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350 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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A.n Old Debt. By Florence Dawson. Two Vo...
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Homer D.C.L And .M. The P. For Homeric T...
his the daug violence hi hters h , maidens and tion depravity , of wives the . nature of The Clyt descri emnes of woman ption tra , which . For the the g enuine Poet has coun tion given terpar as us t t of of t gconcep
nature is elevated and pure , does it become more s , hamefu propor l and degraded wickedness when , by a . total suppression of its better instincts , it has been given over to
women " Of t of Homer minor i betray nfirmit much ies of our less na than ture , the as well men as . of _Nowhere its grosser has faults he intro , the - ins duced tance into of a the prominent kind is position among the a portion character of of the a vicious female woman attendants . The in onl the y
w palace illing of tools Ul , ysses having , where at , first out been of fifty the , no reluctant more than victims twelve , of were the l at ust last of t the he loffc proud criminal and rapacious in the band of ective Suitors of . the Clytemnes bu tra t , her indeed wickedness , appears too as is a
H wholl omer y y derivative informs us , , _^ she g persp ist had hus corrup been t a s her rig poem ht by -minded a , long course person . effor * t * , , *¦ , , * the There woman is not of Homer single case is profoundl in the poem feminine s to qualif y secon the d l serva that tion she , first is , com that
monly the prop of virtue , rarely the y instrument , and ( y in , this reversing the order of the first temptation ) never the source , of corruption . " "We offer no apology for tlie length of these extracts . They are
invaluable as a picture of Homeric women , and could not have been farther curtailed without injury . To those who may be tempted to
read commend " Homer those and portions the Homeric referring A 1 to ge Helen " for , themselve as full of s , graceful we strong and ly
subtle analysis , and we can only regret that our space forbids the
transferring of Mr . Gladstone ' s vivid picturing * to these pages .
350 Notices Of Books.
350 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
A.N Old Debt. By Florence Dawson. Two Vo...
_A . n Old Debt . By Florence Dawson . Two Vols . Smith and Elder , Cornhill .
The Laird of _JVbrlaw . By the Authoress of " Mrs . Margaret Maitland . " Hurst and Blackett .
Female Pens , like every thing * else female , are very busy at the present time ; very active , and most especially active in the task of
novel writing . So much so , that it is only now and then we can pause to pick up one or two specimens from the quantity which are
weekly floating by , and , from their inspection endeavor to discover whether the type of hero and heroine which happened to _Tbe in
vogue last year is yet dethroned , and whether the special moral which was pointed at us six months ago is still the one only lesson
to be drawn from life , —as represented in the orthodox three-volume form . Of the two novels before us 'An Old Debt' is , we imagine , by
a young writer ; the ' Laird of Norlaw' is , as we know , by a practised hand and an old favorite with the public .
Facility in writing and earnestness of purpose are so general now , that if there had been nothing more in 'An Old Debt , ' we should
or inseparable scarcel rather y have story from noted , great inexperience it ; talent but it in , seem there the s representati to is us remarkable that , on in sp of skill ite character of in the the faults , p and lot ,
occasional passages of very deep and pathetic beauty . There are
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/62/
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