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With frontispiece in colors. Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net. A great many people already know Mr. Hagedorn through his verse. Faces in the Dawn will, however, be their introduction to him as a novelist. The same qualities that have served to raise his poetry above the common level help to distinguish this story of a German village.
Let us begin with two of them, one of whom we know and one of whom, although we have heard of him before, will require some introduction Dirk van Goorl and his son Foy. Scene an upper room above a warehouse overlooking the market-place of Leyden, a room with small windows and approached by two staircases; time, a summer twilight.
Then, during a quiet time at Sarawak, the accumulation of thought and observation found expression in an essay entitled "The Law which has regulated the Introduction of Species," which appeared in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History in the following September .
Alas! even his fond letters were not in Elizabeth's gentle bosom, but tossed forgot on the bed in Britain Street, with George Anne casting the eye of sensibility on them. And now the officer who performed the introduction took Mrs Gunning's gloved hand, very stately, and led her before the Throne. "The Honourable Mrs. Gunning, your Excellency."
Next day she came and asked me to give her a letter of introduction for Avignon. I wrote her out two; one to M. Audifret the banker, and the other to the landlady of the inn. In the evening she returned me the letter to the banker, saying that it was not necessary for their purposes.
The usual stiffness of a first introduction was speedily broken down by the quaint conceits of the count. The countess had donned a flowing antique moiré dress and wore her hair in long English curls to match. "Come now, friend Szilard!" cried the count, "what do you say? this dress and that coiffure hardly suit the countess's style of face eh?"
Now Sir Marmaduke had expressed great disapproval of that retreat to Dartmoor, and had only understood respecting it that it had been arranged between Trevelyan and the family in whose custody his two daughters had been sent away into banishment. He was not therefore specially disposed to welcome Hugh Stanbury in consequence of this mode of introduction.
It certainly was a great presumption to take a young lady round the waist previous to any introduction; but, at sea, we are not very particular; and if we do perceive that a lady is in danger of a severe fall, we do not stand upon etiquette.
You have courage enough to undertake it, I presume?" "If courage alone were wanting, I have that," the young man replied; "but I am wholly unknown in town. How then shall I accomplish an introduction at Court, when I know not even its humblest attendant?"
And this custom has prevailed over a great portion of the globe from times of the earliest antiquity to the present day. Among the many circumstances which contributed to give importance to women in Europe, we may reckon the introduction of chivalry. Honour and humanity were the characteristics of this institution. Hence weakness was to be protected by it.
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