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    54 OUE FRENCH COBBESPONDENT.

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    X.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    Poems: by Jean Ingelow. London—Longman a...

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    For Le Some Of The Days Ital Past . The ...

    During that frequentl the last y outside 20 years of the their situation houses , of where such their women presence has become is most more needecL and

    more painful . The invention , of machines , the competition of those who arenot exertions altogether necessary dependant , the substitution on the _^ ir industry in divers , but whose branches limited of trade incomes of men render for '

    women dearness have of every greatl object y aggravated of _prime necessity the hardshi , the ps augmentation of the workwoman on every . side The of income one ' s personal , has greatl expenses y cramped without the middle a proportionate class . This increase portion of of salary the , nation or of

    Bureau coured cannot often affording , like when de bienfaisance the reverses the working most come althoug frequ classes , app ent h l . y exam few for An are p assistance les emp more of loy goodness _^ sorel , for on a a pressed starving and very virtue moderate b family , want is not salary to to suc the do , - _,

    so . Hence , the imperious _, necessity of giving to girls y belonging y to this class ,. a But profession here , again which , another will one difficulty day lift presents them above itself the . Amongst possibility the of destitution professions .

    tim open e , to witnessed us , where the is harrowing there one anxi that ety is which not overstocked was thus aroused ? I have ; and , time as often after parents have I been who perp were lexed desirous to g of ive preserving profitable their advice daug under hters such from circumstances the misery or to

    working disgrace -classes which is cannot the lot live of so by m the any women trades . they The learn fem . ales The belong difficulties ing to the of " young experience limited g number irls of belonging many of emp years loyments to the that middle open classes to them of are them ; but still I can greater am find convinced , because a refuge , by of from the the

    destitution in the schools , of desi very gn which many have recently been instituted for young girls . It is true , that the object of these establishments is for the present but ill-defined . The studies which the pupils follow are not so regular

    insufficient or so graduated . But as they the Government should be . Their studies disci too pline seriousl is lax the , and condition their resources of the - working-classes to fail in solving this problem . To France y is due the

    founand dation especiall of Schools y Eng of lan Desi d , owe gn , and the it immense is to such progress institutions they that have our made neig in hbours prac- _,, that tical she art since will not 1851 renew . Can her we efforts believe to that maintain this country her high will rank lag for behind taste , and and

    reason skill in we this hope important to see an branch amelioration of art in ? the We condition cannot of think the working so , and -women for this , it being impossible to advance as the English have advanced unless our

    schools of design undergo a great alteration for the better . " to M Mdlle . Toysel . Hautier _, in the and name distributed of tlie Prefect medals of the to the Sein successful e , replied

    students . _,

    54 Oue French Cobbespondent.

    54 OUE FRENCH COBBESPONDENT .

    X.—Notices Of Books.

    X . —NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    Poems: By Jean Ingelow. London—Longman A...

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    open it , and p carried are immed y i with ately the carried away and with b y the the fresh natural into

    melod that " y— world of heather away " where song singer

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/54/