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272 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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help of diaries and letters almost destitute of the lively charms of _ker sustained narrative . By far the most interesting part of the
second volume , is that which is contained in a series of letters concerning a visit to the Fox family at Falmouth . Surely Mrs .
Schimmelpenninck must have written other series of letters in her lifequite as fresh and beautiful ; if sowhere are they , and why have
they , not been made use of in supplementing , her own tale ? A too exclusive use has been made of that class of religious
correspondence which flows , almost identical in its wording , from the pens of most reliious writers ; and which Mrs . Schimmelpenninck herself
would not g have chosenif she had desired to impress the outer world with her profound convictions , . She had become a member of the
Moravian Church , but if she had lived to complete her own autobiohshe would have known how to unfold the story of her
grapy , conversion in language far more suited to win the general ear . The first volume is so full of interesting matter that we scarcely
know at what point to extract . Nothing perhaps impressed us more than the following" reminiscence of the first tidings of the French
Revolution , when they reached a quiet English household , in July , 1789 . " It was one evening in this summer , towards the distant end of hills July and , I well the
retance member shadows a vehicle , were the g spreading lorious ( usuall sun y emp over was loye the declining d woods to carry be and hind servants meadows the , to when town we or , saw church at a ) long dis re- - its usual After minutes the door of the
turning drawing- at room more opened than , and in speed burst . Harry , William some Priestly ' s brother , a craft Liberty youth of , The R eason Majesty teen , brotherl or se of ve the nt y love , waving for le for ever ever his ! ! hat Down France , and with cry is kingcraft ing free out the , and " Bastille Hurrah priest is - !
. Peop , t H aken e has : "William ut the was icture there , of and the hel Bastille ping . and I have two just stones got from a letter its from ruins him for . pup p , , you , must " add hear ressing his letter mself tome , all " which stood you thunderstruck will soon receive After ; but come ,
was you a little restoredhe . " read We an account of the event . . Such was composure the first gathering announcemen in t Franc , to us e , , , of and the which bursting finall of y that which overthrew tempest levelled the which monarch the had altar y long with and been the the
dus church tbut , which which destroyed also was public the means property of ruining , , in its actings , the earthly lay peace shelter ing , of low of so refuge and many annihilating from thousands the ruthless that of private Divine storm trust families The which ; revolution and mi , g in ht have its in princi prove France p d les their was , of
. onl to be but considered rather not as a merel vast y experiment as a political of which . movement France affecting was the that princi country pal nothing theatre y , . to I do am but not of now the about effects to they speak produced of public on events the domestic , with which here I have with
joy tory which comparable of I Waterlo had experience , in o , its and vivid of . the I intensity have carry seen ing and the of universality the reception Reform of to the Bill th , news at but occasioned I sp of never the vio saw by - of the FrenchrevolutionIt onlbe lained b
knowledge that the earl deep y ly promise is latent power heresy , ignores of that the , human power is heart . both which fratricidal can , while y and it exp asserts suicidal that to y
happ baptised " How iness and , varied till regenerated laid in at the the foot b course y the of the love of Cross time of God , and have . till likewise the heart been that the wields changes it is ,
wrought in the face , of society , by new develoi _^ nients and applications of in-1 v * V * *
272 Notices Of Books.
272 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/56/
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