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The pair represent two types of humanity very distinctly struck, that may be possible; but we do not meet them in real life in America. Grandcourt is, no doubt, a truly typical Englishman, but his wife is a stranger here. author's books with painful misgivings. We distrust our ability to understand it; we doubt the efficiency of our discriminating power to distinguish between its good and bad qualities. We doubt, in fine, if we can render While the memory of the mysterious young true justice to the author. Our first impulse is man who redeemed her necklace still lingers to compare this new book with one of its pre- in her selfish heart, she takes a look at the The most absorbing question forced upon decessors, with " Adam Bede," for instance, future, dim with shifty mists and inevitable the attention of the reader in this book is the which has been generally esteemed her best. clouds. She sees but, one way of escape; identity of the hero, Daniel Deronda. His The most radical difference between the two is one only path, warm with sunshine, and grate- apparition is unaccountable, and, it seems to in the quality of the personages. In "De-ful with bending shade. It is a rich marriage. us, according to the rules of art, inexcusable. ronda," we are introduced to members of the Only that will save her, and into it she is urged As a representative of human virtue he is adaristocracy; to the houses of the rich, and by the most powerful considerations, personal mirable; but there seems to be a vagueness great, and fashionable. In the other, our paths and family. Her mother incites her; the about his purposes, and an uncertainty as to lie among shops and huts, and the lower grades sight of her helpless sisters persuades her; his true place in the story, which affect one unof rural society. Can the same eye see, with her worldly uncle paints to her the advantages comfortably. The only really tragical inciequal clearness, from both points of view? of high life, and dwells solemnly on the possi- dent in the book is Mirah's attempt at selfCan the same hand depict, with uniform ble mendicity of herself and her family. Selfish destruction, and it is very vividly handled. Its fidelity, the characteristics of the palace and though she is, she is soft to these pictures of consequences comprise some of the loveliest the hovel? A reading of the two books con- prospective sorrow. She cannot see her mother scenes in all these pages, glimpses of the vinces us that such a task is possible to a shabby; she cannot see her grieve. Long Meyrick family life. Mirah strikes us as somegenius such as is George Eliot. The same she deliberates, with thoughts of her myste- what unfinished; we cannot conceive a course broad and keen glances, the same steady, sin-rious benefactor flitting through her troubled of training such as she had at the hands of cere touches, the same discriminately shaded mind. If he were here, she thinks, he would her dissolute father, which could have shaped colors are perceptible in each, and in each her tell her, though she has no reason in the world so sweet and strong a nature as hers. Hans absolute command of the English language, in to trust his judgment. It is instinct. At is sometimes funny, but oftenest a bore; he is every form of composition, is equally conspic- last the path opens, through the translucent in effect an excrescence; his love for Mirah person of Sir Henley Grandcourt, heir to comes suddenly to naught. Daniel Deronda " is an æsthetically mel- divers manors and estates. He distinguishes ancholy story. One grows sober over it. It her at archery and other social gatherings, has few stained windows through which his notice being so emphatic as to rouse the strays the light of humor and geniality. It popular whisper that there is to be a match. has a gloomy interior, suggestive of solemnity Gwendolen hears it; of course her uncle and and gloom. It offers us no laughter, few cakes his wife would not fail to apprise her, and in and ale; and, in this deficiency, it fails as a her heart the wish is father to the thought. picture of high English life. In point of char- She does covet those broad acres, that palaacterization, it is far beyond comparison. tial house, those shiny-coated horses, that Deronda himself, if not quite true to nature, troop of servants, those reverent tenants. is absolutely unique. The influence of the And this wish covered up in her heart is suspicion that broods in his heart from boy-warmed by family sympathy, till it heats her hood, the suspicion that he nurses Hebrew like a mighty flame and rouses her to the realblood in his veins, casts its sombre shadow ization of her purpose. The fatal day arrives; over his whole life. We see it in the the vows are said, and she is the plighted bride habits of his daily walk, in his tastes and ten- of the majestic baronet. dencies; and it has its most conspicuous manifestations in the memorable interviews with his mother. The sweet tenderness of his nature attracts us, while his sombre mien and manner repel. At his introduction, one likes him. His treatment of the wilful Gwendolen, on their first meeting, is simply admirable, —-cool, gentlemanly, earnest, yet reserved. uous. 64 We pass on to Gwendolen's home life; to its hypocrisy, to its pretensions, its strivings between fashionable exigencies and stern necessity. We get a glimpse of this rash young girl's nature in her flirtation with Reginald; Of their married life the author vouchsafes He loves to think of her as a regally beauti- • Daniel Deronda. By George Eliot, author of "Middle-like a curtain between them, the knowledge In the relations of Deronda and Mordecai, we have something quite unheard of in fiction. How strong must have been the instinctive sympathy that drew this refined and cultivated young man to the intimacy of a squalid Jew! The intellectual approximation of the two, it seems to us, is far too precipitate; their mutual attraction is unnatural and forced. The chief value of this enforced intercourse is in the author's acute dissertations on Jewish topics, to which she has evidently given prolonged and earnest thought. to As a mere novel we must prefer this book Middlemarch; " but we find in it less evidence of general culture, and less matter of purely æsthetic interest. It is not intrinsically fascinating; the plot is not strong: its charm is in its odd views of human nature and society, its powerful characterization, and its pervading depth and purity of thought. We have little room for quotation from these rich pages, and these scraps must suffice: "In general, one may be sure that whenever a marriage of any mark takes place, male acquaintances are likely to pity the bride; female acquaintances the bridegroom." a wish to speak to a fair woman, it is a bad "Miss Julia Fenn, a young lady whose pro file had been so unfavorably decided by cir- England's. He engaged the Emperor of Per- HISTORY OF NAPOLEON.* THE `HE third volume of this well-planned history is perhaps even more entertaining than its predecessors. It treats of the intermediate and critical period of Napoleon's career, exhibiting him at the time when Fortune seems to have half veiled her face, and he can catch but a dim glimpse of her retreating figure. It falls on the time, when, balked in enterprises that had honest faces and real substance, he had turned to those of equivocal character, and success in which could only measurably reward him. It depicts him with waning intellectual strength, with faculties that the friction of severe vicissitudes has weakened, and with that meteoric judgment moving on half-blind and uncertain. He is a melancholy spectacle, · more pathetic by reason of his fading virility, whose deficiency his chance victories cannot effectually mantle, than we find him later on. He comes on the stage in the attitude of claimant of a universal kingdom. He is the great I—not only the State, but the Kosmos. He commands the States of Europe to array themselves at once under his standard, or under that of England. "Under which King, Bezonian! He tried hard to placate the weak King of Prussia, but failed. With the autocrat of Russia, by dint of flatteries and gifts and insidious misrepresentations, he fared better; and for the price of two tolerable provinces got some worthy consideration. When he settled up his accounts, however, at the close of the sanguinary contest, there was little to carry to the credit side; and in France itself there was a great balance of blood against him, warm blood in the veins of young conscripts summoned to death before their time. But he heeded not such a trifle, not he; he only called for another levy. Significant, indeed, were the words of the noble Masséna, gazing on the sepulchral field of Eylau: "What a massacre! and without any issue." Like it was this campaign, "without any issue." Domestic politics mainly occupy the second chapter, which show us Napoleon in his character of statesman. The exhibit is not edifying; let us pass it by. The campaign of Friedland is red with battle scenes, but contains no special illuminations of Napoleon's character. His tête à tête at Tilsit with the Czar Alexander is one of the finest scenes in the work. To see this skilled angler playing with the ambitious and conceited trout, plying him with flies of varied attractiveness, and insidiously but sedulously aiming to hook the barb in his imbarbate gills, is to see the worst qualities of human nature in vehement opera tion. home to settle domestic affairs. With his usual The closing scenes in this dreadful drama,— the streets of Spanish cities running full with the blood-ravage of every name, starvation, madness, pervading every province, — a burning patriotism clashing with slavish submission, freedom against Napoleonic feudalism. But the play was brief; for the players were weary. The further events in this drama are too well known, too far-illuminating, to need repetition here, they are hardly paralleled in the history of any nation, and whatever may be the faults and shames of the Spanish character, the lover of freedom will ever kneel to thank God for giving so stern and undying a love of liberty to these fierce barbarians of Iberia. We have already commended in strong At this time (1806), the spell of the French step did not co-ordinate with his general policy. The great powers being paralyzed, be proceeded to treat some small and foreign ones for his interest. He promised to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, warning its Sultan to choose between his friendship and History of Napoleon the First. By P. Lanfrey. Vol. III. 8vo. $3.50. New York: Macmillan & Co. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.* memoir wrote in his Diary, "I have already more volumes, and multitudes of fragments, trash inexpressible,which I pray to God may never be exposed, scoundrelly enterprise than this attempted ON November 7, 1842, the subject of this Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, comprising Portions of his Diary. From 1795 to 1848. Edited by Charles Francis Adams. Vol. XI. 8vo. $5.00. Philadelphia: J. B. Lip pincott & Co. but which I leave to my son, to be used according to his good judgment, for a memoir of my life; and if, by the mercy of God, the manuscript should be preserved, to be left, with those of my father, to one of my grandsons, who may be worthy of possessing and passing them [it] down to future generations." 66 The caution conveyed in the above extract has not, it seems to us, been faithfully heeded. The work comprises an amount of valueless matter, equal, at least, to one-third of its bulk. Page after page tells the same story, in substance if not in language. It is that "the boorish Smith of Ohio transfixed the feeble Doozenberry of Florida; " the crafty Cushing made his customary assault on me," on ad nauseam, with change of name and scene. Many passages are in bad taste, as well as irrelevant; mere spots on the record of a generally pure man. Of what good can it be to parade the evidence that Mr. Adams was a fluent blackguard, and to cull coarse epithets from his repertory of abuse? direct denunciation. He notes the receipt of shadow; and each has given a drop to his a letter from Fletcher Webster, "bloated ever-swelling canteen of knowledge. He is with self-sufficiency as an executive officer; "not a fine writer; in fact, he is a bad one: but and the receipt of a reply to his own letter, he has compiled a very readable book which "as impertinent, as ignorant, as insolent, as will fill up an unoccupied hour. The story of the former." Of one of our earliest poets his career gives one a clear idea of the life of Mr. Adams writes: " Mr. Tyler, in a tone of an average English aristocrat, to be born, fretful uneasiness had said, I cannot remove to be beaten into a knowledge of Latin verse, my friend Payne,' - meaning John Howard to be sold into the army, to fight with honor, Payne, the histrionic parasite, who was here to travel at government expense, and to live all the summer of 1841, currying favor by the fag end of his years in the ease of a verwriting niminy-piminy meretricious letters dant country mansion. But to few men, even of courtly adulation of John Tyler, to be English aristocrats, it befalls to be lapped in published in the New York Herald. This the beneficent waters of royal society; to be was the sycophant, and this the service for the playmate of princesses, the confidant of and so which my friend Payne' was appointed dukes. Such was George Thomas's fate, and Consul at Tunis, instead of a public servant well does he describe it. of forty years, with a large family, to linger about the world for a beggarly subsistence." Mr. Adams's estimate of Roger Williams is not flattering. “He came,” he says, "sharpened for controversy, a polemical porcupine from Oxford; an extreme Puritan, quilled with all the quarrelsome divinity of the age. Altogether he was a mere boute-feu, and they were amply justified in getting rid of him. I see that Bancroft tells his story with extreme, to puff him up, not only to a saint and hero, but to a transcendent genius, Newton, Kepler, or Copernicus." The only comment to be made on this last sentence is, that Mr. Adams "seems to tell his story" with deliberate virulence. One finds little information of lasting worth in these pages, as to current legislation and politics; accounts of scandals and personal quarrels monopolize the space. The record begins just prior to the withdrawal of the members of Tyler's cabinet in 1841. The reasons for this action assigned by them seem rather puerile at this day. Ewing, of the Treasury, thought he had been disrespectfully treated by Mr. Tyler; and, further, that Mr. Tyler claimed some authority concerning the management of the Treasury, which Ewing thought contrary to law. Mr. Crittenden had special personal relations with Clay, which rendered his position in the Cabinet unendurable. Mr. Bell and Mr. Badger complained of the President's deportment toward them. war. a Mr. Adams's assumption that he was the butt of his colleagues and the politicians generally was not wholly unfounded. Henry A. Wise, who has just ended his turbulent career, once stigmatized him as "the only man in the House whose judgment he was unwilling to abide by." This was said September 11, and this entry follows, under date of September 14: "I met Mr. Henry A. Wise, who spoke to me and offered me his hand." Mr. Adams flatters himself with having rendered important service to Mr. Webster. His speech on the McLeod resolution " has given him the means of saving himself from There is little in the contents of this volume ruin, and his country from a most disastrous that goes to justify its publication. For the My reward from him will be professions sake of the dignity of the work, if not for of respect and esteem; speeches of approba- that of family pride, it seems to us that the tion and regard for me to my friends, knowing editor should have omitted the bulk of perthat they will be reported to me; secret and sonalities which disfigure these pages. deep-laid intrigues against me, and still more venomous against my son." Mr. Adams seems to have imagined himself the bugbear of every American statesman, and to have prided himself on the honor of Louis Philippe's FIFTY YEARS OF MY LIFE.* In his first chapter he tells about the oligarchical trunks, in whose protecting shade he spent his early years; about the ancestral Kettels who have gone to Pot; the Duke of Grafton, the Vanes, the Foxes, and other birds of the air. The pictures of his early schooldays are entertaining. On his arrival, he apprises his curious school-mates that his father is the king's master of buck-hounds, and has the pleasure of being pointed at as the son His daily of a blackguard old huntsman. routine of labor is thus reported: "I rose as the day broke, hurried on my clothes, brushed those of my master, cleaned several pairs of his shoes, went to pump in the Great Dean's yard for hard water for his teeth, and to the cistern at Mother Grant's for soft water for his hands and face; passed the rest of the time till eight in my own ablutions, or in conning over my morning school lessons." The anecdotes of the Princess are amusing, but for the most part coarse, and do no credit to her custodians. She was a young lady of positive nature, utterly devoid of dignity, and great with self-assertion. She had her way, obstacles notwithstanding, and woe be to the culprit who thwarts her bent. The author confesses to frequent applications of her hunting-whip to his reluctant back. Here is a lively anecdote of Thomas Garnier, Dean of Winchester: "He was a famous dancer in his youth. While engaged in the intricate labyrinths of Sir Roger de Coverly,' clad in a smart coat with filagree buttons, one of these buttons caught a ringlet of a daughter of Dr. Wharton, the famous Greek professor, and, the hair not being her own, dislike. With John Tyler only was he willing barrassed by the superfluity of his my kinsman carried the whole head-gear away to share the public obloquy. Under date of January, 1842, he records that it is the White House, not the President, who [that] is visited: "From the first establishment of the government of the United States to this day, there never has been a time when the personal sympathies of the people of all parties were so utterly indifferent as they are this day to John Tyler." The objects of his own hatred are in far greater number; few names of public men pass his pen unaccompanied by sneers or material, which must have gathered on him Fifty Years of My Life. By George Thomas, Earl of with him through all the mazes of the dance, followed by the damsel in a state of fury at his Rape of the Lock.' He, in the mean time, was so absorbed in his favorite pastime as to have no conception of the mischief which his peccant button had caused." One Lambert was a dull scholar. "Where did he get that black eye?" asked Dr. Mure. “In fighting ascy.'" "Which licked?" "Lambert." fighter, we must not be hard upon him for his Latin and Greek." The account of Mauritius is very interesting, as is that of Queen Caroline. With what *Découvertes et Etablissments des Français admirable felicity was "Othello" brought out THIS work, though printed at Paris, owes at Drury Lane during the progress of the trial! and how pertinent to the subject, exciting the English people to a fever heat, were these fine lines: "How comes this trick on him? [Desdemona.] Nay, heaven doth know! I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get an office, Hath not devised this slander." IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS.* HIS is the most interesting of the author's THIS many works, and also the most original. its publication to an appropriation of The circumstances under which it was written Congress, which has done a signal service to give it a peculiar interest. No writer has the historical literature of the country, in ever so intelligently entered into the classic bringing to the light this unique and very spirit of the ancient writers, and none has important collection. Four more volumes reproduced their characteristic sentiment and are, we understand, to follow it, together style with greater fidelity to the original. with maps and other illustrations. The papers Reading his eloquent pages, one seems to have been collected during thirty years and walk in the lofty shadow of the Acropolis, and more, by the indefatigable labors of M. Mar- to see the towering masts that congregate in gry, archivist of the Department of the Ma- the Piræus. Plato takes you by the hand; rine and Colonies, at Paris, who has devoted Pericles saunters by attendant on the magOnce the author saw his first steamboat on most of his life to researches connected with nificent Aspasia; and the indefatigable Diogethe Thames, whereupon his coachman says: the naval and colonial achievements of his nes pursues his lonely search guided by the "There's the things that will ruin us coach-countrymen. The present collection relates light of his dilapidated lantern. The reverend men." He thinks there is no doubt that Cleo- wholly to French exploration in the West, philosophers, generals, and orators through patra's asp was a cobra. "One of my occu- and is composed of pieces various in charac- whom he speaks preserve their original charpations of a morning," he says, "while waiting acter and interest, but all of value as exhibit-acteristics, and speak as if reading from their for the Duke, was to watch from the window ing the progress of discovery and the origin of published works. The Dialogues give one a the movements of a bright, pretty girl, seven enterprises which have had a vital influence years of age. She was in the habit of wateron the growth of American civilization. ing the plants immediately under the window. It was amusing to see how impartially she divided the contents of the watering-pot be tween the flowers and her own little feet. Her simple but becoming dress contrasted favorably with the gorgeous apparel now worn by the little damsels of the rising generation —a large straw hat and a suit of white cotton; a colored fichu was the only ornament she wore. The young lady I am describing was the Princess Victoria, our present sovereign, whom God preserve! Here are two funny legal anecdotes : clear and faithful picture of life and society at Athens, polished and enriched by the treasures of his own mind, and shining with the beauties of his speech. We cannot undertake to give an analytical view of the dialogues, which would be a task too long for our columns; we can endeavor only to show, by extracts, the general tenor and quality of the dialogues. In the colloquy between Diogenes and Plato appears this forcible passage :— The principal figure in this first volume is that of Robert de la Salle, whose portrait, apparently taken in early youth, forms the frontispiece. The features, though handsome and intellectual, are far from indicating the extraordinary energy and force which were his most conspicuous characteristics; but nobody can read the documents which exhibit the successive stages of his career without recog"Philosophers are absurd from many causes, nizing the remarkable qualities of the man. but principally from laying out unthriftily Several of these papers are of the highest their distinctions. They set up four virtues: interest; but, among them all, none appears Now a man may be a very bad one, and yet fortitude, prudence, temperance, and justice. to us comparable in this respect with the offipossess three out of the four. Every cutthroat "Chief Baron O'Grady was the presidcial narrative, occupying more than one hun-must, if he has been a cutthroat on many occaing judge. Bush, then a king's counsel dred pages, in which his earlier enterprisessions, have more fortitude and more prudence who held a brief for the defence, was plead- from 1679 to the end of 1681 are reported to ing the cause of his client with much elo- the Government. The romantic nature of the quence, when a donkey in the court set up a incidents and the freshness of the story, the loudi bray. 'One at a time, Brother Bush!' called his Lordship. Peals of laughter filled lifelike manner in which men and events are the court. The counsel bore the interruption presented, and the manifest spirit of truth to sum up with his usual ability of speech; which we trace the pen of La Salle himself, as he best could. The judge was proceeding which pervades at least all that part of it in the donkey again began to bray. your Lordship's pardon,' said Bush, putting make it unsurpassed in the original chronicles his hand to his ear; but there is such an of American adventure. This, with most of echo in the court that I can't hear a word you the remaining papers in the volume, has been say.' The authoress of The Wild Irish Girl' largely drawn upon in Parkman's “ Discovery (Lady Morgan), justly proud of her gifted of the Great West," but no other writer has sister Olivia, was in the habit of addressing made use of them. Their publication is a every new-comer with, I must make you boon to American historical students, and we to a man who dealt largely in that traffic, and acquainted with my Livy.' She once used this form of words to a gentleman who had just been worsted in an encounter of wits with the lady in question. Yes, ma'am,' was the reply; I happen to know your Livy, and I only wish your Livy was Tacitus.' I beg trust that nothing will be allowed to interfere than the greater part of those whom we conwretches, both executioners and judges, have sider as the best men. And what cruel been strictly just! how little have they cared what gentleness, what generosity, what genius, their sentence hath removed from the earth! expound them; do what thou wilt with them, Temperance and beneficence contain all other virtues. Take them home, Plato; split them, if thou but use them." In a conversation between Pericles and Sophocles, the former inquires, coast of Euboea, and sold as a slave in Persia We have said that Milord is not a good publication of which will therefore be looked was sober; and, fourthly, by a most surpris writer; indeed, he is a bad one. He writes: "Besides this fishery of Karmaziack, he has twenty more others." Again: For Mr. Ward, the British Chargé d'Affaires, having forgotten to inform the authorities that we had the Times in our possession." for with the more interest. Découvertes et Etablissements des Français dans l'Amér- recueillis et publiés par Pierre Margry. Première Partie. ing trick indeed, which, it is reported, he learned in Babylonia: one would have sworn he had a blazing fire in his mouth; take it out, and it is nothing but a lump of ice. The * Imaginary Conversations. By Walter Savage Landor. 12mo. Boston: Roberts Brothers. |