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NOTICES OF BOOKS - 341
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{Continued From Page 283.) 1. The B Miss...
to " Our Houseless Poor ' and it is with , much pleasure that we return to so excellent a publication , . In the short notice of the book
extracts in were such given trades of as facts shirtmaking relating to artificial the low flowers wages & paid c . At to
present author women , as we regards would rather devising dwell means upon for the , effectuall suggestions y carry made , ing by out the
measures towards the relief of distress . "We are all but too conversant with tales of sorrow ; we gladly turn to remedies . And
for this reason we have delayed noticing till now the book character entitled " than Earning of a the Living works / ' before -which mentioned is of a . more Like the the oretical other any
writersthe author alludes to the miseries of the poor both in town and country , ; to the evils of them out-door for labor the duties for women of the , making wife - and the
girls rough and unfitting mother carious ; livelihood to the danger ained of in the mills hop-garden but it ; is to her the remarks hard and made pre-;
upon the subject now g so much under discussion , the introduction of educated women as home missionaries who shall yet be
remunerated for their serviceswhich render her work particuso larl fraug y suggestive ht with . argument But not thoug , to enter h hereafter at present we hop upon e to a return topic
to the subject , we would , rather impress upon the minds of our readers the necessity of co-operation . In the books to which we have alludedwe have traced the progress of
individual exertion moving in , different channels , yet actuated by the one leading motive . Even in so short mutual a period assistanc which has has elapsed been
since the commencement of the work , e led _rendered the by aid one she worker received to from the Mrs other . Wi . Thus htinan , Mrs ' s work . Bayly " Haste acknow to - g ,
how gath the ges Rescue ers to many , " in a hint mothers organizing from ' meetings the temperance Reformer and influence of societies the Kensington , the while women the Potteries . latter And
so it must manage ever be ; and this is one reason why we call particular attention to these books and have thus classified them for consideraared to the
tion sheaf . of The arrows power by of which co-op the eration minister may soug well ht be to comp convince asunder a lie
adsheaf strong b of eyond monarch arrows his stron . strength The gly minister bound yet when together bade taken the ; he kin sing essayed g ly snap the , but darts the work were a
broken was with facility . By , two of the above writers this principle Is distinctly acknowledged . The first quotation shall be from " Life
Work " : — W " To have recur been to urged the point by circumstances we started with . — form viz and ., liel ourselves our working and the into with avoidance a bod others y of of . '
irreg o co f - their workers ularities first in . London Private porter , s for missions ; or mutual , perhaps have conference , the a tendency industrial the to element die Bible p , out with gets the upp wh ermo removal ich st is ;
a or great the woman misdemeanor is paid from in the free view contributions of that Society to to us Society so friendl — y and
Notices Of Books - 341
NOTICES OF BOOKS - 341
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/53/
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