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206 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Memoirs and Letters of the late Thomas S...
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Humour. By The Author London Of : " Hurs...
hausting to a shrewd person of superior education and large literary experience _, than also b it himself is difficult he for was a not dispensing married chemist though no to compound longer drug in 's . He live he d
y ; , voung years ; amo was n too _wornen great an who ex 3 icure leased to admire him . easil Then y , he an was d too so su l ai i cious a man to se and lect onl , even a beautiful g woman , of a p high physical stamp and social p caste would , have repaid y
its him teeth for the and trouble lashed of his marry sullen ing . blood Still , to often blackest as the fever demon his rent l him the with Art loving , save , d him from the vortex of dissipation , seeming , to ange hold , above it
h chasm er stil at l impen the traveller ding presence ' s feet . , " as the moon ' s white finger points out the sudden Of these tlrree novels , " Counterparts" is at once the most
remarkable and tlie most satisfactory . The " Induction" is a poem in itselfand tne description of X ., " a city on a coast , queen of tne
, northern seas , and watcher of the waves , " while so faithful a portraiture of Brighton as to be unmistakable , is at the same time so
idealised , etherealised would perhaps be the more fitting word , that it is the spirit of the place , rather than the place itself , "with which
the reader is presented . The motto prefixed to this novel is the key note to the story . " Two forms that differ in order to correspond :
this is the true sense of the word counterpart . " How little this is comprehended in the-more serious relationships of lifehow fatal the errors into which this lack of comprehension
, leads , is the moral sought to be conveyed hy the action of one character upon another rather than hy any pet prosing or theory of
the writer ' s own . The dedication of this book to Mr . Disraeli , and the strong leaning * throughout to the Hebrew race as the highest type of humanity ,
favor the supposition that the writer herself is of that race which Disraeli so strongly emphasises as the most giffced the world has ever known .
With much that is wild and fantastic , the reader will also find in these works great beauty of thought and expression , _isubtle insight
into character and feeling , and a nobleness of aim and purpose , which seeking intuitively to dignify life , deals with the higher
developments of our nature , delighting in the manifestations of genius and the so called " artist temperament . "
The writer is evidently a musical enthusiast , and has nerves as sensitively attuned to the harmonies and discords of life as the musician ' s ear is to the tones of his instrument . Hence the great
charm and originality of these extraordinary books , which we recommend to such of our readers as comprehend or sympathise with
the short notice here given .
206 Notices Of Books.
206 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Memoirs And Letters Of The Late Thomas S...
Memoirs and Letters of the late Thomas _Seddoh _, _Artist , By his Brother . London : Nisbet and Co .
" After the spirit-stirring narratives of Christian heroism and successful enterprise which have lately roused and rewarded public
attention , " observes the compiler of the interesting little volume
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/62/
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