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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 351

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    The Queens of Society. By Grrace and Phi...

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    to of accounts fulfil childhood the for responsibilities the and fact of youth that . notwithstanding attaching The lamentable to them the i as gnora the n id guardians o r f w ress omen i and n , indeed guides dical ,

    , rappg - still science prevails of late in ye social ars , so circles lmich . conservatism Moreover , in in cases habit of s illness prejudicial , so intimate to health is the connection of mind and bodthat it is often most difficult to distinguish

    y may the -working believe s tha of t cause the sy and mpa effect thies arising between from the simi one l and arity the of other sex would ; and fa we - cilitate an insight into those relations of the morale and the physique which

    • of wou women ld greatl to y opportunities accelerate the of success education of medical adequate treatment to qualif . y them The admission as physireal cians benefit for women ba and considerable children , portion would , of w the e feel feminine convinced community , be consid ere s d it e of a

    the number of y those who delight to persevere in regarding the , practice p of the visit healing of the gentleman art as the ph exclusive ysican is prerogative the relief of of exci men temen . To t from such the the ted d aily of inactivity or ennui . They constitute the substantial t of the

    charlatans and coxcombs who occasionally disgrace the . medical suppor profession . ' author Several justl pages y calls of this " the excellent preposterous pamphlet love are of dress devoted , ' which to what is the at

    once a characteristic and a vice of the day .

    Notices Of Books. 351

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 351

    The Queens Of Society. By Grrace And Phi...

    The Queens of Society . By Grrace and Philip Wharton .

    These biographical sketches profess to be the joint production of male and female authors . In female biographers we are accustomed

    to see a certain refinement of taste and delicacy in delineating characterwhich we fail to find in the memoirs before us . Much

    painstaking , is evinced throughout , and many records , historical and scandalous , must have been searched , the latter we think more dili _~

    gently than the former ; and it cannot fail to strike the thinking reader how frequently the judgment pronounced by the author upon

    those whose lives he handles , is more self-asserting than true to the narrated history of that life .

    The memory of the dead should in all cases be dealt with by the biograp think our her queens so as to of suggest society r " ather have been than somewhat enforce examp rudel le y ; disturbed and we

    from their rest . French writers excel all others in memoirs for one reason , that they are not continually seeking to point a moral and

    adorn a tale , or to draw inferences in regard to matters of conscience ; rarely done but at the expense of good taste and justice to the

    departed . Our well-known and long-admired epistolary friend , Madame de

    Sevigne , is one of the many chosen to be paraded in the lives of these " queens ; " and thero is something singular , to say the least ,

    in her biographer's treatment of that maternal affection to which the world is indebted for her well-known letters . We are not

    accustomed to hear maternal love " accounted for , " without such sins Gri against g-nan . filial After duty relating as never how were strong lai d and to how the ch constant arge of was Madam Madam e de e

    de Sevigne ' s devotion to her liusband , wo find it remarked that—

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/63/