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314 GERMAN LITERATUEE.
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LiXIL—GERMAN" LITERATURE.
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NO. III. As an instance of the evil whic...
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Arc Ambient Garment Encircled Her, Woven...
And -when I am sad and weary "With earth ' s dull masquerade ,
I think of that _3 _STight's sweet vision , And what the Angel said ,
When on my restless pillow She laid this lily of love ,
To strengthen me for days to come , Till that one bright day above .
S . M . E .
314 German Literatuee.
314 GERMAN _LITERATUEE .
Lixil—German" Literature.
LiXIL—GERMAN" LITERATURE . _^ __
No. Iii. As An Instance Of The Evil Whic...
_NO . III . As an instance of the evil which is likely to result from the
dangerous habit of combining fiction with fact , we may refer our readers to a book entitled " Scenes from the Life of a German .
Governess , in Belgium , England , Spain , Portugal , Poland , and 75 Germany There . is * a hihl-ht and exaggerative tone of complaint
and sentimentality g running ywroug throughout this work , which is likely to be the more injurious since the anonymous writer adopts the
autobiographical form of rehearsal , and many of her best scenes have a specious appearance of truth . The English reader may look through
this volume , laughing a good deal at some of the unnatural episodes , and not dee-linterested with the contentstill her attention
may be arrested very p occasionall y y by something better , than usual in the performance . The authoress warms when her plot thickens ,
showwander ing real from earnestness the room in of her horrors subject , " ; or and forget when the unnatural she allows tawdrx us to
ness of her general style , there is a promise of power to perform better thingsand a hint of something genuinewhich contrasts
strangely with , its false setting . The writer is app , arently one of those who feel keenly the position of women who have to contend
in their unaided weakness against the rough billows of this world , and are reduced to the unnatural task of getting their own bread .
Nurtured , like rare exotics , in a hothouse atmosphere of luxury and easeand fostered by the tenderness and indulgence of shortsighted
parents , , many of these women have to meet with a rough weaning in the life which follows . Whilst addressing- those who are partly
responsible for the evil , we cannot speak too earnestly on this subject . Evil is often wrought " from want of thought , " if not
from want of heart . The mother , whose benevolent anxieties are
Spanien * Den , k Polen wurdi und gkeiten Deutschland einer Deutschen . Erzieherin in Belgien , England ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/26/
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