nature of his occupations, and the character of his peculiar duties, require this. The contending interests of the community at large, the strife of public affairs, and the competition of business, with the paramount importance of establishing himself as the master of a family and the head of a household, all require a degree of concentrated effort in favour of self, and a powerful repulsion against others, which woman, happily for her, is seldom or never called upon to maintain. “The same degree of difference in the education of men and women,¶leads, on the one hand, to a more expansive range of intellect and thought, and on the other, to the exercise of the same faculties upon what is particular and minute. Men, consequently, are accustomed to generalize. They look with far-stretching views to the general bearing of every question submitted to their consideration. Even when planning for the good of their fellowcreatures, it is on a large scale, and most frequently upon the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number. By following out this system, injustice is often unconsciously done to individuals, and even a species of cruelty exercised, which it should be woman's peculiar object to study to avert; but at the same time, to effect her purpose in such a way as neither to thwart nor interfere with the greater and more important good." She even makes it out that the lords have a vast deal of inconvenience and annoyance to put up with through the usages of society and the tyranny of politeness, in the forced services which they have to perform, for the fair. "It is too much regarded merely as a thing of course for men to be obliging and attentive; and it is too little remembered at what cost to them we purchase their help and their indulgence. Nor is it only in solitary instances or for especial favourites that these efforts have to be made. It is the sacrifice of a whole lifetime for a man to be polite. There is no fireside so warm but he must leave it on a winter's night to walk home with some female visiter, who has probably no charm for him. There is no situation so eligible but he must resign it if required. There is no difficulty he must not encounter, no fatigue he must not endure, and no gratification he must not give up; and for whom? All would do this perhaps for one being in the world perhaps for more; but to be willing to do it every day and every hour, even for the most repulsive or the most selfish and requiring of their sex, there is a martyrdom of self in all this, which puts to shame the partial kindness and disinterestedness of woman." Among the forewarnings given by our authoress, there is one that we opine will hardly be anticipated by any young lady on the eve of her marriage, but which is yet calculated to be so useful that none should sneer at it; for it concerns the matter of jealousy. Having remarked that the manner of man's love differs from woman's, in that while "she employs herself through every hour in fondly weaving one beloved image into all her thoughts, he gives to her comparatively few of his," we are informed of the rival who will daily usurp his attention and distract his thoughts.. "It is a wise beginning, then, for every married woman to make up her mind to be forgotten through the greater part of every day; to make up her mind to many rivals, too, in her husband's attentions, though not in his love; and among these, I would mention one whose claims it is folly to dispute, since no remonstrances or representations on her part will ever be able to render less attractive the charms of this competitor. I mean the newspaper; of whose absorbing interest some wives are weak enough to evince a sort of childish jealousy, when they ought rather to congratulate themselves that their most formidable rival is one of paper." These short specimens, we observe, have commanded the admiration of a weekly journalist. But they are in no respect superior to numberless paragraphs and passages in the volume, which will, like its predecessors of the series, to a certainty go from edition to new edition at a rate scarcely to be matched by any recent publications. The large circulation of such useful and unavoidably influential works, neutralises in some degree the gloomy picture which appears in our pages, of the condition of women in England, of the middle classes. A. INDEX. Adamson's Lusitania Illustrated, 505 Anecdotes of Frederick the Great, 393 Antiquary, the, by Dr. Bigsby, 560 Astley Cooper. Life of, 254 B. Ballads and other Poems, Longfellow's, 249 254 British Constitution, the, where to be found, Disasters at Cabool, 151 Buchon's Chronicles of France, 213 Burnes's History of the Knights Templars, 368 C. Cabool, British Disasters at, 151 Cannibalism and the Feejee Islands, 473 Cash-Payments and Sir R. Peel, 378 Celtic Nations, Eastern Origin of the, 431 Children's Employment Commission, 513 Columbia, Notices of the Factory at, 469 Cooper's Jack o' Lantern, 132 Corn Laws, The, and Sir R. Peel, 384 Cottrell's Recollections of Siberia, 36 Court & Times of Frederick the Great, 390 Cow, The, and Old England, 67 Curwen, Journal and Letters of Saml. 329 D. Daniel O'Connell's Memoir of Ireland, 480 Dean Milner, Life of, 171 De la Voye's New French and English Diary of Madame D'Arblay, 29 Domestic Residence in Switzerland, Mrs. Dress-makers' in London, number and E. Eastern and Western States of America, Edinburgh Review, the, and F. Horner, 534 Lace-maker's of Nottingham, condition of, Lady Grosvenor's Yacht Voyage, 202 Legend of the Hangman's Stone, 211 Letters on South America, 311 Lord Liverpool and George the Fourth, 264 Lover's £. S. D., 565 Lucretia Davidson, Life and Remains of, Lusitania Illustrated, Adamson's, 505 Mabinogion, Lady Guest's Translation of Macnaughten, Murder of Sir William, 159 Malthus and Horner, 540 Manny, Notices of Sir Walter, 219 N, Nails, Notices of Chinese Ladies', 276 Nobles of England, Notices of the Ancient, Nohcahad,, Notices of the Church of, 550 O'Connell, Notices of Daniel, 380 Rainy Day, the, 253 R. Rambles in the East, Raynes's, 400 Ranz des Vaches, account of the real, 193 Reformation in South West of France, 81 Robert Burns, the Works of, with Notes and Robertson, Messrs., their Letters on South Romances of Arthur and his Knights, Rural and Domestic Life of Germany, 61 S. Salic Law, Notices of the, 215 Seven Years' War, the, and Frederick the Siberia Cottrell's Recollections of, 36 Sicily, Strutt's Tour in, 186 Sigourney, Mrs. her Pleasant Memoirs of Slave-ship at Simon's Town, 401 Society and Literature, Influence of Wonien Soldiers and Sailors, 284 Sons of Liberty, conduct of the American, |