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BOOKS OF THE MONTH. 135
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BOOKS OP THE MONTH. The list of works re...
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of his heart wonders at and _longs after the _laughter of the happy childrenas a state of existence which is unknown to him . The
second tale , is called " The Student of Wittenburg , " and is more earnest and thrilling ; the denouement turning on the martyrdom ,
of an innocent young girl , in the Middle Ages , who was guiltless of any witchcraft but that of her beauty . In his picture of the fanatical
crowd of Lutherans deaf to the remonstrances of reason , and thirsting for blood , it is sad to remember that Corvinus is drawing from
history , whilst he gives us a humiliating picture of the love of _iDersecution which seems to be indigenous in human nature . That this
same love of cruelty should meet us in all phases of belief , not only amongst the Indian devotees , in the fury of their idolatry , but in
the conduct of the Pilgrim Fathers , in maltreating * the Quakers , is a most degrading reflection .
The concluding story is entitled One of the Multitude . " It gives us an affecting picture of the sorrows and privations of a dying poet
, and affords an opportunity for Corvinus to introduce to his readers
some simple but melodious little rhymes .
Books Of The Month. 135
BOOKS OF THE MONTH . 135
Books Op The Month. The List Of Works Re...
BOOKS OP THE MONTH . The list of works relating to Biography and Social Science is this
month unusually extensive . A selection from the hitherto unpublished correspondence of Madame de Stael with the Grand Duchess
Louise has just been published by Saunders , Otley , and Co . There are books about the author of ec Corinne" but as yet her life
remains many to be written ; when a biographer is found , , this correspondence will furnish many valuable particulars respecting this
remarkable woman during her ten years of exile . The compiler , Madame Lenormant , prefaces the work by an able sketch of French society
and French salons . The French edition , under the title of " Coppet et Weiiner , " appeared at Paris simultaneously with the English
translation . The two concluding volumes of Lord Stanhope ' s " Life of William .
Pitt" ( Murray ) tantalise the reader by a glimpse of the romantic side of the great statesman's character . Pitt ' s unsuccessful suit
to the Honorable Miss Eden , is here ascribed to the pecuniary embarrassments which pressed so heavily upon him .
" The Correspondence of Leigh Plunt , " edited by his eldest son , ( Smith and Elder , ) will find many readers ; including , as it does ,
letters from many of his cotemporaries , Shelley , Keats , the two Brownings _Hobert Browning , Lord Broug we ham learn , and that other Mrs celebrities . Browning . , In while a letter writing from
" Aurora Leigh , " , would lay it announced aside to hear the manuscri their child repeat thrown its
lessonor when visitors were pt was under , the sofa cushion .
Among the contributions to the literature of Social Science may
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/63/
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