CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

ESSAYS.

VARNHAGEN VON ENSE'S MEMOIRS.1

[1838.]

THE Lady Rahel, or Rachel, surnamed Levin in her maiden days, who died some five years ago as Madam Varnhagen von Ense, seems to be still memorable and notable, or to have become more than ever so, among our German friends. The widower, long known in Berlin and Germany for an intelligent and estimable man, has here published successively, as author, or as editor and annotator, so many Volumes, Nine in all, about her, about himself, and the things that occupied and environed them. Nine Volumes, properly, of German Memoirs; of letters, of miscellaneous, biographical and autobiographical; which we have read not without zeal and diligence, and in part with great pleasure. It seems to us that such of our readers as take interest in things German, ought to be apprised of this Publication; and withal that there are in it enough of things

1 LONDON AND WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. 62.-1. Rahel. Ein Buch des Andenkens für ihre Freunde (Rahel. A Book of Memorial for her Friends). 3 vols. Berlin, 1834.

2. Gallerie von Bildnissen aus Rahel's Umgang und Briefwechsel (Gallery of Portraits from Rahel's Circle of Society and Correspondence). Edited by K. A. Varnhagen von Ense. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1836.

3. Denkwürdigkeiten und vermischte Schriften (Memoirs and Miscellaneous Writings). By K. A. Varnhagen von Ense. 4 vols. Mannheim, 1837

1838.