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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 63
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2.—Year After Year. By the Author of * P...
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* * 1.—The Angel John In The W House . P...
bering Mr . Patmore _' s earliest poems , published from ten to fifteen years agothat some gentle remonstrances have been from time to
, time infused into his ear , and that in deference to them he has put a stronger line to his portraits here and there , and given his ladies
more of the individuality they would certainly require in this worka-day world . We think he would hardly now describe ( as in his
first volume ) a fine and noble woman first consenting to read , and then being morally destroyed by—French novels ! We conclude by
quoting the prelude to canto seven , which contains an affirmation which should satisfy his female readers that he pays them honour
due : —¦ " To heroism and holiness How hard it is for man to soar
But how much harder to be less , Than what his mistress loves him for ! There is no man so full of pride ,
And none so intimate with shame , And none to manhood so denied , As not to mend if women blame .
Or He merit does with this , ease and what nought do ' s he debarr must _ed , From man , "when woman shall be just
In yielding her desired regard . Ah On , her wasteful sweet woman self set , her she own who price may
Knowing he cannot choose but pay , , How has she cheapen'd paradise ! How iven for ht her priceless gift
gnoug , How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine , Which spent with due , respective thrift ,
Had made brutes men and men divine . "
Notices Of Books. 63
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 63
2.—Year After Year. By The Author Of * P...
2 . —Year After Year . By the Author of * Paul Ferroll . ' Saunders and Otley .
In days such as these , when everybody writes books , the reader . or reviewer hails with satisfaction the appearance of a new work by a
known and popular author , and settles himself down complacently for some hours of quiet and uninterrupted enjoyment , with
somewhat of the same feeling with which one prepares to pass an evening , after a prolonged absencewith an old and valued friend . The
, earlier pages may be shy and coy , glancing over the surface of thingsas is almost always sure to be the case in the first moments
of renewed , intercourse with an old friend ; but we know there are better and deeper things before us , and so , whether as reader or
friend , we press courageously on ; and only when the reading is overthe last page of the book turnedor the good-bye spoken and
the hall , -door closed , do we venture to , ask ourselves where are the fire and force of other days—where the tenderness and pathos which
so endeared both author and friend to our remembrance ?
After this , need we say that * Year after Year' is a disappoint-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/63/
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