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The undersigned, citizens of the United States of America, sojourners in Paris, being deeply impressed with the friendly spirit and generai excellence of the introduction to your valuable edition of the Life and Writings of Washington, have united for the purpose of soliciting you to sit for your picture to an American artist who has earned a high réputation in his profession.
John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell, A carrier, who carried his can to his mouth well; He carried so much, and he carried so fast, He could carry no more, so was carried at last; For, the liguor he drank being too much for one, He could not carry off, so he's now carri-on.
I find it very agreeable, well written, without being extremely polished, full of very delicate touches, and well worth more than a single reading; and what I especially notice is an exact representation of the persons composing the court and of their manner of life.
That the English engaged in no war before they had full and satisfying evidence that it was just, nor before peace, upon just terms, had been offered and refused. That the Mohawks, not being subject to them, nor in league with them, they could not require an account of their proceedings, and had no means of information what they had to say for themselves.
The novel is a souvenir of the author's sojourn in the home of the real Tartarin and of the trip which the two made together , the whole being greatly modified by the play of the novelist's Provençal imagination. To appreciate "Tartarin de Tarascon" is not easy for a foreigner; and by foreigners is meant all those who have not lived in and do not know Provence.
EMILE SOUVESTRE was born at Morlaix in Brittany, April 15, 1806. His father was a civil engineer, and he intended following the same profession. After his father's death he changed his mind and began to study law, but being ambitious to shine as a writer he soon abandoned the law also.
Peasant Life being Sketches of the Villagers and Field Labourers in Glenaldie. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1869. Chronicles of Stratheden, a Highland Parish of to Day, by a Resident. William Blackwood and Sons, 1881. Peasant Life in the North. Sketches of the Villagers and Field-Labourers in Glenaldie Second edition. Strahan and Co, London, 1870.
Voici tout le passage, et cette suite de jeux de mots qui sont bien dans les habitudes d'esprit du temps, mais auxquels il a été impossible de trouver un équivalent en français: O, how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt, indeed; and gaunt in being old: Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast, And who abstains from meat and is not gaunt?
Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, with a collection of Letters, by the Right Honorable Antony Earl of Shaftesbury. Basil. Printed for J. J. Tourneisien and J. L. Legrand, 1790. C. SHAIRP. Studies in Poetry and Philosophy, by J. C. Shairp. Third Edition Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1876. Aspects of Poetry, being Lectures delivered at Oxford, by John Campbell Shairp.
L'auteur anglais dit plus loin: «One thing is certain, viz: to play with proper feeling and correct execution the Préludes and Studies of Chopin, is to be neither more nor less than a finished pianist and moreover, to comprehend them thoroughly, to give a life and a tongue to their infinite and most eloquent subtleties of expression, involves the necessity of being in no less a degree a poet than a pianist, a thinker than a musician.
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