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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 347
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Lays of Lowly JLife, By Ruth Wills. Lond...
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The Excavations " Carthage At Carthage A...
an olive-tree outside the Mil ) , is unknown . At last the men came and told Mm that they had discovered a chamber without any niches ,
"but when he examined it he found that the niches were only stopped bcement _" on wMch the marks of the hand of him that did it
up y , were of the distinctl seven-branche y to be d candlestick seen . On one and we on another observed the a letters representation " A P " ;
the remaining' eight were . quite p , lain . We broke through the thin layer of cementand found the skeleton just as it was deposited .
It was coffee color , in appearance , and crumbled to dust so soon as touchedBut no other object was visible ; neither ornament , nor
. coin again , nor upon lamp empty could chambers be discovered , and . occasionall In the vicinit y we y found of this one we or came two
of I the must recep not tacles conclude occupied my . paper without saying that I visited the
Mil of St . Louis so frequently referred to by Dr . Davis , and supposed b by elieve many it to to be have the been ancient so . citadel St . Louis of Carthage of France , thoug , who h died he does here not in the little
natives crusade chapel 1270 , while at at procured the this making summit day him b . elieve a such crusade The he a saintl reputation became against y _virtiies on Tunis throug his he , deathbed is exhibited hout _biiried Islam a in in convert that his first the to
the Saed reli ( Father gion of of the Happ Prop iness het ) , (!) and , that is he actuall changed after y interred him his Sidi name in a to village Saed
Bouthree or four miles to the north , called Bou-. sanctit To this village is attached , on ! that The very French account obtaine , a character d a ant of of the extraordinary hill of St . gr
Louis from y the Tunisian Governmentshortly after their capture of Algiersand it is more than suspected , that they hope to use it as a
, military I will position conclude . by ing that our readers will find at the British
Museum several mosaics say and marblestogether with . various Punic inscritionsand that Dr . Davis intends , to publish an illustrated
descri p ption , of all the antiquities discovered and removed by him , which may _probably be heard of from his publisher B . , K Mr . P . . Bentley Aliers . .
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Notices Of Books. 347
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 347
Lays Of Lowly Jlife, By Ruth Wills. Lond...
Lays of Lowly JLife , By Ruth Wills . London : Simpkin & Marshall .
The writer of these poems has worked from childhood in a Leicester "warehouseand is one of the many examples of self-taught intellect
of no mean , order . The poems , themselves , which have obtained great popularity in Ruth Wills little ' native town , have h a which sweet precedes natural
them beauty struck about us them as so , — well and worth the y of reprint autobiograp in a j y ournal devoted to the interests of women of all classesthat we ive it entire ; followed
by one of the poems of a local interest , in her g native country , to
which the Queen Anne Boleyn belonged .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/59/
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