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204 NOTICES OP BOOKS,
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Preachings A Few Out For Of Woman Thousa...
alone ; and before turning over the pages of the volume now before us , we were haunted by a fear lest the few out of thousands might
turn pedestals themselves out , to at be whose Not a given being feet number at all all inferior of iven model to bits hero of men humanit or and heroine women y were worshi p to lace p abase d the on
. g , pre-supposed materiel did not meet with our approbation . "We werehoweverspeediland agreeablundeceived , the " few" being
a series , of faithful , portraitures y , selected y as types of certain classes . The truth-loving authoress gives us sketches of human beings ,
not as they ought to be , but as they are , graphically depicted and indeed boldly drawn onla . few We out wish of , the in some myriads of the in this examp vast les city , that who there undergo were
the trials , y privations , and sorrows , so plainly and painfully placed before But us we b must y Augusta not let Johnstone it be imag . ined that all the pictures in the
social aspects chosen by the authoress are gloomy ; genial and cheering lights intermingle with the darker shadows , and brighten
the clouds . A few of the characters are , we hope , slightly overdrawn , such as
" Jacob Winch . " The lion-hearted Lydia who saved her young and beautiful workwoman from the perils of seduction , by taking her
at midnight and showing her in what black horrors the luxury and pleasure Mephistop of a heles few short knew years how best terminate to induce , is well poor drawn Margaret . to listen ,
when he placed the casket of jewels in her way ; and now , as are in the the lures days ; of pity Faust it — is tiny that watches women , in gold the there chains better is , and classes " to charms live do not for "
prove to their sisters beneath them that more than rich dresses , gold bracelets , and paste diamonds . " The Bread Winners" is another excellent sketch . A picture
too frequently seen in real flesh and blood . The good for nothing son spending his own , then his sisters' fortunes , the latter working
to maintain the useless member of the family , until , after many attempts of gifts , from the three charitable now aged friends gentlewomen . We could are name compelle several d to others accept
by equall one y whose good , but heart we is recommend warm in the the cause ht book to have of to reformation our a de readers interest in , as morals . written The , a in which woman ep
cause every oug effects elaborate style of produced the word authoress b ainting y powerful is and plain in strokes , some { straig instances of htforward the pen elegance , and rather rap of id than diction , —the by
love other is sacrificed of and sty when le ; , nevertheless we p Miss forgive Johnstone , , the as our faults love again of of the takes truth one up is for greater her the pen sake , than perhaps of our the
she will , here and there refine a little . Thoughtless readers are apt to a woman writes coarselwhen she expresses herself strongly ,
and say this idle saying prevents many y from writing with the force and
energy they otherwise would do , were it . not for fear of this foolish
204 Notices Op Books,
204 NOTICES OP BOOKS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/60/
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