Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-07-07

man of his time. lie loved Marguerite Lcconto,
and taught her to ctch as well as he. She fOrsook
all to live with him.
AT first she cursed the world, aud then, as she
poor and modest, she forgot the world.
Forty years aGterward there was discovered in
a cottage in the suburbs, which was called The
BeautiJH MI. an old man, who was etching with
an old woman whom he called his MlereSS, sitting
at the same table, and etching also.
The first idler who discovered that prodigy
told Others of it, aud soon fine people began to
make pilgrimages to the Beautiful Mill to see the
wonderful pheuomenon-a lorty-years' Iowa
cherished and lasting labor-a twin talent philo-
mon and Baucis in the times Of pompadour and
Dubarry. That was an e~poch-and the wonder
ful pair had their aatterers, their friends, their adj
mirers, their poets.
"Tho pair died happily within a few days after
that; the world had lost all for them. The last de-
sign which they etched represented the Beautiful
Mill before Margueriic's house, with this inScrip-
tom Cur eoHe peTmnttrre SorJooa dirit'as oper'
ostortS.
ut hangs in my room above Il portrait, the orr
ginal Of which no one here has seen. For a year
She who left me that portrait sat every night at
my table and lived by the same labor as |. AT
break Of day we agreed upon our work aud ate at
the anne table, while we talked of Art, of Love,
and Of the Future. The Future has not kept its
promises to us. G Marguerite Lccoute, pray for
me ~
How touching are these last words on the sepn-
rated friends They were not dead; the world
had spoiled ALL" The world with its unhallowed
touch blasts many a happiness.
The unhappiness of a marriage in which the
heart finds no answering heart, is a subject with
which u woman like George Sand, shortly before
and after her divorce-suit against NJ, Dudevant
must have been intensely occupied. She wrote
not against marriage-never against men, rs JAG
ques shows. There may have been n time of bit
ter undcccption, of great dishcartenment, which
has found its most intense expression in the mag
%niticent but awful soul-chaos which passes by the
name Of Lelic. With these ronances closed the
first period of George Sands activity.
George Sand makes no secret of it that she has
progressed during her life, and that under chan
cling influences she has been led along from one
view of life to another. Indeed, in the first pages
of her selftold life-history we read: $50 | shall
dare TO speak without order and without continui-
ty, and even to fall into contradictions. Human
nature is nothing but 4 tissue Of inconsistencies
and | do not II the least, not even in the very
least, believe in those men who assert that they
always are consistent with what they were yester-
day"
If this is true of the biographer how much more
of tie noyelist-of the poetess. The Poet is n
singing-bird, and every impulse makes him sing.
So says another poet who understands that matter;
This impulse may come from without or from
within; it may terrify or enchant, attract or repel;
it may be a passion which is rising or a brook
which is murmuring: an arOusing nation ar a roll
ing sea; a throne that is falling or n deception that
is disappearing. The bird is singing, singing al
ways everywhere, in all manner of tones. Ask
him not why he sings; he sings because he is a
bird. This is equally true of artists; but it cannot
be said that the Poet as well as the Artist must
always have in view a philosophic idea. The Po-
ct signs because he must; inspiration eancome from
anywhere; but the Artist can never renounce all
philosophic principles"
How dear Nine, Sand is to the inhabitants OF
-, p,,r,nco tln.o oln,o ,on c,-, - nooN.,o Og
who know to how great an extent the renowned
woman is the guardian-angel of the suffering
classes. She hears of no undcserved misfortune
in her dear Province, without intcrposing a help
highland. Her influence has restored many VIC
tins of the Second of February to liberty; and her
income is principally expended on poor families in
her vicinity. She sends her presents generally
without letting it be known from whom they come;
but she cannot deceive anybody, and always has 10
defend herself from the outpourings of thanks
that she receives from families which she has re-
membercd. But more than through her rich lib
erality does she make for herself friends By her
advice, and, in time of need, her personal aid. In
the year lSf9-so | was told by an intimate friend
of hers, an inmate of the Castle of Nohaut--Mme.
Sand sacrificed a whole month to the care of chol-
era-patients. She performed services for sick
women from which only the nearest relations do
not shrink, while this friend performed the same
Offices for men. She attended on several hundreds
saved hundreds, aud hundreds died in her arms.
Sh0 understands Socialism to be the practical doc
trine of the Gospel-and as such she practices it,
The unfortunate have learned to look to her, and
they who are thirsty for consolation turned their
steps TO the Chateau of NOhaut.
The Chateau of Nohaut is open to the laborer;
of La Chatre and the peasants of the vicinity
She receives this democratic world at her table, she
conters with them, she consoles them, she stands
by them in every distress-in every emergency.
Her life in Nohaut is simple; her time is divi
! Jol bntuaap how Etaroru loborc har lut;eS 10 III,
unfortunate, and the companionship of her tw'
children and her friends, some of whom are al
ways with her. Nine. Sand loves her daughter
Solange, and her son Maurice above all else
Since the husband of Solange-the sculptor Giles
niger, who treated his mother-in-law most brutal
left her, she lives With her mother. The dis
o cord occasioned by the son-in-law is forgotten
e Nine. Sand is adored by all who have the goo
fortune to enjoy her society. One can imagin
what feelings her own cherish for her.
o One day at the CHATEAU of Nohaut is like all til,
i rest. At eleven O'Clock the bell rings for breal
IS fast. Nine. Sand usually makes her appearance
II somewhat later, as she is in the habit of writin
lie until daybreak While eating she speaks but Ii
lie yet she loves to hear jests and pleasant chi
chat going around. She is a most graceful lister
tener, and enjoys every joke like a child. 81
N can break out into q hearty laugh at a comic awl
wardness, a pun, OF a droll expression and whe
]. once she has begun she does not easily stop. Sh
ID always was and still remains natural, as most grei
&c artists and few great poets. After breakfast Nm
Sand goes out into the park for a little while. ST
then returns to her room and busies herself wi
ic her correspondence-only on rare occasions wi
her literary labors. To these the night is devote
When all around isin repose. She improvises fro
le midaight till morning for so must that work
&c called which with only momentary thought is fur
out on paper without ever b~etrayiug an instant
hesitation. Improvisation is moreover The on
Of name for those masterpieces, since the poete
ofl generally does not know whittier her imagiuati,
viii lead her. True the subject matter lies befo
her plainly; but plot, development and eonclusi
l. sion come into being beneath her pen. If the
lg appropriations bear the mark of the ripest reflect
and the deepest deliberatiOn, it must be consider
that the poetess has preserved perhaps for yes
n certain forms, feelings and views in some sec,