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    272 NOTICES OP BOOKS.

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    JMy Life, and What shall women I do , wi...

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    middle and higher class , to carry out on behalf of their humbler sistersan effort which is free from all the objections which

    , may be urged , and not without reason , against charitable schemes , and which would form a valuable means for the promotion of that

    union between class and class , which the great social movements of

    the last generation or two have so much and dangerously loosened .

    272 Notices Op Books.

    272 NOTICES OP BOOKS .

    Xlil—Notices Of Books. «

    XLIL—NOTICES OF BOOKS . «

    Jmy Life, And What Shall Women I Do , Wi...

    JMy Life , and What shall women I do _, with Longman It ? A & . Question Co . for Young Grentle-The aim of this little book , in the author ' s own words , is "to point

    out the practicable ways in which young * gentlewomen who have leisure may make that leisure conduce to the good of those lower

    than themselves in the social scale . " This , in our opinion , has been ably done . The work itself is well pointed out , and a great deal

    there is of it . The way in which the work must be done is shown with accurate knowledge and clear judgment .

    A very high standard is raised for our Christian gentlewomenunselfish endeavor being the golden background of every picture :

    the pictures themselves most saint-like , yet not at all impossible for any who will but follow to accomplish .

    We trust this earnest book may bring many out to the battle of life .

    The writer tells us in the conclusion that these are the three points she has sought to establish : —

    ever spec " i 1 s l t . ro That fessin ks of the Ch any work rist set i s or assi woman port gned ion popularl just of women so far y to as , but ' she Sisters are has received e of quall Charity y the the ' work are no of

    and y can p obtain g the © _importunity of , carrying them on . " power We do not believe there are many well constituted minds that

    would attempt to controvert this first proposition of a fact , but with most gentlewomen it would raise the _jDractical question of , " Plow

    can I , under my circumstances , obtain the opportunity referred to in the above extract , and what are my powers for this duty ?"

    Our author refers to the fact that there are in London and many other large towns many districts almost perforce unvisited by

    gentlewomen in consequence of the distance at which the residences of the gentlefolks are , few choosing to live in or very near these

    degraded neighborhoods , which , of course , become worse and worse from the absence of those who should raise them by their example

    and help ; and to meet the wants of such neighborhoods , this is her proposition : —

    must " Whether be , for the called real a execution college , or of a this home work , or a , a hosp house ital where , or nothing gentlewomen at all ; there can

    live are to together work with , and them arrange or over their them work : th with at th each ey may other have , and mutual with protection those who

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/56/