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    272 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    XL.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    «e&- > Meport The Report upon the of the...

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    " So this is one of the practical results of your ' English . Woman ' s Journal / " said Mrs . Grundy , as , having bid the manager good-bye ,

    we 66 were Yes , " recrossing was our Russell concise rep Square ly , for . the morose silence of our

    companion had begun to tell upon the natural or acquired sweetness of our editorial temper .

    " I don't see why it could not have been done just as well without the ' English "Woman ' s Journal' as with it" said the

    pro-, voking old lady ; " it is clearly woman ' s work . " " Clearly woman ' s work" she kept reiterating in a dogmatic _knock-one-down tone that

    sent the , Journal , editors and all , to the right about , as rather standing in the way of legitimate and rational employment for women ,

    than helping by all means in their power to promote it . '' Clearly woman ' s workand if you want me to say more in favor

    of your pet Journal you must , show me something very different to this ; " and so saying , Mrs . Grundy gathered her ample skirts about

    her and retreated into the depths of her comfortable brougham , rolling off , we inwardly felt , to tell her friends and acquaintances

    that there was nothing new _Linder the sun , and that the u English Woman ' s Journal" and the Victoria Printing Press were no

    exception to the rule .

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    272 Notices Of Books.

    272 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    Xl.—Notices Of Books.

    XL . _—NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    «E&- > Meport The Report Upon The Of The...

    « e & - > Meport The Report upon the of the proposed Workhouse Industrial Visiting Home Society for Young for 1860 Women . , and " the

    Cor-The _resjiondence Journals w of ith the the jPoor Worhhouse -Laio Board Socie . ty for February and for uipril . St Worhhouse . Joseph ' s Orp Industrial hans . Institute [ Reprinted . from Longman the . " Irish 1860 , Quarterly Keview " for

    January , 1860 . Wje have here several pamphlets on the most vexed question of

    modern legislation . The first on the list was read by Mr . G . W . Hastings , at the Annual Meeting of the Society , held at Willis ' s

    Rooms on the 15 th instant . We give the greater part of the report , as embodying the objedts and present state of the Society in the

    most efficient manner . and " Since subscribers our last added meeting to our there number have , many been of one whom hundred have and sent ten subscri members ptions in

    manner or donations that from the interest different in parts the Society of the country is now , widely which diffused shows . a satisfactory visitors year ciety " With in has reporting in been twelve regard established results of to the the number metropolitan ; , but we there find of workhouses the are workhouses now same at difficulty in least alone which one as the hundred we work expressed of and the forty last

    So-. number " In some has been other multi instances lied , and where their visitors visits have went been casuall more y or freel sing y permitted ly , their p ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/56/