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    206 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    1. Footpaths between Two Worlds, and oth...

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    The Physiology Of Common Blackwood Life....

    instructive work , and feel at each that we were _helping to disseminate the all-important knowledge of our own structure conveyed in

    the easiest and pleasantest manner possible . Never was it so necessary that we should understand something of our own

    organization as at the present time . Ifc is a fast age , and the ' men and women of it are of necessity borne upon its rapid current . Never

    was humanity so heavily taxed and strained as now , and . the inevitable wear and tear of the energies , physical and intellectual , renders

    it imperative that the economy of health , private and public , should receive our earnest attention and care . Many a man and woman

    falls a victim to ignorance or neglect of the most obvious conditions of his or her being—the suicides of throat-cutting , poison , and

    drowning , are not the only suicides of the age—every educated human being who knowingly or unknowingly violates the physical

    laws of his being , is more or less a suicide—in the first instance , because he sins against knowledgeand in the second , because the

    knowledge may be had for the asking , , and the necessity of it is evolved from himself .

    In nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand it is not the work which injures or kills—the labor , whether of brain or

    hands , must be both inordinately severe and protracted which does either—ignorance or neglect , the one as criminal as the other in the

    waste of power and life entailed , is the fell destroyer , and we have dwindling before us at and this shrinking moment to instance their graves upon in ll stance the victim of men s of and overwork women /'

    , as they and their friends pathetically observe , while they are in fact the victims of their own folly , or want of self-knowledge . Mr . Lewes

    holds out a helping hand to all who will take it , and " The Physiology of Common Life" should be a standard book of reference

    in all families and schools , and with every individual who values

    health and would know the means which lead to it .

    206 Notices Of Books.

    206 _NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    1. Footpaths Between Two Worlds, And Oth...

    2 1 . . Poems Footpaths , by between Thomas Two _Aslie Worlds . , and other Poems , "by Patrick Scott .

    3 4 . . Id Ionica in E . Smith t , and and ot Elder her P . oems , by Richard Garnett . Bell and Daldy . STER ] sr and trenchant are modern poetical criticisms ; and if a

    hundred years ago any young lady or gentleman who contrived to string * sentimental commonplaces into jingling rhyme was hailed as a , poet ,

    we of the nineteenth century are perhaps a little too severe in our requirements . All books of verses are not poetry in its highest and

    truest meaning ; but nevertheless , many of them reach the special . point at which they have aimed ; and while no judgment canbe too

    , hard , no condemnation too unsparing , of spasmodic and pretentious efforts at Miltonian grandeur or Byronic force , there are volumes

    after volumes of pleasant reading in verse which we are too apt to despise and forget , because they do not deserve to be placed on the

    shelf beside the great masters of the age . Blame a poor velvet

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/62/