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BOOKS OF THE MONTH. 137
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Books Op The Month. The List Of Works Re...
Tlie Society for Promoting" Christian Knowledge have issued some little workswhich may be useful additions to lending libraries .
" The Book , of Trades / ' being practical illustrations of various manufactures . " Sketches of Rural Affairs _, " by Mrs . Toinlinson , a
popular and similar handbook to the Farm , the Fold , and the I ) airy . Also" The History of Printing" very neatly boundwith a
• well-executed , portrait of Caxton in . an , illuminated border . , It is admirably suited for a reward book .
We may notice among children ' s books a new edition of " Summer Songs for Winter Days . " ( Routledge . )
Partridge has lately published some shilling books by Mrs . Clara Lucas Balfourbeing stories with a temperance moral .
By the author , of " Ploughing and Sowing " is " An Address to Farm Servants . " ( Mozley . )
The latest importations from America relate chiefly to _jDolitical questions .
Some elaborate Maps of both the Northern and Southern' States have been published by Cotton .
" The Deeper Wrong ; or , Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , " ( Tweedie ) is an addition to the romance of slavery . The editor
Mrs . Child , vouches the work to be a genuine autobiography . , , Miss Maling has another manual nearly ready , on ' Flowers for
Ornament and Decoration . " ( Smith , and Elder . ) We understand that the Queen has been pleased to accept from
the authoress a copy of her work " Life among the Colliers . " " London Cab Fares" official tables for the card-casecontaining
above 29 , 000 references , , ( Houlston , ) will be found a useful , little handbook . Reference to it during the coming busy season may
save annoying perplexities . A Catalogue of their school-books and educational works has just
been issued by Messrs . Longman and Co . It forms a neat quarto of upwards of 100 _j ) _ages . The same firm will publishon the first of
, May , the first part of " The British Mechanics' Journal of the Great Exhibition , " to be completed in twelve numbers .
The library formed by the late Miss Richardson Currer , of Eshton HallYorkshireis to be sold by Messrs . Sotheby and
Wilkinson in , the course , of the present season . Miss Currer was an indefatigable collector ; in 1838 Mr . C . J . Stewart , of King
William Street , prepared a catalogue of her library , which , when printedextended to a volume of 500 pages .
, "A Manual of Wood Carving , " edited by W . Bemrose , with an Introduction by L . Jewitt ( Whittaker , ) may prove useful to those
, desirous of learning this useful and elegant art .
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Books Of The Month. 137
BOOKS OF THE MONTH . 137
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/65/
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