Mr. Brooke felt so much surprise that he did not at once find out how much he was relieved by the sense that he was not expected to do any thing in particular. marred it. No life would have been possible to Dorothea which was not filled with emotion, and she had now a life filled also with a beneficent activity which she had not the doubtful pains of discovering and marking out for herself. Will Such being the bent of Celia's heart, it was became an ardent public man, working well in inevitable that Sir James should consent to a those times when reforms were begun with a reconciliation with Dorothea and her husband. young hopefulness of immediate good which has Where women love each other, men learn to been much checked in our days, and getting at smother their mutual dislike. Sir James never last returned to Parliament by a constituency liked Ladislaw, and Will always preferred to who paid his expenses. Dorothea could have have Sir James's company mixed with another liked nothing better, since wrongs existed, than kind: they were on a footing of reciprocal tolerthat her husband should be in the thick of a strug-ance which was made quite easy only when Dorogle against them, and that she should give him thea and Celia were present. wifely help. Many who knew her thought it a pity that so substantive and rare a creature should have been absorbed into the life of another, and be only known in a certain circle as a wife and mother. But no one stated exactly what else that was in her power she ought rather to have done-not even Sir James Chettam, who went no further than the negative prescription that she ought not to have married Will Ladislaw. But this opinion of his did not cause a lasting alienation; and the way in which the family was made whole again was characteristic of all concerned. Mr. Brooke could not resist the pleasure of corresponding with Will and Dorothea; and one morning when his pen had been remarkably fluent on the prospects of municipal reform, it ran off into an invitation to the Grange, which, once written, could not be done away with at less cost than the sacrifice (hardly to be conceived) of the whole valuable letter. During the months of this correspondence Mr. Brooke had continually, in his talk with Sir James Chettam, been presupposing or hinting that the intention of cutting off the entail was still maintained; and the day on which his pen gave the daring invitation, he went to Freshitt expressly to intimate that he had a stronger sense than ever of the reasons for taking that energetic step as a precaution against any mixture of low blood in the heir of the Brookes. But that morning something exciting had happened at the Hall. A letter had come to Celia which made her cry silently as she read it; and when Sir James, unused to see her in tears, asked anxiously what was the matter, she burst out in a wail such as he had never heard from her before. "Dorothea has a little boy. And you will not let me go and see her. And I am sure she wants to see me. And she will not know what to do with the baby-she will do wrong things with it. And they thought she would die. It is very dreadful! Suppose it had been me and little Arthur, and Dodo had been hindered from coming to see me! I wish you would be less unkind, James!" "Good Heavens, Celia !" said Sir James, much wrought upon, "what do you wish? I will do any thing you like. I will take you to town tomorrow if you wish it." And Celia did wish it. It was after this that Mr. Brooke came, and meeting the baronet in the grounds, began to chat with him in ignorance of the news, which Sir James for some reason did not care to tell him immediately. But when the entail was touched on in the usual way, he said, "My dear Sir, it is not for me to dictate to you, but for my part I would let that alone. I would let things remain as they are. It became an understood thing that Mr. and Mrs. Ladislaw should pay at least two visits during the year to the Grange, and there came gradually a small row of cousins at Freshitt who enjoyed playing with the two cousins visiting Tipton as much as if the blood of these cousins had been less dubiously mixed. Mr. Brooke lived to a good old age, and his estate was inherited by Dorothea's son, who might have represented Middlemarch, but declined, thinking that his opinions had less chance of being stifled if he remained out-of-doors. Sir James never ceased to regard Dorothea's second marriage as a mistake; and indeed this remained the tradition concerning it in Middlemarch, where she was spoken of to a younger generation as a fine girl who married a sickly clergyman, old enough to be her father, and in little more than a year after his death gave up her estate to marry his cousin-young enough to have been his son, with no property, and not well-born. Those who had not seen any thing of Dorothea usually observed that she could not have been "a nice woman," else she would not have married either the one or the other. Certainly those determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and noble impulse struggling under prosaic conditions. Among the many remarks passed on her mistakes, it was never said in the neighborhood of Middlemarch that such mistakes could not have happened if the society into which she was born had not smiled on propositions of marriage from a sickly man to a girl less than half his own age-on modes of education which make a woman's knowledge another name for motley ignorance-on rules of conduct which are in flat contradiction with its own loudly asserted beliefs. While this is the social air in which mortals begin to breathe, there will be collisions such as those in Dorothea's life, where great feelings will take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is forever gone. But we insignificant people, with our daily words and acts, are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know. Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Alexander | is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that broke the strength, spent itself in channels which things are not so ill with you and me as they had no great name on the earth. But the effect might have been is half owing to the number of her being on those around her was incalcula- who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unbly diffusive: for the growing good of the world | visited tombs. 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The secret of this wonderful woman's power is her profound insight into the working of the human heart in conjunction with the rare mastery of language by which she has always exactly the proper words to unfold them. Characterization is, therefore, her strongest point, and with this superiority to other great masters, that nothing of caricature, of extravagance, or of exaggeration is needed by her to impress her men and women on the reader's mind. The charm of George Eliot is undoubtedly her wonderful style, of which it may be said that grace and fitness characterize every sentence. In "Middlemarch" it reminds us of the elaborate and delicate work of the cameo-cutter, or the exquisite finish of a drinking-cup. But the pains that have been bestowed upon it have brought out many types of character in as strong relief as the head of Cæsar on the shell or the figures of Bacchante and Bacchanal on the goblet. 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He beThe author exhibits an insight into the secret heart of gins with the beginning, the publication of Benjamin Harris's Publick Occurrence, at Boston, in 1690, and of Shakspeare, and with the incisive, masterly touches our nature scarcely less subtle and manifold than that closes with the death of Horace Greeley, in 1872. *** We take leave of Mr. Hudson with thanks for the large of her pen produces a series of images, glowing with the amount of information he has collected, digested, and lations of experience, as scarcely to awaken the suswarm breath of vitality, and so consonant with the reveplainly placed before us. He may safely calculate on a very considerable sale, for every body wishes to picion of art.*** Such a rare cabinet of charactersketches is perhaps not to be found in any other sinknow every thing about newspapers and editors.-gle production of English literature. With no grimace Philadelphia Press. It is a book full of matter, the collection of which is a valuable and honorable service. It will be the standard book of authority and reference concerning the history of newspapers in this country for a long time to come, and we doubt whether any body else in this generation will think it worth while to go over the ground again which has been so patiently and cleanly gleaned by Mr. Hudson. So far as the facts touching the growth and development of journalism are interesting, the book contains nearly every thing that is worth saving. It contains an account of the beginning and career of every important or peculiar newspaper enterprise, from the sheet printed "by R. Pierce for Benjamin Harris, at the London Coffee-House, Boston," the first and only number of which was dated September 25, 1690, to the late change of form of the St. Louis Republican. *** The book is interesting from beginning to end. No page but has its item of curious information or its piquant anecdote.-Boston Daily Advertiser. *** A complete and, on the whole, impartial history of the rise and progress of American journalism, interspersed with vivacious sketches of prominent newspaper men, entertaining anecdotes and incidents of newspaper experience, aud much curious and valuable statistical information of interest to a public of newspaper readers. *** Whoever is interested in the growth of this mighty engine of popular intelligence, should read Mr. Hudson's full and deeply interesting history. He will see how it has kept pace with, if it has not always marched in advance of the growth of intelligence, freedom, and independence among the people; how it rose, from a condition of tolerated weakness, and abject waiting on insolent authority, to be a power above parties and governments, able to cope fearlessly with wrong-doing in high places, and in all ways to represent the people, and the wants of the people.-N. 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Following, as it does, a series of acknowledged masterpieces from the same hand which gave a new character to the English "novel," it would have been much to have been able to say that it maintained the reputation of its author. But we shall be surprised if the mature judgment passed upon it by those who can appreciate the work of a true artist does not pronounce it the most perfect of the series.-Blackwood's Magazine. There is no falling off in that vivid power, subtle thought, epigrammatic terseness, and vigorous strength that were the distinguishing characteristics of "Romola" and the "Mill on the Floss."*** The book contains some of the most powerful characters that its author has as yet conceived.-Boston Gazette. STUDENT'S HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. By HENRY HALLAM, LL.D., F.R.A.S. 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Philip Schaff, D.D., has done the Christian lic a valuable and timely service in editing a popular edition of the "Revision of the English Version of the New Testament," as discussed by Lightfoot, Ellicott, and Trench. Heretofore the able writings of these authors on this important subject have only been obtainable in separate volumes. Here they are presented in one compact book, with an able and scholarly introduction by Dr. Schaff, which gives a clear account of the origin and expediency of the revision now in progress, the composition and ability of the commission engaged upon it, and concise illustrations of the changes to be made. The volume is to be warmly commended, and is emphatically a multum in parvo.Watchman and Reflector. There is no work of equal interest to all Christian bodies, and hardly any that appeals so strongly to Hebrew, Greek, and English scholars. Its nature is sketched in this abstract of the aim and history of the Commission, by those most able to report correctly. The probable result would seem to be a verbal purification of the text rather than any striking change. Those interested can find no better guide to the essay than this, that appeals quite as much to philologists as to communicants.-American and Gazette, Phila. The revision of the English Bible is a subject that has taken a stronger hold upon the mind of the English-speaking world than could have been anticipated a few years ago, and to this change in public opinion Dr. Schaff has contributed in an important degree. The position he occupies in relation to the revision now in progress under the auspices of a portion of the Anglican Communion peculiarly fits him to speak to the public concerning it. He has, however, modestly contented himself with acting as introducer of three English scholars, who have discussed the subject with admirable force and judgment. In a volume entitled "The Revision of the English Version of the New Testament," he has republished the essays "On a Fresh Revision of the New Testament," by Prof. Lightfoot, D.D.; "On the Authorized Version of the New Testament, in connection with some Recent Proposals for its Revision," by Bishop Trench; and "Considerations on the Revision of the English Version of the New Testament," by Bishop Ellicott. To these he has prefixed an Introduction detailing the various steps taken in England by the Convocation of Canterbury and the committees appointed by its authority, and the plan for co-operation by Biblical scholars in this country; and stating briefly the reasons which call for such a work, with indications of its character and probable extent.-Examiner and Chronicle. One of the most valuable works which has come into our hands for some time. *** Those who wish to know why the revision has been attempted, and the principles upon which it is to be conducted, may find full information in this volume.-Presbyterian. Whoever would obtain an accurate notion of the inducements to the work of a new translation of the Scriptures, will find them in part set forth in this volume.-Boston Advertiser. ic style, M. Reclus holds high rank among the scienFor thorough research, rich attainments, and graphtists of the day. It should be borne in mind that this work and its predecessor are written not for those already thoroughly versed in science, so much as for that much larger class of persons who seek to relieve the monotony of daily routine by the acquisition of while accurate and in some sense profound, shall be some degree of knowledge, and who need books which, free from technicalities and open to general underthese two volumes, which, taken jointly, cover a wide standing. Such books M. Reclus has furnished in range of discussion.-Boston Journal. globe, adding to the comprehensive description of the It completes his descriptive history of the life of the solid foundation, the bones as it were, of the globe in the first volume a like full statement of its circulating and life-giving media, the blood, of this greatest of animals, as some would have it. The first part, of two hundred pages, is a wonderfully thorough and currents, tides, shallows, and shores; the second dephilosophical, while popular, study of the ocean, its votes as much more space to the atmosphere and meteorology; the third treats of animated life: the flora of the sea and earth, the fauna, "earth and man," and finally the work of man in his reaction on nature. The work is wonderfully comprehensive and informing, a very cyclopædia on its subject, interestingly readable in style, and in every respect of very great merit.N. Y. Evening Mail. In execution is as admirable and thorough as the subject is large. The style is clear and pleasing, and the method excellent.-Appleton's Journal, N. Y. admirable lucidity, and, although he writes in a popM. Reclus treats the wide subject before him with ular manner, we can not accuse him of indulging in the poetry of science at the expense of truth. He has evidently studied nature and the natural sciences at first hand, but at the same time has not neglected to avail himself of the labors of Humboldt and Lyell, of Quatrefages and Darwin, of Maury and Agassiz. The illustrations are carefully drawn, and admirably explain the different portions of the text, while the maps, printed in colors, show at a glance many phenomena which it would be impossible to describe in words. Examiner, London. The translation, too, is accurate and trustworthy. It aims to tell what is known of the ocean, giving the results of the most recent studies and investi gations, and the various speculations respecting the it is as interesting as a novel does not even hint at its causes of its yet mysterious phenomena. To say that fascinations both of style and contents. It is crowded with informations.-Golden Age, N. Y. LITTLE KATE KIRBY. A Novel. By F. W. ROBINSON, Author of "Christie's Faith," "No Man's Friend,' "Mattie: a Stray,' "True to Herself," &c., &c. Illustrated. 8vo, Paper, $1 00. This is a work of great importance, and of great valne to all ministers of the Gospel. It contains a complete history of the movement now in progress for revising the English Version of the New Testament. The principles on which the work is conducted are fully and clearly laid down. The objections, valid and invalid, made against the revision are candidly and "Little Kate Kirby" is a spirited story. All the impartially considered. And, lastly, we are furnished characters in this book are drawn with care and conwith a specimen of the new version as it would appear sistency, and the plot, really complicated and troubleif the results thus far attained should be adopted.-some, is constructed with art which has all the effect Episcopalian, of simplicity.-Spectator, London. |