THE SEA.
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME,
And by the same Author.
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| WOMEN OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. (In press.) | |
THE SEA
From the French of
M. J. MICHELET,
Of the Faculty of Letters, Author of "A History of France,"
"Love," "Woman," "The Child," "The Insect,"
"The Bird," "Women of the French Revolution,"
etc., etc., etc.
TRANSLATED FROM THE LATEST PARIS EDITION.
NEW YORK:
RUDD & CARLETON, 180 GRAND STREET
PARIS: L. HACHETTE ET Cie.
MDCCCLXI.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by
RUDD & CARLETON,
In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
EXTRACT FROM THE LONDON ATHENÆUM, Feb. 9. 1861.
'The Sea' is another of M. Michelet's dreamy volumes,—half science,half fancy, with a blending in both of sensuous suggestion. M. Michelettakes the seas of the world in his hands, manipulates them, invokestheir monsters, assembles all their finny droves, gossips with the sirens,sails among the Hyperborean waters with Behemoth, and is on intimateterms with Tennyson's little shell-king, who lives in a palace with doorsof diamond, and wears a rainbow frill, for the admiration of the nationsthat dwell in his dim, sunken wildernesses. * * * * *He discourses upon marine terrors and beauties, and tells the reader,as a sublime Peter Parley might, that the salt of all the seas, if piledupon America, would spread over the continent a solid, cliff-edge