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    338 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    {Continued From Page 283.) 1. The B Miss...

    "We want a _building which shall comprise a reading-room , a room for night classes , a common room for conversation , and a large lecture-room

    for will our be backward weekly meetings in giving . his Towards share . this But , there no time is not must one be in lost our . ranks who " We , want to borrow a large sum , ground being expensive in the town , to at

    beg " in With our new the exception building of once . £ 37 . given us in suins varying from 2 s . 6 d . to £ 5 , which we have devoted to tlie metis sick fundy we have been independent of

    all help towards the expenses of our work . " In tlie works above mentioneda slight sketch , has been given of

    the progress of individual effort , exerted in separate channels . While none can rise from , an honest perusal of the facts recorded

    -without their hearts being humbled within them , to see how much can be done , still it would , as it were , strengthen the hesitating zeal

    of some , and urge the desponding to perseverance , if they could see an instance of success crowned by completed results . A little

    pamphlet has just been published by Mrs . Bayly , _"with the cheering title of " Mended Homesand What Repaired Them . " We have but

    , cc to look on this picture and on that , " to place side by side the graphic description iven by the author of the " Kensington Potteries "

    g , in all their naked deformity , with their present condition , to feel . assuredthat if all has not been effected which could be desired , still ,

    enough , has "been done to satisfy the most sanguine reformer . The crude efforts to found loan societiesmothers' meetings &

    cmentioned in the earlier work have acquired , form and plan , , and , many of the suggestions made by other reformers have been put to the

    test of practical experience . It must be remembered that the inhabitants of this locality are chiefly forickmakers , a trade admitted

    to be one of the worst paid and subject to many vicissitudes , yet the large sum of £ 97 3 s . 10 d . was subscribed in one year by the poorest

    members of the community , for bibles , beds , blankets , and clothes . A considerable sum was also deposited in the penny bank , while

    the members of the mutual loan society number one hundred and sixty , of whom only two have failed in their payments . The children

    frequent the schools , and a marked difference is observable in the attendance at places of worshion the Sunday . But the great change

    to be observed is in the diminution p of drunkenness ; and it is to this that Mrs . Bayly ascribes all consequent improvement . It is as if the

    publication of Mrs . Wightman's book had brought home to lier mind with irresistible force the sad truth that intemperance is the great

    hindrance to spiritual and social improvement , and that no real good can be effected till that evil is successfully combated . It is , in her own

    emphatic words , " the insensibility to degradation which drunkenness always produces which _impedes us . Rid us of this , and you accelerate

    our pace a hundredfold ; receive it , and the path lies clear before us . " Mrs . Bayly states many hard facts as regards the statistics of

    houses drunkenness in London ; and were it may placed startle in a us row to , find they , that would if more all the than public line

    fifty of our principal streets , representing above ten thousand houses .

    338 Notices Of Books.

    338 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/50/