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As a book for the generality of readers, it far exceeds any previous work of the author in force, naturalness, and beauty, in vividness of description and richness of style, and in that indefinable element of genius which envelops the most prosaic details in an atmosphere of refinement and grace. Methods of Study in Natural History. By L. AGASSIZ. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 12mo.
The deliberate aim of T. was to live a life as nearly approaching naturalness as possible; and to this end he passed his time largely in solitude and in the open air. As he says, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach."
For there was in Kirsty that unassumed, unconscious dignity, that simple propriety, that naturalness of a carriage neither trammeled nor warped by thought of self, which at once awakes confidence and regard; while her sweet, unaffected 'book English, in which appeared no attempt at speaking like a fine lady, no disastrous endeavour to avoid her country's utterance, revealed at once her genuine cultivation.
It includes constructiveness in story, character-drawing, picturesqueness, musicalness, naturalness, in fine, whatever art may combine with poetry or the soul of poetry admit in art.
"Even so of such naturalness that one could guess only by the hue of the stone that they did not breathe." The lady shrugged her shoulders and laughed a little. "But they do not carve that way," she protested. "It is not sculpture. Thou wouldst fill the land with frozen creatures ai!" with another little shrug. "It would be haunted and spectral. Nay, give me the old forms. They are best."
But knowledge, joy, naturalness, went on growing; they have changed the conception of religion itself, turning it to the sense of a present as well as a future fruition. The sense of human suffering comes in our day to full realization. The best impulse of the time throws itself against that, as formerly against sin.
His lordship's admiration for Becky rose immeasurably at this proof of her cleverness. Getting the money was nothing but getting double the sum she wanted and paying nobody it was a magnificent stroke. In his delineation of character, in the perfect naturalness with which all his personages act out their respective parts, no novelist is more realistic than Thackeray.
The naturalness with which women of the South even now discuss subjects which people in the North are careful to conceal excites astonishment; but what was tolerated by the taste or morals of the Renaissance is absolutely incredible.
It might, however, be considered as typifying some such assemblage of qualities in this case, chiefly remarkable for their simplicity and naturalness as, when they reappear in successive generations, constitute what we call family character.
I carried her to a chair. Joe came with a glass of champagne; she drank some of it, and it brought life back to her face, and some color. With a naturalness that deceived even me for the moment, she smiled up at Joe as she handed him the glass. "Is it bad luck," she asked, "for me to be the first to drink my own health?" And she stood, looking tranquilly at every one except me.
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