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ntic regions in Europe. More
beloved than the snow-capped grandeur of the Alpsthan the castle crowned Rhineenshrined in the stanzas
of a hundred poetsHelvetia's dark gorgesand the silvery cascade of Giessbachcalm Chamounixand the
gloomy dungeons and stake of the Castle of Chilon.
All these wonders of nature and wonders of mind
With their thousand attractions of beauty combined
Have served but to strengthen my fond love for thee
And make theedear Malvernstill dearer to me.
This supports the quaint remark of a tourist that one of the great delights of travelling is the thought and
anticipated pleasure of coming home again. From the subjects chosen for many of her poems the author has
evidently made appeal rather to the narrow circle of her own near relations and friends than to that
ever-increasing one which is expressed by the phrase of the "reading public." She writes thus in her preface
the brevity of which is much to be commended:--"They are published chiefly for the author's dear children
relationsand valued friendsto whose hearths and hearts it is hoped that they willas HOME LYRICS
readily find their way."
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In "A Painful History Mrs. Battersby speaks boldly out against one of our social inequalities
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