ture with effect. But, until the world's
literature shall mercifully forget them, the "Enfants Trouves" and the
Venetian bagnio strip these writers of their fine words, and hold them
before the generations in scandal and disgrace. No reader of "Levana"
can miss the refutation of that poisonous lie, that men of genius,
because of their mental endowments, have a natural inaptitude for
domestic relations, or are unhappy therein from any other cause than
their own foolishness or guilt. We hear the tender strains of a deep
poet, privileged by acquired worthiness to return to those divine
instincts which were vivid in the simplest condition of the family. To
all who can bring the writings of Richter within their range we commend
this book. Those who have learned to enjoy his strong-darting language,
his complex constructions, his kindly humor, will find these working
together with noblest aim. In these times of our country's peril, there
is some sanative virtue outside of treatises upon strategy or Union
pamphlets. It is well to print and circulate the literature of war. But
it is also a sweet and a timely mission to impart a new inspiration into
that life of the family to-day which shall become the life of the nation
to-morrow.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: See Atlantic Monthly, May Number.]

[Footnote 2: "Clearly a fictitious appellation; for, if we admit the
latter of these names to be in a manner English, what is _Leigh_?
Christian nomenclature knows no such."]

[Footnote 3: "It is clearly of transatlantic origin."]

[Footnote 4:

"'Imperfectus adhuc infans genetricis ab alvo
Eripitur, patrioque tener (si credere dignum)
Insuitur femori ...
Tutaque bis geniti sunt incunabula Bacchi.'

_Metamorph_. Lib. 3."]

[Footnote 5: It was Philip II. who gave to the Havana a coat of arms, in
which was a golden key, to signify that it was the key of the Indies.
The house being lost, the key has, oddly enough, become more valuable
than ever to Spain.]

[Footnote 6: The "Annual Register" states that but 2,500 of the
conquerors were fit for duty when the Havana surrendered. The Boston
"Gazette" says 3,000, and that the arrival of reinforcements was
critical. Even disease could not break down armies in those days. The
Spaniards had 6,000 sick.]

[Footnote 7: The writer is known to the publishers of the "Atlantic
Monthly": he is one whose word is not and cannot be called in question;
and he pledges his word that