The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . INTEODUCTION. E read in history forvarious reasons andto various ends. Nowwe are allured by thetale of human adven-ture in the world, and the drama ofthe fortunes of nations; again we areattracted by some personaHty, as ofNapoleon, or Cortes, or Mary Stuart;or we try to interpret the presentand the future by the past, and tolearn the lesson which peoples, hkeindividuals, can only be taught byactual experience, and then too late. Miracles of Saint Katherine But history has another charm,and the historic muse might be rep-resented gazing in t
The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . INTEODUCTION. E read in history forvarious reasons andto various ends. Nowwe are allured by thetale of human adven-ture in the world, and the drama ofthe fortunes of nations; again we areattracted by some personaHty, as ofNapoleon, or Cortes, or Mary Stuart;or we try to interpret the presentand the future by the past, and tolearn the lesson which peoples, hkeindividuals, can only be taught byactual experience, and then too late. Miracles of Saint Katherine But history has another charm,and the historic muse might be rep-resented gazing in the mystic glasswhich reflects all the changing as-pects of common life that is no more,and the days that do not return. Nogift would be more enviable thanthe visionary power of seeing the de-parted generations in their costumesas they lived, concerned with themany trivial accidents that werethings of habit to them, and thatnow have passed wholly out of theexistence which we know. Shreds of old raiment, ancient cof-fers, armor, swords, jewels, we canlook at in the
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