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60 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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VIII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS. >^»
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A. Life for a Life. By the Author of " J...
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_ We Desire To Call Our Readers' Especia...
COMMITTEE . Mrs . W . Baines . Sir _Walter James , Bart .
Mrs . Bayne . Mrs . Locke King . Mrs . Boucherett . Mrs . E . _Lankester . Miss J . Boitcherett . Mrs . _Wykeham Martin .
WolrtcheA . C . Bri : dgman , I _5 sq . John Pares , Esq . The Lady Elizabeth Gust . Miss Parses . Henry D . Erskine , Esq . Miss Procter .
Miss Emtly _Faithjfuill . Lady Trotjbridge . TREASURER .
The Viscount Raynham , M . P . HONORARY SECRETARIES .
Miss J . Boucherett . | Miss Procter . ASSISTANT SECRETARY . —Miss Lewin .
BANKERS . Messrs . _Cotjtts & Co . and Messrs . Hoare & Co .
Hoare " Subscri & Co p . tion 37 s received Fleet Street at Messrs and . at Coutts the Office & Co ., Strand Great ; Messrs Castle . ; ,
, , , Stre " et Membershi , Regent Street consists . in a Donation of £ 5 or an Annual Subp ,
scri Post ption -Office of 10 Order s ., but s payable larger sums to Sarah will , of Lewin course Secretary , be gladly received , Castle .
Street , Regent Street , London , W ., at the Branch , Post- , Cilice , Old
Cavendish Street , Cavendish Square , London , W . "
60 Notices Of Books.
60 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Viii.—Notices Of Books. >^»
VIII . —NOTICES OF BOOKS . _>^»
A. Life For A Life. By The Author Of " J...
A . Life for a Life . By the Author of " John Halifax , Gentleman . " Hurst and Blackett , London .
A glance at the novelists of the day shows us women occupying a prominent position in this field of literaturethe value and
im-, portance of which it is not easy to over-rate , for novels are reflectors of the age , and the influence they exercise is beyond calculation .
The most successful male novelist is either he , who , grasping the subtle questions and speculations of his dayfloating as yet
un-, formed through the minds of his fellow-men , presents them embodied in person and action , or the faithful reproducer of men and tilings as
they are in the every-day life known to us all . Goethe and "Walter Scott are signal instances of these two schools of novelists . Goethe ,
deeply imbued with the social and _philosophical speculations of his
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/60/
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