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BOO>KS OF THE MOHTH. 425
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Books Of The Month.
"beyond this fearful danger , manfully , unceasingly , and untiringly , to aid by adviceassistanceand example , the great bulk of the
, , people , who ; without such aid , must almost inevitably succumb to the difficulty of their task . They will not cast from them the
aiding hand , and the Almighty will bless the labours of those who work in His cause . "
Among the many literary and other offerings to Lancashire , is a small volume of Poems , ( 2 ) the joint production of some of our
best poets . " The Three Horses , " by George Macdonald , and "A Royal Princess" in which Miss Rossetti shows her wonted
, grace and power , are the contributions which have pleased us most .
The lovers . of really good Sacred Music will welcome Miss Winkworth ' s Chorale Book , ( 3 ) in which translations of the best
German hymns are adapted to the best German tunes , - the whole arranged by composers well qualified for the task .
Under the title of " Wordsworth ' s Poems for the Young , " ( 4 ) Messrs . Strahan have issued a very beautiful child ' s book , not to be
despised hj children of a larger growth . Those who know , and can enter into the exquisite beauty of " The Pet Lamb , " "We are
Seven , " " Lucy Gray , " and other similar lays , do not need to be reminded that Wordsworth is , par excellencethe poet of refined
, and thoughtful children . Of the illustrations in this book we may say , that they are exceedingly pretty pictures , not beyond a child ' s
powers of comprehension and enjoyment—that they are _abimdant , even to profusion , being in the proportion of more than one to
every other page ; and that they really illustrate the text . In this they differ from some recent efforts in the same field , where the
idea is so far-fetched that an ordinary reader can scarcely discern any connexion at all between the picture and the poetry . We ouglit
to add that the book is handsomely bound , and altogether well got up .
We are glad to see that Messrs . Rivington have issued a new editionin an easily portable form , and large , clear type , of a very
, valuable little book , "Help and Comfort for the Sick Poor , " ( 5 ) . Invalids whose sufferings are not aggravated by poverty , may yet
find some useful lessons in these simple pages . In Miss Goodman ' s " Sisterhoods in the Church of England , " ( 6 )
( 2 ) " Poems : an Offering to Lancashire . " Emily Faithfull . the ( 3 ) Germ " Th an e b Choral C . e Winkworth Book for Eng the land Tunes . " The Hymns iled translated and edited from b ; compy
W . S . Bennett and y Otto Goldschmidt . Longman & Co . ( 4 ) " Macwhirter Wordsworth ' and s Poems John for Pettie the young and . " Vi With Fifty b Illustrations Millais ,
b London y John : Strahan & Co . ; a "gnette , y J . E . . " Sickness ( 5 ) " Hel : its p Trials and Comfort and Blessings for the " Rivingtons Sick Poor . , " by the Author of
. Charitable ( 6 ) " Sisterhoods Sisterhoods in in the the Church Romish of Church England . " : B with Margaret Notices Goodman of some .
London : Smith , Elder & Co . y
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Boo>Ks Of The Mohth. 425
BOO > _KS OF THE _MOHTH . 425
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/65/
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