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Bnvany of imrrcadersmho ^^ reiinfarmeld iBdtfwee k in number of < fce fRevwe * w JEteiw ; Mo * riest * here ^ ras oan article by M . Goizot on <« ZMmoar « fans fe Mariage ' » :-didany ,. we say , look withmorbrd impatience for a ^ HAHMAN ehapter on famfly clocks , or aBALZACiA * chapter on Fourposters , or-a GkobgeBandian chapter on the incompatibilities , or an AxphowSe TEabbew chapter on that universal text " Les Marisme font tomoursrire ? Tfithe ^ be amo ng our readers any mind so unregulated as inconsistencies
* o have conceived one or other of these shocking m connexion withifte name of Guizot , we can only rejoice in the disappointment . We may be pardoned for having kepftbe secret . The article that bears" so captivating a - title , and so austere a signature , is one of the most familiar epi sodes of our own English history , which , has been . often related , and in various formsr v but never we think so nobly as now , by " M . Guizot . The first few lines of the essay , we confess , seemed unpromising ; the remark-that ¦" history is full of romance" struck us as . somewhat trite , but at the second page-we were-charmed and attentive ; the hand-of the ^ mast er was visible .
" In studying the ' history of England "; " writes M . Guizot , " I have . met with two storiea-more interesting to my mind than any novel : a king seeking to . marry for love ; and love in the home of a . liberaluuid . Christian nobleman . Here is domestic life , with its most charming and most ; painfu \ secret * ,, presented by . personages of the highest rank , moving in the midst ¦ of . the greatest events of public life . Some day or other I . may perhaps relate the love-suitof the king ; -for , myj present , picture I select the domestic history . of the . nobleman . " The " Christian , and liberal nobleman" is the Lord Wiuiam Kusseix and
of 1683 , and the " love -in marriage" is the ' ^ strength beauty of woman ' s devotion , " never more beautifully , . more pathetically personified than in Rachel Wriothesley . M . Guizot . relates with , admirable feeling and grace the earlier . years of this noble-lady : h . erainaiTiage at seventeen years of age with Lord Vaughan , whom * he : had scareelytfeen , *> -byi « i ^ arKBngement ^ between . the Aunilies ; " " . © ne of those unions , " as she said herseF , " rather accepted 'than , chosen : " the serious and gentle piety , the perfectkiridness of heart , the affectionate simpMoity * with * whicb . she discharged the-duties -of her new estate , beloved , respected , and honoured b y * all : ; ttae digmty and seclusion -6 f her widowhood . He then introduces Wiixiam
a young man some three years younger than Lady Vaughan , Russell , second son of the ~ Earl of Bedford , who was just entering upon * h e world of public life , of a ' naturally pious and affectionate disposition , even amongs ^ the frivolities of youth . M . Guizot gives a letter from this jovmgtMan-to bis father , ^ instinct with ai mplicity and goodness . " "Where the'feearHs * oesincere ,: reBpectful , « nd tender , the life cannot long be disorderly : " " h £ dy Vatj 0 han ; " he continues , ¦** probably , some share in therestoration ~ 6 f-moral- * ar « ony m -the ^ she-was to give herself . Of all human influences , that of a virtuous love is at once the most powerful and the "most sweet . William Russell was a
younger , eon . without fortune or title ; Xady Vaughan was a wealthy heiress , « a » d * , widtw -without : iasue . The lover » was timid and reaerv ^ d , 'but "there -was too deep a "native sympathy between them to permit conventional hesitations to 'keep them separate . " In 1670 jtoeyflWet&aaarrwd , rand here . let us request M .. Guizot < toispeak . " This world has no spectacle more charming than Abat of a-pure jmd happy passion . Passion , that-free and sincere explosion of . the desires and 4 Becr * t >« nergies-of our inner nature ,. haa for us so / great an . attraction that we lake » infmite'pleasure in <* ontemplating . ifc even -when it presents itself charged with guilty errors , with troubles , disappointments , sorrows ; ; bat and
the , passion that . displays itself in harmony with the conscience , overflowa-thesoulwith joy without . disturbing its beauty and its peace ; that is the full expansion of our nature , ibocaatisfaotion of our most human , and most divine aspirations ; . Mar is Paradise-regained . The . union of Rachbx WaxowflKSLEY and of Wmxiam HwBanLLj presents , thtsrearo-and i perfect chajoftcfcer . " M . Gwkot-dwells with almost the emphasis of personaL afieotion jfpon * lie , p « sttoimte-tenderness ,-the oonfiding . and serene piety of the iLwdy BtAOBf * xfciletta » rto her htwb « nd , > upon'iali of , < which the soul , undimmed i ) yr'&e ^ satiety , '' 6 f '' loTe , 8 l ^ In <> of those letters , written about eleven , years before iier husband ' s execution , there is sihe'flliftdowtof ^ pMsentinaeat ^ suaii as ( Millo'fdt when he clasped De&demona
an his arms'Hftt'Cyprus . - But this , prescntua « nt is expressed in a few tefl ^ & \\ l \ fc wrnrflfl hf unmnraauTJng 'resignation 'and thankfulness to the Bene < ficenco that had granted past felicities . "By a coincidence it is "impossible , « o . Miiw » k ^ wi * hout' ;« inotion , '' eoxitinues M . OxJizoTj' ^ it was ohnoet at the ; « amjO'pBriod that < Lord ' Rotsbix tnawriod-L * dy Vauohan , and 'became a \ leader of the < national parjty against the Court . JDomestic happiness and ysvtrnmopaflsiontbogftnfor him at tboiamo time . " Lady HusflEia , shared j ifc ^ itUh , the ** eelhigs , >« nd 4 he 'Op inions « f . her Jhusband ; , but " more farf ^ ghtea . and ^ lesr prejudiced ' , " shemore than oneo warned him with "a firm and tender frankness against the consequences of his extreme resistance to the Court . 1 afBffiHrr ^ ' '" " lir *^ —~< —^^—' ¦• ^— - — —¦¦
——WecaJMrot : hereiacoompany . M .: Guizot in bis brief but powerful sketch of the historical crisis , which-is , -as it-were , the fraaiework of the episode M . JGcxzot ' s historical manner is celebrated for its large and brilliant generalisations : here it is in the opposite qualities of the most finished and delicate portraiture that we recognise the master-hand . The Lady Rachel ' s constancy , and her husband ' s courage , are ever in the foreground of the picture rnofra touch is wanting , and every touch is equally rapid and sure There is an-incidental sketch of Shaftesbuby , singularly lifelike . We have said enough to indicate the manner and the subject of this
remarkable paper . -Seldom , it appears to us , has M . Guizot written with a " more sustained and chastened dignity , with more elevation of tone and serenity of thought . While M . Cousin seeks " the true , the beautiful , and the good , " among the fair penitents of the seventeenth century in France , M . Guizot finds repose in the contemplation of the purest homes and the bravest hearts of England , as they l oved , and suffered , and died , about the time when Madame de Lok g uevii . i . e . and Madame de Sablk trifled and repented . The fallen French statesman writes lovingly and reverently the story of the ancestor of the English Minister . The house of Bedford has seldom had better reason to-be proud of the name of Rossell .
We have little space to speak of tbe second article of the present Bevne as it deserves . The subject is The Philosophy of the History of Franco and the writer is M . Edgar Quinet , an exile . Edgar Quinet ' s name is illustrious in the ranks of that liberal party to which all the genius , learning ,-and science of France belong , and he is one of the long list of the ^ proscribed who form . the absent cortege , of the . second -Empire . This article ' is in many respects the : most suggestive we . remember to have read for many ; a year . Exile . has this advantage : it removes the films of prejudice and passion from . the political vision ; it restores to the thinker the faculty of tself-examination , < of tracing the paths of past aberrations with almost the decision of posterity . In his present essay , the distinguished Proifeasor-seems to have . iprobed to the core the moral mdlady of France , as with unsparing severity he tears away the fallacy of that historical fatalism
which in all the French writers : for the last twenty years has pursued the phantom of " equality " at the expense of liberty , and apologised for every atrocity of despotism in the darkest times , as if despots and dictators \ verc the true forerunners and . pioneers of free institutions . A constitutional Government "was to be the happy solution of all those providential tyrannies ; but now that the constitutional regime has disappeared , mark the consequences of a doctrine preached in various forms by MM . Tbixrry , Michelet , Buchez , and thelrest ! This essay deserves ta . be . read and studied again and again by . all who desire to -sound the abysses of the present dishonour of France . It is . not less remarkable for the boldness with -which it condemns the fetichism which has been ready to sacrifice the freedom , dignity , and independence of the citizen to that devouring idol the " unitr , " the ' \ glory , " the " frontiers " of the State . 'When better days return . M . Quin £ t may claim a civic crown . He has deserved well . of his country in writing this essay .
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"Thei 'French ^ Academy has made ^ another-political demonstration , ni el ecting M . he Broqlie last week . Our headers may remember the high position of the Due de Broome under the last regime . Many msiy not remember that he is the son of the de Bhogme who fell a victim to the Revolution ,-and whose last words to his son were , " -Forget the guillotine and be faithful to the Revolution . " When the present Duke edited-the ' Revue Ziberale under the Restoration , the motto of the review was his father ' s last words , to which were added the following : — " 1 ostcnty will say if I have kept my word . " We will not anticipate the verdict of posterity . M . de Bbogllb has no remarkable literary titles to a seat in the Academy , but his name and character give weight , and significance to the choice . His son is . known . as a frequent contributor to . the -Revue des Deux Mondes . Tha other . election fell upon M . Ebnesx Legouve , the dramatic author ; a man universally esteemed in the-world of literature , and in society . M . Legouve has celebrated his election into the Academy by a timely victory over Mademoiselle Rachel and M . Fouu > . Mademoiselle Rachel has been condemned by the Imperial Court of Appeal to pay a fine of 5000 -francs , 'by way of damages , for refusal to appear in M . Legouve ' s tragedy iof 13 £ iW < 5 e , after accept ing the part . M . Legouve has divided the 5000 francs ; between the Society of Dramatic Authors , and the Sooicty des gens de . letiros .
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The second volume of M . iVillemain ' s Souvenirs Contemporainsia on the eve of- publication . It contains the . history of the . Hundred Dnys .
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THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH . 'TheMode qf Communicationtf / JhoUra . Vy J .. Snow , M . D . OhurcUUl . 'Food and its Adulterations . Being . Records of tho Kwults of Some Tlvoununds o > Orlgfaiil Mierosoopkol and Chomioal Analyses of the Solidu and Hu » da consuum + y >» n GlMMealotZtoirnbUc . » y A . H . HaaaaU , M . D ., CWof A « alyHt of _ th JLancet Sanitajry . CoramU . ion . lUuatmUed by Eixgravioga Showipg tlio Muiuu Structures of Artiblos-of F « od ,-and . tlu » , Sab « tani ! e 8 uood forAduUeration . < ' , Longman H and t >»> . > Tho Chemistry of Common IAfo . By J * F . W . Johnston ,. M . A ., ^ j ^^ j ^ gili . H » Ai » HAnd 4 i « ppHto 3 s—the twin blessings of humanity , the 1 best w » sl 1 ol our . bt » t friends-how we trifle with them both ! how we waste then ., la . * us if we could-find . Gaehfresh and young every duylike the sunligh t-l i ^ is , . in fact , a continuous decay from beginning to end—a _ / iro ¦« I teu bum so long as the fireplace holds together—while we treut it us tliout «
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Leader (1850-1860), March 10, 1855, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2081/page/18/
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