In Memoriam Ellen, Sarah, and Alberta, by Georgina Winter (Charing
Cross Publishing Company), is the record, apparently by In Memoriam Ellen, Sarah, and Alberta, by Georgina Winter (Charing Cross Publishing Company), is the record, apparently by
their mother, of the uneventful lives and early and painful deaths of three girls. The impulse which prompts such publishings of what is interesting and sacred to a family circle may be a good one, but the result is, in most cases, of no real value. A glimpse into the home life of a God-fearing and affectionate family must always, be more helpful than harmful ; but the little details, which are hallowed in the remembrance of those who loved the sufferers, become puerile when presented to the gaze of the outer world, even if it be only, as the writer specifies, the "religious world ;" and all one's reverence for a good and pious mother ought not to restrain one from expressing the conviction that such lives and such deaths are better shrined ira the hearts of loving relatives, than in a book like this.
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