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    54 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    VIII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS. «

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    The Oldest of flie Old World. By Sophia ...

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    As Many Readers Of The English Woman's J...

    The fourth lecture of the course , on " Dress and Social Habits in relation to Deformitand Disease" was delivered by Ernest Hart ,

    Esq . The subject of y this lecture , is so specially interesting and important to womenthat a fuller report of it will be given in a future

    , number than the present space permits . The fifth lecture , on " The Arithmetic of Life , " was delivered by

    Dr . William Farr , M . D ., of this lecture also a report will be given in a future number , and the entire course will shortly be published

    by the Association . S . It . P .

    54 Notices Of Books.

    54 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    Viii.—Notices Of Books. «

    VIII . —NOTICES OF BOOKS . «

    The Oldest Of Flie Old World. By Sophia ...

    The Oldest of flie Old World . By Sophia Mary Eckley . B . Bentley , New Burlington Street .

    E gypt and Palestine , tlie Great Desert and the Red Sea , have long lost save the to myst a few erious intrep charrn id adventurers with which , they as perilous used to places rise , inaccessible before our

    youthful imaginations . If we have , not been in those remote merel regions from ourselves some , hard our y friends scientific and exp acquaintances loreror zealous have missionary ; and not ,

    pursuit or professed y a of delicate health traveller invalid or , p have leasur to we e heard now down leads details the Nile many , of Eastern or a to famil make life y party ; a but tour and the in

    of since the many peril Hol at y or the Land discomfort proj , e with ct of , as as a much tour they go in composure would Germ have any , and or felt , a almost visit some to twent as Nap little y les years fear and

    Palermo . And truth compels us to add , that we have heard and read so much of Eastern travel ; we know , or fancy we know , so

    much about itthat we rather shrink from descriptions and details which we have , a conceited foreboding can tell us nothing we have this

    fe not eling alread we y took heard up over " The and Oldest over again of . the With Old something World leasantl / 7 and written of can honestlbeg readers to anticipate a

    volume y . Without our any very striking power very of word p -painting y , and certainl contrived y without to give any us a pretence series of or pictures apparent of effort which , Mrs we . instinctivel Eckley has y

    feel We the were reality somewhat and truth inclined . in the first chapter or two to object

    to a short historical summary of dates and _" remarkable events " with which the travels were intersected . Besides our natural

    propensity sli ing ght the pedagogue to reb obnoxious el at air " useful , which knowled we h were and ge determined " by in a any mental form to , resent assurance there seemed by ski that p a -

    p " every schoolgirl knew paragrap such things , . _" However , we will h the be volume candid

    enough to confess , that before we had got half throug

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/54/