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    NOTICES OF BOOKS- 273

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    boundless by cutting wants off , this they and meet that with expense ; when they it may is , hard raise perhaps a little alread surplus y to for , make the to work the omfort

    both ends balanceor when their strength depends on c that of solitary is to be lod cut ings off , : and where they wise may division escape the of lab loneliness ourAnd and to cheerlessness be effectual

    these in existence homes is , recognised g however guaranteed , , private whose secure bthe , objects a must names be are of in known those some , and who sort . whose have institutions the management direction whose of is ,

    them conditions a . measur Can e any one for call the himself y fulfilment a thoroug of h a Protestant lain scriptural , who maintains duty are onl that y necessary p

    possible in connexion with the Komish apostasy ?" In factin every such neighborhood there should be a centre

    fo themselves r the works , may of charit receive y to instruction be carried and on gain in it _, eicperien and wher . ee e relating the ladies to

    the work they wish , to perform . necessity "Again of , if this instruction has been Is clearl to be proved given to b the the workers writers alluded themselves to above , ( and the ) it

    which is difficult they to mi see ght how live they whilst can avail y receiving themselves it y . They of it who without have such time a to home make , in find at must have

    these works their businessand not mere play , once they London the special more instruction and they live need for this most months , and , of the them in lod less to ings possible do them in order will well it to . be attend The for younger them lectures to go they work up are to

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    public those who institutions have alread ? Yet y acquired it is only it , by that practising we can really gain the knowled eye ge difficulties

    we want- —can learn how to set about ithow to undermine its , how to carry , it on . What can be taught , in and lectures , h mi it g would ht be learnt behard from to

    books individual say in what at home case books , thoug and ; but readiness h how less compendiousl to app to meet ly our each y rules , as or it thoug princi arises , ples can to onl each y be . vary taug ing ht

    by " seeing Without the some thing , security done , and , such doing as these it reall under colleges be the done eye or homes of that a mistress mi there ght afford in will the be , that art .

    the who opposition work undertake undertaken or interference it are in by some ladies between measure will the capable workers y of performing themselves , — , it of and ; charitie it that would those s be no to unwarrantableabsurdfor the responsible s

    less entrust could any Government portion , even of entrust their , real any work of the to management voluntary manager lad of y female visitors prisoners : and still to the zeal of the olunteers who chanced to reside in their neihborhood .

    Thoug sufficient h it is true reason v , that for our the having too frequent had no want work of and sober no common responsibility g sense and is a very

    justice perseverance which leads amongst us , and whilst of our doing occasional his own work failures as well in that as he practic canto al

    a person , , acknowled and though ge the , the ha ri ving ght of a real other rig peop ht work le to to do do mindedness their woul work d be the in their best it is , own if not way the ;

    at onl all y remed for giving y for us changeableness the work , until and its we narrow prove - ourselves capable , carried yet of carry no that reason ing it it

    onand are in a position to secure _being permanently on , may " , Such not fall homes throug would h when afford its the first means undertakers of carry drop ing on off . many of those works from the want of laces and

    tunity which irls for for are whom them now it . almost is The now servants impossible so difficult needed to to us find in , them first p mi laces ght , be where mainl p they y those will oppor young really g

    Notices Of Books- 273

    NOTICES OF BOOKS- 273

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/57/