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BODLEIAN

12 AUG 1954

LIBRARY

LONDON:

PRINTED BY EMILY FAITHFULL AND CO.,

VICTORIA PRESS, (FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN,)

GREAT CORAM STREET, W.C.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII.

PAGE

NO.

SEPTEMBER.

I. The Condition of Working Women in England and France.

By Bessie R. Parkes

II.-Margaret Beaufort. By M. G. S.

III.-The Institutions of Hofwyl a Model for an Educational

System; with some Remarks on the Influence exercised by

De Fellenberg on European Civilization. By Mrs. Wm.

Fison, Author of "A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of

the British Association for the Advancement of Science,

&c., &c.

IV. The Victor. Written after the Fire in which James Braidwood

lost his Life. By E. B. P.

V.-Les Feuilles de Saule. By Amable Tastu

VI.-Algerine Notes. Part I. Algerine Animals: The Wild Boar,

the Lions, the Hyæna. By B., M.D. .

VII.-Women Compositors. By Emily Faithfull

VIII. Fruits in their Season. XI. The Peach.

IX.-National Association for the Promotion of Social Science.

Ladies' Meeting for the Employment of Women.

X.-Notices of Books. The Workwoman. ("L'Ouvrière.") Par

Jules Simon

XIII.-Report of the Society for Promoting the Employment of

XVII. Le Nid de Fauvette. By Berquin

XVIII.-Algerine Notes. Part II. Algerine Animals: The Jackal,

the Antipathy of Animals, Small Game, the Water-Dog

and its Master, a Monkey and its Master

XIX.-Fruits in their Season. XII. The Plum

XX.-Dublin Factories

XXI.-Slavery in the South. By Barbara L. S. Bodichon

XXII.-Helps to the Doctor. By Q.

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XXIII. -Our French Correspondent. By Emily Johnstone.

XXIV.-Notices of Books. "The Story of Burnt Njal," translated

from the Icelandic, by Dr. Dasent; 66

Author of 66 The Patience of Hope;
Idylls," by Gerda Fay: Post Office Savings' Banks: A
Few Plain Words concerning them; Books of the Month

NOVEMBER.

XXVII.-The Preventive Branch of the Bristol Female Mission. By

Frances Power Cobbe.

XXVIII.-Miss Cornelia Knight

XXIX.-The Colonies and their Requirements. By Maria S. Rye

XXX.-The Wind amid the Trees

XXXI.-Partant pour la Syrie.

By La Reine Hortense

XXXIII.-Slavery in the South.

By Barbara L. S. Bodichon

XXXII.-Moustapha's House. By B. R. P.

XXXIV.-Notices of Books. French Books for Children; Books of the

Month

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172.

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187

XXXV.-Our French Correspondent. The Life and Death of Madame

Rose Cheri.

XXXVI.-Burnt to Death

XXXVII.-Open Council

XXXVIII.-Passing Events

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Dublin

DECEMBER.

XXXIX.-Local Societies. Miss Boucherett's Paper, the Newcastle and

Durham Report, and Irish Prospectus.

XL.-Rosa Ferrucci

XLI.-Stray Letters on the Emigration Question.

XLII.-"Behold, I stand at the Door and knock." By Christina G.

XLV. The Italian Ladies' Philanthropic Association

XLVI.-West-End Housekeepers

XLVII.-Hospital of the Mater Misericordiæ. By an Inhabitant of

XLVIII.-Slavery in the South. By Barbara L. S. Bodichon

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LIII.-Newlyn and its Fishwomen. By Ellen Barlee

289

LIV.-Madame Marie Pape-Carpantier. By Bessie R. Parkes.

LV.-Modern Inconsistency. By A. R. L.

LVIII.—Painted Glass Windows executed by the Carmelite Nuns of

LIX.-Facts and Scraps. The Present State of the Black Country

LX.-Our French Correspondent

LXI.—Notices of Books. Works published by Messrs. Nisbet in

connexion with the "Missing Link" Movement.-German

Literature: Das Glück eines Weibes; Ueber die Erzie-

hung des weiblichen Geschlichts; Charlotte von Schiller

und ihre Freunde, &c., &c.-Books of the Month

LXII.-Open Council.

LXIII.-Passing Events

FEBRUARY.

LXIV.-Lettre sur l'Art.-Orphée, Gluck, Madame Viardot.

Madame Pape-Carpantier.

LXV.-Governor Winthrop's Wife. Abridged from Anderson's

"Memoirs of Memorable Puritan Women"

LXVI.-Legal Notes. By a Barrister

LXVII.-Joy. A Poem. By Mary Carpenter

392

LXVIII.-Valentine's Eve in Norwich. By Helen Downes

393

LXIX.-Facts and Scraps. Mrs. Constantia Grierson; A Scrap from

an Old Blackwood

400

LXX.-Report of the Edinburgh Society for Promoting the Employ-

ment of Women

406

LXXI.-Pictures for the Sick. By A. M. H. W.

408

LXXII.-Our French Correspondent

411

LXXIII. Notices of Books. Maître Pierre; Books of the Month

411

LXXIV.-Open Council

425

LXXV.-Passing Events

421

LXXVI.—The Palace and the Colliery. By Bessie R. Parkes

432