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    NOTICES OE BOOKS. 849

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    JEJng W l oman ish W 's omen Journal and...

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    Transactions Of The National Association...

    value and importance ; that value is yearly increasing * , as under the management of Mr . G . "W . Hastings the facts contributed and the

    theories advanced are becoming * more and more systematised . The Association meets in Glasgow on the 24 th of September nextand

    , papers must be sent in to the Secretary at 3 , Waterloo Place , Pall

    Mall , London , S . W ., on or before the 1 st of that month .

    Notices Oe Books. 849

    NOTICES OE BOOKS . 849

    Jejng W L Oman Ish W 'S Omen Journal And...

    JEJng W oman ish W ' s omen Journal and " the Office Age . By Lang Mrs -ham . Horace Place Roscoe Kent St and . John Co . Pa "Eng ternos lish

    ter Row . Price Is . , , ; ., "We cannot too strongly commend this pamphlet to our readers , not

    only for their own perusal , but for distribution among their friends and acquaintances . Lofty in tone and earnest in purposeit is at

    , once an eloquent protest against the barbarism and injustice which have hitherto characterised the dealings of men with women , and

    an appeal to men and women to restore one half of God's human family to that equality with the other , so strangely _overlooked in

    the twenty-first , twenty-seventh , and twenty-eighth verses of the first chapter of Genesis . An equality lostburiedas it werein the

    universal acceptation of the second version , of the , creation of ' man , , as contained in the second chapter of Genesis ; a version which ,

    stamping woman as inferior to man , is , we believe , at the root of the gigantic oppression and injustice which from time immemorial have

    enslaved one half of the human race , giving rise to one law for man and another for woman ; an injustice rebuked in a noted

    instance by the Redeemer Himself , — He that is without sin among * youlet him first cast a stone at her ; " and yet in this our nineteenth

    , Christian century there still exists amongst us , and on this very head , both legally and socially , one law for man and another for

    woman ! As Mrs . St . John says ;—hardl " So y exis far t . as Men represen have tation made of laws person , and women proper have ty is been concerned compelled , women to

    acthe quiesce portion in them of the ; legal and the code same intrusting abominable ' to men selfishness the power of which inflicting once p dictate hysical d chastisement vailed in on the their laws wives respecting , instituted the the condition flagrant and scandal which ty of till married lately

    pre proper women . in " our And public now journal , in consequence s from ' sufferers of a mi ' ti who gation desire of injustice to pauperise , we on ha the ve appeal bounty of tthave married for their dowriesof the most

    absolu he t w e i order ves hey these noble-souled mart . Privileges be alone intrusted to t women he unselfishness is dependent , argue , puri on ty pounds , and generosit shillings y of men yrs _j > , cnce , while Reli chas tity the itself dignity with

    , , . g , comparison condi of an tional unsullied with surrender name a lucrative , of the women sacred bait ' , love to insure of t wife is correct or mother conduct t , are guard . as Thus no t thing he an h . onor * un , in

    nan of E t the lish conduc homes t o ! f the However husband large she proper the should jointure y be necessary forced of a wife saitli , howe the ver ' sufferer malig- '

    hand to choose s . The betw brand een st of arva the tion scarlet and , t letter he mess and beggary pottage , are from to punish her mas the ter in ' , - s

    famy of a wife , but what security remains for her against that of her hus-

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/61/