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NOTES:-Alice de Chambrier, 21-Windebank Notes, 23- and important book on that subject which has yet Tudor Reminiscence, 24-Penal Tenures-John Mills-poems, and by his judgment as to their form and verell-Between Times - Mr. Ruskin's Titles-Shend- finish she seems to have abided. And that he was REPLIES:-Society of Armigers, 29-Grippe: Grip: Grip- Quis separabit"-Dr. Wordsworth, 33-"Make the Alice de Chambrier was born at Neuchâtel on NOTES ON BOOKS :-Allen's Book of Chinese Poetry' Notes. ALICE DE CHAMBRIER. public affairs and in letters. M. Frédéric de in German during her stay at Darmstadt. Her * Some ten years ago a question was asked in . one act, in verse, called 'Lore Nicol'; a saynète Creator." Like Wordsworth, she was "haunte in verse, called 'La Bohémienne'; and three for ever by the Eternal Mind," and there a comedies in verse 'Service d'Amie,' 'Une passages of hers that recall the Ode; as when sh Poignée de Mouches,' and 'Le Flatteur.' In prose says of mankind that they are she completed during the same five years four novels and three legends or romances, the last of which, an historical romance dealing with the Abbey of Bevaix, was finished only just before her death. Such rapid and various production might seem to suggest unwholesome effort or mere vanity of authorship; but there was nothing of either in Alice de Chambrier. She wrote largely, and chiefly in verse, because she could not help it; but all that she wrote was well and calmly considered; and she was so severe a critic of her own work that she resolved to publish no book until she was thirty years old. Nothing of hers, I understand, was made publicly known during her lifetime, save contributions to journals, and poems "crowned" by different concours in Frenchspeaking Switzerland and in Southern France. Of these the most important was her graceful ballade of 'La Belle au Boisdormant,' which obtained the primevère d'argent from the Academy of the Floral Games, at Toulouse, in 1882, the year in which she died. What I have said will show how wide was the range of her fancy. But she was above all things a poet. "Tout en elle était poésie," says M. Godet; "et tout, dans la vie et dans le monde extérieur, se transformait pour elle en poésie. C'était chez elle un jeu naturel, une fonction, la vie même." And one would have thought that her poetry, like her character, would have been gay as well as charming; for hers was a happy and a busy life. She was the fond daughter of an affectionate father, and had brothers whom she loved. She had no great sorrow that I know of-for she was too young to have felt the early death of her mother. She had a pleasant home, a social position of the best, and she enjoyed both with the innocent abandon of a refined and artless girl. Nor Was she ever touched with the passionate sadness of love; at any rate there is no trace of this in her published verse. She was given to good works, too. Her charities, and her unostentatious visits among the poor were only known in full after her death. And she was sincerely and quietly religious. Being a Neuchâteloise, her religion was, of course, of the Protestant sort; but it was large and candid, and had none of the bitter and petty hatreds of Calvinism. Her soul was intent on one thing only the problem of Death and the Infinite. All her poetry is affected with a deep sense of the sad and even grotesque relations between this mighty problem and the affairs-even the simplest and meanest affairs-of human life. She reminds one of that fine utterance of the great English Cardinal, who found in this Cosmos only "two luminously self-evident beings-myself and my venus de si haut faire un pélerinage, Tout enivrés encor de souvenirs plus doux, Like Coleridge, she "hungered for eternity"; an M. Godet, who, perhaps, never heard that phras has recalled it to us by speaking of " cette inex tinguible soif d'infini" which burned within he But she was always sane and sober; never rapt in a futile heaven away from human interests. us now solve the great enigma!" said Shelley Jane Williams as he rocked the boat. "Not ti my children have had their dinner!" cried Jan with a mother's readiness and a woman's commo sense. Alice de Chambrier had the deep yearning of Shelley, but she had Jane's quiet good sense boot. Her soif d'infini, though ever present an unquenchable, is expressed with a light, pathet touch, a grave and self-controlled propriety, the has all the beauty of apt reticence-the reticenc of one who has learnt how to wait and how t hope. She looks with a half smile at the mour ful problem; she points a finger, and you see it al Within the narrow limits of 'N. & Q.'-an perhaps I have already exceeded these-it is n easy to go into detail, or to justify opinion by qu tations from Mlle. de Chambrier's posthumou volume. Yet I will venture to quote one poer entire, simply because it is the shortest in th book; and to refer to another, which has wo high praise from French critics and from M. God for its simplicity and directness of method and i clearness of thought. a This latter, La Pendule Arrêtée,' begins wit simple and vivid description of an old chambe deserted years ago, but still containing its antiqu furniture, and amongst the rest |