. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... under the great arch of BayeuxCathedral, with the triumphant strains of the anthemresounding in her ears, would have seemed to some anot unworthy type of the Peasant Girl of Domremy inLorraine. As the music rang higher and shriller, thevibrations of the organ filled the crowded stood at the high altar celebrating their mys-teries ; the incense was rising in streams from thecenser
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... under the great arch of BayeuxCathedral, with the triumphant strains of the anthemresounding in her ears, would have seemed to some anot unworthy type of the Peasant Girl of Domremy inLorraine. As the music rang higher and shriller, thevibrations of the organ filled the crowded stood at the high altar celebrating their mys-teries ; the incense was rising in streams from thecensers; peoples heads went bending lower and lower;to Reine a glory seemed to fill the place like the gloryof the pink cloud in the Temple, and the heavens ofher heart were unfolded. The saints and visions ofher dim imaginations had no high commands for theirvotary ; they did not bid her deliver her country, butsent her home to her plodding ways and her dailytasks, moved, disturbed, with a gentler fire in her eye,and with the soft chord in her voice stirred and har-monizing its harsher tone.—The Village oti the Cliff. tiJ!ii.,a^lgpwfefeH^ v~ -; ,^^:!hrci:B,;.^V-.*.:!-y-^»4iriiiSv»fegi;. V -,- -£. y -Li^^iA^L^ / ^i^^S^ RIVES, Am^lie, an American novelist andpoet, born in Richmond, Va., August 23, mother, Miss Macmurdo, was the grand-daughter of Bishop Moore, of Virginia, and agreat beauty. Her father, Colonel Alfred , is the son of William C. Rives, three timesminister to France, United States Senator, andauthor of a Life of Madison. Miss Rivess child-hood was passed between Mobile, Ala., and theRives country-place. Castle Hill, Albemarle Coun-ty, Va. She began to write at nine years of age,her fancy running over a wide range of subjectsand forms of expression. Her A Brother to Drag-ons, a story of the sixteenth century, appearedanonymously in the Atlantic Monthly in 1886, andattracted wide attention. Some poems and twoother short stories appeared during
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