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Parthenia: or the Last Days of Paganism. By ELIZA BUCKMINSTER LEE, Author of "Naomi," "Life of Jean Paul," "Lives of the Buckminsters," etc., etc. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1858. 12mo. pp. 420. The true gauge of any civilization, whether of a race, a nation, or a district, is to be found in the character and position of its women.
Thomas Carlyle said of her "Lives of the Buckminsters," "that it gave an insight into the real life of the highest natures," "that it had given him a much better account of character in New England than anything he had seen since Franklin." We hail a production like this, so scholarlike and serene, so remote from the trivialities and vulgarities of ambitious book-makers, with pleasure and pride.
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