The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-10

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hsxe.hitherto had occasion to notice q
very agreeable, little book bearing the above
title. The authoress, Mrs. S. II. De KRoYFT
is lady who has had the misfortune TO be be-
reit OF sight, and smitten with other serious ca
lamities, at time of life when most people are
looking forward in the world with hope and
anticipation. To relieve herself in part from
the effects Of these unhappy visitations, she has
drawn upon the resources of her mind, and has
produced the pleasant little volume we have
mentioned. She is also engaged in writing
| another, entitled "Thc World as see IT,
which she expects to lay before the public
shortly. Mrs. De KRoYFr is at present stop
ping at Mrs. PEYToN's, few doors from the
National hotel, where she will be happy to meet
her friends. The Boston IraveHer, of late
date, thus speaks of her book and her cause:
"How few who may read.this paragraph would
think 1t possible for them, entirely without means
to get book transact all the business contracts
and opcrations1 ecessary, and then, without sim
gle ray light to guide their steps, go out person
ally to sell it, day after day patiently ferreting ou
dark, lonely streets, and climbing winding stairs
thereby 70 secure food and raiment. Such enter.
prise Is worthy Of praise and deserves the encour-
agcment of every patron of honest industry. This
looks to us like the ambition of Napoleon crossing
the Alps, gathering HIS scattered army after his
discontinue at Moscow. ;
"The purpose of this blind lady il to secure for
herself "a little cottage and little plat which
| she may call her home. Her cottage must be built
Every book sold piles one stone its walls, and
| all who enjoy good home, and who can look upon
its dear and loved inmates, cannot better add To
the zest of its enjoyment than by mingling with
| them the consciousness Of having contributed tc
provide the same for who is erninently qualified
| to enjoy and ornament domestic life, and upon
whom has fallen this unparalleled succession oil
bereavements, thus described in her own words
| Il was, in one short month, bride, widow, and
| Blind
"Such men as our late President Taylor, Mr.
! Clay, C eral Waddy Thompson, Senator Daw-
son, Mr.. Burt, General Greene, Rev. DIR. Mott, anc
many other distinguished individuals, both Of the
clergy and laity, together with the principal edi
| tors of New York, Washington, Charleston, South
| Carolina, Boston, Salem, Portland, and other
places have lent their influence to this work; and
moreover, Mrs. De Kroyft brings with her letters
| from many of the most gifted ladies oil our land
| one of whom, from Washington, says THAT Mrs
De Kroyft is lady of more than ordinary interest
| we need say only to those who have not had the
pleasure Of listening to her graceful conversation
or reading one of her charming letters in A Place
| in thy Memory, which, we are happy to say, or
naments almost every drawing room in Washing
ton city; it is book which may be read with
profit by the most talented as well as the mos
| common reader.
t occurs to that this book is really one of the
most interesting and useful gift books for the sea
son. It ia fiction, from this flood of literature
that is now upon Us, but a true, an interesting
and peculiar phase of real ife that will do goot
wherever it is read and pondered. The books en-
bellished with engraving Of the author. and The
New York Institution for the Blind, Of which Mrs
De Kroyft was for one year an inmate. Reader
buy her book Place it on your centre-table. and
i LET II be often referred to >,