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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 337
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The Excavations " Carthage at Carthage a...
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It would not be well to conclude a notice of cherries without a lance at that strange production of our Antipodes the _JExocarpus
hum g ifusus , since , though not a . Cerasus , it is always called by the colonists the " native cherry" and as an American explorer
re-, marked , with true Yankee assumption , that " whatever is , " in the United States not only _" is right / ' but the only right"it would
, be similar to our fruit of that name were the kernel in the proper (!) place . " This fruit grows in swamps on a large bush something
resembling broom , but with very succulent properties , and is a small _sweet-navored drupedistinguished by the remarkable peculiarity
, of the stone being on the outside . As regards the properties of cherries in general there is little
, to be said ; the fruit is recommended in fevers for its _refreshinoqualitiesas almost any fruit might be , but even in days when
, occult virtues were attributed to nearly everything in nature , Parkinson concludes his article upon them , not , as in the case of
most of the other fruits , with a list of the special benefits to be derived from their usebut simply with the honest avowal that " all
, these sorts of cherries serve wholly to please the palate . " Dr . Bulleynhoweverthe very earliest English writer on such subjects ,
affirms that , they , "be most excellent against hotte burning eholer , " and doubtless were an angry person always to eat half a pound of
cherries before letting out the irate thought in words , the sun would be less likely to go down upon his wrath than even were the
commonly recommended expedient resorted to of counting 100 before giving _^ vent to it , while the virtue would assuredly have done something towards securing its reward "
more " own .
Notices Of Books. 337
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The _Excavations " Carthage at Carthage and its . Remains An Article " published on Dr . D Bentley avis ' s book . entitled
Thoroughly to enjoy a new book upon Carthage , the reader should be able to look out the blue waters of the Mediterranean
upon , and to say to himself , " Four days' journey east from where I am now sitting lies the deserted port and silent shore of the great
maritime nation of the ancient world . " Such was the case with the writer of these lines , when reading
the book lately published by Dr . Davis , under the auspices of the English Governmentand I have thought that a few words from one
who possesses a tolerable , acquaintance with some of the sites of the Phoenician Empire may not be unwelcome to the readers of this
Journal . There is every reason why the relics of Carthage , chiefly consisting
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/49/
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