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    200 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    XXVIIX.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    . « *». The Courtship of Miles < Long St...

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    all things others . I known thought to of me Mr in . this Shields respect and . how The superior twelve-year his -old school _children mid

    can calculate , interest in , the most astounding manner . Mr . Cady , a "business man could not follow them at all . I cannot tell you how it

    like rejoiced itto my see heart children to see of this rich school men , and and to the know very there poor are sitting hundreds side ;

    by side . In New York those parents who can afford to , send their children to private schools often dobut here rarely , because the

    , private at seven schools we went are to not the so evening good as the hig common h school , schools where . young In the men evening and

    room women where go , who there are -were emp fifty loyed or in sixty the men day . and "We boys looked , women into and a class girls - ,.

    —one man must have been forty , and some boys only twelve or the thirteen children ,- —they here were answer having in a grammar much better lesson Eng . lish I must generall remark y than that

    Eng Eng land lish children can be compared in British to schools these . . But These no schools class of are children the true in

    democratic element here . It is impossible to over-estimate the effect on the people in the next two generations . I believe if we do

    not bestir ourselves , we shall be left very very , far behind America in virtue and happiness /'

    B . L . S . B . Cincinnati , December , 1857 .

    [ Communicated in consequence of our article " "Why Boys are , " etc

    Ed . E . W . J . ]

    200 Notices Of Books.

    200 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    Xxviix.—Notices Of Books.

    XXVIIX . —NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    . « *». The Courtship Of Miles < Long St...

    . « _*» . The Courtship of Miles _< Long Standish fellow , . and W other . _EJent Poems and Co . . By Henry "Wadsworth

    There are few households in England we imagine where the announcement of a new collection of the pure and plaintive melodies

    of Mr . Longfellow will not arouse a very eager interest , at all events in the younger members of those households , who have grown up

    with the music of his . verse upon their lips , and his earnest and noble JB ' or thoug wonder hts , as treasured bur acuter in their critics hearts will , and carp influencing as many of their them lives do .

    , at his popularity , prove as some of them attempt , that his . verses are not of . the highest order of poetry , and that halanx he of cannot claim still to

    his rank universal with the the sorrowful popularity very first and names , the and in the the lexed hold great his p well verse make take genius s amends upon ; the for , young , perp , may

    the judgment of the sterner and more experienced critics ; and , ex-- he lain arts hav away e iven as they an will answer , there to is his no . touch doubt far that more the chords true and of many real g

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/56/