The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-10-15
MISS TmACKERAY'S STORIES.
4 Few illustrations OF Her De
scFiptiOns OF Children.
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Miss Thacksray's knowledge Of hannah
nature i wide and subtle. She discrim.
mates shades Of character With the incest
perception; uses - effective counisrpOises
differences that would escape a less deli.
cate sense, or disappear under less deli.
cate handling. She has brought forward
many pegson2ges; almost without eIceP-
lion they are completely IndividualiEed,
consistent in their inconsistencies, thor.
oughly human; you would say they were
drawn from lie. Among them all you
will fail 10 ind two alike. Some Of them
remain with you and become your
friends, such, iOE instance, - ST Julian
in the charming story From an Island,
and others. She iondly loves and intuiI-
ively understands children; dogs and all
dumb and helpless things have claim
on her affection and consideration. She
i like the girls whom she 50 we'll de.
scribes:
Some girls have the motherly element
strongly developed in them from their
veriesI babyhood, when they nurse their
doll. to sleep upon their soft little arms,
and carefully put away the little broken
toy because ii must b. in pain
Note how with a stroke Of her viyiiy-
ing brush she brings out a child's teA.
lures. Can you not see Dulcie as she
counts the hour?
"!Anne heard the clock strike from her
darkened bedroom, where she vas lying
upon the sofa resting, Dulcie, playing
in her nursery, counted the strokes. 'Teb.
ben, two, one, nonner one, that was how
she counted
Or, as she sympathifes with and t'ies to
soothe her father;
Little Dulcie saw her father looking
yeHed; she climbed up his leg and go, on
hi. knee, and put her round, soft cheek
agains, his. Sail | luboo 2 said she"
Are you not a child again from pure
sympathy when you read little DolIy's
monologue a, she lies abed in a dark
room
when am dying-I dare say shall
die about seventeenth shall send foT
John Morgan and George will come from
! E,on, and Aunt Sarah will be crying,
and, perhaps, mamma and Captain Pal.
mer will be there, and | shall hold all
their hands In mine, and say, Now be
friend. for my sake And then | shall
urge George to exert himself more, and
90 to church on week days; and then to
| Aunt Sarah shall turn with a sad smile
and say, 'Adieu, dear aunt, you ever
understood me-you iancied me child
when had the feelings Of woman, and
you sneered at me, and sent me to bed at
5 o'clock. Do not crush George and
| Rhoda As you have crushed me; be gentle
with them; and then | shall cross my
hands over my chest, and-and, what
| them
Are these not master touches? Here
i picture made with few lines, in
which, with other things, the very feel.
! ings Of the young people are visible:
TO this day Dolly remembered the
| light Ola certain afternoon in May, when
ali was hot and silent and sleepy in the
old srhoOl.roOm at Church House. The
boards cracked, the dust NOTES tioated;
down below the garden burned with that
first summer glow Of heat that makes
new world out Of such old, well.worn ma.
terials az twigs, clouds, birds, and the
human beings all around us. The little
girls had been at work, and practiced and
multiplied and divided again; they had
recollected various facts connected with
the reign Of Richard II. Mademoiselle
had suppressed many yawn; Dolly was
dropping over her sum-six and five
made thirteen-over and over again.
That should have been, that thou
,houldst have been, that he should have
been, drawled poor little RhOda. Then
great fly huns by az the door opens,
and Lady Sarah appears with zigzag Of
sunlight shooting in from the passage-a
ray Of hope"
Thi. authors gossamer.like fancy
adorns every page, and dewy, freshness
i. over all. In her works are exquisite
qualities so subtle that they escape dis.
section; they cannot he seized and par.
ticularly defined. They are perceived
only by their sensible, prevailing and
charming effect; They permeate the at.
mosphere which seems to emanate from
and surround her stories, and east a spell
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