MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 by Unknown
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phrase and music, might be ascribed to his brother.... He knows the haunts
of the wild rose, the shady nooks where light quivers through the leaves, the ruralities, in short, of the land of imagination_"--_Atheneum_. SMALL TABLEAUX. Fcap. 8vo. 4_s. 6d_. "_These brief poems have not only a peculiar kind of interest for the student of English poetry, but are intrinsically delightful, and will reward a careful and frequent perusal. Full of naiveté, piety, love, and knowledge of natural objects, and each expressing a single and generally a simple subject by means of minute and original pictorial touches, these sonnets have a place of their own_."--_Pall Mall Gazette_. Vittoria Colonna ---------------- LIFE AND POEMS. By Mrs. _Henry Roscoe_. Crown 8vo. 9_s_. _The life of Vittoria Colonna, the celebrated Marchesa di Pescara, has received but cursory notice from any English writer, though in every history of Italy her name is mentioned with great honour among the poets of the sixteenth century. "In three hundred and fifty years," says her biographer Visconti, "there has been no other Italian lady who can be compared to her."_ "_It is written with good taste, with quick and intelligent sympathy, |
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