The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-04-05
MRS. R9W APYs9
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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| FROM THE PREFACE.
If one struggling sister in the great hu.
man family, while listening to the hister,
of my life, gains courage to meet and BRAY,
scvercst trials if she learn to look upon
them as blessings in disguise: if she b,
strengthened in the performance of daily
duties" however hardly paid )" if she be in.
spircL with faith in the power impaired to Il
strong wiH whose end is gOOd-then ! am
amply rewarded Tor my labor.
ANNA Cora MowATr.
We have read this book though nth more
than the interest of romance. he fair
nuthorcss herself is one of the rarest Of he
roines. Her eight years upon the stage
furnish II volume of the most entertaining
and instructive experience But this is not
all-not the most interesting portion of her
remarkable book. She begins with her in
fancy. and introduces us to the bright little
butterfly girl sporting among the ilewers of
la Castagnc, in Frarcc, where she happened
TO he born. She gives us 4 brief sketch of
her family, descendants, on the maternal
side, of Francis Lewis, one of the heroic
singers of the Declaration of Independence.
We the follow her in stormy voyage
across the Atlantic, in which she was ship
kni ~ Ia.
washed overheard one was rescued: but
''the other was lost" She then naivcly
sketches the history Of her sch Dol-day Joys
and sorrows, ending with m elopcmcnt and
precocious marriage. All the details. both
tragic and comic, are given with the most
amusing. "tten affecting particularly, and
the sympathetic reader is unvoluntarily led
I" make her joys and sorrows his own
Like every true chapter of chccquered hu-
man life, the lights and shadows are nearly
equally, often iitfully blended, and we are
alternately moved to tears and laughter
1Ns'O York Mirror.
One Of ihc fcw books which il is difficult
to lay down till every page is read is the
Autobiography Of Mrs. Mowatt. have nc-
tually stolen the time which ought to have
been appropriated to certain special demands
TO look through the pages Of this strange
volume. To look at any chapter of con.
tents, is sure to send you to the text; and
to start with the text is to rivct your atten-
ton in spite of every extraneous call. Mrs.
Mowatts Autobiography will have per-
mancnt place in American literature. Edi-
ton after edition will come from the press
1t will be the exciting theme of book notices
and even Of laborcd reyicws.-NeU Core
mani.
Mrs. Mowatt is certainly one Of the cIey.
crest women living. In all that she under.
takes she succeeds, and this not so much bv
force Of genius as by her womanly tact and
degree of energy that could scarcely be
expected in so slight and delicate a frame
as hers. She has written good poetry good
magazine sketches; the best of modern A.
merican comedies Fashion y a capital po-
etical drama (Armand J has taken high rank
as an actress, and now she has given to the
world the pleasantest BIT Of autobiography
that we have seen for long time. II is
frank, simple narrative, with little affectation
and 90 more egotism than is always una
voidable where the narrator Is the heroine.
her school days, her eouriship and elooe.
ment, her domestic habits, her reycr;es. her
career as pdblic reader and actress, at home
and abroad, her dowhood, and every thisg
IN her recent history except her second
courtship, whieh is to take her from nubIic