ECLECTIC MAGAZINE FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. OLD SERIES, COMPLETE IN LXIII. VOLS. JANUARY, 1844, TO DECEMBER, 1864. NEW SERIES, VOL. VI. JULY TO DECEMBER, 1867. W. H. BIDWELL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. NEW-YORK:. 18 67. 385 123 ............. Abkhasian, The Insurrection of, August, 768 PAGE A Lunar Volcano in Eruption, : : 544 1 22 | American Literature, Characteristics of, . 186 122 | Anonymous Journalism,. . 123 | Archæology of North America, . . 123 | Anethene Jews in Cornwall,. . 123 | Argyll, The Duke of, on the Reign of Law, 284 250 Augustine, St., The Confessions of, 251 | Arnold's, Matthew, New Poems, . . 251 Art, Literary, The Morality of, . 216; 731 253 751 380 Charles V. and the German Protestants, 380 China Medieval Notices of access Classics, The, in Translations, Clergy, The, the Attitude of Towards Confessions, The, of St. Augustine, Coronation of the King of Hungary, 636 Dutch, A, Political Novel, . . . • Egypt's Place in Universal History, Exclusion of the Clergy from Seats in the 765 Foundling Hospital, A Russian, . 564 208 96 78 759 116 411 23 597 Hebrew Poetry, .. land, . . : : 95 : . ; R. ...,. 266 602 296 Rogers, Samuel, A Memory of, .. 630 344 518 Salmon Ponds, The Magic, ... in 374 Sentiment and Philanthropy,.. .. 408 316 upon the Characters in, 380 304 Social Aspect, The, of German Protestant- ism, . .. .. 701 5:24 307 Sublime, The Symbolism of,. . 713 597 :'. : 89 713 245 528 166 Blamelukes, The Massacre of the,. 668 37 Taylor, Bayard, .. .. .ii 676 The Bengal Famine of 1866, .. . , 69 The Destiny of Leon Grenier,.. . . 159 573 • 505 The Last Amati, 479 bi 313 The “Last Supper” of Leonardo Da Vinci, .. .. .. 687 216, 731 586 731 - 722 . 113 552 626 4211 On le Correlation of Home in its Bearings on . . 571 War a Progress, British Quarterly. need never feel ashamed to say where we THE WORKS OF MRS. GASKELL.* have been—a comfortable consciousness that does not remain with us after the “QUAND une lecture vous êlève l'es- perusal of certain younger authors, who prit, et qu'elle vous inspire des sentiments yet set up for moralists. She is never nobles et courageux, ne cherchez pas afraid of degrading her subject by homeune autre règle pour juger de l'ouvrage; ly details, and on whatever she touches il est bon, et fait de main d'ouvrier.” she leaves the artist - mark of reality. This dictum of Jean de la Bruyère is pe- Other novel - writers of her generation culiarly applicable to the works of Mrs. have more poetry, more scholarship, more Gaskell, whose too brief literary career grace, eloquence and passion, but in the was closed by death early in the past art of telling a story she has no superior year. It is hardly possible to read a page -perhaps no equal. of her writing without getting some It is nineteen years since Mrs. Gaskell good from it. The style is clear and made her first essay in fiction in “MARY forcible, the tone pure, the matter whole- BARTON,” a tale of Manchester Life, which some. Under her guidance we are al- but yesterday was adapted to the stage ways taken into cleanly company, and under the name of the “ Long Strike,” — a remarkable testimony to its abiding * 1. Mary Barion: A Tale of Manchester Life. popularity. Novels have been styled 2. North and South. Week-day Sermons, novelists Week-day 3. Cranford, 4. The Grey Woman, and other Stories, Preachers, and in more than one of her 5. Round the Sofa. stories, Mrs. Gaskell takes up the para6. Ruth, ble of Dives and Lazarus with the avow7. A Dark Night's Work. ed object of telling one half the world 8. Life of Charlotte Bronté. 9. Sylvia's Lovers. how the other half lives, that knowledge 10. Cousin Phillis, and other Stories, may breed sympathy, and sympathy 11. Wives and Daughters. bring about redress for those sufferings NEW SERIES-VOL. VI. No. 1. |