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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 347
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A The Farring F pleasanter .L Common .S....
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Intellectual Wome Education N. By , Emil...
passing review , and we 'would recommend our readers to get the book to the and one jud princi ge of ple it which from , its appears own merits to us . founded Our remarks on a mistake only app , and
lywhich after all would affect the woman rather than the girl . A knowle girl ' s life d must and be the chiefly to spent do so is in very laying wisel up y and stores carefull of health y pointed and way
out in this ge , volume .
Notices Of Books. 347
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 347
A The Farring F Pleasanter .L Common .S....
A The Farring F pleasanter . L Common . S . ; don with S Objec treet illustrations companion ts , 1858 of the . Country b than y Coleman the , B . y Rev the London . J Rev . G . : . " J Wood Houtledge . Gr . ' s " Wood " Common and , M Co . A . . , ,
unscientific Objects of and the yet Country inquiring " we lovers could of not nature well . Its recommend pages are to fille the d naturalistwho
with the instructive and amusing gossip of a , ardently loving nature in with her childlike varied realms licit of bird to , beast , rep with tile ,
fishand insect , unbends simpy converse the , unscientificin unscientific but graphic language , about the inconceivable marvels , of quaintness , loveliness , and to our human humbler of the
i Divine g norance would works , put od . d into ness It , is the to a simp be hands le observed and of young brig amidst ht peop spirited le the , especiall little book y of , which girls ,
we as it could not fail to interest them in minute observation of nature ; a , direction into which , of late years , the mind of woman has been hih for
drawn already with so much benefit as to lead to gaugury the future . of atural
Here is a curious little part nhistory regarding a much maligned creature , the toad . of For Kni toads hterrant , by-the-bye , Mr .
Wood appears almost in the character g-. " Like all the reptiles h , those the toad of the changes its skin , but the cast envelope The is
does reason never no found why t choose i , t is althoug not that found so much is this substance : —The serpent toad should is are an be economical common wasted . enough So animal , after . , and the the toad takes its old coat into his fore
been pa skin ws has forme and been dexterously d into entirel a ball y thrown rolls It it is , then and , taken pats it between , and twis the ts paws it , un pushe til the d coat into has the
mouthand swallowed at . a gulp like a big pill . " , , Caterpillars arewe franklconfessonly a few degrees less
, y , Wood repellant ' s anecdotes to our natural of their instinct odd than existence toads , we , but are having inclined perused to regard Mr . affection
them with a certain admiration , if not exactly . Has ever To any one it of was our a new reader idea s reflected Marvellous upon the it certainly anatomy is of , jud a caterp ging illar even ?
us . duced from a in slig our ht wood mind cut after given examining in the text this , cut and was the not sentiment unlike pro the
wonder of one of Mr . Wood ' s friends , thus described in his pages : —
_"A very forcible and unsophisticated opinion , " he observes , was once
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/59/
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