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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 281

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    A Summary Of Pamphlets, Reports, Akd Pro...

    made use of by all who desire to instruct their poorer and . less enlihtened neighbours upon the clangers and prevention of small-pox ,

    g now so prevalent . When Btlie author of "A to Catch a Sunbeam" etc

    roe were Young . y Trap ,. The 3 d . Magne Groombrid t Stories for Sons Summer Paternos Days ter and Row "Winter . Nights . —No . 1 . Price ge

    , This is the first number of a monthly series of tales for young' people , whichif carried out as beguncan scarcelfail to become very

    popular" , When we were Young " , is a charming y story charmingly told ; and , we advise little people of both sexes to devote a portion of their

    pocket-money every month to the purchase of these tales as they read appear to . their Let younger John and brothers Mary and club sisters together prett for y stories this purpose out of , their and

    own book , bought with their own money . " KidcVs Treatise on Song-Birds . Groombridge and Sons , Paternoster How .

    books Mr . Kidd were is sixpence an authorit each y on instead bird of life a shilling and bird 1 they habits would . If , we his think little ,

    , be in the hands of all amateur bird-fanciers , and benefit more largely both himself and others .

    Twenty Society -sixth . Annual Report of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery

    Annual Heport of the Edinburgh Ladies * Emancipation Society . These societies devote themselves to the promulgation of anti-slavery

    views and opinions by means of newspa _23 er and magazine articles and special tracts . The evil they attack is gigantic : God hasten the

    day when it shall disappear from the face of the earth . Repor Min ts isters addressed to the JPoor to the Committee together ivith of the a Liverpool Statement Mis of Accounts sion Socie and ty by Lis their t of

    Subscribers . ; _^ Turn where we mayhilanthropy is at work ; yet there are times

    when even the most , sang p uine must sicken with despair before the vast mass of sinsorrowand suffering which meet oiie at every turn .

    All honor to those , laborers , in the Lord's vineyard , who neither faint nor stumblebut year after year continue their arduous coarse ,

    counting it great , gain to be allowed thus to minister to soul or body diseased .

    Report of the Institution for Nursing Sisters . 4 , Devonshire Square , _N . E . The report of this excellent institution shows that between eighty

    and a hundred , sisters are constantly employed in its service , and that the average number of nurses supplied gratuitously to the poor , is

    about twenty-five to thirty quarterly . Thousands , who in the hour of illness have sought assistance here for themselves or thos " e dear to

    them , can testify to the great help and ' comfort these trained nurses afford . We are lad to see thatin addition to the donations and

    subscriptions given g in support of , the institution , there is a special fund for the superannuated or disabled sistersthe proceeds of which _,

    , are invested in the three per cent , consols .

    vol . v . _xr

    Notices Of Books. 281

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 281

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 281, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/65/