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    • XLIV.—MADAME SWETCHINE.
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      «S8s»~ No. Ii. Instruction The System Be...

      the equanimity of the ' -police ' was greatly disturbed by a sudden . suspicion that this imposing * body of youths could be _nothing less

      than the avant-garde of an insurrectionary army ! Several other institutions , some of them of very ancient date ,

      have been founded in Paris for the delivery of courses of public lectures lectures b b eing y the 1 entirel most y eminent gratuitous professors . Among ; these the admission may be mentioned to these

      the Conservatory of Arts and Trades , possessing a most valuable museum of objects illustrative of the subjects treated of , the lectures

      given in this institution being of a strictly practical character ; the Sorbonne-which was a merely Theological School before the

      _Revo-, lution , but which _njow gives lectures on Theology , Philosophy , and the Natural Sciences , to which only men are admitted ; the College of

      France , which gives lectures on almost every branch of human knowlege , to which both sexes are admitted ; and the Garden of

      Plants , in which lectures are given on all branches of Natural History , also open to both sexes .

      The Schools of Art , established in Paris , form a class apart , and must he reserved for consideration in another place .

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      304 Madame Swetchiete,

      304 MADAME _SWETCHIETE _,

      Xliv.—Madame Swetchine.

      XLIV . —MADAME SWETCHINE .

      Tim Biography Of A Hussian Lady Of High ...

      Tim biography of a Hussian lady of high birth and great cultivation cannot but be deeply interesting to English readerseven when

      , the story of her life is unmarked by great vicissitudes , because we know bnt little of the interior developments of Russian nationality

      , . and next to nothing of the thoughts and feelings of the female subjects of the Czar .

      A large portion of the life of Madame Swetchine was spent in Paris ; to which circumstance it is owing that her memoirs are now

      the most popular book of the season in that oifcy . It has already entered its third edition , and occupies a prominent place in every

      bookseller ' s window ; insomuch that the unknown and somewhat barbarous name of " Swetchine " meets the eye at every turncausing

      , the loiterer to wonder to what nation it may appertain . Sophie Soymonof , by which name the subject of this biography

      was known in her early maiden days ,, was born in Moscow , in the month of November , 1782 . Pier father , the scion of an -ancient

      Muscovite family , occupied a high post in the internal administration of the empire , and was one of the founders of the Academy of

      Science at Moscow : her mother came from an equally distinguished raceand one in which a taste for letters was combined with

      mili-, tary zeal . We are told that little . Sophie ' s maternal grandfather ,

      Major-General Jean Boltinc _, translated nineteen volumes'Of the

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/16/