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    136 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    The Mrs Duchess . Austin. Of With Orlean...

    I with was , tlie alread sense translated of that eternal froin the felicity world which and awaits from us sorrow ; it seemed that to I me alread that y my ;

    enjoyed communion with the heloved soul , and tasted some portion of the y shadows felicity in of which death , it has dwells made . me Thanks taste be the to rich Him blessings , who , of in his the love midst ! " of . the

    The deep devotion of the wife liencefortli concentrated itself on the children . How brave , wise , and tender a mother the Duchess of

    and Orleans many has succeeding been is personall 1 ones will y , known it is to to be more hoped than , in the one virtue _generation of the ,

    son , hold the name of the mother of the Comte de Paris in honor and reverence .

    The abdication of Louis Philippe in favor of the Comte de Paris ; ber the of appearanc Deputies e of , claiming the princess 1 in the with face her of two the children excited in populace the Cham the - .

    throne for her eldest ; the intrepid courage with which she faced _thB bristling bayonets and loaded muskets in the hands of

    ferocious and excited men ; her escape and exile ; are all matters of history too well known to need comment here . It is on the woman

    and not the princess that we desire to dwell , and it is the woman in exile , the mother , daughter , and friend , we have still to show ,

    admirable in all the relations of life . It was in Belgium that the princess and her sons first took refuge ,

    passing some time at Eisenach , where she soon made herself beloved by all around her .

    was " " filled When with spring flowers returned , rare , her ones chamber from those , in which who could there was afford no it other , wild luxury flowers ,

    from the poor ; all brought their tribute . " The four days of June brought her great suffering . Writing of

    them in July , she thus expresses herself : — suspense " Oh , , my when dear the friend fate , of what France agony , the , what fate torture of society during , was these decided four at days Paris of !

    When our friends were on the breach ! When the families of those who dewhelmed heard nothing voted themselve my but with cry cry , sadness and s to to I G- us bless od . to in What Him save exile a for France victory were His in mercies and ! the and to gre ; what spare and atest times yet our danger my friends we heart ! live I . could is in He over that has do

    resistance we must witness , what heroism such strugg , what les constancy ! But also ! , If what blood energy must was flow , shown how thankful in , that men ought now we in to _power be that have it was save not d shed France in ; the they name are of re one -establishing of our famil order y ! , The and

    fear are taking that the wise country and energetic is destined measures to pass throug ; but their h many rule successive will not crises he long before ; I misfortune it is settled , on as in any her stable glory and ;— solid extreme foundation in everything . Poor ! " France !—great in her

    At the beginning of the summer of 1849 , the Duchess of Orleans joined the French royal family in England , and , with the exception

    of a few short intervals , resided here until her untimely and unlooked for death .

    Lutheran though she was , she devoted herself to the religious

    136 Notices Of Books.

    136 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/64/