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      Journal Of The Workhouse Visiting Societ...

      Glasgow , September , 1860 . Tlie work to which . Miss Twilling" devotes herself withso much energy and tact is scarcely less onerous

      , than the fabled Augean feat of Hercules . A very slight acquaintance with our workhousesand more especially with those huge

      asylums of want and misery , which the metropolis " coldly furnishes forth" for the sick and indigent _jDoor , will at once

      satisfyany one as to the necessity of the work Miss Twining has undertakenand the enormous _difficLilties which attend it . Should a

      casual , visitor to one or other of these workhouses find his or her sympaththereby excited for their wretched inmates ( and it cannot

      fail to be y so ) let it be remembered that there is a Society for the improvement and amelioration of their condition , and that those

      who cannot help with _tjie work of their own hands , can strengthen the hands of those earnest workers already engaged , in a thousand "

      posal ways , b o y f g _influence iving what symp , ( little athy or and much money , ) they . may Miss have Twining at their 1 in dis her

      paper , urges the necessity , of investi , gation into the details of workhouse management , and forcibly represents the condition of the sick ,

      and the urgent need of a better class of nurses for them .

      Notices Of Books. 279

      NOTICES OF BOOKS . 279

      The Shadow In The M House Artyrdom . A ,...

      The Shadow in the M House artyrdom . A , " Novel & c . , liockwood by J . Sounders and Co , . Author of " Love ' s

      Mb . _Saundeks has given us unquestionably a very remarkable book ; one which has the peculiar depth and force , mixed with minute and

      delicate painting * , which characterizes the school of our best modern novels . We find a strength and reality in this , and in some other

      similar works , before which a former class of books , admired by our grandmothersfades into a shadowy prettiness ,. much like the

      miniatures of the , same grandmothers , where a bit of washed out blue ska fluttering scarfand a faded simper , were supposed to

      y , , make up a striking- likeness of a living" woman . The Pre-HafFaelite School has its companion movement in

      literature , and when we . say that Mr . Sounders's heroine has freckles , and his hero is short and inclining to be stout , we think we have

      certified his claim to be ranked among those who do not choose to dress up nature in any garb save the one she is likely to wear , or to hide

      one of her flaws and wrinkles . Although Mr . Saimders , as we have saidis eminently true and faithfulfor the most j _> art , in the

      handling , of his materials , we must confess , those materials are somewhat melodramatic . Mrs . RadclifFe herself might be satisfied

      with the' incidents , and the truer and more forcible the way in which they are presented to us , the more startling and unpleasant

      they are to our nerves . Revenge , jealousy _^ murder , and suicide , carried on in a modern

      country-house , are not improbable indeed—witness our newspaper columns—but decidedly more disagreeable to read of , than when

      placed before the old conventional background of a haunted castlo

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/63/