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Foreign Literature.
Paul Heyses neue Novellen . These are a series of four sliort tales , reproducingthrough the
, medium of a rich kaleidoscopic fancy , charming and attractive pictures of social life . Like the toy in question , we wonder that
the broken fragments of crystal , which unite to form the common mirror of human life , should produce to our sense such rare and
novel appearances , hitherto veiled from our observation , and requiring only the touch of the master-hand to call them into
existence . The talented author of these tales is justly considered the first German writer of this species of fiction at the present
day . His style is both artistic and natural , and tends to the ideal , while it touches the soul by its very simplicity .
_jLe her gyp ausgegeben ten _, Heisebilder von Ludwi aus dem g Libay Orient . Text Nach von der Alfred Natur von gezeichnet Kremer . und
This fine work is only partly published , and will be comleted by June 1859 . It contains a series of colored engravings
valuable p to those , who have travelled in Egypt , and to others who , , previous to going there , desire to acquaint themselves with this
country . But we can do no better than translate the letter by which A . Humboldt acknowledges the merits of this extraordinary
publication . He writes to Herr Libay : manner " You . have I am made sorry known at having your name been in preven the most ted praiseworth till now from y and offering brillian you t
ing my " respec of your t and drawings admiration tends for to your illustr talent ate the . The life sweet of nature and in anim this ated country color- , better than other works Et and Nubia have as yet been able
to do . Your sketches of Denderah upon , gyp Edfu , the mosques of the Sultan rich at Kaid and and imposing at Bargouk * near * . Cairo # , t * he sp I lendid great view of leasure Alexandria in telling , are
shares age you ell , who that m laine y , like Hilde opinion d m b "brand yself t upon . , t , v one isi your ted of work E the gyp ing . most t t , The ex Braz t talented appreci mus il , nave a t nd command ation the landscap Canary which p from e painters your islands p one ic , of t qui ures who our te ,
w combines exp an artistic y taste accompany with a natural , tion for the beau any tifulwill . I am suretify the author of such a work percep . , ,
, gra " Humboldt . " JDer JLmerika miide . Kultur bild von F Kurnberger .
This book excites particular interest considering that its hero , Dr . _Moorfieldrepresents no other than the talented and unfortunate
, poet Lenau . It has been said , that the task of the English nation is to colonize , while it is the mission of the Germans to generalize .
Thus , endowed with an elevated mind and a lofty fancy , and imbued with the notion that America was the land destined to realise his
ideal and to work out the regeneration of the world , Dr . Moorfield sets foot upon the new world . He visits New York , and accidentally
pitches upon a so-called " public _school" on the very -first day of
206 Notices Of Books-
206 NOTICES OF BOOKS-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/62/
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