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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 203
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Agnes Tremorne. By J. Blag 2 den Vols . ...
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A. « Silas Marner; Or, The Weaver Of Rav...
In fact , this story , though ranch , slighter in construction , and less profound in interestexhibits the same quality as iC Janet's
, Repentance / ' and is but one of the episodes of the country life of
Adam Bede .
Notices Of Books. 203
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 203
Agnes Tremorne. By J. Blag 2 Den Vols . ...
Agnes Tremorne . By J . Blag den Vols . . Smith , Elder , and Co ., Cornhill .
Those who are acquainted with Miss Blagden ' s previous writings will turn with interest and curiosity to this longer and more
sustained effortas we nave done ; and we think that even the ordinary amusement reader afforded , , who b expects a new nothing no _^ el ( but all the the average more when of temporary en dorsed
y h out y SmitL seeing . and that Elder the book 's name pretends ) will to not be have something read many beyond pages this with , and
must , be judged , by a higlier standard . From the first page to the last , through every passage of
description _,, conversation , or comment , we are struck by the careful writing finitel reader careful —not y . any from yet This thing always the is no elaborate author surel light y praise while , visible still ; as , less a is clever reverence instinctivel pretentious a work for y , the caug but when work ht eminentl what , by inde the is y -
written called " , is easil pretty y" and sure quickl to , be y as ( which easily laid generall aside y and means , as quickl carele y s for sly - )
gotten There . is then a great deal of care-put into this storyand
some-, has thing the more writer —a live great d a deal surface of thoug life ht but . has It is rather not a g surface _* one deep book ly , int nor o
the problems of character and feeling , , and the results are laid before us—fragments of more or less worthbut making up a
whole wliich is valuable in proportion to its realit , y and depth . The story is laced in Italbut the leading figures are English ,
and the plot is p easily and naturall y , y developed . Slightly improbable It will be pronounced by many readers ; but though real life seems
few to _moiiop to romance olise all writers inrprob without abilities much , we may laint now . and There then is incident spare a comp
enough , more than in most two volume tales , and yet it is so simply domestic and quietl story y written where , that facts the areas Impression they should left be is subordin of a tranquil ate to
and not ruling , life . And yet there , is a murder and , imprisonment , and madness and conspiracy , but all strung upon a silver thread of reflection and earnest thought which gleams unbroken from the
first page to the last . that If the we say one that is in this the book very reminds least cop us ied of or " Transformation suggested by the , " it other is not ,
but rendered also rather that tlie . _Tby that heroine Miss Eng Blag lish is den an life artist as in by a . Roman The her first American atmosp view here predecessor of is Agnes as perfectl seated , and y
on the steps of the church , with her little child model and the palm
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/59/
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