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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 207 >v
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Thoughts Joll on the y. Vocation Second ...
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A few Words about Children Liongman . Ad...
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Sanitary Tracts. Four new tracts have be...
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Harmony Miss Sarah Of Jsducation Jolly. ...
children ; it Is written in a wise and comprehensive spirit , and
throws session of considerable this faculty li by ght the on young the difficulties 1 . which attend the pos-
Notices Of Books. 207 >V
_NOTICES OF BOOKS . 207 > v
Thoughts Joll On The Y. Vocation Second ...
Thoughts Joll on the y . Vocation Second Edition and Progression . Simpkin and Marshall Teacher , London . 13 > j Miss . Sarah
Ak earnest loving appeal to the teacher , based on a recognition of the dignity and importance of her vocation . Both these little
books are written from an orthodox point of view , but , apart from religious tenets , they offer much that is valuable to the general
reader interested in the subjects of which they treat .
A Few Words About Children Liongman . Ad...
A few Words about Children _Liongman . Addressed , and Co ., chiefl lionclon y to . IShirsemaicls . Price 1 s ,
Sixty _j _> ages of sound practical advice , both as to moral and hysical management . A little book which ladies should present to
the p young nurses and nursemaids of their acquaintance , having first perused It' themselves . The author notes and laments the
difference between the _jDresent generations of servants and those who have gone beforeand is . at a loss to understand the fatal
alterations -which have , taken place in the character of servants . We confessfor our own partthat -we hold the mistresses much more
responsible , for this change , than the servants . The exaggerated claims of dress and society which characterize the jxresent , leave
little thought or time to the mistress of the household for that knowledge of her servants' characters and dispositionsand that
regard for their well-being-, which in the good old days , converted domestic service into a service of love . The family servant many of
us remember , was the family friend- —identified with the joys and sorrows of her employers , between whom and herself there were
sympathy and confidence . How many modern mistresses know or care what their servants feel and thinkor care that they should feel
or think at all , so that they can screw , out of them what they consider the due amount of mechanical service for the pay given ?
And while thus treated , how can we wonder that servants on their sideive as little as they canand " better themselves" as the
phrase , g is , for a pound or two , a year more . To servants , as to friendswe must give ours elves if we would have more than eye and
lip service , . Where there are faithful and attached servants we may
be sure that the masters have loving hearts and ready _sj _^ npathies _*
Sanitary Tracts. Four New Tracts Have Be...
Sanitary Tracts . Four new tracts have been lately issued by the Ladies' Sanitary
-Association ; two of them , _" the Power of Soap and Water , _" " Household Verses on Health and Happiness , " are adapted for
distribution other two among are of the a poor higher , and class are ; very the good one being of their a kind lecture . The on
* ' Healthy Dwellings , and prevailing' Sanitary Defects in the Homes
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/63/
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