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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 275
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—«B » A. Decade Of Italian Women. By T. ...
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und more ying , exal - ted , and gor hopeless -. sup passion , . / was . a necessary part of the poet g ' s , professional had " Where intention could appurtenances of a young and . beau her condi tiful w tion idow and , of unb desire lemished to risk duc miscon t , who
unobjec struc no tion tionabl by t y as world in chang the , memo find ing this ry of needful her for husband the , part , of no sanc her ? tified outfit and as exalted a poet The , b so y - ¦
passion the imag poe ina try tion , which to the addressed point proper itself to the memory purpose of one * * no * more * , met . lamentations the requirements her of apotheosis the case exactl of the y ; late and cavalry Yittoria captain ' s ten years and ' despair longing and to
when rejoin she him sa , t mus , down t be to regarded make poetry as poetical for the proper perfec t t ly self broug -conscious , ht out , thoug use h , very laudable purpose of acquiring for herself a poet ' s reputation . "
be Such a valuable are the and tone inter and esting spirit work which and : pervade which what cannot would fail otherwise to leave
an unfavorable impression on the , minds of all thoughtful and judicious readers .
" Life in Tuscany , " the dozy somnolent life _* wMcli has within the last few weeks shaken off its slumbers and sprunglike a giant
re-, freshed , into new and vigorous life , has found at the hands of Miss Crawford a graceful and faithful portrayal , all the more interesting
that it is a record of the last days of that enforced intellectual and moral quiescence which the Tuscans haveat the first ripe
oppor-, tunity , so nobly and magnanimously thrown off .. This bloodless revolution carries with it a moral weight to _^ _Vliich all the peoples of
Italy must , sooner or later , respond ; A prospect of unanimity dawns at length for beautiful and suffering Italy , an unanimity ,
which , while helping to get rid of one tyrannous rule , will , if Italians remain true to themselves and to each , other , preclude the
erection-of a , new despotism on the ashes of the old . Miss Crawford writes of what she sees and knows , and , intelligently
observant of everything about her , imparts the results of lier experience in a leasing and familiar manner * Herself , the daughter
p of an eminent agrarian reformer , she goes con amore into the condition of the Tuscan peasant , and the mezzeria system under which
lie holds and cultivates his land , barely wring-ing therefrom support for himself and his family .
fixed " The annual Eng sum lish of tenant pays whilst to the the proprietor Tuscan tenant of the is farm bound he to cultivates render to a money
and his landlord oil are divided the half share of all and the , produce share alike raised and upon even the in farm articles . Wheat of the , w most ine _^ , ;
trifling kind the ; halving , system is applied . Of every brood of the chickens the of
landlord can claim his half , and even eggs may come under operation a sim " The ilar , _Tuscan rule . * contadini * * are * * far from being insensible to the hardships of
dition their _. lot In , and particular very _, far , I from found being the peasant reconciled women to the loud poverty in their . of their complaints conlive like beastswould
and lamentations upon this subject : * We , ' they ex-
Notices Of Books. 275
_NOTICES OF BOOKS . 275
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/59/
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