-JM£W"-C6TtI0NS of Thil LIFE AND WRITINGS OF 

 MRS. MARY ANNE SCHIMMELPENNINCK. 



LIFE OF MARY ANNE SCHIMMELPENNINCK 



Including lier AUTOBIQfi]liJ!BYrarai-CDprau3,Extraots from her JOURNALS 

 mid ^ORKESPOSDENCE. Edited by, her_ relation, CHRISTIANA G. 

 HANKIN. Third Edition ; with Portrait engravearijj^H. Adl4BB from a 

 Painting by PisHEB Post'W 10*. M. 



SELECT MEMOIRS OF PORT-ROYAL : 



To which are added, Tour to Alet^ Visit to Port-RoySl, Gift ^an Abbess ; and 

 an APPENDIX comprising Biographical and Historical Notices of Saint 

 Eranois De Sales, the. .Grande Chartreuse, Archbishop Bellarmih, tbejAbbe De- , 

 Ranee, and the Visjt of James the Second to the;. Monastery of La ^fej'^pe/'S 

 Fifth Edition, thoroughly revised /.......Sjfolsssposi; 8i(|?21j, 



THE PRmcIPLES OF BEAUTY, ,"\ 



As manifested in Nature, Art, and H^^K Character 3 with a 'Classification of 

 Deformities. . II. Ari Essay on the Temperaments (with 12 chromo-lithograpliic 

 Illustrations in fac-simile of water-colour Drawings by the Author). III. 

 Thoughts on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, indited.; by the Author's 

 relation, CHRISTIANA C. HANKIN ........l vol. post;8vo. 12*. M: 



THERE is a curious old-world 

 savour hanging about this volume. 

 Varied as it is in its contents, it aims 

 at » consistent reduction of Beauty to a 

 siitglg idea, quite unusual at the present 

 day, when the world wanders in active 

 search, not of Beauty, biit of the Beau- 

 tiful, over hill and dale with rather a 

 discursive purpose, under the gHidanoo 

 of the imagination, aided by the high- 

 flown rhapsodies of art-.criticis_ni, ^ Jts 

 method is almost that of Burke on the 

 Sublime j t)uc inrtroiig religious element 

 is here present, converting whole pages 

 of speculation on nature and art into 

 something like mystical theology...... 



We listen willingly to our earnest and 

 excellent guide, whom we are glad froni 

 time to time to aoltnowledge as an in- 

 structress ; not always sure that we un- 

 derstand her, or convinced flfthfe correct- 

 ness of her judgment, but admiring the 

 purity of her purpose and the^ffigty of 



her information, and confident 

 that she will never krioVingly lead us 

 ,.5v:i:oiig......The charm of: the/ present 



worfc, as of its author's life, ' lies partly 

 in "its psychological interest ; but much' 

 more, in that; affectionate and devotional 

 temper which so tihorpnghly- pervaded 

 he r jhiB^^^KE cbngectfid in .practice, if 

 it'tppH^^BioUy a^simjkte itil^eoiry, 

 the tastes ' and feelings of hei eajly 

 yo\ilh with the religious aspiratJbris of 

 Iier Kbturer age» It* purity of tdhe 

 and -simple innocence bt, purpose must 

 attract faiany who will be ^trite indif- 

 ferent to its subdivision of Beauty, or 

 discussions of the Temperaments. We 

 should imagine the principles of Beauty 

 would have an especial fascination for 

 the young, who, . if they cannot learn 

 from its pages a perfect theory of taste, 

 may learn from them much which is 

 a great deal better. 



GUAEDIAN, August 24. 



^don : LijSTGMAN, GEEEIST, and CO. 



Paternoster How. 

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