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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
wife with cruel indifference . This is the most forcibly written part of the work . The undying affection of the wife , even under circumstances of reproach and fear , —the hope with which she clings to her first and only love , and the pure woman ' s faith in the probability of his redemption , are purely and strongly painted , redeeming many a common-place saying and general want of freshness in the other and less interesting parts . No sooner , however , is the hero pardoned , than he again falls
into bad company , in spite of numerous warnings , and robs his master , astern , misanthropical individual , to whom punishment is a duty . The consequence of this crime is the immediate flight of James Mitchell with his wife and child to Canada , where he dies ; and the denouement of the whole is the marriage of his daughter with the younger brother of William ' s rival in Germany . We must not forgethoweverthe third edition of an excellent
trans-, , lation of Ranke ' s "History of Servia , " * by Mrs . Alexander Kerr , which arrived too late to fall in with our remarks on other works of a similar nature . This book , although devoted principally to a detailed account oftlie Revolution which emancipated it from Turkish thraldom , presents us with a sufficiently complete and interesting resume of its history anterior to that
eventful struggle . Mrs . Kerr has very conscientiously performed her task , adhering with laudable exactness to the text , besides transplantingif we may be allowed to use the term—so far as was possible , the peculiarities of style , by which almost all Ranke ' s works are distinguished , into her translation . To this edition Mr . Bohn has added a translation of the same author ' s sketch ofthe state of Bosnia , as w * ell as a brief account of the other Slave provinces of Turkey , derived chiefly from the work of Cyprien Robert , which cannot fail , from the events which are now
crowding in upon us from the East , to excite the attention and interest of a public greedily desirous of learning as much as can bo told them of the countries through which the Danube flows . To these may be added " The Twin Sisters , "f by Lucy Field ; " The Roses , "J by the author of the " History of a Flirt ; " "Walter Evelyn ; or , the Long Minority ; " § " Christie Johnson , " [[ an excellent little novel in its way ; "Hope , " ** a story of chequered life , by Mr . Alfred Cole ;
"Mary Dundas , "ft by Mrs . Thomas Geldart , a tale illustrative of the necessity of strength and firmness of character and religious principle ; "The Colonel , "JJ by the author of the "Perils of Fashion ; " "Blanche the Huguenot , " §§ 'by Mr . William Anderson ; and last , but not least , " Sarille House , " [||| by Addlestone Hill . To those who have doubted the possibility of there being anything romantic in the heavy matter-of-fact
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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
wife with cruel indifference . This is the most forcibly written part of the work . The undying affection of the wife , even under circumstances of reproach and fear , —the hope with which she clings to her first and only love , and the pure woman ' s faith in the probability of his redemption , are purely and strongly painted , redeeming many a common-place saying and general want of freshness in the other and less interesting parts . No sooner , however , is the hero pardoned , than he again falls
into bad company , in spite of numerous warnings , and robs his master , astern , misanthropical individual , to whom punishment is a duty . The consequence of this crime is the immediate flight of James Mitchell with his wife and child to Canada , where he dies ; and the denouement of the whole is the marriage of his daughter with the younger brother of William ' s rival in Germany . We must not forgethoweverthe third edition of an excellent
trans-, , lation of Ranke ' s "History of Servia , " * by Mrs . Alexander Kerr , which arrived too late to fall in with our remarks on other works of a similar nature . This book , although devoted principally to a detailed account oftlie Revolution which emancipated it from Turkish thraldom , presents us with a sufficiently complete and interesting resume of its history anterior to that
eventful struggle . Mrs . Kerr has very conscientiously performed her task , adhering with laudable exactness to the text , besides transplantingif we may be allowed to use the term—so far as was possible , the peculiarities of style , by which almost all Ranke ' s works are distinguished , into her translation . To this edition Mr . Bohn has added a translation of the same author ' s sketch ofthe state of Bosnia , as w * ell as a brief account of the other Slave provinces of Turkey , derived chiefly from the work of Cyprien Robert , which cannot fail , from the events which are now
crowding in upon us from the East , to excite the attention and interest of a public greedily desirous of learning as much as can bo told them of the countries through which the Danube flows . To these may be added " The Twin Sisters , "f by Lucy Field ; " The Roses , "J by the author of the " History of a Flirt ; " "Walter Evelyn ; or , the Long Minority ; " § " Christie Johnson , " [[ an excellent little novel in its way ; "Hope , " ** a story of chequered life , by Mr . Alfred Cole ;
"Mary Dundas , "ft by Mrs . Thomas Geldart , a tale illustrative of the necessity of strength and firmness of character and religious principle ; "The Colonel , "JJ by the author of the "Perils of Fashion ; " "Blanche the Huguenot , " §§ 'by Mr . William Anderson ; and last , but not least , " Sarille House , " [||| by Addlestone Hill . To those who have doubted the possibility of there being anything romantic in the heavy matter-of-fact