"A ROMANCE OF A SOUL."
ERNESTINE
A NOVEL
BY
WILHELMINE von HILLERN
From the German by S. BARING-GOULD.
"'Ernestine' is a work of positive genius. An English critic has likened the conception of the heroine in her childhood to George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver, and truly there is a certain resemblance; but there is in the piece a much stronger suggestion of George Eliot's calm mastery of the secret springs of human action, and George Eliot's gift of laying bare the life of a human soul, than of likeness between particulars, characters or situations here and those with which we are familiar in George Eliot's work."—New York Evening Post, Feb. 17, 1881.
"Ernestine in her childhood somewhat reminds us of Maggie Tulliver in the Mill on the Floss, and in her maidenhood of Mr. Tennyson's Princess. For many a year as child and woman she grieved that she had not been born a man. In fact, she was a downright and fearless champion of woman's rights. But in the end she yields, and as we take leave of her, we hear her saying to her husband, 'I thank God that I am a woman and that I am yours.' Very pretty, though perhaps too sad, are the opening scenes in which we first make her acquaintance."
"There are many humorous touches throughout the work which afford a pleasant relief to the more pathetic portions."
"In fact, in many places as we read the story, we saw that it would easily adapt itself to the purposes of the dramatist."—London Saturday Review.
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