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    ceive they should have spoken ) they would not have presumed to offer the benefit of that experience to so accomplished a gentleman . For we hold * that unless it is a father or mother , or some such Dersonwhose

    , motives are to be counted of superior privilege to all chance of re-action , nobody has a fight to advise another , or can give it without presumption , who is not prepared to

    consult the common right of all to a considerate treatment of their self-love ; and as arrogant people are famous for the reverse of this considerateness , so it Was an abrogation , thousrh it did not imply habitual

    arrogance , in good Signor Galateo , to say not a syllable of his own defects * while pointing out one to his noble and most courteous guest .

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    Goethe * s Correspondence with a Child . 2 vols . 12 mo . Longman . This is a most extraordinary book . It is published in aid of a monument to Goethe ; is translated apparently by a German , or some one whose German habits have hurt his English ; begins with some verses in

    German-English , almost unintelligible ; is fat superior however in the prose , which for the most part is very readable and significant , ; and amidst topics of all sorts , manifesting a singular precocity of understanding , and a far more singular intensity and eloquence of feeling , contains a series of confessions of love to the great German

    poet , then in hjs fifty-eighth year , from a girl of thirteen ! This beats Eloisa ' s love for Abelatfd , and Miss Vanhomrigh ^ s fo * Swift ; in both which instances , the gentlemen were but twenty years or so older than the ladies ; which , majestic as the difference was , was " .

    nothing to signify , " compared with forty-five . Nor did an interview make a difference in our heroine's feelings ; though what effect It had upon those of the poet , who had been seriously experienced in such matters , may be guessed from the nature of it . After giving her , first , a grave , penetrating look , and then

    a hasty embrace , he placed her opposite him on a sofa , and began talking of a death mentioned in the papers . " Ah ! " said his lively friend , I don't read the papers . " " Indeed 1 I had believed that everything which , happens in Weimar would have interested you . ' * " No : nothing interests me but you alone , and I am far too impatient to por& over newspapers . * " You ark

    a kind child . " A long pause . The lady suddenly exclaimed , " I can t stay here iipori the sofa , " and sprang up . " Well , " said her host , " make yourself at home . " She flew to him , was received with another enar bfaee , and—went to sleep . She subsequently explains tfus , by

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/67/