...hich I had to spin out as it went along, beginning with once upon a time there was, etc., in the good old-fashioned way of stories. Recently I have been reading the life of Madame de Stael and Corinne . I have felt an intense sympathy with many parts of that book, with many parts of her character. But in America feelings vehement and absorbing like hers become still more deep, morbid, and impa...