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from the sameness of material and feebleness of plot exhibited in each succeeding work. The announcement, however, of one bearing the above title, was likely enough, after the political fashion of Mr. Bayes, to 'surprise' the public into a purchase, although it did not whet our appetite; for we should be perplexed to name a writer less likely to pourtray, in its truth and beauty, the purity and poetry, 'to dally with the innocence' of "Young Love."

In 1850 was issued "Petticoat Government;" and since then "Father Eustace," "Uncle Walter," and "The Clever Woman," made up for the most part of the old elements, and exhibiting a strong family likeness to the. foregoing works. For some years past, Mrs. Trollope, who has long been a widow, has disappeared from the English literary circles, having fixed her residence at Florence. Her son Mr. Adolphus Trollope, has written some agreeable works of Travel in the less frequented parts of France, and also some clever illustrations of Irish life.

TULLIA, or TULLIOLA,

A daughter of Cicero and Terentia his wife. She married Caius Piso, and afterwards Furius Crassippus, and lastly P. Corn. Dolabella. Dolabella was turbulent, and the cause of much grief to Tullia and her father, by whom she was tenderly beloved. Tullia died in childbed, about B. C. 44, soon after her divorce from Dolabella. She was about thirty-two years old at the time of her death, and appears to have been an admirable woman. She was most affectionately devoted to her father; and to the usual graces of her sex having added the more solid accomplishments of knowledge and literature, was qualified to be the companion as well as the delight of his age; and she was justly esteemed not only one of the best, but the most learned of the Roman women. Cicero's affliction at her death was so great, though philosophers came from all parts of the world to comfort him, that he withdrew for some time from all society, and devoted himself entirely to writing and reading, especially all the works he could meet with on the necessity of moderating grief.

TWIERLEIN, ADERKEID VON,

A German poetess, (her maiden name was Stolterforth,) was bom at Eisenach, September 12th., 1800. She was made a royal Bavarian Canoness in a convent on the Rhine, and became afterwards the wife of the privy councillor Baron von Twierlein. She resides at present at Geissenheim, in the Rbeingau. The characteristics of her poetic writings are tender and lowly feelings and great thoughtfulness, combined with a very elegant diction. Among the best of her productions we may count "Stolzenfels," (Castle Proudrock) and the epic "Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons."

TYMICHA,

A Lacedæmonian lady, consort of Myllias, a native of Crotona. Jamblichus, in his life of Pythagoras, places her at the head of his list, as the most celebrated female philosopher of the Pythagorean school. When Tymicha and her husband were carried as prisoners before Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, B. C. 330, he made them both very advantageous offers, if they would reveal the mysteries of Pythagorean science; but they rejected them all with scorn and