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62 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Mrs. Henry Wood's Dstovels. The Four Com...
about and of it young than is clerks to be in found offices in . other Not women only Is ' s there writing less 's mannerism but there
is actually less mannerism than is to be found in many men , ' s . Amiable clerical delineators of schoolboy life would find it difficult to
deal with the sturdy fellows whom Mrs . "Wood , as a married woman and a mothercontrives to set before her readerswithouton the
other hand , degenerating , from real womanly delicacy , of expression , . But we are made to feel that her maternal ears are familiar with
the whole vocabulary of astounding slang ; she is tenderly thoughtful for the gentleman who expresses joyful emotion by
She dancing mended hornp that young ipes nether on his garment head under which the came very to nose grief of and his to master which .
, none of our other lady novelists would have dreamt of alluding . She comprehends and sympathises with the state of mind of the cook
who refuses to send up the ai _3 ple-pie , because she knew If she made sequentl their ten pies being y a , day fry in relays they the ' house d get of , ham eaten but who and , once was eggs the forced at young eleven to gentlemen give o ' clock in , an at knew d ni sub ght of - .
Was it not one of her own young men , whose outfit for Port Natal consisted of a few new shirts , two pairs of waterproof boots , and four dozen frying-s ? And does she not object to Bill Simms
the sneak with a trul pan y intelligent disgust ? There is little or no love in the book , but what there is , is natural and simple , neither
sentimental nor shadowy . The interest is concentrated on the mi robbery ght happen of a bank in life note , the , and actual the real culprit thrown thief Is is the well off first the disguised scent person ; with for suspected just much as
cleverness hy the reader . "We , who however is afterwards think more miht have been made of the drowning scene . , We too , quickly feel that g Charley Channing will
tained reappear by , his and brothers yet no and adequat sisters e . reason What is reall given y happened for the — hope his enter being
p or icked even up sending by a b back argeman a messenger who pursued safe from the his about next way without town the most on stop the unlikel _23 river ing ,
thing to say to the suggest little itself gentleman to the famil was y . We , was do not object to the use of y the incident as a means of bringing about the child ' s restorationbut
, would ratherfor the sake of the dramatic interest of the tale , have seen all the sorrowing , family in deep mourning , instead of
cherishing " a Verner hope which ' s Pride had " just apparentl republi y not shed the from slightest Once a foundation Week shows . no
decrease of constructive , ability as compared to " East Lyime , " and is more interesting as well as a more solid story than " The Channings . "
the and It exemp landed filling lifies gentry in the Mrs their various . Wood wives ' s dramati power children s of _personse imag servants ining , hi and gh a nei and day g - hbourhood labourers low , from ,
together with the , country clergyman , , doctor , and , lawyer ,- each
movfrom ing with an ease unconscious and nature instinct in his that appropri her faculty ate place lies . in It this is , power perhaps of ,
62 Notices Of Books.
62 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/62/
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