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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' 130 B. . OAKKH SMITH. I yesterday looked over a bundle of her printed articles which would fill several volumes, though less than half of what -Inn:- written. Her finest tale is, I think, The Flower Girl of Antioch (in the Opal). Her most original one Machineton while The Love Quarrel,1'differing as much from both of them as they d5 from each other, makes a remarkable trinity of varied powers in this department of art. Her Riches Without Wings, one of the first of those little books for young people which have since become so popular, still continues t5 run, I am told, side by side with the best of them. Yet how different the style and object of this little treatise from those of her multitudinous essays No, I think the author of Riches Without Wings,'1 The Sinless Child and The Western Captive (three regular volumes) upon the score of delicate humor alone, the rarest trait among American authors,? will have no occasion t5 feel awkward on your list. Why, Charles King, one of the most fastidious critics I know, thought The Witch of Endor perfectly sui generis. and I should like to know another woman in the country. (or man out of it since Charles Lamb is dead ) wh5 could have written the Sentiment of Friendship. See, too, the graceful and tender metaphysics of the Sentiment of Self Sacrifice. I send you herewith all of these pieces, and I have tried, but in vain, t5 get her essay on Egypt, which for richness and fullness of language and description would make a fine oriental accompanyment of The Flower Girl of Antioch. I have been unable tfi get either of her papers upon Shakspere, which, though unsatisfactory from their brevity, are singularly happy. I dS hope you will find room for all I have mentioned, for ''fame is money 15 an autho...
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