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204 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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XXXVIII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS. ¦ . — .—? ¦ —...
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^ Last Poems. By Elizabeth Barrett Brown...
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Jws, ^?Re7 1 7#&, 1862. The Deel Great I...
Several instances nave occurred during the last trial of M . Mires before the Supreme Court of Douay of the feminine tendency to
temper justice with mercy , or at least to divest justice of that vindictive character which Victor Hugo blaines so severely . The
Douay ladies , who throughout listened to the pleadings - \ vith the greatest interestcould not on several occasions forbear from
expressing in different , striking ways their great pity for the unfortunate Mires . While he was defending himself with an
ability that threw his avocats completely into the shade , demanding , in deprived the most him energetic of utterance terms . , The a contre fair expertise spectators , thirst begged frequentl of the y
officers on guard for a glass of water for him , and one frowned angrily at the gendarme who brought it because he forgot sugar
and spoon . One woman , who had lost considerably by the company of which M . Mires was the gerant _, cried bitterly when she saw
what a degree of suffering was imprinted on his features since she last met him , and instead of giving way to expressions of anger as
he was being brought into the dock , exclaimed , " Poor Mires ! far guilt from you are y wishing your innocent jud you ges that will ill , they I feel pray you will with have release all been you my amp ; heart but ly punished in that any if case you ; and that are if
you may yet do well , and prosper !" M . Mires seemed to be deeply impressed by these manifestations of
feminine sympathy , and when he had recovered the emotion which then overpowered himsent each of the pitying auditors a copy
of his brochure by one , of the huissiers , saying , as he did so , " That their humane instincts could not find him guiltybut that he wished
, their reasons and convictions to prove him innocent . "
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204 Notices Of Books.
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^ Last Poems. By Elizabeth Barrett Brown...
_^ Last Poems . By Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Chapman and Hall . Poems printed after the death of their writer come to usin any
, case , with a claim apart from their merit , and we take up such a volume with a strange reverent interestwhich too often the mere
contents would not deserve . It is touch , ing sometimes to meet with such verseswhich the author perhaps judged too wisely to
, print—but which some loving survivor has tenderly gathered together . He has gazed through the dense mists of love and
/ sorrow till he fancies that the world also will see in the poor rhymes ? a sacred valueand give back a crown of fame to be laid—upon a
grave . We glance , through the book in silence : no commonplaces
can provoke our sneers—no absurdity can excite our smiles—and
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/60/
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