Noble Womanhood, By G. Barnett Smith. (S.P.C.K.)—Mr. Barnett Smith tells
here the story of eight famous women; their names are,—Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, Florence Nightingale, Frances Ridley Havergal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sister Dora, Louisa May Alcoa, Elizabeth Fry, and Felicia Hemans. It is needless to say that, wielding as he does a skilful pen, Mr. Barnett Smith has made out of the subject supplied by these eight lives an interesting book. He took in bad part some observations we made on a similar volume of his last year. We must repeat that there should be an express acknowledgment of the source from which these biographies are derived. We pre- sume that Mr. Barnett Smith does not write about these ladies from first-hand knowledge. This being so, he is bound, we conceive, to give his authorities not in the text, but in a separate acknowledgment.
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