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    A FASCICLE OF EOMANCE. . The -xuthor-of ...

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    but there is absolutely notmng ™ : m ^ u u . o ^»^^ - nrinoioLes of the Revolution was insincere . . pr ? K Louis Blanc ' s chapter o » Hebertism we extract the opening I nassunr * The entire analysis is full of interest , and , exhibiting as it does the eccentric aspects of thi Revolution , demonstrate * at once the profound i ' tircy of ' he hLtorian with every detail of his vast -bject and h » s « e £ rmination to conceal nothing , to misrepresent nothing , and to tell the true nitlicvuiuuuu

    story oi ; . Midst such sanguinary executions , the revolution ran its inevitable coarse ; barn rfXfSSiS ^ itW , it realized in its acts * . thoughts of that century , and ¦ challenged the intellectual contest of the two grant schools , o £ which n the fcrat volume of this work we wrote . It has been seen how a desire to rend the cbnin . ol XSinal ^ andlnforceTl superstition , led the Encyclopedist * to the » eg ^ on of every religion but thot-of reason . We have Deheld them' assembled every Monday and ThSlay round tl . o table of the 1 ^ ™ ^ sy ™!«^^^^ from the ui

    flf their beloved goddess ; and enure uissimuamy w « =. * »« - « .. - ™ - •• --petunl opposition ? in dis ^ ourso , their argument * on the Deity , ethics , free-wll , the foul , the origin of the world , its course , ita climax ,, in short upon evetyth . ag w « discover liow reason , when eacb . one soeka her for himself is a . godde 38 , ™^ f ^\} ° identilV ITrom the tablo of the baroa we hitvo followed them to that ot tuo financial philosopher , ironically styled Atticua by Voltaire , and wo havo seen how , fcon , ihei ? converaation , cire / ully chosen and . somewhat siftecL Helvetius drew tho matoiiabi of his cdebrated volume ' J ) e VEsprit which mates Bolf-mtetet the only source of action , attributes all ideas and passions to the agency of corporealawiaibihti , and attaches a purely accidental or relative value to truth , virtue , devotion , hoiOBiv , and grenius , infusing discord into the breast of human society under the deceptivo _ i _ . xi ' , .. ^ .. ^ r . i , « r , \ , 'VUmo . whn first renrescnted this school dumig

    the revolution were , the Girondiats . When dead , the flag they had carried was appropriated , but by what men ? The philosophy of individuality restrained by tfao Girondists within the limits of good taste , and animated with muck that could charm , produced in their survivors only gross materialism and recklessness , for it coinesaeu that iu the sphere of ideas the best was but the imitator and exaggerate of Uuauet . Only the doctrine which Guadet had professed taking for his starting point , the instincts and the interests of the bourgeois , Ilebert first endeavoured to bring into favour by means of an ultra-democratic miac-en-scene . He clothed it in rags ; he put into ita mouth tho language of the llalle he succeeded almost in popularizing it by combining with , it a consistent system of furious attacks against whatever the people had reason to hate ; and as he had for hia organ a widely circulated , journal ,, people baptized with his nurao without looking too closely either at his antecedents , or at his character , the party of thoao who , by invoking renuon , urged the world towards intellectual anarchy , and , by invoking tho sovereignty of tho individual , towards Homl anarchy . In the month of November , 1703 , this party was already vory strong , being rcprtsaentod in , the prcaa by Uabert , in the ^ war bureaus by Vincent ;; among the do-, puties in misaiow . by Fouchdund Carrior , at tho head of the revolutionary army by Konuun , ; in tho Couimitte « of Public Safety by ColloU dJUoiiK > i « , ; . in . the Commune I

    bv Coaumette .. Gauw « . class without injustice this last among the HerbextUta ? . S ^ Z ^ e he himself always identified cause with theirs ; . bat justice requires StS ^ Soda not pass over in silence any of the facts which assign to the Ptocu-SatS ^ « S of the etmnnuue a place apart in the hxstory of his party Son ofa _ TmT ^ Nerm who Have Mm some slight education , Ghaumette had begun by SSf « v * : nSSEST tut he- lovei hooks , to loved ^ ants , and the navy did S 3 « Sit oS 3 « tW «» - » he-leftittostudy-batan ^ He TOS twenty- ^ years , i /^ J « m ^ n ^ cl ) wk in the office , of a . procureur when the . revolution broke out . old , mA was- « KW ™ J * ^ tributed to the journal of . Prudhomme , then edited by pag » , for v , teh * | l ni Sdr " nd a sort oE unction ^ Ith wllch he deWeiIm ^^^^ p ^^^^ S SSTS ^^ SLSSi i ^ sisss ^^ Sii

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    A Fascicle Of Eomance. . The -Xuthor-Of ...

    A FASCICLE OF EOMANCE . . The -xuthor-of ' Ethel' has published simultaneously two novelettea-vl \ ™ d T ^ Creation and Sister Anne- ( Edmburgh : James HoggO-J **

    SSSEabSSsSKSsEsrS ssfessssss ^ gi ^ s lovetvDified by ' rich burning , passionate red-buds , like drops ot suntire , 1 O 7 ! £ P 1 ? 1 C ; L n « M , fi old house at Redivood , She will be touched , we say ,

    I by the accidents of the maiden ' s heart , and it may be that after the heartrenOi £ in £ X £ between Caroline and Vaughnn , some people might be disposed to consider Mr . Farqahar an intruder . How it happens we knovrnot but tLse placid faultleS pinks of honour are never interesting-at least not Lalfsotteresting as th e slightly graceless -divides whom the ^ eartg . heroine reiects , promising them forgiveness , but notlnng more . It is well ? nr ? noralSvthat novelists do sometimes work out a rigid pnooiple in the 1 jl jaw wk

    ^ decision oflove suits ; this the author of Ethelaoes m oj w ^ - toT lord in question is justly treated , and Caroline , after -one-coune of false love and one of true , is " all that sympathy could wash her to be . As fovS ^ JAnne , the writer ' s second presentation , we -yf , ^^ ^ cerned for her . She comes of a disagreeable family . We do- not nice trxe Synevoi circle . The mother is an awkward woman ; the children are tussy ; S ^ tcr Anne herself is a little old-maidish . But the tale improves as it bister Anne nersui is . «« rifthft » all thitiffa like the sun ? s rays The

    S ^ 'Su ^ rp ^ eiiViniow : scenes between ti j sisters a ^ ? e illy ° effect ? ve ; the dialogue , indeed , heing far more sisterly than w usual . Also tllire ila ' frcBn picturing of rural lite , and there ^ pointed tou ^ eB of iv tuve with as keen womanly analysis of womanly passions . . This wotxld suffice to insure popularity for Sister A ** e s bat tlie romance-w well deveWd and the reader will be well content when the joys and ~ r ~ w * of Ihe you ha and maidens are brought to a close iu a poetical pleasing buHh . KathcriM Everino ( Edinburgh : James Hogg ) » s announced as ' by the Author of " Mr Arle , " ' but it belongs to the same series as Suter Anne and a rZ . Tf tho . Creation . In fact , they are all three attributions-to a romantic t is

    Horary entitled by the publishers Love in Light and Matlow . were , nen , another history of hearts . Katiier conventional m form , it contains some sTrikii' situations , but the moral tone is morbid , and the style is dashed w 1 sicldiness :- " Living and loving ^ vatclung tfj'W ^ J ^^ l fiith earnest in duty , Katherino . waited patiently the call oi the Doatu And Be pitiful , oh life , and tender and true m thy teaching ere U ^ itnii of ihe end of the greatVgraud calm of Death I" This » a tgo mmismmm I ynchCLongman and Co . ) , dedicated by permisaion- to Mi . Ch ailcs ^^^ ns £ M ^ : s : sKgS

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 12, 1857, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12091857/page/19/