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138 NOTICES OF BOOKS'.
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Foreign Literature.
barbarian society and s armed the joys to of the domestic teeth ; keenl affection y sus , yet cept leading ible to t the he p life leasures of a monk of refilled and of a rec his luse rude ; a refor le mer and , earne a st t and of no zealous mean in rank his efforts he re for minded the improvement mein the
Prometheus comfor are many . tless months peop convent chained , of to where his the poe solitary he year passes buried rock his . days five , feet and , where deep he in and the his snow , peop , of le himself theonlonk
" The monastic abode of the Yladikawhere he is y m , mountain lies of Ce at tinge the . , and foot The wi hi of th ghes a the mountain t poi surrounding nt of , form the building ing wall , part running , of whic the which h partl enclosure commands y the up the of _^ all side the the valley of rest the ,
h is ave an been ancient accustomed square tower to decorat , the e battlements with the heads of of their enemies Montenegrins . Below this is the Church of Cetingeand it a stone building containing cells
, near to for the monks suite , thoug of h the at Yladika the time . of Almost my visit on mostly the level occup of ied the b valley y men stands belonging the Yladika himselfthe whole
including large long some -shaped spacious house courts inhabited , surroun by the ded by rather high walls , . Before with and with
w tank the here convent for the water peop is a in large mee the t midst open on all space : public thi , s partl is occasions the y overgrown market , and x _^ w lace hich and was grass forum crowded , of Cetinge when a
we came . A few dozen housesor rather stone huts , lie round it , and European thence run towns up a few and broad all this streets together bearing , bears some the name resemblance of Cetinge to sometimes those of
State calle " We d b A . were a tigne former . presented , Austrian to the officer spirit ua w l an his d tempor service al and soverei who gn had of the the com little
-Yladika plaisance y in to his act as billiard our cicerone -roomy which during , serves our stay also . " We the , f purposes were receive of b audience d by the
too becoming inconsiderable cham far ber in and that his drawing , sty the relativel le prince of -room living y t of , for th a from e poor , t dimensions houg t race he h rude in of possession mountaineers of simp his lici St o ty ate a of , revenue he , his sho co u nsiders subj ld y ects no t it . depar means " more ( to A t -
worth cover y somew examp here le this about for half some the Gferman extent of princes their , dominions whose palaces . ) "He appear himself reall are a y d occup orned ied besides only three the rooms usual , name assortment ly , the of said weapons billiard , - with room , portraits whose _walls of
time _Napoleon Great ( thoug I h of saw there Russia I it . , , , are Lord strings ; books . " ano B of yron th also er grapes , sm the in al the a present nd billiard room other King con fine -room tai fruit of n , ) more Saxony hang the weapons ing Yl , a and up dika t , and ' Peter s dry fashion library , at ; and the _the -
the and sleep the portrait ing-room of , which the Emperor boasts Nicholas a very statel . y bed in the Italian , of " E The urope Yladika , and there of Montenegro are so many has portraits travelled of him a great extant deal , that in felt various I at may spar part that © *
we myse had lf an to d do my with readers a hig hl minu y intelli te personal gent and descri culti p v t ion ted , but gentleman we , whose once easy been and courteous t manner in Montenegro placed ' said entire he ly at our friend ease l . man * And nerafter so you the have first
salutations and casaw ; ' will well certainl , I trust be you , often will reminded find , something of Homer y amongst and , of us the to interest state of you society , he you describes ' y ,
frequentl " The Yladika y recurred appeared . to the to subject be an , and enthusiast he has for in his Homer library , for several he _afterwards _editions When him
was rounded families of his strong works of b l y y the , his reminde amongst country body d guard , others of and Ulysses at of a Russian Peri the and anizzi sam his translation e companions , time all the his sons . friends " and or members the and I myrmidons saw subjects of noble sur , ; of I -
Achilles and of other Greek prineos _, who , though living , on . terms of brotherly
138 Notices Of Books'.
138 NOTICES OF BOOKS ' .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/66/
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