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142 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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The EcirVs Justice Choice of and Victori...
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The Victoria Magazine. No. Xi. London: E...
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142 Notices Of Books.
142 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
The Ecirvs Justice Choice Of And Victori...
The EcirVs Justice Choice of and Victoria other . Poems Smith ; , Elder by Sir , and William Co ., 45 A , ' Cornhill Beckett , . late Chief forth Most that modes it tly does t the preface t to the " t Earl ' s t Choice" set
ra sions ther it than disp a lays " poem oug nevertheless h ; " perh but while ps much o thus be desi bo making t g of hi no h lofty thoug ale in preten ht vers and e , -
tender , feeling pleasantly and musically expressed g . The proem , intended to indicate the character of the heroine of the stb
setting forth the author ' s ideal of womanhood , is worthy of being y not onlread but studied birl who desires to bthe
y y every g ear honoured entleman ti holds tle of essential lad y * as to " showi justif ng that what claim every . Let true the -hearted idlers
g of the fashionable world ponder this y earnest call : — " Much talk has lately heen
And Of woman what ' it s work should —of : but what all it the should talk not has be been , Of woman struggling for her daily bread
As if the one to rank and affluence born ; . Nor need nor obligation had for work . , What—whilst her lowlier sister ' s hard-tasked life
" From With no morn sweet to ni use ght of is bod one y , continued mind , or heart toil , , Is she with time and means at her command
To . For use ordering them " these but as as servile suits ministers her whim or will , Of ease and leasure from her birth to death ?
Is she to no p more high vocation called Than to take counsel of her milliner How she may shine at opera or ball ?
Her In what chariot attire or to her sit steed her ? ottoman —how deck , herself For exhibition at some fancy fair V
Or how her _pretty hand had best be gloved To take her prayer-book from the liveried slave To Standing wait on , with her powdered ere waiting head on and his God well ? -turned calf _,.
, Or let us place her in a lower rank—Offspring of parent who to industry In trade or commerce owes the wealth by which
He rears his daughter in such careful way As that she may unchallenged , stand among The ladies of the land . What is her work ,
Has she no call upon her faculties Higher than what may fitting answer find In mastery of such accomplishments
As music , drawing , dancing masters teach ? Let The these needle wh be ethe _disdained r for its , nor ac let e or use shun gr
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/70/
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