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100 on the other hand, we are constantly reminded that she is writing in a foreign tongue, by some strange ignoring of the rules of prosody, some quaint and almost prosaic rendering of a poetic simile.

It would be impossible within the limits of so short a sketch to do any justice to these poems, but the following may serve as an example, and no doubt expresses her own thoughts on her sister's early death. The original is by Evariste Desforges de Parny:—

To these poems there was affixed the following short postscript:—

"The author of these pages wishes to add that those signed 'A' are the work of her dear and only