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188 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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old rieketty _print of the last century , and full of dramas where tlie boys _sveav swords and tlie girls "¦ white satin slips ; " where M . le
Marquis and his foster-brother are always represented on terms of affectionate feudal familiarity ; and " Mamau " takes Hortense to
visit the poor at the castle _g-ates—ah ! how delightful they were , and are ; for the writer would not sell them for any money . Of
course they are translations ; but is not the perfume of olden _[ French life redolent on every page ? Madame de Genlis' tales for
children are also charming ,- to say nothing of the ee Contes die there Chateaux is another " in which less known little Miss book Pulcherie tc Les Jeunes plays so Emi interesting 11 of a which part , gres
much of the scene is actually , laid in England , and , in which Adelaidetlie heroinemarries tlie inevitable " Lord Edward , " of all
, , French novels . " Les Jeunes Emigres" which has also been translated , is an evident reflexion of Madame de Genlis' experience as governess
in the Orleans family , and was probably intended as such . In later clays we have had Madame Guizot , and furthermore we
must mention with all due honor the authoress of that inimitable storybook , Les 3 / lalheurs de Sophie" which , among other
incidents nearly as convulsive as those in Miss Sinclair's Holiday House , relates , and elaborately illustrates in an engraving , how Sophie , one
very wet day , not content with taking" a bonnetless walk in the garden to try the feel of it , is seized with a morbid desire to take a douche
under a water spout which collected all the rain water from the roof of the house . _" Papa" entering home from that journey on
, "which papas in story books are always going or coining , sees with astonished eyes his little daughter looking' like nothing but a very
ragged mop , and instantly adopts a measure than which nothing more unsanitary can be imagined—namelymaking her sit down
, to dinner with him in that disgraceful condition . In real life a rheumatic fever would have been the very least of the attendant
consequences . But Sophie had a good constitution , for we find her the nex . t day quite ready for a fresh scrape .
Such are some of the story books for children we have noted in course of desultory reading * . Those which we desire to introduce to
our readers at the present time are of a different class , being destined to servemore or less distinctlythe purposes of infantine
, , education , and thus belonging to the same category as the lovely tales by which Madame Pape Carpentier has acquired her
wellmerited fame in France . So we will open the two large doublecolumned quartos , which allow most ample space _$ or _^ ie pictures ,
and first , —place aux dames ! Madame la Baromie de Crombrugghe is a Belgian lady of high
birth and extensive cultivation . She is herself a mother devoted to her children , and is greatly interested in the ideas of Frederic
Frobel as regards education—wliat we in England call familiarly the Kindergarten system . She shall tell her own story in her clear
and expressive French : —
188 Notices Of Books.
188 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/44/
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