Life of Count Rumford. 585 



These few but strong strokes make real to us some 

 of the scenes amid which Count Rumford found anv- 



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thing but pleasure and comfort while he was occupying 

 a home with his wife. If Madame de Bassanville had 

 portrayed a few more of the guests as she has Colonel 

 Leroy, perhaps our sympathy with Count Rumford 

 might be strengthened. The authoress of this book, of 

 reminiscences has also written at least two other works, 

 one on the " Education of Women," and another 

 describing a "Voyage to Naples." 



We must now follow Count Rumford to another 

 home, to which he betook himself for relief, and with 

 revived expectations of quiet happiness. 



