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      Physiology For % Common Schools, By Mrs....

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      the It perusal or is gratif of y such ing very ' , to a work tlie unprofessional as this , with reader a strong who ' conviction has risen eminent of from its utilitto find that it has elicited the commendation of so

      top a ph ics ysio y , include logist d as in Dr these . Southwood early lessons Smith , who judi ob cious serve ly s , cho " the sen particular , and they tllained

      are simply , clearly , and correcy exp . "

      Notices Of Books. 279

      _NOTICES OF BOOKS . 279

      Marry Birtcett; The Story Of A Man Who H...

      Marry _BirTcett ; the story of a man who helped himself . Win . Tweedie , Strand

      Influence . ; or the Sisters . By Albyn Locke . James Blackwood , Paternoster L Row Neville . and her Schoolfellows . By Mary and . Elizabeth Kirby . Blackucy

      wood . tations 6 < Harry in Birkett the life " is of a story an artisan intende . d to The show false the dangers representatives and temp of

      in spiritual reliion and and temporal chartism liberty in politics which are lead only resp lig e htl ctivel y dwelt y to _scejjticisin upon , in

      arison g to the vice of drunkenness on which th 9 " story" of the temporary comp "book is made amendment to hinge of . Harry The strugg Birkett les ' s , father the good and resolutions his final return , the _, well and hi

      to the sin which ruins himself and his family are grapcall but y many described good . passages There , is and no characters pretence of touched obvious fine writin in and with g the in some the writer vi book gour is ,

      and sense of humour . The moral is , in evidentl these y acquainted days , and with one which the class infinitel renders he describes better the book , chance no not common of only merit more

      readable in itself , but gives it an y appealing " successfull " Influence y to " those enters whom more it int is o intended the list of to one improve -volumed . novels . "We

      have often met before these same two sisters , one quiet , docile , and amiablethe other beautiful and high spirited , and we prepared

      the ourselve other s for subdued , the one and being improved rewarded by the by disci a country pline of parsonage life and an and

      unkind the we are character husband bound . of to And say Ruth that thoug ' s husband the h the story and result is the pleasant in history a measure reading of her justified married ; and that life us , If the authoress

      would are so well forget don all e as the to novels rise beyond she has common read , and -place would . trust herself to draw more closely from life we think she might very easily

      surpass" Influence . " what " Lucy " Neville" is le a book " like for , but girls to , and those difficult who it have is to forfeited prognosticate any

      riht to young that ithet peop the colors are laid on much too strongly to be reli either g ion natural ep or ladies pleasant , who . write Little themselves school-girls down who utterl openly heartless sneer at y

      g , young

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/63/