Life Without and Life Within Part 41

MARGARET FULLER.

BY JULIA WARD HOWE.

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"Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has retold the story of Margaret Fuller's life and career in a very interesting manner. This remarkable woman was happy in having James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Henry Channing, all of whom had been intimate with her and had felt the spell of her extraordinary personal influence, for her biographers. It is needless to say, of course, that nothing could be better than these reminiscences in their way."--_New York World._

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HARRIET MARTINEAU.

BY MRS. F. FENWICK MILLER.

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Her native genius, and her perseverance in developing it; her trials and afflictions, and the determination with which she rose superior to them; her conscientious adherence to principle, and the important place which her writings hold in the political and educational literature of her day,--all combine to make the story of her life one of exceptional interest.... With the exception, possibly, of George Eliot, Harriet Martineau was the greatest of English women. She was a poet and a novelist, but not as such did she make good her t.i.tle to distinction.

Much more noteworthy were her achievements in other lines of thought, not usually essayed by women. She was eminent as a political economist, a theologian, a journalist, and a historian.... But to attempt a mere outline of her life and works is put of the question in our limited s.p.a.ce. Her biography should be read by all in search of entertainment."--_Professor Woods in Sat.u.r.day Mirror._

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Mrs Miller, however, succeeds in this volume in showing us an altogether different side to her character,--a home-loving, neighborly, bright-natured, tender-hearted, witty, lovable, and altogether womanly woman, as well as the clear thinker, the philosophical reasoner, and comprehensive writer whom we already knew."--_The Index._

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MARY LAMB.

BY ANNE GILCHRIST.

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What pathos is there not here?"--_New York Times._

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The following typographical errors were corrected by the etext transcriber:

No less pedantic is the style in which the grown-up, in stature at least, undertake to become acquainted with Dante.=> No less pedantic is the style in which the grown-up, in stature at least, undertakes to become acquainted with Dante.

Even the proem shows how large is his nature=>Even the poem shows how large is his nature

There is a little poem in the Schnellpost, by Mority Hartmann=>There is a little poem in the Schnellpost, by Moritz Hartmann

If a character be uncorrrpted=>If a character be uncorrupted

of a n.o.ble dscription=>of a n.o.ble description

law with her t.i.tluar lord and master=>law with her t.i.tular lord and master

FOOTNOTES:

[1] "He who would do great things must quickly draw together his forces.

The master can only show himself such through limitation, and the law alone can give us freedom."

[2] Except in "La belle France."

[3] Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, translated from the German by my sister, form one volume of the "Specimens of Foreign Literature,"

edited by Rev. George Ripley, and published in 1839. This volume has been republished by James Munroe & Co., Boston, within a few years.--ED.

[4] The name of Macaria is one of n.o.blest a.s.sociation. It is that of the daughter of Hercules, who devoted herself a voluntary sacrifice for her country. She was adored by the Greeks as the true Felicity.

[5] "By the Author of Essays of Summer Hours."

[6] The Life of Beethoven, including his Correspondence with his Friends, numerous characteristic Traits, and Remarks on his Musical Works. Edited by Ignace Moscheles, Pianist to His Royal Highness Prince Albert.

[7] See article on Beethoven, in Margaret's volume, ent.i.tled "Art, Literature, and the Drama."--ED.

[8] Ormond, or the Secret Witness; Wieland, or the Transformation; by Charles Brockden Brown.

[9] The Raven and other Poems, by Edgar A. Poe, 1845.

[10] The Autobiography of Alfieri, translated by C. E. Lester. Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, translated by Roscoe.

[11] Although the errors here specially referred to by my sister have been corrected in this volume, I let her statement remain as explanation of any other errors which may possibly have crept into type, in this volume, through the illegibility of some of her ma.n.u.scripts from which I have been compelled to copy for this work.--ED.

[12] Napoleon and his Marshals, by J. T. Headley.