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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 271
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W • Hose And}Her Mission. .A. Tale Of Th...
home touches , this just and elegant appreciation of nature , we have proof of a happy springtime of life . As regards the tale itself , we
may at once inform the reader , that no complex plot is in wait to test his ingenuity . Mr . Herbert , his wife , Kate our heroine , ( in
whose name , the book is written , ) and her sister Estelle , are the first characters introduced , concerning whom we must say a few
words . The father is a man of college education , fond of the classics , and though a slaveowneran abolitionist at heartand
consequentlyexposed , in and the criticism then state from , his of more West callous Indian friends , societ . y , His to wife much is _, annoyance ,
represented as an affectionate and amiable woman , and the two girls as thoroughly well-intentionedbut somewhat frivolous in
disposition . Mr . Herbert , albeit a kind , father , had , like many of the gentlemen in that part of the world ( as elsewhere , ) outstepped
, his means , and about the date of the emancipation is obliged to break up his costly establishment . Before this downfal , however , a
Captain Rookley forms an attachment for the eldest sister , Estelle , into whose society he was much thrown after a sudden attack of fever
in Mr . Herbert ' s house , the subsequent effect of which attachment is one of the family trials . The introduction of Rose Annerley to the
Herbert family , is brought about naturally " enough . Immediately before Mr . Herbert's reverses he is struck down by the yellow fever ;
at the turning point of his illness , at night time , whilst Kate is alone , watching anxiously at the bedside of her fatherMr . Annerley
, appears , and fervently prays with the grieving girl for the sick man ' s recovery . The prayer is answered , and the good minister
asks permission for his child Rose to instruct the negroes on the estate . Rose ' s mission thus commences , and her influence for good
rapidly spreads over the whole household . Mr . Faulkner , a minister of the Established Churchworks conjointly with her in teaching the
Gospel to the black labourers , , and in the end proposes , and is accepted by Rose . Consumption hashowevermarked her as a
victim , and having played the part of , a ministering , angel , she peacefully expires . The return of Estelle from England
unaccompanied by her husband , causes much perplexity to her younger sister , and the mystery is not cleared up until the close of the
narrative . Kate , in consequence of the reduced state of her father ' s fortunes , takes a governess ' s situation in England , and to her trials
( which , as Mrs Lynch shows , are much aggravated by want of a thoroughly Christian feeling ) the rest of the volume is devoted . Mr .
Faulkner visits and comforts her , after a year or two proposes and is acceptedand Estelle and her husband being once more brought
together , , and Mr . Herbert reinstated in his old position , they start for their island home , to be rendered now doubly dear from past
sorrows . Such is the mere skeleton outline of Mrs . Lynch ' s pretty talewhich is worked out in a very artistic and agreeable manner .
Our , authoress being totally devoid of prejudice , we can place
confidence in the statements she makes , as founded on her life ' s experience
Notices Of Books. 271
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 271
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/55/
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