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420 BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
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BOOKS OP THE MONTH.
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" The Sisters tend constantly in the hospitals more than 200 sick—and in increased the the ambulance , a of certain the from proportion 1 , 800 and to to 2000 the of in Sisters a month will . be Wh more en the speciall numb y er devoted is further to
visiting poor teaching of poor children . " *
420 Books Of The Month.
420 BOOKS OF THE MONTH .
Books Op The Month.
BOOKS OP THE MONTH .
Ukdeb the title of " Studies in Animal Life , " ( Smith & Elder , ) Mr . George Henry Lewes has published in a collected form his
contributions to the Cornhill Magazine . Additions have been made to each chapterand the whole work has undergone very careful
revision . The volume , , besides wood-cuts , has a colored lithograph illustration by Messrs . Day & Son .
" The Science of Home Life , " by Albert J . Bernays , ( W . H . Allen ) is based on the third Edition of " Household Chemistry . "
The w , ork describes in a popular way the chemistry of the atmosphereand of coalsgascandleswaterand other articles of
domesti , c use , besides , that of , the ordinary , food , on the breakfast and dinner table .
" The Field Botanist ' s Companion / ' by Thomas Moore , may prove a useful manual of reference , it is illustrated by colored
plates . " Unto this Last" by John Ruskin ( Smith & Elder ) is the
somewhat whimsical , title given to the , four Essays on , Political Economyoriginally written for the Cornhill Magazinehut now
published , in one small volume . In the preface Mr . Ruskin , declares he has " nothing to modify" though the Essays werehe
says , " reprobated in a violent manner , by most of the readers they , met with . " In this book Mr . Ruskin opposes the recent doctrines
of political economy as taught by Mr . Mill and others , and sketches the outline of a new system .
" Predictions Realized in Modern Times , " by Horace Welby , ( Kent ) is a curious compilation of facts anticipated . The book is
, anecdotical and somewhat in the style of Mr . Timbs' works ; each anecdote or quotation from a past writer presenting a remarkable
instance of historical predictions , discoveries or inventions . The " Memoirs of Thomas Bewick" written by himself (
Longman & Co ., ) after remaining five and , thirty years in manuscri , pt , have at last been presented to the public . Irrespective of the
interest always excited in tracing the history of self-made men , the work is valuable to the student as a commentary on
"woodengraving . It is embellished by numerous wood-cuts , designed and engraved by the author , and never before published .
Count Charles Arrivabene , under the title of " Italy and Victor Emmanuel , " ( Hurst & Blackett , ) makes a valuable contribution
bo , * und " It to should remain be in added the establishment that the Sisters more take than no one vows , and . " that they are not year
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/60/
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