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IX.—OPEN COUNGIL.
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Ix.—Open Coungil.
IX . —OPEN COUNGIL . [ As these pages are intended for general discussion , the Editors do not hold . themselves responsible for the opinions expressed , }
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_fr ' - _^ To the _^ Editor of the English Woman ? s Journal .
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tellectual interest , in the Mechanics' Institutes and Assembly Rooms scattered p ov er es th , " and king pro dom ceeded , ; our to par the ty Assembl ( of ladies y Room ) took at tickets eight served o for ' clock the . laces " Bu reser t when ved to
t we ending had got , there so deep we , in the were to audience the fain large to were sit room among mostl where y the sea the ranks ted lecture , and of was ladies no re to and be delivered gentlemen p the edu were . ca We ex ted - estimated that at least a hundred persons were present ,
gen classes tleman . Presentl belong y ing Mrs to . a B well alfour -known entered publishing the her room , firm lean in before Norwich on the table ; he eon of ith a -
read li ghts ted no upon h t even t it , the fa a c scrap ing platform her of notes , audience and whereby there , wi left thout to assist any standing manuscri her memory pt from , or a guide which w th to e
tation flow Mrs , of . b Balfour her egan ideas speaking looked . quie in a tl gen y round tle bu th t e peculiarl room , a y n firm d then voice , without , every any syllabl hesi e -
b the addi eing most tio , nal dis marked pressure tinctly inflections ar on ticula any t ed of e , and more so e excited venl emp y ha accentuate delivery tic to the d , listener This that the attribute ' s ear slightest than of
a more . lays matter clearness it . before She is the her is thoroug most hearer marked s hl in y the mistress characteristic simplest of time that manner which of , Mrs never . she Balfour going has count to ' back say man of , dates u n and p on and h she er
own sentences , never repeating to gain , never losing , or invention the confusing fourteenth of events printing century and ; on and p the le its . sixteenth For awakening an hour century ; on and and the a fifteenth its half intelle she century ctual spoke the triump thus immense and : hs the on ;
i touching ncrease of on periodicals the literature , which of she later deprecated times , and as the especiall too exclusive y on aliment o £ youthful readers in the present day . Balfour invariablpai &
patronage one delicate In those thi and s women rap or unobtrusive the id review who actual in , the justice pursuit we middle noticed to of the found ages literature that part gave amidst Mrs played ; fostering . and the by she her care mentione h own to the sex d y one of men ; in the by of a
genius , who might otherwise have rougusages me-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/66/
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