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280 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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XLIX.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Winter Weavings. Poems by Isabella Law. ...
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At Length Another Step Onward In The Dir...
personal less attractive and individual to women / : their than relative It now qualities is , and also will that be , injured in becomin . "With g more
onejustifies important advance the which qualification opposition a woman we of makes those believe most in the cultivation fear alive to to be it and well . It refinement groun is clear ded , and that raises that every her it
standard in menand increases the number of those she is not willing toposition protected marry . in Moreover from society the , , a woul temptation woman d tend happ to to ily diminish marry interested from the in sheer number a business ennui of . or those profession An who assured now is
th marry at the for maj a position ority of . women So far the would fear not is well marry grounded if they . were But if free it be to meant live a claim happy for and the useful instin sin ct gle of life inter , we -dependence may venture between to deny men the and assertion women , and which to
, laws is the of basis nature of . marriage If the , standard the dignity of cultivation of being one of the women truly were ' invincible raised men would either have to raise theirs , jpari jpassu among , or some men would be ,
unable to feel superior to some women ; as now few men would venture to position patronise would Miss p Ni lace ghtingale some women or Mrs , . in Somerville one sense , , so above then the an less acknowled cultivated ged
men of their own circle . It may be suspected that this hint explains the different views maintained on the subject by men . _' It is natural to thosethemselves whose superiority personally depends to more feel the on the strongest relative repugnance ignorance of to women any proposal than on
which would make women , demand a higher standard in men ; they prefer rejoice authority in . cultivation to dignity . wherever It is natural found . , also It , is to easy other for men them to to recognise believe th and at ,
with women as with men , increase of knowledge ( taking the word in its best meaning highest development , ) brings increase of personal of wisdom gifts and , charit characteristics y , and reverence bears fruit —that both the in
women and in men in the life that is less personal than relative . It is professors natural that Lee men and like Blackie Tennyson _, should , Browning desire , , for Mill their , and own Spencer sakes , as like well bur as own for
the sake of womenthat the standard of female education should be raised , required and that for the permission power , of to doing do it worth . It y is work natural should , also , be that the some onl men y passport , not with of
Mr heroic . Brown proportions that the , difference should prefer between Tessa men to and Romola women . is We not believe dependent , on difference of , training ; but we go further , and believe that as tenderness
more so does courage not intensel mak , di e gnity womanl a man , and e . " ffeminate wisdom , , woul but nearer d make the woman highest not ideal masculine of manliness , but , y y
280 Notices Of Books.
280 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Xlix.—Notices Of Books.
XLIX . —NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Winter Weavings. Poems By Isabella Law. ...
Winter Weavings . Poems by Isabella Law . Smith and Elder . Miss . Law's poems remind one irresistibly of a chime of sweet
tinkling silver bells . The sound is not very strongynor tlie notes is very genuine mucli , varied and the , they melod all y range pure and within true one . The octave titles ; but of the the poem metal s ,
most of -which are short and all of them divided into verses , suggest "Light at many Evening pleasan Time t , , tender " " Mystic , sentimental Stars / ' " Near things the ; such Shore as _"
_"A Gift of Violets / ' « The Silent Chamber / ' " Watered Mowers . _"
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/64/
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