New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-02

throus The medium OF reviews ana pep9ro SOUND
and hish notlons Of criticism, We think the latter
nat OF her life the most ioveabie and interesting
she WAS received here and In Paris, oy many oissin
auishec writer's OF the dsy-vsry able sketches OF
Hhou will be found IN her letters. But az Rome .
charge tosk place in her destiny. Sac became &C.
ouain,ed With the Ossoli whom she married. Rome
Vas now bes eyed BY the French, and her friend
Mazzini was in the crisis OF his heroic career. Os-
foli oinee the LIBERAL party az anst his own family,
and while he was sighting on the battlements thus
brave ded woman attended TO her part in the
public h0spitals-minisiefIpg TO the wouned-doing
all she could IN those days OF terror and agony-in-
spiripg and alternating wherever wed her face.
We remember no pictures Of womanly courage and
goocness which fuTpass those OF her IN this latter
une. For In them we see a woman not writing
about Piu,a,ch, and antique hereism and the p.esy
Of Wordsworth. and the mission" OF women-as,
indeed she was well fitted to debut acting In the
high fpIit Of all that. The scholar the critic, the
PLAYED well in tie woTld-but never play ed them
SO ell az she did those Of the wife and mother from
the hour OF RoEe's agony which she helped to ALE
viate, to that OF her own, when she died with her
From Toe Globe.
The American Corinna, whose career
and extraordinary character invest these volumes
with deep and romantic interest, 10 comparatively
unknown to the British race Of readers, though De
stael herself ID not held IN greater estimation
among Transatlantic enthusiasts. The marvellous
outpourings OF this high souled and large hearted
nursed in the conventional properties of European
ie furnsh to the psychologist curious materials for
Emerson and DR.. Claiming. tvs "sons' Of philo-
sophie "IhundeY," have combined their forces to
usher forth the female phenomenon In clouds OF
netaphy steal majesty, We approach with proper
Boanerges OF Boston. But in plain truth 1t is not
with the semi Bloomeism, semi Swedenborslsm OF
the heroine that We have been attracted to the pc
rusal of these pages. We dismissed the two hrss
volumes Of the work before US with very cursory
Inspection, fully satisfied, however, that they were
brimfl OF highly original theories, eloquent and in
trepid ulteTspces, and sentiments stamped with
very strong individuality. But our concern was not
with the literary lady, but with the wife, the moth
er, and the woman, in which more attractive char.
acteIs she appears in the third volume resident In
fair Italy, and more than simple eyewitness OF its
recent hour Of freedom.
In Rome we had the pleasure OF her acquaintance
ship, and, we need not add, formed very decisive
opinion as TO the vast superiority BY which
She lowered above her SEX"
and indeed far above the average level Of our own.
In all matters OF general informatlen Independents
OF mere book lore, ancient or contemporary, with
which she was unusually conyersant, her range OF
though was truly astonishing. She had warm sym
pathies, thoroughly unaffected frank and generous
nature, and, with apparently blunt manners. true
refinement Of soul. When we come to the melan-
choly catastrophe which saddens the close OF this
narrative, overwhelming in the wild waves within
sight OF her native shores the mother husband and
child, the impression which her memory leaves on
all who knew her Is too sorrow aud solemn to
dwell on aught but the kindly and LOVING side OF the
remembrance.
The records of her love for Ossoli and the frag.
ments OF their correspondence, which were rescued
from the wreck, unfold a world OF true woTnaDly
feeling, worth whole volumes Of high-fown elo.
Quence and profound criticism, of which these pages
are occasionally the depositaries The calamity
which terminates the tale Of Paul and Virginia pre-
sen,s nothing pathetic the last chapter OF this
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which longed to welcome her as ono of its gories,
cling.Dg to her child and going Gown with the part
ner o.. her affection in the bosom Of the deep
Too much water has. thou had, Ophe!ia."