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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
Antoine Charpentier ; the other a steady , hard-working , industrious miller , who keeps his love somewhat to himself , by reason , perhaps , of its not being very warmly returned . Charpentier wants Nannette to marry him , but the murder of the village priest by a brutal Jacobin mob prevents the possibility of any other than the civil ceremony being performed , to which Nannette objects on conscientious motives , utterly unintellig ible to her selfish , unscrupulous , and pleasant inauvais sujet of a lover . This is the
best character in the book ; it is thoroughly Erench , aud correctly as well as artistically draAvn . As might be imagined , Nannette ' s refusal is seized upon as an excuse for all sorts of excess , in which gambling , and every other conceivable licence which a lover assumes to take under such circumstances , enter A'ery largely . The result of all this , is Charpentier ' s entrance into the army , and Nannette ' s conviction that Arsene Potier ' s good qualities will make him the better aud kinder husband of the two .
Twenty years then elapse , and Charpentier returns , the victim of every A-ile indulgence , to beg at the mill of which his old rival is the master and his old love the mistress . Unrecognised by her , and furious from delirium tremens , the unhappy man implores her for brandy , and threatens even her life . Erom his violence she is saved by the arrival of her husband , who , taking compassion on the miserable Avreteh , g ives him the drink he craved , and allows him to sleep on the premises . In the night Charpentier dies , andPotier and his wife learn from the passport found on the body , that the owner is Antoine Charpentier , late colonel in the army of his majesty l ' empei-eur et roi . actually chiffonier at Paris . Eor many pleasing
passages and incidents " Nannette" is superior to many tales that we have read . The characters are well sustained , and the moral is well drawn . " Ambrose the Sculptor , " * is a novel written with certain ulterior ends , which do not , however , exactly square with the critic ' s notions of romance writing . To make an artist ' s struggles through life interesting , Mr . Cartwright has endeavoured to make them incident to the vocation , when , in fact , they are common to all mankind that have to wage an unsuccessful war against fortune ; and the consequence is , that we have rather a forced
connection established between art and its difficulties , and matters certainly not less common-place or more unusual . " Lady Una and her Queendom , " f is a pretty , lady-like attempt at a species of social Puseyism applied to peasant life . Tillage reformation is the object of the Lady Una ' s solicitation ; and the transformation of young and old from clownishness to gentility , and from a taste for beer and other vulgarisms to an inclination for the pure limpid stream , and the
gentle refinements of social intercourse , under the auspices , of course , of a benign young priest , is the apparent object of the youthful heroine . Mistaken as we believe the aim of the author to be , we do not hesitate to acknowledge the real merits of the tale , as well as the general elegance of style , in some parts , and excellence of matter . Indeed , there are many passages of great beauty—the description , for instance , of quiet home scenes being apparently and peculiarly within the sphere of the writer ' s
powers . As an example too of what the author is capable , Ave will quote a few graceful remarks on the relative interest attaching to old and new houses : — " Old houses , like old institutions , had been gradually built ; haste had been no
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
Antoine Charpentier ; the other a steady , hard-working , industrious miller , who keeps his love somewhat to himself , by reason , perhaps , of its not being very warmly returned . Charpentier wants Nannette to marry him , but the murder of the village priest by a brutal Jacobin mob prevents the possibility of any other than the civil ceremony being performed , to which Nannette objects on conscientious motives , utterly unintellig ible to her selfish , unscrupulous , and pleasant inauvais sujet of a lover . This is the
best character in the book ; it is thoroughly Erench , aud correctly as well as artistically draAvn . As might be imagined , Nannette ' s refusal is seized upon as an excuse for all sorts of excess , in which gambling , and every other conceivable licence which a lover assumes to take under such circumstances , enter A'ery largely . The result of all this , is Charpentier ' s entrance into the army , and Nannette ' s conviction that Arsene Potier ' s good qualities will make him the better aud kinder husband of the two .
Twenty years then elapse , and Charpentier returns , the victim of every A-ile indulgence , to beg at the mill of which his old rival is the master and his old love the mistress . Unrecognised by her , and furious from delirium tremens , the unhappy man implores her for brandy , and threatens even her life . Erom his violence she is saved by the arrival of her husband , who , taking compassion on the miserable Avreteh , g ives him the drink he craved , and allows him to sleep on the premises . In the night Charpentier dies , andPotier and his wife learn from the passport found on the body , that the owner is Antoine Charpentier , late colonel in the army of his majesty l ' empei-eur et roi . actually chiffonier at Paris . Eor many pleasing
passages and incidents " Nannette" is superior to many tales that we have read . The characters are well sustained , and the moral is well drawn . " Ambrose the Sculptor , " * is a novel written with certain ulterior ends , which do not , however , exactly square with the critic ' s notions of romance writing . To make an artist ' s struggles through life interesting , Mr . Cartwright has endeavoured to make them incident to the vocation , when , in fact , they are common to all mankind that have to wage an unsuccessful war against fortune ; and the consequence is , that we have rather a forced
connection established between art and its difficulties , and matters certainly not less common-place or more unusual . " Lady Una and her Queendom , " f is a pretty , lady-like attempt at a species of social Puseyism applied to peasant life . Tillage reformation is the object of the Lady Una ' s solicitation ; and the transformation of young and old from clownishness to gentility , and from a taste for beer and other vulgarisms to an inclination for the pure limpid stream , and the
gentle refinements of social intercourse , under the auspices , of course , of a benign young priest , is the apparent object of the youthful heroine . Mistaken as we believe the aim of the author to be , we do not hesitate to acknowledge the real merits of the tale , as well as the general elegance of style , in some parts , and excellence of matter . Indeed , there are many passages of great beauty—the description , for instance , of quiet home scenes being apparently and peculiarly within the sphere of the writer ' s
powers . As an example too of what the author is capable , Ave will quote a few graceful remarks on the relative interest attaching to old and new houses : — " Old houses , like old institutions , had been gradually built ; haste had been no