Edgar Quinet : Lettres d'Exil a Michelet el a Divers
Amis. ol. I.
(Calmann Levy, Paris. 1884 )—Madame Quinet pursues liar task of pious affection (interrupted, it appears, for a time by serious illness), of publishing her husband's letters. The present is the first volume of a series of " Letters from Exile," and stops in September, 1859, after Quinet's protest against the Imperial amnesty, then recently promul- gated. Most of the letters are addressed to Michelet ; and form, as the editor remarks, a monument to the fifty years' friendship of these two remarkable men. The completeness of the series is due, she tells us, to the fact that each in turn was copied by her before trusting it to the Imperial Post Office. As a memorial of a time when the noblest elements of the life of France were to be sought for outside her frontiers, the volume is full of interest, and many striking unripe may be extracted from it ; but it will be most usefully considered when the series is completed.
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