SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE MEMOIR AND LETTERS OF SARA COLERIDGE. "Two delightful volumes.. We could have wished to give specimens of her very just, subtle, and concise criticisms on authors of every sort and time-poets, moralists, historians, and philosophers. We refer especially for samples of acute criticism in few words to passing remarks on Dr. Chalmers, Walter Savage Landor, and Sir Arthur Helps. She worships Milton, the man as well as the poet, and is unusually appreciative of Dryden. She has made an important contribution to a subject already very rich-Wordsworth criticism. Sara Coleridge, as she is revealed, or rather reveals herself, in the correspondence, makes a brilliant addition to a brilliant family reputation."-Saturday Review. "These charming volumes are attractive in two ways: first, as a memorial of a most amiable woman of high intellectual mark; and secondly, as rekindling recollections, and adding a little to our information regarding the life of Sara Coleridge's father, the poet and philosopher. We can scarcely conceive an intelligent reader for whom these volumes will not have a charm, as telling genuinely and naturally the life, the daily thoughts and hopes and occupations, of a noble woman of a high order of mind, and as mirroring a pure heart. Her letterwriting is thoroughly unaffected. There is never straining for effect. Abstruse subjects are treated without the least apparent consciousness of learning, and without any studied fine writing."-Athenæum. "An acceptable record, and present an adequate image of a mind of singular beauty and no inconsiderable power."-Examiner. "Her letters here published have no nonsense whatever in them, She is always at the same high level, always thinking, always communicating her thoughts. . . She writes so that men and angels may read, and the whole world hear, and she never be ashamed. We promise the reader that he will receive many casual and transitory expressions' of a beautiful and poetic nature from this book."-Blackwood's Magazine. "The memoir has only one fault, it is too short; but the real value of the book lies in the letters, from which one can deduce the image of just such a beautiful, loveable character as looks out upon us from the face of her portrait, both in youth and in middle age."-Graphic. "These volumes, containing extracts from the correspondence of Coleridge's' only daughter, give the impres sion at once of one of the wisest and also of one of the most truly feminine natures that was ever possessed of great learning and great powers of thought."-Spectator. "Her letters are interesting as the expression of the feelings of a clever woman, who lived in the really best society of the time. . . . Readable from beginning to end."-Westminster Review. "These volumes enable us to follow intimately the course of a noble and elevated life. . . . The interest attaching to her name and memory, and the mass of vigorous letters which she left behind, embodying her thoughts and observations on art, literature, and religion, subjects on which her mind habitually dwelt, fully justify the publication of these volumes."-Guardian. PHANTASMION. A Fairy Romance. By SARA COLERIDGE. With an Introtroductory Preface by the RIGHT HON. LORD COLERIDGE, of OTTERY ST. MARY. A New Edition. In 1 vol. Crown 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. "The readers of this fairy tale will find themselves dwelling for a time in a veritable region of romance, breathing an atmosphere of unreality, and surrounded by supernatural beings."-Morning Post. "This delightful work. . . . We would gladly have read it were it twice the length, closing the book with a feeling of regret that the repast was at an end."-Vanity Fair. "A beautiful conception of a rarely-gifted mind."-Examiner. with some PRETTY LESSONS IN VERSE FOR GOOD CHILDREN, Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By SARA COLERIDGE. A New Edition, with Illustrations. HENRY S. KING & Co., LONDON. |