Her editorial connection with the _Westminster Review_ continued for about
two years, until the end of 1853. For the next three years she was a
contributor to its pages, where there appeared "Woman in France: Madame de
Sablé," in October, 1854; "Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming," October,
1855; "German Wit: Heinrich Heine," January, 1856; "The Natural History of
German Life," July, 1856; "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists," October, 1856;
and "Worldliness and other-Worldliness: the Poet Young," January, 1857. Two
other articles have been attributed to her pen, but they are of little
value. These are "George Forster," October, 1856, and "Weimar and its
Celebrities," April, 1859. The interest and value of nearly all these
articles are still as great as when they were first published. This will
justify the publication here of numerous extracts from their most salient
and important paragraphs. As indicating her literary judgment, and her
capacity for incisive characterization and clear, trenchant criticism,
reference may be made to the essay on Heine, which is one of the finest
pieces of critical writing the century has produced.

Heine is one of the most remarkable men of this age; no echo, but a
real voice, and therefore, like all genuine things in this world, worth
studying; a surpassing lyric poet, who has uttered our feelings for us
in delicious song; a humorist, who touches leaden folly with the magic
wand of his fancy, and transmutes it into the fine gold of art--who
sheds his sunny smile on human tears, and makes them a beauteous
rainbow on the cloudy background of life; a wit, who holds in his
mighty hand the most scorching lightnings of satire; an artist in prose
literature, who has shown even more completely than Goethe the
possibilities of German prose; and--in spite of all charges against
him, true as well as false--a lover of freedom, who has spoken wise and
brave words on behalf of his fellow-men. He is, moreover, a suffering