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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 127
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CONTEMPOEAEY GERMAIN" IiITERA.TUHE NO. I...
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« Vanity Church. 2 Vols Bradfute . Saund...
show the need of women ministering-, as in olden times , to the ¦ wants of the sick and needy ; but our limited space warns us to
foe brieftherefore we must content ourselves with a few general , remarks on the book itself .
Butterfly readers need not give themselves the trouble of looking into " Vanity Church ; neither those novel skimmers , who
onlystop to read when there seems a prospect of something terrible to be revealeda mystery to be cleared upa heroine to be drowned ,
or a husband , to be arrested on the supposition , of having murdered his wife . There are certainly events and incidents which might
have been worked up to the thrilling point , but the author has not chosen to do so . With sufficient materials wherewith to construct
an admirable story , he has preferred to give a succession of pictures ; each telling a tale of its ownyet all bearing affinity one to another .
Humoursatireand sermons , are comprised in a few quaint , pithy sentences , scattered , here and there . We have a strong liking for
the kindly minister , in _sjDite of his nervousness and his objections to matrimony ; and feel with him when his warm sympathies are
wounded , as they continually are , by the selfish , heartless conduct of his ecclesiastical staff . " A Spanish _bxill-fight would be to me
a far less dreadful spectacle than to see men like Mr . Ward and Mr . Rochester take the bread out of the mouths of the poor and
put it into their own , " said he to his faitliful housekeeper Hannah , on his return from an unsatisfactory meeting of " the Board . "
As it is impossible in a short notice to take up all the points in a work of this kindwe say nothing of its literary or artistic
merits or demerits ; we , leave them for other critics and reviewers , our object being simplto draw attention to the amount of truth
contained in the varied y scenes presented to us , and to assure those of our readers who have leisure and inclination , that a few hours
spent in the perusal of these rather singular volumes will not be
time thrown away .
Notices Of Books. 127
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 127
Contempoeaey Germain" Iiitera.Tuhe No. I...
CONTEMPOEAEY GERMAIN" IiITERA . TUHE NO . II . first It is part with of pleasure an autobiograp that we draw hy latel the y published attention of by our Fanny readers Lewald to the , _**
a successful writer of fictionwho in consequence of her graceful long style , obtained her careful popularit analysis in of , her character own and and other her liberal countries spirit . , Our has
y leaders have but to turn to the catalogues of their lending * libraries to find her name inscribed sometimes on an amusing fiction which
reminiscence may beguile a which passing show hour , and of at keen others observation on books of and travel faculties and powers ,
of a higher order . _Mdlle b . Lewald at Koni was sb the daug March hter 24 of th a 1811 rich
Jewish merchant , and was orn gerg , , , * Meine LebensgescMchte . ler Abtheil . Im Vaterhause . 2 Bde . Fanny
Ije"wald .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/55/
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