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EWJ-1858-05-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The young infant is almost withdrawn from our control. Nature says to us, 'stand by, and watch my work!' This delicate life will admit of no trifling, no neglect, no experiment; but watch the infant how it kicks, and cries, and works, not arms and legs alone, but every part of its body in pain or pleasure. . We sit an... | 1 | 3,949 | 173 | 4,122 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | 1.—Recollections of the Last Four Popes, and of Rome in their Times. By H. E. Cardinal Wiseman. Hurst and Blackett.
This book may be considered as a section of the great ecclesiastical history of Italy, or rather as memoirs pour servir, to be consulted hereafter by the professed historians of the Romish Church. It is ... | 1 | 3,115 | 575 | 3,690 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XXVI.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
... | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | simply the ambition to be good—the desire to become equally the object of affection and respect with those whose deeds and transitory honours are thus tenderly recorded.
At first sight, the subject selected by our author does not seem to promise much variety or amusement. The life of a priest, until he becomes ennoble... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,406 | 7,124 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | An entire chapter is given to the discoveries of Cardinal Angelo Mai, who out of the dust of forgotten commentators, or the "sermons of some abbot of the eleventh or twelfth century," extracted the thoughts of famous men; amongst other things, letters of Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius, a history of Dionysius of Hal... | 1 | 3,371 | 484 | 3,855 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The work consists of five leading divisions. First, an introductory chapter, dwelling on the catholic manner in which all inquiry into the Spirit of the Beautiful should be conducted; whilst the later divisions are devoted to a consideration of the Philosophy of the Beautiful; to the Beautiful in Nature, considered in ... | 1 | 4,203 | 106 | 4,309 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | this last division of his work Mr. Symington, warning into special enthusiasm, exhorts his readers, both through his own pen and the words of others, to consider 'that learning, accomplishment, art, science—in short, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely—ought, in the true Christian, to be as the lil... | 1 | 2,987 | 615 | 3,602 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | This lecture has given rise to a good deal of discussion, and we commend the perusal of it to all who were not so fortunate as to be present at its delivery. Exception has been taken to the inductive | 1 | 4,075 | 44 | 4,119 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and deductive classification of the male and female intellect, and to the assertion of the supremacy of the deductive mind in Shakespeare, Newton, and Göthe. The idea is not now for the first time presented, that the imagination has had more to do with the great discoveries of the world than logic, though the arbitrary... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,471 | 7,189 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | century is certain, and it is equally certain that for fifty years afterwards the English anatomists, with all their tools and all their dissections, ignored or despised that very discovery which they are now compelled to accept. . . . It has often seemed to me that there is a striking similarity between this event and... | 1 | 3,755 | 631 | 4,386 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | 'CHARLOTTE BRONTË, a Psychological Study,' is the title of a paper in the April number of this Quarterly, which will not fail to attract many readers. The character of Miss Brontë was in itself so remarkable, the circumstances under which it was moulded so exceptional, the genius so vivid and impassioned, while the ext... | 1 | 4,203 | 184 | 4,387 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | form the physical, mental, and spiritual peculiarities with which the public is already well acquainted through the medium of Mrs. Gaskell's interesting memoir. Here and there, it is true, the real gist of such an article as the title announces is incidentally touched upon, but with an evident embarrassment and timidit... | 1 | 4,075 | 172 | 4,247 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | If stays must be worn at all, by all means let us have scientific stay-makers like Madame Caplin, who has devoted herself to the study of the human figure and its artificial needs of requirement and support. We are not of those who think stays indispensable, providing always that from infancy upwards they have at no pe... | 1 | 4,075 | 246 | 4,321 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | 6.—Aus America, Erfahrungen, Reisen, und Studien. (Studies, Experiences, and Travels in America.) Vol. II. By Julius Fröbel. Leipzig : Weber. London : Williams and Norgate. Second Notice.
The new volume of M. Fröbel's work carries us away from the well-trodden ground of the Eastern States, across the still wild, unset... | 1 | 4,075 | 120 | 4,195 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | 5.—Health and Beauty. By Madame Caplin. | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | .
FOREIGN LITERATURE. | 1 | 4,075 | 8 | 4,083 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | In the spring of 1852, having given up the share he had taken in the Editing of the "New York Allegemeine Zeitung," and considering that a residence in that city did not promise him much more of material than of spiritual profit, the author made an arrangement with a mercantile house to accompany a cargo of goods to be... | 1 | 3,949 | 407 | 4,356 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The caravan joined by M. Fröbel, consisted of eighteen wagons, each drawn by ten mules, with the necessary number of additional ones for changing—and a numerous personnel of wagoners, muledrivers, &c.; escorted by the second partner in the firm to which the goods belonged, as well as by the Author. The travellers appea... | 1 | 3,949 | 281 | 4,230 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “On the 17th of September we came towards nightfall to a place called Middle Springs, but did not reach our camping place till ten o'clock, just as a storm was coming on. The driving up the wagons, so as to form them into a corral, the unharnessing and collecting the cattle amidst lightning and thunder and the blackest... | 1 | 3,435 | 753 | 4,188 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | At Fort Fillmore, a military station near the Mexican frontier, a countryman of the Author's who had enlisted in the United States army came to complain to him of bad treatment. The man was handsomely clothed, and his well-fed robust appearance, and the circumstance that he had come out to shoot a turkey or a hare for ... | 1 | 3,949 | 137 | 4,086 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | reckon on buying from the soldiers unused rations and superfluous clothing in such excellent condition “that no respectable German citizen would be ashamed to appear in them.” The discontent of the hero above mentioned appears to have arisen from sheer ennui, and the desire of change of scene for which the vicinity of ... | 1 | 4,203 | 164 | 4,367 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | THE whole area of modern social life is so constantly and diligently worked in Paris in search of materials for fiction, that an author may be congratulated upon the discovery of a situation that is both new and interesting, as upon a kind of nugget in such exhausted "diggins." Granting certain conditions of society, t... | 1 | 4,203 | 374 | 4,577 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | 7.—Germaine. By Edmond About. Paris, 1858. | 1 | 4,203 | 19 | 4,222 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 8.—L'Honnête Femme. By Louise Veuillot. 3rd Edition. Paris. 1858.
M. Veuillot appears to much greater advantage as a novel writer than in the columns of the 'Univers,' of which as our readers know he is the Editor—though his talents for fictitious composition appear to be brought into play in the one case as well as i... | 1 | 4,075 | 321 | 4,396 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | THE REVIEWER REVIEWED.
THE 'Saturday Review' has addressed to us some temperate, and we have no doubt, well intended criticism. Our contemporary is, to be sure, not satisfied with our fictions, and thinks our "disquisitions on political subjects" "very ordinary," but our experienced readers will no doubt have observed... | 1 | 4,075 | 197 | 4,272 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XXVII.—THE 'SATURDAY REVIEW' AND THE 'ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL.' | 1 | 4,075 | 27 | 4,102 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | employed," and that "brace-making, bugle-trimmings, and blonde-stitching, &c., absorb, in such a place as London, all profitable labour." Our contemporary triumphs over our assumed ignorance of Political Economy: women, he thinks, can know nothing of such things. We should have thought that the name of Mrs. Marcet, who... | 1 | 3,949 | 262 | 4,211 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We will, however, venture to meet our critic even upon the forbidden ground of political economy. "Employment," we are told by this cold comforter, "is a fixed quantity," and, therefore, if women come into men's occupations the result must be a lowering of men's wages. We will grant it: but, at least, what is lost to w... | 1 | 3,949 | 406 | 4,355 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Radical, must lose by the lowering of their earnings to the full extent of the gain?*
But the 'Saturday Reviewer' has another plea. Women he considers so much in demand for domestic duties that there are scarcely any disposable for other employments. If this were true, what a paradise might they not find in this world... | 1 | 4,203 | 362 | 4,565 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * In order not to interrupt our argument with the discussion of abstract principles, we have granted our Reviewer's proposition to its fullest extent; but in truth, it requires some important qualifications, which we will explain, throwing the blame, if we weary our readers, on our economical contemporary. It is not as... | 1 | 4,203 | 459 | 4,662 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | be got at a Christian eatinghouse. The Hindoo will not select the best workman, in despite of the laws of caste; the Tory minister will not take the best Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he is only to be found in the Liberal ranks; and so the banker will not pick the best bookkeeper in England, if the best bookkeeper sh... | 1 | 4,075 | 388 | 4,463 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Here stands our case. It may be true that a large proportion of women are wanted for domestic life: but we are too good political economists to desire, like our critic, to decide beforehand that the world wants but one kind of worker, and determine to supply no other. That too many women are already spared from domesti... | 1 | 4,075 | 289 | 4,364 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The annual exhibition of this Society is now opened for the second time, and presents a marked improvement upon that of last year. It may be considered as the first real test of its claims to public interest, since we have been given to understand that few of the pictures exhibited in 1857 were painted for the express ... | 1 | 3,179 | 499 | 3,678 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XXVIII.—THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS. | 1 | 3,583 | 15 | 3,598 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | a crowd of young male students aspire to the next best places, many of whom have been well trained in the elements of art in the classes of the Royal Academy itself, and who therefore are sure to possess just those titles to admission, in the average excellences of their work, which women can with difficulty obtain. It... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,264 | 6,982 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | elaborate Algerine landscapes, in watercolour. Divers critics have observed that these are very cold in colour, for what they sappiently call a “warm climate”; any artist will tell them that a dazzling and nearly vertical sunlight makes the landscape itself seem cold, and any traveller in Northern Africa will tell them... | 1 | 3,499 | 496 | 3,995 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Of anything approaching to the subtle delicacy of a Fra Angelico we find not a trace; none of the female artists have lent their brushes to subjects of spiritual refinement. Perhaps the most purely feminine picture in the room is a small and exceedingly lovely one entitled 'the Wife,' by Miss M. Tekusch; in which a dai... | 1 | 4,203 | 139 | 4,342 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | paint with equal delicacy just such scenes de la vie privée, while Rosa Bonheur chooses bulls and horses.
Our space fails us, and we can only mention a few pictures marked in our catalogue. Miss Fox sends a large oil portrait of her father, the member for Oldham, whose noble sense of justice to women has been marked a... | 1 | 3,115 | 616 | 3,731 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | [As these pages are intended for general discussion, the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed.]
13, Bedford Place, Russell Square, March, 1858.
MADAM,
As Secretary to the Ladies' Committee for aiding in the work of completing King's College Hospital, I earnestly request attention to ... | 1 | 4,011 | 405 | 4,416 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | I HAPPENED lately to be one of a party of ladies where the conversation turned on the social condition of women, and Miss Leigh Smith's pamphlet, 'Women and Work,' having been mentioned, was talked of on the whole very indulgently. 'The only part of it I do not like,' said one of the principal speakers, 'is the proposa... | 1 | 4,075 | 165 | 4,240 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XXIX.—OPEN COUNCIL. | 1 | 4,075 | 9 | 4,084 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | title | 3 | .
WOMEN AND WORK.
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EWJ-1858-05-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | themselves and make themselves useful." An intimate friend of the last speaker, and much older than herself, protested against so levelling a decision. "You and I, Maria," said she, "might settle down contentedly for life, as nurses; but women of superior intellect, the Blackwells for example, would find it very hard t... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,623 | 7,341 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | is possible that women might, with taking pains, learn all that is necessary, but where, my dear Mrs. A., are they to find the physical strength for a profession? Up night and day, it may be, and certainly out in all weathers." "Let them wear thick shoes," was my sensible reply; "and as to their being up all night, pra... | 1 | 4,203 | 272 | 4,475 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Fraulein Lotte was of an ancient noble family. She had lost her father, but she had a mother, a sister, seven uncles, and seven aunts. All the relations lived in the town of W. She had also had a brother who, according to the law of inheritance in Sweden, had taken possession, at the father’s death, of twice as much as... | 1 | 4,203 | 675 | 4,878 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | The Story of Fraulein Lotte. | 1 | 4,203 | 9 | 4,212 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | but if I had some useful employment I think I could keep them all away. I am now past twenty, I am well and strong, I will go out into the world and work. I am ready to take any situation I can get, until I have earned as much money as will enable me to rent or purchase a little farm, which I will manage myself, and so... | 1 | 3,051 | 862 | 3,913 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ----The very next year Fraulein Lotte sent her mother a present of an enormous cheese, and a gigantic salmon from Dannaufors on the Dalilfe; and wrote to say that she was going on well, that she certainly had a great deal to do, but that she was thankful to God for the same. She added that Theodore's health was much im... | 1 | 4,075 | 96 | 4,171 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to complain of his disease, which no longer hindered him from being a good and useful man. Frauelin Lotte concluded by inviting her mother, her sister, and all the family to come very soon and see their fortunate Major in her own house.
Her mother shed tears of joy at the thought of her daughter's high moral worth and... | 1 | 4,075 | 498 | 4,573 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | It is obviously impossible for a publication, making its appearance only once a month, to compete in mere novelty of intelligence with daily contemporaries; though it has some compensatory advantage in being able to exercise some discrimination as to what is deserving of being recorded, instead of being obliged, in the... | 1 | 3,949 | 205 | 4,154 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XXX.—PASSING EVENTS.
... | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | It would not be easy, for instance, to find any one who was not already aware that the capture of Lucknow took place on the 19th of March, and that the rebels to the number of 50,000 or more were driven out and dispersed—and the army is now in active pursuit of them. The details of the military operations connected wit... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,500 | 7,218 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | A measure recently proposed for the emancipation of the serfs appears to be ment in genuine good faith. Meetings of nobles have been held in most of the provinces to prepare plans for carrying it out, and at the first sitting of that of Nijni Novgorod, General Mouravief, the military governor of the province, held lang... | 1 | 3,115 | 808 | 3,923 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Park, the second of the two English engineers, so long unjustly and cruelly imprisoned in Naples, has at last been sent back to England, and has published an account of the shameful treatment to which he and his companion were subjected during the reign of the “spirited Minister” who was so keenly | 1 | 4,075 | 72 | 4,147 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1858-05-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | susceptible to the wrongs of a Don Pacifico, and so tremblingly alive to encroachments on the pure and virtuous empire of the Ottomans.
In connexion with this subject we have a curious illustration of the proficiency in what Mr. Dickens has named “the art of not to do it,” furnished by the discovery of a little passag... | 1 | 3,235 | 338 | 3,573 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1858-05-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
Vol. VII. June 1, 1861. No. 40. | 1 | 3,949 | 29 | 3,978 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | To the generality of readers “an interesting Blue Book” may appear a contradiction in terms, yet the words apply, without any qualification, to one of the thickest and most voluminous of the season. John Stuart Mill has said that the national education existing in any political society is at once the principal source o... | 1 | 3,691 | 407 | 4,098 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | THE ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 3,949 | 13 | 3,962 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | title | 3 | XXXV.—AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK.*
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EWJ-1861-06-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | blishing a general system of popular education. They resulted in the foundation of the National Society and of the British and Foreign School Society. In 1832 the Government began to take part in the education of the country. In 1839, and afterwards in 1846, it extended its operations, and has continued to extend them ... | 1 | 4,203 | 495 | 4,698 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "In the family of a mechanic or day laborer," says the Report, "to say nothing of the ignorance of the parents, the father is usually at work from six in the morning to six at night. The mother has to perform personally all household operations;" (it is well if she is allowed to devote herself entirely to these;) "the ... | 1 | 4,203 | 250 | 4,453 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | selves in the same place." Public Infant Schools, on the other hand, have a very high standard of attainment, and such is the value of the training they impart, that schoolmasters almost universally say that the children of Infant Schools exhibit a marked superiority both in intelligence and in manner. Their importance... | 1 | 3,563 | 534 | 4,097 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "There is in my district an increased number of night-schools for the working classes of both sexes. It is upon these that I place most reliance for the elementary teaching of the adolescents and adults of the present generation, and for the carrying on of that which is to succeed them. There is a vast amount of intere... | 1 | 4,075 | 221 | 4,296 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | writing classes have been added. I cannot speak too highly of the perseverance, the earnestness, and the real love of doing good which has brought these ladies out in all weathers through the winter season to discharge their self-imposed task. There are many other kinds of night schools in existence in my district; but... | 1 | 3,179 | 615 | 3,794 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The intellectual results," he says, "of education are somewhat lame and impotent, because the supply fails just too soon. I shall despair of seeing any considerable improvement till the night-school has assumed its proper position and due development. At present the adults who frequent it come either to repair the def... | 1 | 3,825 | 109 | 3,934 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | sound and permanent basis, the making it a place where the education, interrupted by the permanent claims of labor at ten, may be not only kept up, but pushed forward till the pupil is fifteen, is, or ought to be, the paramount object of those who desire to extend the elementary education of the people. I consider that... | 1 | 3,435 | 532 | 3,967 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | At seven or eight years of age the child of the agricultural laborer is employed at intervals. At ten he is generally at work continuously. At eight or nine a boy begins work at the potteries, and children under eight can earn four shillings a week at the northern foundries. An Act of last session prevented children un... | 1 | 4,075 | 129 | 4,204 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | are accustomed to it from a very early age. In the large towns miscellaneous employments absorb a vast number of boys at nine and ten, and very few indeed of the children of the independent poor remain at school till the age of twelve. In Wales, Mr. Jenkins found, in a district remarkable for the moral superiority of i... | 1 | 4,203 | 421 | 4,624 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mr. Chadwick, as a sanitarian, demands physical training. His admirable paper read before the British Association at Oxford, “On the Physiological as well as Psychological Limits to Mental Labor,” demonstrates its necessity, as increasing the power and perfection of the instrument on which intellectual education depend... | 1 | 4,203 | 194 | 4,397 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | This half-time system is not untried. It has been tried on factory children and on pauper children with the most satisfactory results; its highest fruits remain to be reaped by other classes of the community. Doubtless, its advantages will first be secured to the independent poor, and then ascend to the upper and middl... | 1 | 3,819 | 442 | 4,261 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | PRIVATE SCHOOLS.—The first section of a chapter on Teachers is devoted to the important subject of private schools. The evidence very clearly proves that the majority of these are in the worst possible condition. Dr. Hodgson says—“None are too old, too poor, too ignorant, too feeble, too sickly, too unqualified in any ... | 1 | 4,075 | 189 | 4,264 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | scholars paying threepence each weekly; one penny more than is paid at most National Schools. This is 1s. 9d.; she receives from the union 2s. 6d.; and this is her whole income. " She was very grateful," says Dr. Hodgson, "for the small donation of 1s. She complains of inability to buy meat, and without meat her streng... | 1 | 3,563 | 550 | 4,113 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | For another month Madame Alix struggled on, paying her way with the greatest difficulty, and at length, on the 26th of January, she attacked another functionary, M. Fouches, the Directeur Général, in the following letter:--- | 1 | 4,203 | 53 | 4,256 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | (To be continued.)
XXXVI.—MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS. | 1 | 4,203 | 20 | 4,223 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Monsieur le Directeur Général,
For six months I have pursued an idea of the utmost value to civilization — the education of young Mohammedan girls according to European principles and usages. I hardly know how to describe the way in which it first presented itself to my imagination; doubtless the circumstances of my p... | 1 | 3,435 | 472 | 3,907 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | On the 29th of December I had spent 2000 francs, (£80,) and I had thirteen pupils, without counting those which were offered to me from all quarters. Unhappily my resources were exhausted. I ought to have changed my house, owing to the small size of the one I was inhabiting; and I had not the money necessary to pay the... | 1 | 4,075 | 136 | 4,211 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | had been carried out, the result attained, and success was certain; an intelligent Administration had only one course to take, to accept the civilizing process which I had placed within its reach, and take into consideration the efforts and sacrifices which I had made up to that date.
They did not even deign to reply ... | 1 | 3,051 | 645 | 3,696 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I replied to M. le Directeur de l'Intérieur that I could do nothing with 150 francs, set against the expenses of about six weeks, and I beg of you, M. le Directeur Général, to carry this matter through in | 1 | 4,203 | 55 | 4,258 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | a worthier manner, one more level with my personal sacrifices; more efficacious for the work of regeneration which I have embraced.
The number of my pupils is to-day forty-six, all of whom I must feed and partly clothe. I have besides this, native sub-mistresses, one for the Arabic language, and two others for needlew... | 1 | 2,923 | 563 | 3,486 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Whichever of these two hypotheses be correct, I cannot, honorably speaking, accept the 150 francs which M. le Directeur de l'Intérieur | 1 | 3,825 | 34 | 3,859 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | offers me. If I had wished to receive alms, I should have asked for them long ago, and after fourteen years' sojourn in Africa I should no longer have needed help from anybody, if I had so consulted my own position.
I thank you, however, Monsieur, for the prompitude with which you have informed me of this intended gif... | 1 | 3,435 | 478 | 3,913 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I told you in a letter which I had the honor to address to you on the 24th of this month, that I was living upon money borrowed at usurious interest. This is doubtless a melancholy extremity. But what is more melancholy still is that this resource also fails me. I have passed a part of this day in seeking money to pay ... | 1 | 4,203 | 142 | 4,345 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | could accept, and I find myself obliged to put an end to expenses which have already plunged me in mortal embarrassments.
I write this day to M. le Comte Guyot, that if these 2000 francs are not paid to me before the end of the month, I shall close my institution on the 1st of February. It is a very sad ending to six ... | 1 | 2,859 | 585 | 3,444 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . "The Administration which refused to accept the responsibility of | 1 | 3,949 | 11 | 3,960 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | creating such an institution, because they did not believe in the possibility of its success; the Administration takes all the credit now to itself, without giving me any recompense whatever. They flatter the Départemental Bureau Arabes! What a mockery! I am truly the rat in the fable."
Having thus been compelled by n... | 1 | 3,243 | 621 | 3,864 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | None among you, gentlemen, are ignorant of how many serious, powerful, nay invincible obstacles, opposed themselves to the development of our ideas and of our moral influence in Algeria. These obstacles are such, that all direct means yet employed to conquer them have hitherto been in vain. The éclat of the conquest, t... | 1 | 4,203 | 101 | 4,304 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the influential deputies, and endeavored to prepossess them in favor of her plans. In Paris she found the official mind more sympa- the spirit of the native population; against that envelope of fanaticism, barbarism, and carelessness (d'innocuance) which during ten centuries has protected it from change. Even money, th... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,639 | 7,357 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | thizing than in the military colony, and at last saw daylight begin to break. They gave her three thousand francs for the cost of her journey, hospitality is still kept up, which, secret, persuasive, and incessant, passes from the mother to the child, from generation to generation, and which will continue to nullify, d... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,677 | 7,395 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and she also came in for ten thousand francs from property which had belonged to M. Allix, whose death, occurring a short time previously, had removed the obstacle to her revisiting France. The authorities also urged her to return to Algiers and recommence operations, promising her further support. We have seen a mass ... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,162 | 6,880 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | aid. I have some old, some very old things which have been given to me freely by the treasurer of the church. You can use them up for your children. Send some one from your house to fetch them.
Votre infirmité dévouée et respectueux serviteur PELLETREAU, Chanoine Honoraire.
The "things," by which we have rendered the... | 1 | 2,859 | 603 | 3,462 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and I think that, you may, therefore, find yourself able, under the circumstances, to obtain credit sufficient to provide for the most pressing needs. Recevez, Madame, l'assurance de mes sentiments distingués.
Le Gouverneur Général, MARSECHAL Duc d'Isly.
Alas! credit was still necessary to the indefatigable Madame Lu... | 1 | 2,923 | 684 | 3,607 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | L'Inspecteur de l'Instruction Publique, | 1 | 3,703 | 11 | 3,714 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 236 GLIMPSES INTO A RURAL HOUSE OF BONDAGE.
At last, therefore, Madame Luce was repaid, and the school placed on a footing similar to that of the boys' schools, on which money had been freely spent from the first. From 1847 to the present year, it has constantly pursued its path of usefulness, sending out hundreds of ... | 1 | 3,703 | 135 | 3,838 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | LETTER FROM A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.
"The cry and agony of these oppressions rise up unto God in heaven; for the burden thereof is heavy, and the people's hearts wax faint, for it is a sore tribulation, and grievous to be borne."
January, 1861, E—— N——shire.
A few Sunday evenings ago, the kitchen of a large Elizabethan ... | 1 | 3,947 | 448 | 4,395 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XXXVII.—GLIMPSES INTO A RURAL HOUSE OF BONDAGE. | 1 | 3,703 | 20 | 3,723 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | though its result is frequently bitter, unmitigated drudgery, and demoralizing slavery. There is annually a change, but it is often a change from bad to worse. Thither flock to our annual English slave-mart servants without characters, who can there get places without them; and heads of families, so well known in their... | 1 | 3,825 | 274 | 4,099 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | out of the hands of their domestic foes, into debauchery and crime, crowding with early wickedness our prisons and our union work-houses. What has brought this outrage on British rural liberty most home to me is the following circumstance: A poor girl of this place, named Sarah A——, had hired herself at M——, not at the... | 1 | 3,825 | 438 | 4,263 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | " Anywhere, anywhere, " | 1 | 3,825 | 7 | 3,832 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | neering old washerwoman, five rude, untaught, and ill-behaved children, and four hopeful sons of libertine habits and the coarsest conversation, which, however, developed by degrees. The first thing she did on going up-stairs to put on a working-dress, was, invited by a fellow-servant, to peep into the mistress’s bedro... | 1 | 3,755 | 505 | 4,260 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | On the Monday there was to be a great horse fair at York, to which the master always went, and stayed a week from home. He would be up early on that morning and be driven by the eldest Hopeful to N——, for the train at five o'clock. "Now," thought Sarah, "I must try my luck; this is my only time for flight." She handled... | 1 | 4,075 | 179 | 4,254 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_22 |
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