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m 416 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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L.XI.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Memoirs of HacJiel, By Madame de B -. Hu...
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L» < Long A Metrop Deemed Olitan A Thing...
preserving art , extraordinary _facilities will be afforded , as an efficient female teacher will attend to give instruction at a moderate charge in
what we hope will be considered ere long an indispensable branch of feminine education ; and as the younger the pupil the more
easily it is learned , the attention of parents and school-mistresses is specially invited to this branch of the subject . In conclusion , we
cannot but recommend every woman who has it in her power to do so , to visit this baththough it be but for a visit of inspection , having
, sufficient confidence in its powers of attraction to believe that once seen it will send forth its own best invitation , and that those who
came to see will remain to swim . EliliEBET _.
July 15 , 1858 .
M 416 Notices Of Books.
m 416 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
L.Xi.—Notices Of Books.
L _. XI . —NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Memoirs Of Hacjiel, By Madame De B -. Hu...
Memoirs of _HacJiel , By Madame de B -. Hurst & Blaekett .. The life of an actress such as Mademoiselle Rachel might have been
written in two ways , and from two points of view : either looking upon her as the great artist , startling and electrifying two nations
by her genius , and so giving the chronicle of her triumphs , noting the effects and striving to describe how they were producedtracing
, year by year how characters and emotions , which had seemed out of her range , were conquered and made her own : —orif admitted to
her intimacy , her biographer might have shewn the , woman in her real character ; the springs of her talent , under what influences it
dawned and increased , and how far it affected her private life or her domestic relations .
The best biography would have been a combination of the two . Madame de B—— has attempted both , and failed signally in both .
And yet it was no mean , subject she had to deal with ,- —what Rachel did , and what she had to work upon and against : cold and bloodless
was the material into which she infused life and fire ;—either heavy declamatory passages of eighty or a hundred lines , which from other
actors are simply null , if not tedious ; or mere words and phrases which having in themselves no point , gained all from the depth of
passion or the intense bitterness of denunciation which she transfused into them . How poorly too was she supported bher fellow actors
whonot content with mere stilted and wearisome y recitationeven , made , the scenes where she was not , ludicrous , and when on the , stage
with her , so far from , supporting her , did all that could be done to mar the reality and truth of her acting . Truly with these obstaclesand
, an angular frame which had in itself neither grace nor majesty , save what her spirit gave it , and was so fragile that it seemed at times
half shattered by the tempest of scorn and emotion within , —truly her
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/56/
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