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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 131
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Contempoeaey Germain" Iiitera.Tuhe No. I...
p reader lain , needlework ) had the , advantage ( however of curious supply it ing may health appear y exertion to the both English for
himself mind and . <( " Metis body , sana and in in corpore this respect sano " would Is still have a commodity satisfied rarel Plato y is usuall
condemned to Ibe found to amongst do all us the . Either work : the men mind and w or omen the follow body the bent y consider
either of fancy or of circumstance , and do not sufficiently the tion laws which of is their in itself being a , recreation or the necessit to the y mind for that . The change import of occupa ance of
who these on homel the y sudden instructions illness of was her soon mother appreciated , found herself by our at an heroine early ,
the age , p management laced at the head of the of a children large establishment . But the even , and tenor entrusted of her with life
was At destined the conclusion soon to be of interrupted the second . volume we have romantic of
details of a love adventure which saddened the youth our the _aiithoress vows ; of and the an Christian account of reli the ion mann with er In historical whicli she took details _xipon of her the g ,
times . About this time , in consideration of services which he had his rendere name d to to his Xewald country ;'' his , Herr riches " Markus increased " , - and the was mother allowed ' s keart to change in was the
gladdened by the baptism of her children , everything famil But y was the outwardl melanchol y prosperous intelli . which had reached her of the y gence
death of her former fiance depressed the spirits and _injiired the health from seeking of Fanny assistance . A feeling or sympathy of false sh from ame , otkers -which increased deterred her the
, heaviness of her burden . She indulged in dreary misanthropy . She became subject io been singular the hallucination secret of her s happ and fancies iness were . The all
forgotten aspirations , and which were had succeeded by a distaste to exertion and a weariness of life .
" Hop * * eless * grief Full is desertnes passionless s , : 1 soulcountries lieth silentbare '
In s as , . Mdlle . Lewald has dwelt much on the peculiarities of her educaculture without
tionforgetting that there is seldom any genuine some Charles , disci Kingsley pline of " sorrow does . not " M depend y life , on my my real bein human g comfortable life / ' says
or uncomfortable , for a few skort hours here below . " We are most of us saved the blight of uninterrup to cast ted prosperity st jewel into , and the have sea no to
needlike the Libyan , king , our rare antici mist , which pate the is at pu first rpose confusing of Providence to the . si Time ght , and clear men s aw learn ay much to acknow of the
ledge at last , — " That Of what God He , wko seems takes to take away ; , yet or g takes ives it not back half _J their "
Not to tkeir prayer , but far beyond prayer .
Notices Of Books. 131
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 131
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/59/
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