Show I I C MADAME DE It s IS hard Bard to be bo quite as sorry l rr for Mme Mate do lie as she sho ho seems to o expect with whom when wo we recall the tho men during her sojourn sojourn-in in Weimar and nOlI Berlin Ber Ber- lin fin she spoke familiarly face to face I Besides tl the e grand ducal ducat famil family of f Weimar Wei Wc Weimar I I mar who appear unaffectedly to have loved 1 and n admired mired her she sho made ac ac- ac- ac with the brothers Schlegel el with whom her hor intercourse ripened into close and aud intimate friendship ip with Fichte and Schiller r and finally after some somo solemn co coquetting on the great mans man's part with Goethe him nim- self solf And Ancl in ine spite ito of ot some ome national and personal prejudice ice and misunderstand misunderstand- ln in inc tho they all allin in in the en end carne came to like an and ana esteem her ber t What these Germane Germans saw in in her first firsE was her limitI limitless limitless limit limit- less loss craving in for discussion a somewhat disconcerting appetite for this people of heavier brain rain and slower speech but then they thoy saw too her simplicity and honesty honesty- o o mind the piercing dearness clearness of her intellectual vision and hor her absolute generosity and good faith Both Doth in Weimar and in Berlin Orlin Mme de do was a success Critics aud and historians b ba have o 0 done dono their best for jor de de- wh n they have havo haven n ken of the general no no and c elevation tion of her het writing The truth 1 is she sho has hns no sustained e style Myle her bo books book k kno no t structure in the technical technical sense She has eloquence sometimes sometime often oilen emo cino emotion tion don i often also she sho finds vi vigorous orous and original utterance for isolated reflections or s sentiments But in narrative exposition or description of any length I or scope site sho ene falls in abstract inaccurate inaccurate rate rato and commonplace forms of expression ex ex- r her thought ht her Ima Image e reaches us IS without sharpness of outline or vividness i ne of color t the e wholes whole effect dulled and blurred b bj an instrument not finel finely tempered enough tempered enough nou h for its task The supreme gift ift of the 4 the word was not hers hors and amon among all French authors of anything l like kc her importance she is iA is probably the tho least rend rend Florence Florence Leftwich Ravenel Ra in the Juno number I of the North l American Review Re |