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60 NOTICES OF BOOKS.'
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The Lady of La Macmillan Garaye. & B Co ...
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French Women "Adele Of Letters ," &C . ....
modesty she helped to develop a purer moral feeling titan she had found before her .
" So great was the esteem in which she was held to the day of her death , that two churches of Paris—that of the Royal Hospital
t des o have JEnfan the ts honor Rouges , and giving that her of a Saint last resting Nicholas -place des . Champs The Car —asked dinal .
of Noailles , being appealed to , decided the matter in favor of Saint Nicholas des Champsher parish . "
Madame de Genlis , and Madame de Stael lived so near our own times , that interesting as Miss Kavanagh has made their respective
biographies , the facts and events of their lives are necessarily more generally known than those of the French Women of Letters of
earlier date , some of "whom these volumes will probably rescue from oblivion . With all her critical acumen , Miss Kavanagh
knows how to throw the veil of charitable interpretation both over the actions of the woman , and the creations of the author .
A noble and generous tone pervades the whole book , and as one of the best of Woman ' s books about Women , we strongly commend
It to all readers .
60 Notices Of Books.'
60 NOTICES OF BOOKS . '
The Lady Of La Macmillan Garaye. & B Co ...
The Lady of La Garaye . By the Hon . Mrs . Norton . Second Edition .
Macmillan & Co . London and Cambridge . The appearance of the second edition of the Lady of La Garaye
shows that the public agree with the reviewers as to the singular beauty of this latest production of Mrs . Norton ' s genius . It excels
. in two qualities rarely attributed to a _woman ' s pen ,- —strength and simplicity . The long even metre in which she has chosen to tell
her story , is one which tests a poet's power to the utmost ; it is so easy to be flat and prosyso comparatively difficult to be truly noble
and tender in the measures , of Pope and of Cowper ; although , like pure white marble , such throw into relief the higher qualities of
thought and feeling" when truly present in the artist ' s conception . Againthe outline of the story is simple as that of a Greek tragedy
deals with , no exciting passions , and leads to no romantic result ; , Ibut it touches with a masterly hand on the deepesttenderest
, feelings of humanity , and finds its echo fax * and wide . The outward dress of this little book fits the inward beauty and
purity of the tale ; it is green , like the Breton forest amidst which its scenes are laid ; the woodcuts are executed by Mrs . Nortonfrom
sketches taken by herself of the ruined Castle of La Garaye , ; and the aristocratic stateliness of the pathetic little drama is carried out
even into such minor matters as the fine hot-pressed paper and the clear beautiful type , to say nothing of the monograms in which
author , publisher , and printer , alike indulge . The story of the Lady of La Garayeas most of our readers
must and has know alread by this been time made , is use taken of in from Madame , a pretty de Genlis Breton ' narrative " Adele ef ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/60/
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