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350 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Foreign Literature. Jpoets Madame And Po...
The characters of the German women , wives and friends of the great authorsare nicely indicated ; they appear always sharing * the
misfortunes , now , and then the successes of the poet ; reading his books ; suffering from the eccentricities of his genius , and the laxity
of his principles ; admiring his talent- ; darning his stockings , or cooking his dinner ; and arein more than one instance , infinitely
his superiors , save in the one , point , which places him in ih . e light and leaves them in the shadow .
The more profound German student will prefer to search out for himself in memoirs and critiques what he cares to know , but to the
more ordinary reader these volumes will be acceptable . Specimens of almost all the authors are given in English rhyme . Some might
as well have been omitted , or the spirit and character of the poetry far better rendered in prose .
Mxtraits Choisis _, or Selec Author tions of from " Amy Modern Herber French t . " Writers . By the
Most instructors of youth must have experienced the difficulty of giving their pupils any idea of modern French literature , or the
different styles of the best writers of the day . The name of the author of " Amy Herbert" is a sufficient guarantee for the above selection
being wholly unobjectionable and , on the whole , judicious . The extractseither narrative or descriptiveare long enough to have an
interest , in themselves , and Victor Hugo , , Alexandre Dumas , Einile Souvestre , and even AJphonse Karr , as well as the graver "works of
Guizot and Lamartine have been taxed to form a volume , which will doubtless be equally well received by teacher and learner . Whether
one of Dumas ' s Sketches of History , ' founded on romance . / and a few one-sided views of political questions in some of the other
extracts , might not have been advantageously omitted or exchanged for passages conveying as much amusement combined with more truth ,
will suggest itself to some readers . _Recollections of Dalmatia and and Montenegro Montenegro . —From . " Kohl's " Istria , Dalmatia ,
tha " t I was working lying comfor its wa tabl down y asleep the Adria in a cabin tic on of a rather one of stormy the Lloy ni ht steamers when
li tt le was window suddenly ( which awakened , no y t having by a wave understood making its an mechanism unexpected ,. entrance I had g imper , at a - tt the time that it
of co fec vered the tly Dalmatian fas the tened pretty ) , and waters cabin salu with ting I -went me millions with on deck of a cold infusoria and ha found h , , a This we were was same my off the first Punta taste
which di Promontore on account —near of the its . entrance man-devouring of the Grulf , propensitie of _Qiuarnero ssome , of sa evil y was repute ori — -
and gina " The lly the , called sea land around in Carnero sight was , , a a group grey name desola o derived f barren te-looking from grey Carne , t t umultuous on ( y fle islands sh , ) or ly Carni , did v yoro ing not mass . look ,
much pleasanter , having indeed very much the appearance of the sea rigidifted . " jirbor JRara _, nee el'in haecfel terra i est x _, in alter apertis a forma _evninei marts arvis . " _,
350 Notices Of Books.
350 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 350, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/62/
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