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| revolution. During those beautiful
spring days, no matter by what hands
among them were the noblest and the
purest-were sown the seeds of s'the
dignity and freedom OF public life which
we now enjoy" The "reminiscences
deal at considerable length with the
! Keilhan institute, where Young Ebers
| went to school, and with Uncle Ffoebel,
the most distinguished of its founders,
the same who evolved the kindergarten,
DR.. Ebers enjoyed himself at the
gymnasium in the fine old town OF
Quedlinburg; still more did he enjoy
himself at Gottingen, where he was
member OF the Saxon corps of fighting
students and where he tells US he led an
idyllic existence, drinking, singing, din
ing at the Krone, flirting, carving his
adversaries in duels, and listening to
the celebrated philosophy Of Professor
Lotze. In this psssionately fond recol-
lection of the academic delights OF
Gettingen he is like everybody who has
ever tasted them, with the possible ex-
ception of Heine, who was before the
era OF Lotze, who may also have failed
the heaven Of Georgia Augusta
was cut short for poor Ebers. who WAS
taken down with spinal disease. 1t was
long before he recovered. While he was
ailing he pursued his studies in Egyp-
tology under Lepsius and Brugsch. He
learned an appalling list of languages,
ancient and modern, and buried himself
in archaeology and ancient history be-
sides. He wrote his first romance dur
ing his convalescence, at about the age
of 20. After that he devoted himself
entirely to his studies, and he reached
middle life before he wrote his second.
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In Macmillan's new book, go much in
demand, written by Marion Crawford,
and entitled Pretro Ghisleri, we find a
picture of Roman society which is not
flattering to the morals of the Eternal
city. The hero is a man OF the world,
with considerable OF q record. He has
been the lover of a married woman, with
whose brother he had to fight duel.
He is the lover, when the tale opens
and during part of its progress, of an
other married woman. All this is we'll
known, and yet his social position is 80
high and so we'll assured that when
dastardly accusation of backmail is
brought against him for the purpose
of running him, various members
OF the aristocratic Saracinesca
family come to his aid and
prove the charge false. Another lead
ing character in the story, the Princess
Adele Savelle, is woman in compari-
son with whom Becky Sharp seems an
angel OF sweetness and light. The mo-
tive of the plot lies in the jealousy, envy
and hatred which she has for her step
sister, Laura Arden, and which lead her
to a course of elander blacker and more
vile than has been painted in any piece
of contemporary fiction than we can re-
call. The plot is worked out with extra
ordinary ingenuity, and this scheming
woman seems at last to have got CHS
leri fast in the meshes, and to have COM
passed his disgrace. But in the end
virtue, if Ghisleri can be supposed to
represent that quality. triumphs, and
vice is punished. 1t is a story that
holds the attention to the end, the
climax being worked up with dramatic,
almost with melo-dramatic effect. The
study of Ghisleri's character is subtle
and wonderfully interesting, while Laura
is a girl whom every reader will love and
admire. 1t ia equal to any OF the
authors other efforts.
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