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MARGARET FULLER.

MEMOIRS or MARGARET FULLER ossoLI; By Z: ".
ExEhsoN, V. H. CLEANSING, snd }; L. CLAKkG WIZ q
Portrait and Appendix. z vols l2no Boston; Brown,
Taegard & Chase.
WOMAN IL THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, aud Kindred
Papers relating to the Sphere. Condition. and Duties
Woman: By M,KGARRr FuIfEH OssoLI. Edited by her
Brother, AkTHUR b. FULLER vol. limo. Boston: Brown,
ART. LITERATURE, AND THE DRAMA. Tie Same.
AT HOiE AND ABROAD; Or Things and Thoughts in Anne
Iica and Europe. vol l2no. The Same.
LIFE WITHOUT AND LIFE WITHIN: Or, ReYeres, Mar
natives, Essays, and Poems. The Same.
Nearly ten years ago-on the 10Th Of July 1850
Margaret Fuller Ossoli, with her husband and child,
was lost to her mortal friends and kindred in the
wreck Of the bark Elizabeth from I.eghorn to Now
York on Fire Island beach, Long Island, just as she
came within sight Of he native shores, after first
eventual absence OF more than four years; and her
printed Worls-a that the general public ever
know Of Ter genius and her charlcer-have only been
given complete to tho reading world within the Last
few weeks Ills delay, though not calculated has
not hecn unfortunate. Their preparation has been
thorough ard Conscientious timo has been gained for
inquiry for reflection for comparison of recollections
and Impressions and for unlocking the private cabinets
wherein some Of her choicest thoughts lay hidden
under esrb of casual letters to valued friends that
tfesc e VI lumcs afford clearer and deeper insight
into tie mine and hear; Of Margaret Fuller than any
number ooulc ave done if issued in the hot haste
which IT, iiaer,s Of "the trade" supposed to re-
Qurc Couid leg lave been put forth within the year
Of her starti.ag and wdely-amented deeease they
would probably have been more generally but less
usefuy, less satisfactorily read, than now. Yet
meartne the public appreciation Of their authorship
Jet has been steadily bioadenng and The full series
will be welcomed and treasured BY many who had
never heard Of LCr while she lived. Then the new and
brighter rage oIcned Ia Re history Of ltaly-that sun
ny kua of caasc memories for whose redemption sbo
dared and did al Of tch hgh-soued woman is cl-
psble-vill neccs.ail, win fresh regard for her who
was one of the earliest most enthusiastic most devoted
American cham Ions II Italian liberty and unity.
But who pas MulRa.et Fuller Ossolil
Timothy Fuller, Of the fourth generation from
Thomas Fuller, u Puritan who migrated from Old to
New-Ensand in los, was born in the leland OF Mar
tha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, in l778 and in 1909
married Margaret daughter Of Major peter Crane Of
Canton, Mass. or the seven children born Of this
ion, Margaret, subject, wes the first The father
was industrious, energetic, pains-takng lawyer,
with some solid hut no shining qualities who began
life ia very etratened circumstances but, early at-
tachiIg himself TO the old Jefersonian Republican par
ty, with it. rising fortunes and became in 1919
Slate serator thence in 1917 Representative in Con-
gress whore ho served till 1895 resisting the Missouri
Compromise and efficiently contributing to the election
of John Quincy Adams to tho Presidency. He served
afieiward in tie Executive Council and died suddenly
Of cholera in 1885, leaving his widow aud six snrviv
ing children in very moderate circumstances. The
mother wac "a woman Of modest intellectual attain
mcnts but Of rare mental well personal lowell
ness. who survived her husband tweni -four years,
dyn- On tho 3ist Of July last. TIE oldest daughter
gave very early Indications of rare intellectual force,
and ler mental viyacity and love of acquisition were
ratber stimulated than udiciously restrained by the
fats' not through vanity or mistaken PRIDE but sim
ply because in bis day the laws oi life aud health aud