Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta,: written by her friends. With selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry.

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dency is; or showing that it is toward a higher
development.
I think that the grouping together of the great
events in the history of each nation in chronological order, preceded by a summary of the significance
of it all, would be interesting and popular.
So few, except scholars like yourself, have time to
gather all these materials together. If you could
spare me one of those small condensed works of
which you spoke to me, I would return it in a very
few days.
A. C. L. B.
PARIS, October 21, 1887.
... Although we are leaving Paris to-morrow
morning and I am very busy, I feel impelled to write
you just a few lines on this sad anniversary.
You have now sounded the depths of your sorrow
and despair; but in these depths you must not linger.
" Stand where you are" was Goethe's translation of
Archimedes' fulcrum for lifting up the earth. See
what you can do in the blank future before you.
There are two great principles that we must adopt
and live up to as far as possible if we would have life
endurable,- one, that all is wisely and well ordered;
and the other, that we accept it. When Carlyle
shouted in derision at Margaret Fuller when she said
that she accepted the universe, he expressed the sum
and substance of Froude's biography of him. He accepted nothing, but was at war with himself and with
everything around him. "Learn to bear the cross,"
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