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344 NOTICES OF BOOKS*
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Intellectual Wome Education n. By , Emil...
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Jlcgends And Lyrics, Bell A Book And Of ...
N ( All i real his Po dream et ever but wrote the in diviner numbers t ; pary
Hidden In the from voiceless all the silence world of , spake his heart to him _onljr *
80 Are with twin Love mysteries ; for Love different and Art yet united the same
Poor indeed would be , the love of any _; Who could find its full and perfect name _*
Love All may its boundless strive , but riche vain s to is unfold the endeavor Still its tenderesttruest secret lingers ; -
Ever in its deepest , depths untold . Things Art and of Time Love have speak voices but : their speak words and must perish be .
Like sighings of illimitable ; forests , And waves of an unfathomable sea . Vigorous and healthy as the tone of these " Legends and Lyrics
unquestionably is , a minor key of sadness runs throughout them * It is so in life , in the life of man and in the life of nature . A
June day lias its _undercurrent of sadness , and the best and bravest among us , the truest and the tenderest , is least exempt from , the
_* _' noble sorrow of sinning and suffering humanity . " _*' - Song is but the eloquence of truth . "
To this volume , which , will itself become a " Household Word , " we
honestly and cordially commend our readers .
344 Notices Of Books*
344 NOTICES OF BOOKS *
Intellectual Wome Education N. By , Emil...
Intellectual Wome Education n . By , Emil and its y _Snirreff Influence . - on John the "W O " . 7 Parker iaracter and and Son _Hapj . _rihess of
This solid volume bears the marks of much wise and fruitful thought on the technicalities of tuition . The best way of
communicating intellectual ideas to the young , the age at which different studies should commence , the supreme care which should be
expended on the physical training of young girls ; all these points are dealt with in a method that shews the author to be one of those
who live and learn with the times , But we should be ill-performing the special function of a reviewer for such a journal as the one for
which we are writing , if we failed to - say that one of the main principles of the book is laid down in what ? appears to us direct
defiance of the inevitable laws by which the Creator developed human character , whether of men or of women ,
Miss _ShirrefF regards the women of the upper and middle classes as exempted from hard and hearty work , whether manual
or mental , She half regrets this , but she accepts the exemption as an inevitable necessityand she lays down a . s _tke first duty of the
, teacher of girls , to awaken in their minds a pure love of knowledge , which shall powerfully help to keep them fresh and animated
_$ throug ie joy hout ful ne an cessit uneventful y of active career exertion , _unstim . ulated by ambition , or b j _?
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/56/
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