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      all the books , just as well as any man could possibly do . ( Applause . ) There was no difficulty in getting women to do the workthe

      diffi-, culty was in overcoming a prejudice , and getting people to believe that the work could be as well done by women .

      The meeting" closed by the Rev . W . Pulsford taking down the -names of several ladies and gentlemen who were willing to form

      themselves into a committee , to co-operate with the London Society , in Edinburgh .

      _•& _•& - SB- 36- * * burg The h having proposition been to so form heartil local y responded committees to , in . Glasgow may trust and that Edin in

      many other towns of Great Britain and Ireland there may be found ladies object . and We gentlemen must therefore willing repeat to , co that -operate to all such for London so , information important Committee and an

      upon assistance . application will be to most the g Secretary ladly afforded of the by the Society , 19 , Langham

      Place , W .

      Jfjruits ¦ I2st Their . Season. 159

      JFJRUITS ¦ I 2 _ST THEIR . SEASON . 159

      ¦ . ¦ I. Xxiv.—Fruits In Theib, Season. ...

      ¦ . ¦ i . XXIV . —FRUITS IN THEIB , SEASON . A

      Ii.-^-Geape Gatherings. Whether Our Firs...

      II .- _^ _-GEAPE _GATHERINGS . Whether our first parents in Paradise sat under the shade of

      their own vine as well as of their own fig-tree , or whether they were spared a second fructal temptation hy being left in ignorance

      of charms so powerfully seductive , we do not know , * but if not antediluvian , it seems at any rate to have been the first plant that

      flourished in the rich mud left by the retiring _jSToachian deluge , and to have proved to the patriarch and his family a very " tree of

      ¦ ¦ my the riads knowled of his ge of descendants good and . evil That , " it even was as a it blessin has g been 1 which since might to

      readily become a bane may have been the cause that among the Jews it ranked below those trees whose produce could be less easily

      abused ; for in the earliest of fables we find Jotham representing the sovereignty of the woods as being offered to the olive and to

      the fig-tree before application" was made to the vine to assume the arboreal crown . But the etymology of the name it now bears ,

      derived from the Celtic gwycl , tree , whence was borrowed ( the Celts dropping the g in ¦ pronunciation ) the Latin vitisSpanish vidFrench

      vigne , and English vine , shows that when our forefathers , becam , e its sponsorsthey gave it a rank with regard to other plants analogous

      to that which , was assigned to the Scriptures with regard to other writings , the vine being the tree , even as the Bible was the book .

      Wherever it was found among the Gentile nations of antiquity , its introduction was always traced to a divinity ; and whether the

      chubby Bacchus of the Greeks be really identical or not with the

      awful Osiris of the Egyptians , in this point at least their history

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/15/