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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 61
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experience . Her beauty , lier led warm with feelings faint , her strong of provincial coniinon
senseare all subtly interminga _sotcpgon vulgarity immediate , , of jealousy reference , and to narrowness the bookwhich of mind we . have We onl speak once without read y
at any the time when it first appeared , yet , that woman walks out of it , , detached like a stereoscopic portrait . Substantially a good daughter ,
Mr she cannot Carlle hel she p snapp never ing rises sometimes to the hei at ht her of sickl his y nature mother , . yet Adoring makes g
him . a comfortable y , reasonable wife , likely to be a very present help in time of trouble , The delicate shades of her feeling to Lady
. Isabelbefore and after the catastrophe , are excellently rendered , and almost , impossible to describe in a few words , or otherwise words and actions
than as Mrs . Wood has worked them out in her . The hearty jealousy so natural to a girl ; the the natural touch of detraction heart of ,
then the scorn and repugnance and yet good the something woman peep of refinement ing through yet ;— became the golden transfi -haired gured beaut into y which poetry wanted as she
, lifted touches her of laug painting hing child complete under a the most lig real ht of image the , lamp a true , — feminine all these
creation . The one scene of the noveltowards which all the rest culminates ,
Is of course the death-bed , of Lady Isabel . It is chosen for the frontispiece of the new edition now in the the shop main windows lesson , of but that no
chapter pictur not e ; could sur one e which convey whether rises the it inevitab central was intended l thou y to g the by ht , the reader authoress ' s mind , or thoug whether h we
are , namel it merely that springs what God from has the joined intuitive together fidelit , man y of and her his descri legislation ption ;
canno and the t y put , re- asunder married . husband When the meet stri over cken the parents death , -bed the of divorced their first wife
bornit is of no avail to tell the English reader that that man and that , woman were nothing to each other in the sight of God . The
bution dire consequences which fell of Lad her y Isab in el her ' s great exile from sin , the her ri home ghteous and retri her - upon
husbandall the horror felt and the punishment inflicted by Christian moral society , tie , yet . In cannot the dismay alter the and fact anguish of parenthood of little William , nor dissolve ' s mortal the wifeis
illness nothing dying , and ; Barbara it repentant is the Hare mother , looks , Barbara who pitifull claims Carl y her up yle to place the the . second face When of the Lady man , Isab she el as , he leans the wasted features
had hav to bestow e married heard a kiss this at the of scene forg altar iveness objected , and , where to , on over was moral Barb poor grounds ara Carl _; yle to ? us We it reliious
seems a conscious or unconscious statement of a moral or g fac truth t , which in the , reader when ' g s iven heart , cr and eates scatters an instantaneous argument to percep the winds tion . of its
chiefl . " The remarkable Channings for , " its a p story , hotograp of school hic painting -life in of a cathedral school-boy town heroes , is , y
Notices Of Books. 61
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 61
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/61/
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