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140 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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and A Marshall Month . at Gravesend Grav...
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Victoria Magazine. No. v. London : Emily...
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Observations On The Sanitary State Of Th...
provided being a guard from the battalion changed every twenty-four hours . Allahabad seems to be the onllace
where there are female nurses , they having been introduced y p there by Lady Canning , and the report from that place speaks
of them as being " a great comfort to the sick . " " Soldiers' wives " have of course a section to themselves ; and
want the limited of number accommodation of marriages allowed for women in the in ranks barracks , and and the
hospitals , proper is shown to be a fertile source of unhappiness and vice .
The book is illustrated with numerous plans of the buildings referred to , and with a few woodcuts shewing the means
adopted to obtain water or remove filth and refuse . To one of the latter , representing a " Female Sweeper , " Miss Nightingale
appends the characteristic remark— " English works , treating arrangement of sanitary improvements . But none , contains insert sections such an of illustration the bad drainage as this
of how a woman is made to supply the place of a drain-tile . " ,
140 Notices Of Books.
140 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
And A Marshall Month . At Gravesend Grav...
and A Marshall Month . at Gravesend Gravesend . ; Godfrey By Eliz John abeth Baynes J . Brabazon . . London ; Simpkiii Intended as a Guide-book to a favorite resort of the
" masses / ' brought now within such easy reach of London that it miht almost be called a suburban watering lace this
full and g complete account of every thing to be p seen ; in or n very ear Gravesend affords all the information which a visitor to that
to place each can locality desire , . the As sty it le describes will be found the actual far less visit " dry of the 5 ' than writer is usually the case in books of this description .
Victoria Magazine. No. V. London : Emily...
Victoria Magazine . No . v . London : Emily Faithfull . This number contains very little on any subject immediately
Kenan concerning ' s Vie our de J social _# sus while interests full . y recognizing Mr . Hutton , the in great a review genius of of the authornot onlout how his delineations of the
, y points and character contradict of the on Son the of whole Man his are estimate inconsistent as to with the each Divinit other of ,
the Saviour's mission ; but findsin what he calls M . Kenan y ' s " negative criticism / ' a confirmation , to his own mind of the
view which identifies " Jesus" with " Jehovah . " America Mr . Dicey , with sums especial up the reference results to of its the effect last upon two years slavery war , and in
the the points North subject out , having the and hopeful b so the unmistakeabl fact prospect of its for having y shewn emanci secured its pation earnestness so afforded much more upon by
favorable a , position y than it occupied when Secession was first
announced .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/68/
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