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278 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Our Farm of Four jLcres, and the JS£oney...
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And here we must take our leave of a very entertaining and instructive "book , and heartily congratulate its author on the well
merited success it has attained .
278 Notices Of Books.
278 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Our Farm Of Four Jlcres, And The Js£Oney...
Our Farm of Four jLcres , and the JS £ oney we made by it _.
Chapman and Hall . life We have than b rarel this y been descri more ption interested of the in farming any little experienc study f e of rea two l
ladies _desolate , , si b sters sudden y , who when bereavement their " " once made happy their home minds was to retire dere to d up
the country y with , their household , consisting of six children and two servantsand there live like Adam upon the sweat of the brow .
The tale is told , with , the charming simplicity which gave to Miss Mitford ' s stories a savor like that of wild fruits and flowers , and fl
which seemed to have died out with her , leaving among our emae writers and soar an up everlasting to the heights tendency of philosop to dive hy into " , We in would every the dep sketch not ths touch of , h passion owever with slihtwhich proceeds from their .
our g irreverent , hand the delicate outlines pen of a domestic history which thus is say onl ing gather y that indicated up it is the a in shattered beautiful the faintest fragments and manner a wholesome of , home but power we life cannot , and which find forbear could new which bind
growth and fresh zest in those rural avocations our lasting their race most charms change closel , the y can to being their hardl whose mother y fail dail to earth y catch routine . indeed some When depends insp must the iration season be on that their from s renew mind ever the
varying influence of the hour . Morbid * and summer hopelessl satisfy y , crushed nor autumn that chasten heart , which with business spring its of solemn the cannot charm cheer , h " , when nor
And each is there intimatel is a y certain connected power with of the reality in this little passing pamphlet our . , which sts much more than it expressesand though the
details be sugge in homely prose , we feel the poetry which , is everywhere implied in such a life the fresh dewy mornings on which the
butter was churnedthe ; hot noon when the animals dozed in the meadowand the silver , eve when the flowers shut up their cups , and
the children , were folded in their quiet cots , giving those who had labored so hard since early dawn amidst the powers of nature , leisure
to The consider first the chapter ways discusses of God to the man question . " Where shall we live ?" small house
Our ladies had been advised by " friends " to take a out of one of the London squares , and there to bring up the six whose
children after the dreary fashion of little Londoners , mammas
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/62/
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