The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-03-13
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| Counsel ON Home Matters. Boston: Phillips, Samp
son. Co. 1855 For sale by Taylor Maury, Wash
ington d. c.
Plain talk to domesticsl Yes, indeed! Bu
will they read it? We wish they would. There
are many useful things to be learned from these
few pages. And if they read it, will they prac
tice on it? Ay, there's the rub But who ar,
domestics The maid servants that, in thes,
days, when frugal thrift has lost its charm, ant
labor is so discountenanced, are to be won b.
this plain talk about "begin Alright" SECOND
my" waste" swami" "temper," and sucl
homely words, to listen and enter on reform
that must take US back again into some of tn,
old-fashioned ideas of our forefathers, wher
spinning wheels and brooms and pals belong
ed also to lady gear and maiden calisthenics
Alasl good lady author, we fear your reward
for your toll in preparing such book is q lonI
way ahead, and you have spent your strength
in vain.
But, in very truth, there is a great deal o
good sense, sound and solid instruction, in th
book. Domestics may read it with profit; ant
so may those to whom they yield their services
and whose comfort, as well as that of their do
mestics, so much depends on suitable respec
for each other. The author has gone mucl
into details which housekeepers and the female
portion of our readers will best understand
There are numerous sketches of characters
where the traits and incidents are probabl,
drawn from the life; and some of these are
marked with no little humor, as different ma
tionalities furnish their peculiarties of dialect
and modes of thought and conduct, to make ur
the varied scenes.
Good counsels, too, are there in home mat
tiers. The author, in her preface, tells us " she
is not old, and, being "a wife and mother
having from her girlhood shared the cares
OF housekeeping with an invalid mother, and
kept house herself since her marriage, being a
young New England matron-a Yankee il
you please she considers herself at about
the right age, and as having the degree of ex
perience which should enable her to speak. ad
visedly, candidly, and acceptably, concerning
the duties and relations of servants, with whom
she has had much to do"
There, reader, what better chance do YOU
want than that? Get the book. women Of
America, and men, too, and read it, and take
notice, and learn. We have d>nn -l-4y =.
p0in'ing IL out TO you. 1t will be your fault
now, II you shut your ears to its counsels. g.
The SCHOOLS OF CINCINNATI AND IFS VICINITY Bv John
p. Foote. Cincinnati: c. F. Bradley Go 1esE
"These are my jewels" said the Roman
matron, Cornelia, pointing to her noble bows.
the Gracchi, on their return from school 90
her answer to her fashionable visitor who after
the display of her own personal decorations
with feminine curiosity asked for a sight of
her friends most valued gems. We can fancy
the dilated form, the sparkling eye, the swelling
cheek, flushed with noble pride, while in the
almost imperceptible curl of the lip there lurked
rising feeling of scorn at the thought of the
comparison, with which that mother turned to
study the countenance of the weaker.minded
member of her sisterhood. 1t was a triumph
ant vindication of her claim to high honor and
generation. Like her, as it were, the Queen
City of the West, known everywhere for her
enterprise and magnifcence, presenting, by
one of her citizens, her schools, where are
gathered, as her choicest ornaments, her sons
and daughters, growing up for life and inhu-
ence, may proudly say-"These are my Jew.
els"
Under twenty-eght different heads, this vol
ume gives full account of the various institu.
tons of science and learning, from the college
the professional schools, high schools, the lite
rary societies, asylums, public and private
academies, to the Sunday -schools, schools for
colored pupils, and all the varietieS of the
common school to be found within the precincts
of that growing city. There are also five illus
tratons; two of them of high schools; one, of the
medical college of Ohio; another, of the interior
of the Cincinnati Observatory; and portrait of
Nathan Guilford, Esq, known az the author of
the Common School System of Ohio. Had we
room we should like to draw out some details
from this book for our readers, but it is one of
those works which can only be estimated as it
deserves by a careful perusal. We are glad to
have seen it, to know 80 much, and with such
particularly, of the progress and prospects of
education in such point of influence for the
West as Cincinnati is and must ever be. The
account is well prepared, the book is published
in neat style, and the amount of information
on collateral subjects, which is thrown in most
naturally, adds yet further to its value. The
authors plan has not embraced so much sta
tistical information as we could wish, but the
book we suppose was meant more especially
for those who had at hand those sources of
knowledge. His aim seems to be to impress
On his fellow-citizens the value and importance
OF their privileges, and to stimulate them to an
earnest pursuit and improvement of the means
thus afforded them for higher advancement.
We hope this noble object will be attained,
and SO precious birthright, with still increas-
ing splendor, will be handed down by the pres
ent recipients to many coming generation,
not only for the veal of that city, or that State,
but to benefit, in its wider influence, our whole
country, and even the world. g.
and Evil Angels. By Richard whaiely, d. D., &c
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Bakiston For sale by Tay-
lor & Maury Washington, d. C.
Who ever heard of book, not worth the
reading, by Archbishop Whately? If there be
such, we have yet to see it. A master of logic,
he reasons calmly and forcibly. His language
is ever clear and compact, his illustrations apt,
and his quotations of proof texts show that the
word of God is subject of familiar study to
him. All may not agree with him in his prem