Category: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

We notice this coarsely-written little fiction because it is one of a class which we see growing with pleasure. We see it with pleasure, because, in its way, it is genuine. It is a transcript of the crimes, calumnies, excitements, … Read the rest

This title was wittily given by an editor of this city to the ideal woman demanded in “Woman in the Nineteenth Century.” We do not object to it, thinking it is really desirable that women should grow beyond the average … Read the rest

“Mistress of herself, though China fell.”

Women, in general, are indignant that the satirist should have made this the climax to his praise of a woman. And yet, we fear, he saw only too truly. What unexpected failures have we … Read the rest

“Age could not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.”

So was one person described by the pen which has made a clearer mark than any other on the history of Man. But is it not surprising that such … Read the rest

The other evening I heard a gentle voice reading aloud the story of Maurice, a boy who, deprived of the use of his limbs by paralysis, was sustained in comfort, and almost in cheerfulness, by the exertions of his twin … Read the rest

Woman, even less than Man, is what she should be as a whole. She is not that self-centred being, full of profound intuitions, angelic love, and flowing poesy, that she should be. Yet there are circumstances in which the native … Read the rest

There is no branch of literature that better deserves cultivation, and none that so little obtains it from worthy hands, as this of Children’s Books. It requires a peculiar development of the genius and sympathies, rare among men of factitious … Read the rest

Our festivals come rather too near together, since we have so few of them;—Thanksgiving, Christmas-day, New-Years’-day, and then none again till July. We know not but these four, with the addition of a “day set apart for fasting and prayer,” … Read the rest

“The return of the Druses,” a “Blot in the ‘Scutcheon, and “Colombo’s Birthday,” all have the same originality of conception, delicate penetration into the mysteries of human feeling, atmospheric individuality, and skill in picturesque detail. All three exhibit very high … Read the rest

In reference to what is said of entrusting an infant to the insane, we must relate a little tale which touched the heart in childhood from the eloquent lips of the mother.

The minister of the village had a son … Read the rest