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Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
Subjects: Biography, Portraits Biography Portraits
Publisher: New York : Johnson, Fry and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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aults the cost,And point a moral in his saddened end; This is the thought in England uppermost—He, who has died among us, lived our friend.* In France, his death excited littleemotion, One of the strangest, rar-est, most complex phenomena of thenineteenth century, wrote M. Phil-arete Chasles, he was a wonder,reigned some twenty years, and diedalmost unheeded and unknown. Bro-ther citizens, in the streets of Paris, orthe official Seigniors, in the foyer deVopera, greet each other, saying only, The Emperor is dead !— I knew it;—and go off. No passion is stiriing;nobody feels angry, or glad, or excitedin any way. The man was not hated,and among his entours and privatefriends he was a very great favorite—a silent, patient, SAveet-tempered man;well bred, innocuous, easy of access,he smiled readily, and possessed manygood points—many, indeed; but aSham CcBsar ! f * Punch; or, the London Charivari, Jan. 18, 1873. t London Athenaeum, Jan. 18, 1873. •!&^^:Ml^^^si^!!^j- ■^:---
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EMILY CHUBBUCK JUDSON EEADERS of the popular maga-I ziue literature of America, Avboserecollections go tack about a quarterof a century, may remember the repu-tation acquired by a gentle female au-thor, all tenderness, sjjirit, and vivacity,in the sketches and essays which shepublished under tlie name of FannyForester. For a long time few knewher under any other designation. Shesubsequently became known to a largeportion of the religious world as thewife of tlie eminent missionary, Jud-son; and when, a few years ago, shepassed away, and the story of her lifewas fully written, with loving insight,by Professor Kendrick, a new interestwas awakened in her career by thetouching pictuie then presented of herearly years, in the struggle of her geniusupward to the light, through adversefortunes. In a fragment of autobiog-raphy, confined mostly to the periodof her childhood, she has traced herfamily in America, four generationsbackward, to* a paternal ancestoi, JohnChubbuck, a native of Wales,

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