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GERMAN LITERATURE. 203
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*. "We Cannot Commence Our Usual Notice ...
recreation ary sketch . es to . beg These inners may in G afford -erman , an who innocent are anxious but .. and the very to stories become simple
familiar with the language in an easy manner , are not other equal success in f meri ul wr t it to Mad , the am authoress e Lewald has ' s later been of these writings too tales read . y Like to prettil publish many
her com numerous osedand inventions show a certain . Some amount portions of fancy , but they are are en y - tirel p deficient , in oriinalitor imagination— -so that being' in the
y gy are same vastl style inferior as the fairy both t in ales of Gr tion imm and and execution Hans An . dersen The , story they concep
b entitle y many d < y c in Tante Germany Kenati ) that , " is a founde iC Sountag of d on second ' the s-kind old si , " ht my or th and a child ( still is b born able elieved on to
det Sunday ect all , is faults gifted and -with infirmities a species in the characters -g of , others , though these faults be hid from the eyes of most men . Such a
may faculty unhappiness ( as mi than ght comfort be supposed xipon ) its is possessor described . as The entailing enthusiasti more c Death and Eternit
and _mystical-Zschokke ( whose " Meditations on y " have lately been translated into Eng occasionall lish by _ITrederika his first _Kowan meeting ) was
lives ¦ accustomed with strangers of these seriousl , as he y to listened declare with many , silentl that trifling y to their circumstances y discourse , on , the connected former persons
with themwould pass , involuntarily before his mind , as it "were a foun dream d -life many , , yet who perfectl were y incredulous distinct in as detail to this . Zschokke visionary , g however ift , and , :
¦ Madam was apt e to Lewald be rather presents irritable us with on another the subject variation . In " on Donna the favourite Julia , " taleis senti
theme of art . Lorenzothe hero of this fanciful , a - introduce mental Doge . painter This pretty subj , in e ictures ct love affords , with of the an the opportun architecture proud it daug y for hter of the Venice of authoress a , Venetian with its to
gondolas sketch of and the Doge State p ' s pageantry daughter , . with her There slim her fi is long also auburn showing a Pre hair _-Hap to decked haelite advan
with pearls and diamonds , and gure - warmth tage in and a dress richness of the golden brilliancy brown of brocade the flesh —hei tints ghtening , the whiteness by its brown
of her clear foreheadand the sparkle of her large eyes—a With description all this recalling careful , in word its -pai writer minuteness nting , we love a hav for picture e the a great supernatural of Tintoretto deal about ' is s .
fairies childish notice of and , and other sp sometimes irits volumes , and the almost which grotesque h ' ave s latel . y " been We must published defer , the for
, future criticism .
German Literature. 203
GERMAN LITERATURE . 203
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/59/
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