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416 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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, The Physician London 's Daughters : Ja...
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virgin Marciana , celebrated for her high birth , and her beauty , _at Bussucuru ( Dellys ) her native town .
, , Despising' the pleasures and seductions of the world , Mareiaiia _* took refuge in Julia Cesarea , and lived concealed in the great city _,,
hoping to be able to live there a more holy life , and dedicate herself entirely to the service of God . One day , it chanced she
was crossing a public square , and she was struck by seeing the statue of the goddess Diana placed above a fountain . Full of
Indignation at the sight of this false divinity , she markedly turned sidered away her it as head sacrileg . The ious crowd , and of heap idolaters ing blows , seeing on Marciana this action , carried , _con- _,
before her before him , a she mag began istrate . instantl When y this to preach ardent to young him , g telling irl was him placed to cast all superstitionand to despise all the fables about the gods
of my away thology . Enraged , at this boldness , the magistrate commanded his lietors to strike her . She was condemned to be devoured by
wild beasts in this amphitheatre , on the 11 th of July , during the ersecution of Diocletian ( from the year 284 to the year 305 . ) A
p bull and a leopard both , attacked her , and she died a martyr _^ probably exulting to the last .
But we must stop here : the English ladies have spared ten days of their valuable time to see this African colonyand think a little
about these various women of modern and ancient , Algeria , and now they must hurry back as fast as steam can carry them to " the
native coal-hole , " their glorious England ; to their district visiting , their Ah parish ! I know schools two , who their will societies often , recall associations that beautiful , and what icture not . the p
, blue sea seen through the ruined arches of Selena Cleopatra ' s aqueduct , as they walk together along the bald , blank , streets of
London . B . L . S . B ;
416 Notices Of Books.
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, The Physician London 'S Daughters : Ja...
, The Physician London _' s Daughters : James ; or , Nlsbet tlie Spring & Co -time . of Woman .
This book , " affectionately dedicated to the young gentlewomen of England" is one of a class whose leading idea isthat domestic life
and that , only is the proper sphere for a gentlewoman , ; and that while she has a home , she ought not to seek for a wider field of
action . This theory is definitely propounded as a religious principle , and there is more show of argument than we have generally met
. with in books inculcating the same views . It may be taken as a siof that while formerlit was considered sufficient
incessantl gn progress y to re , -assert the doctrine y , it is now held necessary at
least to make some attempt at sustaining it by reasons .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/56/
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