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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 61
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the gentle dust often oblivious years . There was evidence of limit to truth , as there was limit to time . And so in the dreamy stillness of the past in , it child was
Beyond plain that a shelf the good or two of quarterlies ' s mind rested and g magazines ently , like , there that was of a scarcel sleep y g a book . natural of modern history days or . botan If there or were a manual , it was of a parish volume law of sermons , or a work on
y , . around " There it , some was one few good equall pa y good inting hical in above instruments one or the more fire- of and place the , few recesses some anti sma . ller In these ones ,
likewise , were globes , philosop , a quities . In seen one little some well glazed -thumbed recess school beside -book the s fire the -plac Eton e—carefully and locked Delectus —might with be grammar
dictionaries and exercise books of other , kinds . There were also little story , - is books like and the epitomes music of of history angels , and to children small volumes ' s ears of On that the silvery top of verse sundry which of
so . these books lay a _jDair of well-worn child ' s gloves , in another place a few small toys , and in a mysterious blue paper of interest , carefull to y folded the , lay what looked
very like a doll . These were matters new housekeeperp she erh returned aps from to some look associations at them more connected than once with in her makin own young days — for g survey
room . " The Engineer ; a self-made Man .
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the cerning new the plou same gh , thou . gMr . inquiries more once conand iss liot in
the " oak He therefore parlour , E came lisha again announced ; one , and m ushered orning , as in M a ver E y tall , stout writing , herculean-framed man—this was the engineer and agricultural mechanist from
his Horton " speech When Wood conc they . ise had His , almost conversed mann to er a was fault some simp . le minutes , easy , , Miss perfectl Eliot apolog unaffected ized , as and it
were , for what might seem an interference in a matter beyond her province of " dut _< y . But Mr . Radnor delegates all business matters to me , at least for the thereforebut to act to the best of
jud present gment ; . ' I have , , no resource my ment " ' Were cultivated there more there of this wou action ld be in much the world gain . ' , provided Pie said this woman in ' his s jud dry g-
were , , somewhat accent . He grim was way a man —but incapable he spoke of gloss well , , th oug sin h gl with e affectat a rou ion g , h p rovincial ght be looked into his and htful faceand there
felt and known . You grave thoug , saw the spoke ex , pression the soul of believed truth— . rigid inions , earnes are t so truth liberal —and towards that that woman which . It the shows lips " ' I am lad that our
that the noble g books y I saw op in your parlor have been productive of worthy latest fruit . and _ISTow most , as to improved the ploug kind h ; all I There can say , is Mr but . Wenlock small chance , is , let of it b error e of the in
. E runnin li " sh This a g curren was called all tly th to on at attend was in directions said hi . As istre _stich they ss as crossed and these to . the ' eth . er court . th . -yard roceeded to the bridge to the , gey p
sunny fields . Here , for full an hour , the , y traversed fallow , pasture , arable ; hed and g erows he Ho , rton pulled Wood weeds mec , h an c is t , meditation p lodd tercours ing on es Then , he measur ad , examined ed l curtl evels so , il he , scanned stood id
often for whole minutes in deep . , quite y , sathis and as it all must seemed this be with , done with a , brief t botany he ot simp her , licity geology must which be , chemistry one was , this remark , and meteorology the able other . Alike , p with lan conversant followed scientific — , ical
agriculture as a whole , he placed this and that necessity together with log
Notices Of Books. 61
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 61
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/61/
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