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BOOKS OF THE MONTH. 279
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Books Of The Month. Mr. Murray's List Of...
of " Art Lines for Illuminating , " and other art publications . It is dedicated ( without their permissionsay the modest authors ) to the
Ladies of England . It is a protest , against the universal _adojotion of any colour in articles of dresswhether fashion able or other wise
, , adverse as a practice to all " notions which of must propriet ever y prove in colour painful . " After in its anal effects ysing , and the
effect of various tints and hues on different _tyjDes of female complexion , the pamphlet winds up with a chapter on the Expression
of Colour . u Colours are symbols , that is , they have the power of originating in the mind certain ideasapart from anything' in .
connexion with their physical existence , . These attributes have been given by nature herself ; the natural expression of colours has
become their symbolic value . " This is really a charming little work .
" How to Nurse the Sick" is a new pamphlet in Mr . Jarrold _' s Household Series . It is not didactic , bufc the moral is conveyed in
a livel The y prospective story . pamphlet on the i ( Milldown School Endowment , ' _*
printed and published by Miss Eaithfull , concerns a pro - -posed middle-class schoolto be established in or near Blandford in .
, Dorsetshire . In a note hy the donor , Thomas Horlock Bastard , it is stated that the school was originally proposed to be for girls only ,
chiefly because hitherto so little has been done for their education _, in comparison with what has been done for that of boys but this
was outweighed by the consideration of there being , need for improvement in the education of both , and of the advantages which
are found to result from educating' boys and girls together . A _, special condition is made that whatever other subjects are taught _,,
physiology , in connexion with the laws of health , shall be a prominent branch of education in the schooland it is recommended
, , without its being made an absolute condition—that economic science , in illustration of the laws of industry and wealth , shall be another
branch of the education bestowed ; also that accounts and bookkeeping shall be carefully taught , with a view to qualifying the
pupils for maintaining themselves in business situations , and that the practice of needlework , housework and gardening , shall be
systematically pursued . The management of the school will be entrusted to seven personsconsisting of the three trusteesand
four other persons , two of , whom shall be , and three may , be , women .
" Light in dark Days , " Simpkin & Marshall , is a series of meditations for Lentinterspersed with tenderdelicatereliious poems
by a lady from America , , now resident in Eng , land . , Mrs g . Eckley was , - a pupil of Margaret Fuller ' s , when she gave those remarkable
intellectual classes at which the flower of the young maidens of Boston used to attend , and which are described so well and vividly in
Margaret Fuller ' s Biography . In later years , Mrs . Eckley , then
Books Of The Month. 279
BOOKS OF THE MONTH . 279
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/63/
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