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V BOOKS OF THE MONTH. 139
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Books Op The Month. The Medical Professi...
who , as consul of tlie colonies contributing * the medicines here reported was most desirous that I should publish at once the
result . Of upon some , of these medicines , the results have been of a negative character ; some are of equal value , but not superior , to
those we are accustomed to use , and of which an ample supply can always be obtained . . . . But there are someand many may be
, found ere this examination is complete , of undoubted value , and worthy a place in our Pharmacopoeia . "
Among the wedding-gifts to the Princess of Wales , is a volume of oriinal contributions in poetry and prosebriefly named " A
Welcome g . " * It opens well with a dedication in , verse , by Mr . Edwin Arnold . Among the longer poems , we are inclined to give the
preference to " The Loreley , " by Owen Meredith . Miss Isa Craig ' s " Ich Dien" and " March Violets " are very pretty . Of the prose
contributions , , the . most amusing is a sketch entitled " Miss Ophelia Oledd" in which the knotty questionWhat is a lady ? is treated
hy Mr , . Anthony Trollope with his usual , humour and fineness of touchbut not without falling into some of the confusions almost
, inseparable from the subject . In the spring of the year 1862 , Mr . Tucker , Vice-President of
the _Faringdon Agricultural Library , offered a prize of fifty guineas for the best essay f on " the Dwellings of the Labourer in the
Agricultural Districts of England : —1 . Tracing and explaining the cause of their present crowded and defective condition , with any
authentic information illustrative of that condition . 2 . The effects , moral and hysicalwhich such condition have upon the inmates .
3 . Suggestions p as to , the best practical means of ameliorating the evilseither by compulsory legislatureor otherwise . _" The
successful , Essay is now published as a " contribution , towards forming that public inion" on which we must mainly depend for effecting
the objects in op view . , The Essay is divided into three parts , headed , The Evil—Its Causes—The [ Remedy . The subject is carefully and
elaborately discussed ., without exaggeration , by one whose views appear to have been formed upon actual observation . Tables of
statistics are given , but these appear to us less telling than the occasional remarks showing personal acquaintance with the matters
under discussion . The apathy of the poor inhabitants of unhealthcottages is fully admitted and wisely accounted for . ILady
visitors y are constantly struck by the heartlessness and listlessness of poor housewives , morbidly contented in an atmosphere of dirt
and discomfort which ought to be intolerable , and a great deal of excuse is made for the husband , who , finding his home so
miser-Printer * A Welcome and Publisher . Contributions in Ordinary in to Pier Poetry Majesty and Prose Princes . Emil Street y Faithfull Hanover _y
, , Square f Labourers . ' Cottages in the Agricultural Districts of England Price Is . LondonJarrold
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V Books Of The Month. 139
V BOOKS OF THE MONTH . 139
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 139, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/67/
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