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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 59

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    Mainstone Volumes 'S . Housekeeper Londo...

    b ture thoug in htful her ant writing i and poetical : in " , is the anti ; Roman even quarian her road ism anti ; as a quarianism vivid it lies deli green g , ht a very in and that quiet marked which track fea has - -

    ing ecome land its way in , que the strai ruins ght as of the the arrow mediaeval , flies abb , amidst which the green ive a touch fields , of of Eng eyg

    ; , poetry which hint to all to the us hills what amidst manner which of men they were lie ; in our the sturd Saxon y ancestors weapons . ,

    But when she speaks of modern times or modern monuments , and all her tales are rooted in the very hearts of these , then it is to be

    seen how she sympathises in the core of her intellect with the Englay land sees ing it of stretching down to-day the . level forth Our iron its - g trade iant and hands fling is to ing her to the a the sort ele very ctric of heroic ends line of froni entit the earth p illar she ,

    to a p p illar liamen and tar across y mot the ion way valleys , acquires , of the in her sea . im A ag temperance ination a sor movement t of in h ,

    trinsic lifeon account of the human interests it involves , and se re muc presen h more ts , her than charac novelis ters ts as usua livi ll ng dare in and to do . ing Kingsley for these does things the

    same in his booksbut there is more y of mental unrest and toil in "Yeast and Alton Locke , Miss Meteyard is far better satisfied with

    . things roblems as they of a muc are h in narro the country wer and at m l arge indi ; her vidua problem l descr s iption are moral ; she

    loves p ' to contemp , late and to describe the way in which our national domestic life is linked to our great national interests ; how our families

    are niched like nests of birds under the sheltering eaves of some interchang great mercantile e of action or professional and re-action power between , and the how characters there is of a const our men ant

    and women and the medium in which they live . In _" Mainstone ' s Housekeeper" the scene is chiefly laid in a

    terraces quiet country whereon parsonage the master , but the its Reverend ivied gable Julius s and Radnor green grassy strolls

    si up ght and of down , a great , preceded midland by his range two , , whose peacocks furnace , Peri and fires Pearl glow , is by , within night

    The with two a rudd men y who radiance are taken which as is the never representative quenched from types year of to the year two . districts are both eventually suitors for the hand of the heroine ,

    _" Mainstone ' s Housekeeper . " Here are their portraits , with a deseem scription to us of the private finel room contrasted in which in the each delicate delights touches to dwell of : word they - y

    very painting . The Clergyman .

    the that " clerk The Mr . announced scarlet Radnor pew was the was read h yet y to unoccup with begin strong ied the , mornin when nasal a twang g general service and . husli then A minute commenced gave notice after

    one singing by in one the the same congregation undesirable ymn joined tone a in . , A to sweetl the great y feminine confusion , voice of aided time , and and Miss Eliot had time to observe

    Mr tune . Radnor . Whilst as this he stood singing at proceeded his reading , -desk . As she had noticed quietl previousl y y

    Notices Of Books. 59

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 59

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/59/