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NOTICES OF BOOKS, * 415
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The Victoria Magazine. Isfo. in. Emily F...
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, tube with precious young and stones used collec the are tors pocket cast . It aside was lens from onl that y , when want its peculiar of I dropped this chatoyance consideration it into water was , especiall detected in a test y .
Of _cofcrsethe lapidary ' s care soon , revealed its great beauty , although the specimen is , only one-sixth of an inch long . "
But beyond the scarce gems , many varities of quartz are well worthy of attention ; _sueli as cornelian , chalcedony , jasper and
ag " ate There : — is a beautiful stone which incloses minute fibres of asbestos , producing , when polished , a . resemblance of flickering but lig is ht , much as seen prized in the cat The ' s
difference eye ; this between is only a ' fibrous cat's eye variety ' and moonstone of quartz , is simply this—the cat . ' s eye has fibres in quartz , but the moonstone has them in felspar , which is a
composition "We of often quartz find , the alumina hollow , and flints potash lined . with a pale bluish translucent subis an stance chalcedony aggregation , having , and of what ver soap mineralog y handsome bubble has s ists in ( or p form ieces call the surface much a are ' met botryoidal the of with a bunch in ' shing surf of le of grapes . , like Sometimes icicles ) that ; this of ,
in t stalactite cavities , . ' the Layers chalcedony of coloured chalcedony occur appearance in nature , and where such or a are straiht or only slightly curvedthe stone is called ' onyx ; ' and in this
fi as g ures a back a g ground e carved . Such out of carvings one laye are , , leaving the well another -known of ' cam a different brown eos . ' Stones which colour in is which white alternates with a deep or orange
the tolerabl lap an idary y translucent opaque , the more , are trailsluceney called the ' , the d greater e onyx ; the ' and value in . tlie ' Sar estimation de , ' itself of , is a amber very beautiful yellowor and more frequentl common y met lof with a reddish variety yellow of quartz and , is of onl an y oran semi ge
translucent a or considerable _^ Some degree , specimens that beautiful , when y moved play of in li c g ertain ht alread colour directions , y referred but , possess are to both as in heavier chatoyance and , and harder much The resemble richest opal shore s for of the variety same in this species , of stone is
the and back elegant of specimens the Isle . of of _Wight some , sorts from are Niton obtainable to Bon between church , althoug Walmer h Castle _larger and Sandown Gastle , at Deal . "
Notices Of Books, * 415
NOTICES OF BOOKS , * 415
The Victoria Magazine. Isfo. In. Emily F...
The Victoria Magazine . _Isfo . in . Emily Faitlifull . amusi The ng Jul y rticl nu e mb by er Miss o f this Cobbe Maga , on zine " The contain Hu s m a Cliase ou tho r u of ghtf Va ul rious still yet
Nations only develop . " Mr Thomas ing . 'Trollop their st ' s her ong has o l ines y contr ell in " reasoned Li ted _ndisfar chara argument n cters amid " in are favour quiet
scenes . Mr . Hare a whardly of the fair recentl in y taking rejected Ms proposition illustrations for from ( c taxing establishments charities , _" such but as is
the schools so-called " when Christ they ' s Hosp can ital thereby , which evade assume legal the obli title gation of " s charit , while y-
those who , benefit by them would at The any funds other of time the shrink Blue most Coat
sensitivel School are y from indeed the appellation lied too often . for the advantage of persons who could well afford app to pay their full proportion for the
maintenance of the Statebut this is a ground for the reformation of that institution rather than , for the taxation of establishments which are-...
really hospitals or charity schools .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/55/
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