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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 57
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who children greatest have deli at . not Bucking ght the , an least y ham stray idea Palace say what ings ; are we reported our loyal real or and relations invented affectionate to of the the King peop little of le
insisting Nap sidered " Times les , as thoug " on itself mon being h opolising declare somebod told without that y the belong all tast historical delay e ing for to historical ! the Nor writing liberal can gossi ladies is press p reverting . alone Does is constantl be not to c the the on y -
detailed character of the early annals , and that the " trifles , light as air" which are the byewords of conversation in one centuryare the
, , basis of profound investigation in the next , —weddings , murders , burialsand the like ? " Oh ! " we oftentimes exclaim , " that we
had a domestic , novel written in the reign of Elizabeth ! " "Well , hereoh ! readerare all manner of actual old occurrences , dug up
by smelted the , historian from their , throug adherent h years rubbish of painful in one labor of , the which most have poetical been
brains now working , and are here brought out as bright new intellectual coin for current use , stamped by the weighty hand of
Thomas We are Carl free yle . thereforeto confessequally in virtue and in spite
, , , of our select circle of ladies , with whom we are discussing our bookthat the chief interest for us in these two large volumes lies
, in the extraordinarily vivid pictures of domestic life in a German court of the last century . Never were the images of people who
have been dead and buried for a hundred years , more thoroughly resuscitated bthe mingled action of research and imagination .
The fathermother y and children who dwelt in the Old Schloss of Berlinand , there lived , and loved and quarrelled and made it up
again , , like any other respectable _, householders , are painted with a brush bturns humorous and patheticand the characters in
" Vanity y Fair" and the " Virginians " are , not so distinct as those of Friedrich Wilhelinhis " Feekin" and their two eldest hopes .
gentlemen Compared ! to what our interest do we , feel in these for any peop , amount le , my friends of Pragmatic ! both ladies Sanction and s
that could be engrossed on parchment ? Baby Carlos' appanages , ( being the Italian duchies which his termagant mother succeeded in
clutching for him , ) do not excite us so much as would the coral on which he be supposed to have cut his teeth , or the exact
pattern of the may stiff robes in which they encased the poor little ancestor of King Bomba . We wish that a little more of the milk of
human kindness had been may infused into his veins than appears to have descended to his posterity , but furthermore , Baby Carlos , and
the " seven travail throes of Nature " which preceded his getting his appanages , are of the very smallest degTee of importance to us .
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Notices Of Books. 57
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 57
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/57/
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