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THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER

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SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS.
THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.
SUNSHINE: A SUMMER SERMON.
GRILLING AND DEVILLING.
VARIETIES.
HOW WE MANAGED WITHOUT SERVANTS.
THE FIRE OF LOVE.
OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES; OR, VILLAGE ARCHITECTURE OF BYGONE TIMES.
SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

By LILY WATSON.

OPEN-AIR SKETCHING.

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PART VII.

After all the serious advice wehave given to our readers as to theliterature that is to make themwise, it is pleasant to write of self-culturethrough the study of thebest poetry.

It is, however, not by deliberatelytaking poetry as a vehicle ofeducation, hunting up every allusion,parsing difficult sentences,and picking the whole thing topieces, that readers will fall underits sway and know the power ofits magic spell. We have oftenmourned in secret at the prevailingfashion of “getting up” this,that, and the other poem forexaminations, and have wonderedwhat such an introduction toEnglish literature is worth. Ofthis method of handling the workof poets one may use Wordsworth’sphrase:

Is it desirable, then, to pass byallusions without comprehendingthem? Have we not praised theaspiring student who wants toknow, for instance, who was the

or who it was