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    846 * NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    ¦ ^* Reprin Sail Ts . . B Mrs Y Acton . ...

    " Vain are the-thousand creeds , That move Worthless men ' s he as arts withered : unutterabl weeds y vain ;

    On idlest froth amid the boundless main , , " To waken doubt in one

    Holding So so sure fas l t y anchore y thine infinity on ; The steadfast rock of immortality .

    " " With wide-enibraeing love Thy spiri Pervades t animates and eternal broods y above ears ,

    Changes , sustains , dissolves , creat , , and rears , " Though earth and man were gone ,

    And suns And and Thou universes were le ceased ft alone to be , Every existence would exist in Thee , .

    _ISTor atom " There that is his not mig room ht for could Death render , void : And what Thou Thou —Thou art may art Being never and be destroyed Breath , . "

    One characteristic trait of Emily ' s "was her intense love of home . acute Absent pain from not the onl moors y mental she but sickened physical and . " faded Every away morning , suffering 1 when

    , she woke , " writes her sister of her when resident at Hoe-Herd school" the vision of home and the moors rushed on her , and

    darkened , and saddened the day that lay before her . In this struggle her health was quickly broken ; her white face , attenuated

    form , and failing strength threatened rapid decline . I felt in my heart she would die if she did not go home . " Later in life she

    went to Brussels with Charlotte , and then her fortitude resisted for a time this natural weakness . But " she was never happy till she

    carried her hard-won knowledge back to the remote English village , the old parsonage houseand desolate Yorkshire hills . " A strange

    person she must have , seemed at first to the inhabitants of the pensionnat with her antiquated dress , gigot sleeves and straight lank

    garments , her reticence , her cold self-concentration , and her immovable will . We hear of the two sisters walking together in the

    school-grounds , Emily ( who was much the taller ) leaning on Charlotteboth profoundly silent ; if addressed by others Charlotte was

    spokeswoman , , Emily uttered no word . There were some friends of theirs in Brussels with whom they regularly spent their weekly

    holiday ; to these from the first day to the last Emily never unbent , she was impenetrable . She seems to have had a strong dislike for

    the Komish system as coming tinder her observation at Brussels ; and this together with lier uncontrollable firmness of opinion and

    purpose probably made her no docile pupil . Yet she worked very hard , and soon showed her instructors the capacities which she

    possessed . M . Heger rated her genius beyond that of Charlotte . She had a wonderful logical faculty he said ; " she should have been

    a man a great navigator . Her powerful reason would have

    846 * Notices Of Books.

    846 * NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/58/