The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851Various
History
The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
MISS BEECHER has published (through Phillips & Sampson of Boston), her
_True Remedy for the Wrongs of Women_, and the book is much below her
reputation. From a person of her character and unquestionable
abilities, we looked for a rebuke of those females who have unsexed
themselves, such a rebuke as should have brought to life all the
latent shame in their natures, and for ever prevented any renewals of
the melancholy displays they have made of an unfeminine passion for
notoriety. The "wrongs of woman," in the state of New-York at least,
are purely ideal; here woman has all the privileges and protections
compatible with her destined offices in a civilized society. She
undoubtedly has a share of the sufferings to which human nature is
subject, but has literally nothing to complain of at the hands of man
in the social organization. The individual wrongs of which she is the
victim, are for the most part penalties of individual indiscretions,
and the remedy for them is to be found in the education of woman for
her proper sphere and duties, such education as shall develope her
capacities for the relations of domestic life, most of all, for
maternity. Miss Beecher treats parties with respect who are entitled
to no respect, acknowledges evils which do not exist, and proposes for
the elevation of female character plans of very questionable
influence.
FOOTNOTES:
[13] WIESELER, FRIEDRICH. Theatergebäude und Denkmaler des
Buhnenwesens, beiden Gricchen und Römern. Göttingen, 1851. Vandenhoeik
und Ruprecht.
_The Fine Arts._
All Europe abounds in memorials of illustrious men, and in the present
time there is more than ever before a disposition manifested to
consecrate art to the honor of the benefactors of mankind, or to those
who have been most eminent for great qualities. From Munich, we learn
by the latest journals, that two colossal statues--those of Gustavus
Adolphus and of the Swedish poet Tegner--have just been cast at the
royal foundry of that capital, with complete success. Both were
modelled by Schwanthaler, and are destined for public places in the
city of Stockholm. In France, the inhabitants of Andelys have been
inaugurating a statue of Nicolas Poussin, with great ceremonial. On
the same day a statue to Poisson, an eminent mathematician, was
inaugurated with pomp, at his native place, Pithiviers, near Orleans.
A little before, one was erected to Froissart, the quaint old
chronicler of knightly deeds, at Valenciennes, where he was born.
Jeanne Hachette is about to have one at Beauvais; Gresset, the author
of '_Vert Vert_', at Amiens; and the village of Rollot, in Picardy,
has just caused to be placed in its public square a bust of the
translator into French of the _Thousand and One Nights_, Antony
Galland. He was sent by Colbert to the East on account of his great
knowledge of the Hebrew and other oriental languages, and on his
return published the Arabian Nights, and a treatise on the origin of
coffee.
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