. The life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne . esin a supplementary chapter which practicallyleft the subject where it was before—an additionalpiece of mystification. In a letter to HenryBright he admitted that he had no very definitescheme in his mind in regard to Miriams previoushistory, and this is probably the reason whyhis readers feel this vague sense of dissatisfactionwith the plot. I have myself often tried tothink out a prelude to the story, but withoutany definite result. Miriams persecuting modelwas evidently a husband who had been forcedupon her by her parents, and would not that b
. The life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne . esin a supplementary chapter which practicallyleft the subject where it was before—an additionalpiece of mystification. In a letter to HenryBright he admitted that he had no very definitescheme in his mind in regard to Miriams previoushistory, and this is probably the reason whyhis readers feel this vague sense of dissatisfactionwith the plot. I have myself often tried tothink out a prelude to the story, but withoutany definite result. Miriams persecuting modelwas evidently a husband who had been forcedupon her by her parents, and would not that besufficient to account for her moods of gloom anddespondency? Yet Hawthorne repeatedly inti-mates that there was something more than us not think of it. If the tale was notframed in mystery, Donatello would not seemso real to us. Do not the characters in DonQuixote and Wilhelm Meister spring up asit were out of the ground ? They come we knownot whence, and they go we know not is with these that The Marble Faun should 374. TORRE MEDIAVALLE DELLA SCIMMIA (hILDas TOWER ), ON THE VIA POR-TOGHESE AT ROME, WHERE HAWTHORNE REPRESENTS HILDA TO HAVE LIVEDAND TENDED THE LAMP AT THE VIRGINs SHRINE ON THE TOP OF THETOWER NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE be classed and compared, and not with Middle-march, Henry Esmond, or The Heart ofMidlothian. Goethe said, while looking at the group of theLaocoon, I think that young fellow on theright will escape the serpents. This was notaccording to the story Virgil tells, but it istrue to natural history. Similarly, it is pleasantto think that the Popes mercy may ultimatelyhave been extended to Donatello. We canimagine an aged couple living a serious, retiredlife in the castle of Monte Beni, childless, and toa certain extent joyless, but taking comfort intheir mutual affection, and in acts of kindnessto their fellow-mortals. In order to see Hildas tower in Rome, gostraight down from the Spanish Steps to theCorso, turn to the right, and you wil
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