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62 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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North America. By Anthony Trollope. In 2...
Americans each side , what arehow they they are live fighting , what about they , think what sort of themselves of people and the
of of their information neighbors , con — veyed on all in these the and easiest similar and points pleasantest , the book manner is full .
"We must not , look here for broad views or deep insight . Mr . he of Trollope travel is a quick is in not America and , and intelli does with gent not much observer profess similar to , can be experience , a mp De Tocqueville hi in other experienc . lands But es ,
His and book is inclined is essentiall to take a a book good- of natured travels view . He of goes things from in general place to . y
p and lace , hears and in sometimes a somewhat drawing wandering his sty own le , notes conclusions down , what but he always sees
into leaving questions his , readers not exclusivel at liberty y American to differ . , such Occasionall as " The y he As Bi diverges on ghts this of to which he devotes separate chapter .
mi Women point excused ght he have , for " has been iving fallen avoided it into our special some by a errors consideration a little , more which , . inquiry as it appears , we shall to us be ,
In discussing g women ' s work , Mr . Trollope remarks , that those who " advocate the ri from ght of that women which to emp stand loyment those , are less taking exten
sive very different hilanthrop ground ists who exert themselves on for the benefit of dis - - tressed p needlewomenfor instanceor for the alleviation of the
more bitter misery of , governesses . , " This we are not inclined to dispute absolutely ; but antagonistic when it is to farther each to asserted other us to , " we that be rather are " the constrained two that questions while to differ " the are . The facts of the case
friend of the needlewomen appear " is laboring to alleviate individual prevent work cases reduced of the suffering recurrence to a , rate the of more at the which extensive evil . it becomes Wh p y hilanthrop is the necessary payment ist is to for striving work needle and to
because to suffer there almost are beyond too the limits women of human who can endurance do nothing ? Simp else ly . many
Nothing will and so needlewomen surely tend as to to withdraw ameliorate from the their condition ranks the of
thoug governesses surp land lus h more numbers women remunerative are who not mi working ght labor , be . harder engaged Mr . than Trollope in is p equall leasant assumes y and feminine that good in , Eng
dreariest Has for them Mr . . Trollope departments Surely ever no mistake seen of our the could women works glass be 'houses laboring & greater & , paper in or ? the more Has mills lowest apparent he , g and lue .
factories heard of , chemical irls in -works brickyard , rope s - whose , duty c . it c is . to carry heavy ever burdens , walking g over obli hot pi to pes so destructive that expensive to sho luxury e leathe and r
that the poor girls are ged forego , And adopt galoches had instead , as personal a cheaper intercourse article ? with These women things of are this .
class , having we are obli some ged to state that , unlike the women of Mr .
62 Notices Of Books.
62 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/62/
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