AN ART STUDENT IN MUNICH

By Anna Mary Howitt. The author of this volume is an enthusiast in her devotion to the fine arts, possessing a very high order of genius, as well as a glowing imagination. Her description of natural scenes, as well as her criticisms of all that related to her favorite studies, are very beautiful and classically correct. But her contemplations are by no means confined to the sublime and beautiful. The reader is made acquainted with the minutest particulars of domestic life in Munich, and of the manners and peculiarities of the people generally, in a familiar and racy style, at once amusing and instructive. The author, it is very evident, belongs to that class of ladies who, in this country, have taken the lead in proving to the world that the female mind is capable of attaining the highest distinctions that can be arrived at by a practical knowledge of the arts and sciences. At the same time, she has the magnanimity to "protest against a very common calumny, namely, that it is man who thwarts every effort of woman to rise to eminence in the life of art."