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THE KEVIEWER REVIEWED. 201
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8.—L'JETonnete Femme. By Louise Veuillot...
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. . The ' Saturday Review' has addressed...
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The Keviewer Reviewed. 201
THE KEVIEWER REVIEWED . 201
8.—L'Jetonnete Femme. By Louise Veuillot...
8 . _—L'JETonnete Femme _. By Louise Veuillot . 3 rd Edition . Paris . 1858 .
M . Veuillot appears to much greater advantage as a novel writer than in the columns of the Univers / of which as our readers know
he is the Editor—though his talents for fictitious composition appear to be brought into play in the one case as well as in the le which other .
The Honnete Femme , ' in addition to _thote graces of _§ ty unfortunately often half reconcile us to repulsive subjects in these dainty little duodecimoshas the advantage of a well arranged though
simple plot , and shows , great skill in the delineation of character , especially in what may be called its morbid anatomy .
The development of that of Lucile , from her adoption in her early years of a severe decorum of conducton the calculation that it will
, , as the phrase is , " pay " best , to her ultimate outbreak in the denouementunder the influence of those explosive forces of passion
which sometimes , set at nought all prudent calculations , is very clever and artisticas is also the picture of the state of society , and of
the electioneering , manoeuvres of a French provincial town . The most remarkable feature of the book however as a French novel is
that the hero is eminently religious ( according to the Romish type of the religious character ) , and that it is the shield of Faith which he
opposes to the " fiery darts " of the Honnete Femme above mentioned .
Xxvil—The 'Saturday Review' And The
XXVIL—THE ' SATURDAY REVIEW' AND THE • ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL . ' The Reviewer Reviewed . - _^^
. . The ' Saturday Review' Has Addressed...
. . The ' Saturday Review' has addressed to us some temperate , " and
we have no doubtwell intended criticism . Our contemporary is , to be surenot satisfied , with our fictions , and thinks our "
disquisitions on political , subjects" " very ordinary , " but our experienced readers will no doubt have observed that , in matters of taste ,
differences are not uncommon . We will , therefore , not say a word on those the this objects point social . we Wo evils have have to in , which indeed view we ; , too too have earnest deep called a faith a desire attention in the for ; the importance too remed strong y of of a
conviction that we have truth with us , and that we have only to consideration struggle honestl of y the and one wait real the l issue important ; to be point turned upon aside which from our the
contemporary proclaims his difference y with us . lie thinks that the
** great majority of women who can be profitably employed are
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/57/
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