Here too she was unlucky enough to express the opinion that Miss Austen's books were vulgar.

The fall of Napoleon brought her back to Paris; and after the vicissitudes of 1814-15, enabled her to establish herself there for the short remainder of her life, with the interruption only of visits to Coppet and to Italy.

She died on the 13th July 1817: her two last works, _Dix Annees d'Exil_ and the posthumous _Considerations sur La Revolution Francaise_, being admittedly of considerable interest, and not despicable even by those who do not think highly of her political talents.
And now to _Corinne_, unhampered and perhaps a little helped by this survey of its author's character, career, and compositions.

The heterogeneous nature of its plan can escape no reader long; and indeed is pretty frankly confessed by its title.

It is a love story doubled with a guide-book: an eighteenth-century romance of "sensibility" blended with a transition or even nineteenth-century diatribe of aesthetics and "culture." If only the first of these two labels were applicable to it, its case would perhaps be something more gracious than it is; for there are more unfavourable situations for cultivating the affections, than in connection with the contemplation of the great works of art and nature, and it is possible to imagine many more disagreeable _ciceroni_ than a lover of whichever sex.