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    ROSA BONHEUR. 227

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    XXXII.—IIOSA BONHEUR

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    -afta— At the southern end of the Rue d'...

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    -=Ss5 »-- Nearly Half A Century Lias Ela...

    in men and women for that comprehension of one another ; for that sympathin tasteshabitsand feelings ; for that mental and moral

    approximation y , ¦ without , which , , true companionship , oneness of life and beingis impossible ? "It is , " says Mrs . Jameson , in her

    , ' Communion of Labor , ' " a serious objection to present modes of education in both sexes , that nothing is done with the important aim

    of enabling them to understand each other , and work together harmoniously and trustfully in after-life . " We shall , at some future

    time , return to this subject , and endeavour to place before our readers the thoughts of our best writers upon it . The thought of

    one half century becomes the action of another ; the mass grow up to the few . Let woman put her shoulder to the slowly revolving

    wheel of progression , and she need not fear to be left behind , nor to be refused the countenance of her fellow-worker , man . There is a

    strength in unity , which , as far as the male and female element is

    concerned , the world has yet to test .

    Rosa Bonheur. 227

    ROSA BONHEUR . 227

    Xxxii.—Iiosa Bonheur

    XXXII . _—IIOSA _BONHEUR IN AUTHORISED MEMOIE .

    -Afta— At The Southern End Of The Rue D'...

    _-afta— At the southern end of the Rue d' Assas , —half made up of

    extensive gardens , the tops of whose trees alone are visible above their high stone walls—just where this retired and quiet street , as it

    , meets the Hue de Vaugirard , widens into a sort of irregular Httle square , surrounded by sleepy-looking old-fashioned houses , and

    looked down upon by the shining gray roofs and belfry of an ancient Carmelite Conventis a green garden door , surmounted by

    , the number " 32 , " which door , though not in itself distinguishable from hundreds of other green doors in Paris , is yet especially

    interesting to lovers of art , as giving admission to the pleasant precincts of the sanctum , from whose busy privacy have issued those

    chef d ' oeiwres , which have carried the name of the authoress of " The Horse Market , " and " Haymaking , " through the length and

    breadth of the civilised world , as the synonym of realistic vigour and poetic grace .

    Our ring at the bell being answered by the friendly barkings of one or two dogs , and the opening of the door by the sober-suited

    serving-man whom they accompany , we find ourselves in a garden full of embowering trees ; the house itself—a long , cosy , irregular

    building , standing at right angles with the street—being covered . with vineshoneysucklesand clematis , from one end to the other .

    _, A part of , the garden , is laid out in flower-beds ; but the greater portion of it—fenced off with a green paling , gravelled , and

    containing several sheds—is given up to the animals kept by the artist

    as her models _; . an honor shared at the present time by a horse , a

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/11/