to be so cared " A for hope , and is even they expressed are very thankful that by . their ' endeavors a small this tr workhouse aining insti in

    b tution order to for at supp . nurses Liv l erpool y a better may aft be er class the establishe of meeting women d in of for connexion the this Nation important with al Association office . The in 1858 work , , egun

    manner has been at carried the meeting on , and in at October Bradford last , lad , the and y visitors authorities one of were the and appointed ladies the inmates says in that the same they

    simil are "In ' _g-ladl a y country received and union and frequent welcomed in Yorkshire inquiries by the from work different has just _jmrts been of the begun country . ' in a

    ar manner ; lead work All this us we to is have believe surel undertaken y encour that confidence agement convinced enoug in that our h p to in lans time induce is we being us shall to graduall proceed do much y acquired with towards the .

    accomplishing those ends which , we have in view . penditure " As our will second be g year iven in does that not number end till of Jul the y journal next , an ; but account we the may of mention our

    exhere that the subscriptions hitherto received ( and during past year have amounting been * almost to about entirel eighty y spent pounds upon , exclusive printing of the a j donation ournal and of other fifty pounds papers ) . could easil

    It is obvioushoweverthat if our funds increased , we y employ less there them and in are g penniless who iving , , when help ; to some discharged , some require of the , l > inmates change ave to beg of on in air leaving either life , or afresh admission the local workhouse , absolutel associations into other y . friend Many in of - -

    stitutions , and such help might well be given , by visitors "Before , or leaving by the Centr review al Society of the . pastwe cannot forbear referring to two

    events The loss in of connexion Mrs . Jameson our with our one Society of the which influential , call for and our esteemed sorrow members and regret of .

    our committeewho was present , last year at our meeting , cannot but have been cannot felt forget by all that , who she knew was her the influence person who and , eig could ht years appreciate ago , encouraged her zeal . We and nearlthe first

    advised the publication of the little pamphlet which was y paper that appeal i On " Her the called th Social at own attention has chapter Emp yet loyments been to on the made Workh subject of Women ouses of the workhouse in , subj ' was the ect the Lectures and most inmates must forcible published . * have and contributed in effectiv 1855 e ,

    Jam largel eson y to never the claimed interest to which take part has on been in the . awakened practical , work since , but that as time words . Mrs and .

    * One had previously Tjoeu . published "by Hiving'tons' hi _lfioO ; now out of print .

    Notices Of Books. 273

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 273

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/57/