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isyg&H ^* W H «« P Ifrm pyblic xaon ^ jiftt only dua and o rpwsy in tte ^ sef bM ;^ eei § P 43 r WMte tfiltfofrs fcre ^ oted aw | teFatt state of tffc ^ cfa , ig ^ i ^ "ES Indifferent /'—p . 59 . , . ^ c uu . ^ It iriUst be a grateful reflection to us all , thfit ' ^ e ^ Tiat ^ . e ^ " ^ wifelf ¦ ' G ^ iifef ^ l guardians of our purses ! n M *
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Stones and Charactemlics of Hindostan ^ with Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society . By Emma Roberts . 3 vols . William Allen and Co . 16 S 5 u This book will prove highly interesting to that Large class of readers
who have friends or relations settled in India . They long to know the ey ^ ry-day life of those who , though now separated from them by half the globe , grew up with them in the most intimate companionship ; and here they will find it . The houses , the furniture , the amtiserrtentsr , the occupations , the dresses—even the very dishes at the dinners—ill dfe detailed with all the varieties of the different stations . So vivid , indeed .
ate some of the descriptions , as that , for instance , of the large , empty , half-darkened rooms , that we seem to have seen them , and beqn ia them ourselves , after reading of them . We can fancy exactly how they look , with the Punkah swinging , and the wall 8 pierced witbtioors ob all sides , which , standing open for air , show the black servants in their flowing white dresses , eliding about in all direction * , fekdy 'tb | infcftfer to the call of their languid , listless mistress . dhl et
It is this portion of the book which constitutes i ^ iu ^ r 0 st r Xti other authors will be found better descriptions , of Ivulia as «* coyutry , and o £ its Datives as a people . Miss Roberts , however , give * ample evidence of having appreciated the beauties and peculiarity * of each ; and to say this is no mean praise . No one can read her book without acquiring a deeper sense of the vast resources of that irvagnffocefit 9 ountry * and the many interesting points in the character of its people .
There is a very clever chapter on the children * of the Anglo-Indiana , and another , headed ' Bengal Bridals , and Bridal Candidates / which , imcon&cioualy , ( perhaps ?) tells a tale that might serve a * « text to aorae lecture or essay on the present ' condition of women * A mode of obtaining justice among the natives is mentioned , which we never heard of before . It is more efficacious than our lawsuits , or
even our duels . Two old women , adepts in the art of scolding , are hired by the" aggrieved patty to Bit at tfye door of the aggressor , and pour out continually the most abusive and scurrilous language against him , his family , fend especially his mother . If any of the infamous imputations they * heap on her head should reach the ear of her son , he is disgraced for ev « r j $ o that be is obliged to remain shut up in the inmost reeetste of hia btttKt * and at length , wearied of confinement , to make reparation
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The Life And times of General Washington . By Cyrus R . Edmonds . v . ' , ' ^ ... V '" " . '\ - ^' T « t is a wUimo # f the Family Library / It ' jwreiends tooo higher « fc * r *? ter thuo that of ft ^ coapOatim / b * i tfc , might have . Awe •* -jtlteWtij IiMijit ! OMMfc « ( tiMMiy . work H * ^ hich do makteAOtfe ^ wUww » ^ r > ii f ^ Mto lii > ir » fifpci > tt M » to b * b + ewwrndtomiib i llm&i nktrvm
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 816, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/60/
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