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414 NOTICES OF BQOES*
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' " The Intellectual Ohserver" illustrat...
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The Poet's Children. By Mary Street Howi...
shorter ones are perhaps too fanciful for any but very thoughtful or imaginative children , though such , we believe , would delight in them .
414 Notices Of Bqoes*
414 NOTICES OF BQOES *
' " The Intellectual Ohserver" Illustrat...
' " The Intellectual _Ohserver" illustrated and Sons . , Is ., monthly . Groonibridge Though the enthusiasm and star about fish the left aquarium in has and somewhat Glaucus sub
sided hermit-crabs -are peace , " crotchet no no longer way , decreased because reigns _jDaramount ; it but is the instead , fashion still of the the we love spasmodic find of , among investi zeal gation all after classes has a new , in a ,
steady and , increasing desire for a , better acquaintance with the p the of henomen the subject cheapest a , we of nature must and the . notice Among best . " The Published the Intellect numerous every ual Observer month handbooks , , this " as upon peri one
its odical readers keeps with pace , the as it latest were , information with modern . The discovery subjects , and treated furnishe of s
are variedand the contributors being all eminent in their several departments , , know how to popularize their writings , and to divest
them of all unnecessary technicalities . The illustrations are excellentIn the number for Julythere is a beautifully coloured
. , p coloured late of the butterflies " Miero , - which ! Lepidoptera , all but , "— invi those sible , minute haunt , the yet hed gorgeousl ge-rows y - Bristle
and flower-gardens ., To the botanist , the paper upon _" Mosses" will interesting ; and to those whose rambles _*
prove lead them to the sea-side , the articles on " Sea Spiders , " and " Beach Pebbles" will be valuable companions . In the latter , the
writerMr . Saxby , , astonishes his readers by assuring them that . has " nearl been , y every found gem in known the shing to le the at lap the idary back , say of about the Isle 500 specimens of Wight , , . _,
within a range of about four miles of coast-line . " He proceeds to . give some plain and simple directions for
detecting real from fictitious gems : — ll " real In searching ( the a opal shing excepted le-beach ) , w ill should scratch window borne - i lass n remem also b tha rance t ( with that
t a sam gems e exception ) no gem fit for the purposes of the g lapidary ; has a specific gravit uentl y less hardness than th and at which pecific form grav s ity the form bulk the of princ the ipal shing tests le-beac to be h ; used conse in - .
of de q t " examination erminin Every y g fra gment qualit of y ston pi and ece e value having exhi of bit transparen s in pecimens colour . cy di or ffer translucency infrom the is ordinary worthy
. Every g g home stone which determines forms its the name ' ., bed , i and s wor worth thy a . p The lace in most the brilliant pocket until gem leisure owes its at after its formation to the kill of th
shining lap beauty idary either fragments , who to renews repose among the the surface rolled after and abrasion rounded as a among crystal stones , other or of the stones beach s . are Hence not -
to apparentl be expected y translucent . Constan . The t attrition same app renders lies to even other the substances choicest rock ; as crystal an ex-I amp found le , 1 it nave on . in the my shore collection of JBonchurch one of the most Isle of handsome Wiht . of Doubtless " moonstone many s . " " g
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/54/
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