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    62 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    Grlimpses of Ocean Life; or, Mock Pools ...

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    the task of assisting his mistress over the stiles and roug , h places . He was by k means what _s is called fields ' he lady ' s man ; ' for two that -thirds of the way he

    w sent al . Yet across in those his manner sunny there , was forgot nothing , probabl brutis y , h or a woman clownish was ; when precourtesy was required , there it was , simple and unaffected . "

    His Study , " Its ceiling was low discolore —its d floor with was bricked and — time its p its las miserable ter walls , little originally

    was b stained the rusty little green , and , were its it covered ll square The latticed th damp e commonest casements — car were pet small tantalized compared the grate . eye to

    y space . in the th size ig ht f the hand room wall ; the beside one loo the ked fire drear -lace ily l towards ooked ch the eerfull shops—the the other long ,

    g old arden rose e , - bushes yet which was screened around from . all The p intrusive furniture , gaze consisted by the ever y of up a green few s rush and - grew

    an seated old tattered chairs ; along sofaand the wall , at the quare end wood opposite -framed the mirror fire-place with , was its quick placed

    silver the worse for , time , stood on an i , ron rest , and leant forward , from the wall "

    chairs " Such . , and was the the whole outer sofa aspect was t hea of a ped room i up in kind with which books and all not the ; not few tables in in orderl , number a few y array of but the ,

    p b iled ut in fficious up disarra by dozens housemai y of th . d They most ever e were x troubled raord du _§ ty their y outwardl — y to yet view when , and it was opened clear ,

    them no o you saw the hand that used them did it repose tenderl ; y . Their quality you , too , was as extraordinary as both their number here and Mechanics disorder . The and its finest kindred and

    most recondite works on mathematics were . and subje cts ricul were ture full could y illustrated show books . An hi atomy h in , quality physiology and , great geology in cost , chemistry . Then , g g

    there was nothing were books that , of mi essays ght be , histories called , lig and ht lit works erature on , political and metap economy hysical . There books read French well

    wer The e works few in of number Bichat , but Cabanis it was evident and oth that er illustr Mr . Wenlock ious French physiologists , . were there in the ori , inalas well , as those of La PlaceQueteletand others

    of the mathematician g s and , statists . He read Latin probabl , y throug , h transwith l smattering ations papers _^ thoug ly , . h account One such table were books the onl , y and best , this writing of near their the materials kind pleasant , and , a Italian flat window penny was , was known ink covered -bottle but ,

    table a few stood stumpy one quill or pens two , elementary some pencils German , and a books stick , of thus sealing showing -wax . that On this this self-taught mind was travelling towards one of the noblest sources of enlarged ,

    liberal , and pregnant truth . "

    62 Notices Of Books.

    62 _NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    Grlimpses Of Ocean Life; Or, Mock Pools ...

    Grlimpses of Ocean Life ; or , Mock Pools and the Lessons they Teach , By London John Harper : T . ] , _STelson F . R . S . and S . A . Sons , Author , Paternoster of " The Row Sea . -side 1860 and . Aquarium , " & c .

    _Fkom this charming little book , especially appropriate to tlie " sea-> side month" of September , we offer our readers tlie following * extract

    descriptive of the way in which crabs change their coats . one " The of the _Armory most interesting of the Tower sights of of London the great forms metropolis , it is . generall Ko one y admitted can look , of knihts and noble warriors

    hel without p an involuntary wonder upon sig that h over goodl the y degeneracy array of g modern humanity . Thoug , nor h

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/62/