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420 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Memoirs Of Hacjiel, By Madame De B -. Hu...
asserts ; but one passage where tlie superior information of the writer is specially insisted upon is , as we know , incorrect . During
Rachel ' s first visit to England she was received at "Windsor . wreathed words " The These usual serpents words royal with were gif diamond t was subsequen on heads this tl , occasion and commen bore ted , a graven bracelet on in on a composed variety the inside of of a two few .
this It was : . said Victoria , and to even _HacJiel reported The in the truth public y was prints it stood , that the thus inscri : Victoria ption ways was to
31 ademoiselle Hachel—the , difference of the omission of a single word making an immense But it was one neither in the , sense the inscri . ption nor the honor the ift broughtthat
ad occup vantages " ied the . attention She has of herself the reci owned pient . that Her her mind first _was impulse set on more was substantial to feel , the estimate its metallic value !
weight of the bracelet , and thence " Now it so happened that two or three evenings after her visit to
Windsor this bracelet was unclasped by the great actress , and placed in our hands , while she related all the circumstances of her interview
the first with appearance , the the Queen inscri of p ; tion and the , thre sli which ght e facts bracelet was remain " , Victoria the especi value to all of avaricious Rachel y which in our ; " , consisting memory of secondl misers y : ,
would merely not in workmanshi have estimated p and it diamonds by its wei , the ght most ; and thirdly , that the circumstance attending it which had evidently made the most
worth impression of the on Rachel ifbwas ' s that mind the , so bracelet far from had its been being iven the her metallic bthe gy
hands of the Duchess g , of , Sutherland , and not directly by the Queen herselfwhichreasoning from the customs of foreign courts , was
, , what Trivial she had incidents hoped and expected hbut . we record themand do so with ;
enoug , the some accuracy necessity pleasure need of not , as crediting be it imp is p licitl leasant all y the relied low to know on and , and mean that so to actions Madame to feel its relieved , heroine all de the B from base — and ' s
which aDd unworthy we trust motives are in , which this other book cases attribute due to s the animus of , the , , many writer
. Indeed we remember no biography where with equal coolness a low and discreditable source for anecdotes is so calmly avowed .
Stories of the vilest and most slanderous nature are here given , prefaced " Some of by the , — " Paris 111 natured papers said peop " le — have " It was asserted currently , "— " reported On dit , , " "— —
, comments " The gossi are p of made Paris and was conclusions that , " - —etc . drawn , etc ., and , which upon , the these foundation stories
for them _^ _once-daafcrpyed , become utterly unfair , and we trust undeserved
. But let us leave the petty details of scandal and turn to a subject on which our biographer is far less at home , and see * how she treats
of Rachel as an actress .
wonderful Criticism represen in general tation she of wisel Adrxenne y avoids Lecouvreur , and all who and remember read " Ma the -
420 Notices Of Books.
420 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/60/
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