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of the heroines, forming a singularly sweet and original picture: the tender calm at the close is what we might fancy a twilight would be by Claude Lorraine.—May I conclude with Wordsworth’s noble lines?
"Dreams, books, are each a world, and books we know
Are a substantial world, both pure and good;
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow."
L. E. L.
London, July, 1838.
