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SPRING AND AUTUMN.

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A NEGLECTED LINE of STUDY strongly recommended

to the Rich.

THE line of study advocated in this Pamphlet is the consideration of the difficulties of a class notoriously underpaid. Addressing herself exclusively to the wealthy, the writer entreats them to examine the position of clergymen without private means. 10,000 ministers in the English Church receive on an average only £100 a-year, whilst they are in actual duty; and yet they are the only class of professional men for

MORNING CLOUDS, Third

"WE cordially recommend these letters to all our readers. They are full of good sense and right feeling, and are the work of a very graceful and highly cultivated mind." Moreover, they show great knowledge of the human heart, and the suggestions they contain are eminently practical and wholesome. Her remarks on education and choice of studies are thoroughly

whom, in England, no resource is provided, when sickness or old age renders them incapable of service. An attempt is therefore made to draw attention to sad facts, little known and less considered; and to suggest, until such time as they are remedied by authority, the temporary palliative which private individuals have it in their power to afford.

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good, and so is her defence of novelreading. We also beg to draw attention to the excellent advice on the art of dress in the fifth chapter. The remarks on the duty of pleasure are likewise noteworthy. We approve of the teaching of Morning Clouds as much as we admire its style; and we hope that it may soon become the general favourite which we think it deserves to be.' SATURDAY REVIEW.

The AFTERNOON of LIFE, Second Edition, 58.

PROBLEMS in HUMAN NATURE, 58.

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LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.

1865.

250. C. 150.

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SPRING AND AUTUMN.

CHAPTER I.

Her bountiful sweet eyes

Looked out full lovingly on all the world.
Oh, tender as the deeps in yonder skies
Their beaming! but her rosebud lips were curled
With the soft dimple of a musing smile.

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The scent of bean-flowers wafted up a dell,

Blue pigeons wheeling over fields of grain,

Or bleat of folded lamb, would please her well.
JEAN INGELOW.

DID you really never know a case of people who loved each other tenderly, doing each other irreparable harm? It is not an uncommon thing: among all the tragedies that this world covers up with decent calm, you may often find it. Let me tell you an instance. As those who suffered have long been consoled by time and death, you need not grieve to hear it. Pity for quite past troubles does us good :

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