The Unitarian Review Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...for a readjustment of the equities, through the marriage of their children, are frustrated by the elopement of her girl with a German captain, the best portrayed character in the book. The Yankee boy bravely meets death in saving the fame of his fickle one, but is wretchedly infirm of purpose. It is uncertain whether Afterglow refers to these sorrowful outcomes of bad.blood, or to the final reunion of the elderly lovers in that villa on the Hudson where early they had promised and parted. The interweaving of heart-throbs with church-bells, streets, pictures, and railroads pleasantly recalls similar masterly touches in Marble Faun. In this vein the Dresden sketches are superior, and the bit of Prague makes the reader wish the vacillating youngster had more persistently hovered about the convent gates that hid the form of his retreating Ellen. The characters are well outlined but not successfully filled in. The affectations of style whereof, in the preface, the author deprecates criticism, are neither offensive nor effective. In development this tale curiously Tesembles L. B. Walford's Mr. Smith, though lacking the moral purpose underlying the erratic English of the latter. Bryan Walter Procter (Barry Cornwall). An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1877. $2.00. To those who are familiar with the genial poet whose memory this volume embalms, the above title is sufficiently descriptive. The life of Barry Cornwall, long as it was, seems to have been singularly uneventful; but his friendships embraced nearly all persons of note who have lived during this century, and on both.sides of the Atlantic; and the world has a warm place ...