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]Josportes, Williams & rrlrroreos.: aiy fp~'Dvtdto cee ; Aigqi i- ,~ a U A' ill.]16- WLNNSBOLIO, S.. C., WVED$kbY MORNINSPEBR246.LO1 THi FAIRFIELD HERALD i8 PUBLISHEDI WEEsKLY nY DESPORTES. WILLIAMS & GO. Terms.-Tun M(.RALi is published Week ly in the Town or Winnsboro, at 03.00 in vareabl/uiy in iadance. 112"' All transient advertisenats to be iaid in ativance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per equare. Theo Light at Horne. Tle light at honie how bright it benins * Vhen evening shades around us fall; d from the lattige far it glenis, To love, and rest, and confor't all When wearied with the toils of day, And strife for glory, gold or fame, How sweet to seek the quiet. way, Whero loving lips wilPI'Hp our name, Around th 3 light at home. When through the dark and stormy night, 'Ihe wayward wanderer, homeward flies, low cheering Is that twinkling light, Whiol: throughathe forest glootn he spies! It is the light of hoine. lie feels 't'hat loving hearts will greet hii there, And softly through -is bosom steals The joy and love th', banish care Around the light at home. The light. at home -how dtill ane sweet It peops from y,'nder cottage door, The weary laborer to greet. hen the rough toils of day are o'er ! Sad is ti11 soul that ilo 4 not knlow The blessings lint the beam impart, The cheerful hopes anl joys a Ii flow, And lighten up the heaviest heart Arottnd tlie light at liome. THE NOVEL---AN ADDRESS. BY TiEM LATE DAUNWELL 9# sTUART. Ladies md Gentlemen Our efforts to-night will be to at' I tempt to draw your thoughts from the i vexatious issues of the day, to leave the sword where it has falen, there to rust, wreathed with cypress, would I thtt it had been with laurels, and to i carry you to the Ideal World "aloof 1 and afar," where calmin art's puro d wel. lers drcam, and beyond the "lovely rainbow on the dow of the qpent, - thunder clonds" which have lately *ept our horizon, to gize upon "the peaceful blue" of the sweet 1-hy of literature. If your speaker does thhl, or aids any one to do this, his mission i. performed. 0 ir subject is the Moretas a Work s of Art-its Distinctive Features-7he' RS'phere it Occupies in Lite-ature -A Id its Chief End. i Soienco, literature and art are words seldom comprehended by the I many who use them, nor will it be otr I province to define them further than t to clear the way for the suhjct before c s. Science is the howledgo , of the t many digested and arranged so as, to C be available" by one. Literature is % the inouthpiece of cience, tmking it c known, and art the application of . science to attain a eertain end. That i end may be utility or phygioal con- r fort, resulting in the useful arts; or i taxy administer specially to the sense of the beautiful, resulting in the fine avts. There is frequeitt interming- 1 ling, and enoh particular se'ine has3 I its ars utilis, or it- ur's ingenait as rc- i viewed front the standpoint of the < p->0t oe utilitarian. Besides this beauty in the essentially useful, there t is at determindate sphere frdm, wnthie 1 tho mere useful is excluded, far~ : practical sagaity," and as the fruit lessa flowers of' the Gseldla,seems only toi be an application> of science to grati- a fy that responss to the sublime oi' the < beautiful which fills the heart of all, 4 from the savage looking up through primeval eaves to thei stars "shaking in the aure," his ear bewildered with the ripples of waters and the note of' night bitds'to the gentlidman in the velvety drawing rootn gazing at the Enow soeae "amid -the Alpine ( ~untains cold " or dreamily~ watoh ing the gold fih ofhis a q ri'umb fiashing in the 'gashight. There isi mnusl6 and seulptire'andt aitifine.- I Literature has it flnue arts tb. Those are, 1st. Poeti. M.l Th~e Drama, and 3d., Prose wor'ks of fiction. It is then to a provine~ of the fijie arts 'in literature-prose works of fiction our way shall lead. 4. '., to that -applien $ign of science by means of literature to the attainment of the gratification' ofthe Aense of' the boautiful'or sub lime, as displayed in prose works of lietion. Nvon this dognan ,is togq.tietnsive tsean in tile tie our coommand dj' wl. ut e J40. ,narrowf our liaittA frota ye pks of fioni to the Novel, as f19 ~,er to the ame taik om4l b:se oca i istenQe, with whidMla~ Iae most to do, and know east p~boui the' r~ovel holds nlo mean 'ptaa; wh' 4f find it. luttering frotn a thppsand 'presqe read~b' byno in fat,, entu aturnt amusing jtho ..jli4 . qrI ld iri ci's turbelowe4 i , elej a ,eany Scot, the llibe pta . gptr.tls aa blue and the a e pop and fiuttqr with .e o a nue, if the honest t oes enjoy agood nov . eulov Per doed b tite is never satisfied and the press I never weary. When we consider that < this department of art. was scarcely a known. in England before the last cen- d tury, and how it is now spread, we a can appreciate the magnificence of its < domain. Let us then, while the din- v mond dust of human knowledge is < gliding through the hour-glass of a Tine, endeavor to catch one little 'I grain, the modern novel, and examine i its crystal radiance Ut the light of art, before. we let it gp to spar kle on I and cheer the eyes of other centuries. Fiction mny'be. diVided into lst. a Northern oi- WdIe. 2d. Southern a or Olassio. dCOciental. 4th. The I Mixed. '4o& fiioa division iny be a referred Goethe$ Foquet, Wieland, < Kotzbue, Schiller, Wolpoles' Otranto, q and Miss Radc)iff's writings. The E rho lays of Milton, Homer, Virgil, c Racine, Dante, are classio. The Ara- ' bian Nights, the Sacred Hebrow Poe- i try, Moore's Lala Rook, are oriental, 6yhile the mixed may be found in i 3hakespeare and the novels. e Shakespeare in his Hamlet, Romeo I Lud Julet, Midsummer Nights Dream r ind Historio Dramas, manifebts the a amster in every field of fiction ; and I ,he novel likewiee, tramps with elastic a ,read to and fro this "field of the sloth of gold," dressed out in all its a 'oreign as well as splendid natural u idorninouts, under the plastic powers e if Scott, Bulw er, Diekens, Thackeray, e Lnd a host of others. t It is then to "The Mixed" in fie- I ion we would refer the novel, and, by v iovel, we iean no fairy or bob-gob- i in tale. No romance of good King fi rthur or Charleuangue. No -single ni orsernan effusion, but soones drawn f rois manners, domestic life and na- u are, the author holding up the nir- E r and rt flecting truth from his pages. l in unnaturally beautiful and inter- il sting heroine who steps lier parts a : >uppet has no charm for us, and an e 6bstruie p hilosolher for a hero, b whose vernacular is Greek Hebrew or g -yriac, and who gives one lectures on r lotany, Etonology, Psychology and t! 5oeial P1hysics is a tsoporific pedant o when he is not an insufferable bore. X We read a novel for* delight, not for v nstruction. There is the sentimental o ir sickly class, would immerse us in J eutitnent and love.. In such, see an w klUonzo, about to address his latura weetness,' after a long agonized 4course of true love which never did Un smooth," sweeping down on his mmaculate victim with a tornado of >assion until with an osculation, matri nony "in future". closes the extatie latural scene. There is the diluted tyl'e of novelist drawing out 'in link- w (' sweotness" a good idea to such at- a eilatiol thapt the drop of the honey e it Hy bla palls from its insipidity, I ih spoeidity for triffing detail, mi- c roscopio in memory, in a uurder t cone would stop to enlighten us by b n intricate disquisition on the color a .nd pattern of the *ehintz' curtains .1 vhich hung at the windows, and the it )tece of the hatchet with which the B leed c(Was done' In painting Crow- .h Yell, would devote their whole art to r he wart on his noso. Sub-lime are It ,hey on a creaking wheel and weeping ver a drowning fly, There is the transcendental or ob- a eure who do a deal of fine writing o vith not a deal of son-sc. For in- n 'tauce, a painter is described as "see- t ng partially, slightly,t tenderly, eatch- 't is the flying light of things, the me- v nentary gloonms, could feel his a lorongth 9omning from whitersnows afar t' aff ita Jleaven." Fages of such 'wordy afieetation" adorn their works. I ['ho inoffensive or proper novelist, an. ither class, present us invariably, as h l'hackeray has'it7 a "Prince Pretty- e nan, who at the end .of his adven-. v ores,.is put in possessin of every p vo~ldIy prvosperity as heo has been en- a lowed with every mental and bodi-ly c ,mcellence preiviously."' Their hereas ai rye titled and their heroines, "Fault-. a ly faultless, icily regular, splendidliy ti iu dead perfection." a 'Jdhese rare a few of the multitude e he brainless efEusions of whose* prolific y pens ate fast slipping into oblivieus u omnolence in "that undiscovered n sonsrtry,".in literature, "from whose a bourne mgo traveller returns?" Turn wit~h us from these-false ringing nietals ti o the delineation of Ideal Truth, as t' iambodied in fition--to' the' English n N.ovel, as it commenced with I1e'oe, p ar nmore correctly with the Spectator r in the characters of Sir Roger D~e- ai D~overly, Sir Auidrew Freeport, CJapt ti .rain Sentry, and Will H~oneyoumb, as ei it brightened .with "ti-anquil virtue," int the 'AVioar of Wakefield," and was a puriled y Frnci Bane ad Ri.ch- fi ardson, from the drvoss of the kind t' bearted Fielding, the hutnorous Smol- ? let and Sterne with ;his .foolery and g wgit.:,. As I$stione with the 80p8bipe of rn tteaven under 'the band of the objec- a blie Soett; alt glowed iih passion a lotbe poetio pt'dse ''of'thb an1be'etid 1 Blulweri a it spaigled with the tri-~ 1 tljties snr.d; ap isppbbiant of. ho sativl- 1 s~d Iuartesl Thaelseray ; as it r r i io eirriment i "hgblbanw 4 a T th'! I Iappasaof g~mide 'fihe. 6diota of' tlfe 6er wito Lgyptp tMist whei she ook in her arm chair her afternoon lozcs, "That Sir Charles Grandison hould be read t her, because If she [ropped asleep in the reading, she was ure when she awoke to have lost none f the story and to find the party where she left them coversing In the edar parlor," very applicable to al iost all the novels of that time. 'heir epistolary style, their prolixity, niforn sameness, together with coca sional impurity mace them known to ut few pt present. Richardson is rosy, Smollet tartly cynical, Sterne plagiarist and an over sentimentalist, uad Fielding shows his loving honest eart in his Parson Adams, Joseph nd Fanny, but his h umor has the taint f obscenity and his scenes are fro uently low. When we come to 4tt, we see the master hand of a reative genius, not content with i echoes," making for himself "ideas," rhich in his domain will endure un I urpassed. le is no humorist. He tbors when he attempts to be humor. us and his wit smells of the lamp. Iis plots are sometimes obscure, ab. upt and uninteresting, and his style as model inferior to his predecessors ; iut his pictures painted with the tasto nd pen of a poet always delight. I With no attempt at social reform,. g is the case with Dickens, he gives I a scenes from nature which will ever 4 atrance and characters we can never 3ase loving. Hiii descriptive facul es are powerful. Shakes pare's ichard III, Iago, Cordelia, and Lear, e could never recognize except as iearnations of evil ambition, mali,oe, ial affection and a heart of an oldI an broken by ingratitude. Their.i toes and appearance is never .before s, their qualities ever present. In . cott, on the other hand we recognize is characters by their features, bear. ig and dress--the stately Elizab46b I alki and acts like a queen, and ti 2 )urtly Raleigh spreads his mando t eneath Her Majesty's feet with a i race and vividness that makes the I inder feel almost like a spectator of i tat knightly scene-Rob Ryr, his-foot 1 a his native heath, and his name, a loGregor, stands out from the can- 1 ass, and we are sure we could point 'n at the homely, but lovable face of d aenie Deans in any art gallery in the t orld. 9 "A perfect woman nobly planned. - To warn, to comfori and command, I A id yet a spirit, still and bright., With Romething of an angel iight.,' NO angel but a dearer being, r All dipt, in angel instinots, Breathing Paradise." d II uses history not to instruct, but t erely as an instrument to exalt his t rt and should not therefore ho view- v a n an historian. le used it to il- v istrate his enthusiasm for chivalry, a the moated granges the embattled V wers and trophied haller and to t ring out his Scotch love for his glens g ad looks, and olans, and moors, and t >rds, and ladies -fair, and may no y ore be called an hittorian than 0 .aphael in his cartoons, or Guido in 5 N "Jesus bearing the erossr" or Nfu n llo in the holy lighthe a.ffuses around I is beautiful headof the Virglin.. It has been said very truly th at there is a moral in every work of 'i rt," (H-legel) but it depends entirely o him who draws it." So in Scotat's ovels there are morale innumerable the earefu) reader, but lie never at impts to point a moral by adoraing ith it a tale .,but gives us truth in art, ad leaves the effects to thie imagina on and fansey te. follow out. Never inspiring ?ove for bad men' as, ~ulwer does in Paul Olifford, Eugene Lram and Francis Viian--he presents C is Varneys and Bashleigha as no I atioing instances of the itchery of ~ ice. E1asy to read, he gilas us'sim- I le delightfal plotures i ehe will last. long a s ath and love last, era ac ount of their power over the buiuan cart. '.1'o Sir. Walter Boott then we ould yield the pfalm of vietory in i8 field of art rspresented by lo rer on all of its produdt'Ions, a1 d hile yielding the. palnm to Soott -let I' s not pass by ether great, but to our i-nd lesser lights in this magic o) ain'. do Bulwer's novers my 6e divIc1eJ Into I eo fashionable of which- Pelham Is a' ~pe; the supernatural of which sa onii and the stran e story are, .exam. les ;, the hdatoruar as sho wc. in [Ha. AId, the last of the. fargos, and nd TRieni,'and the 'social, of whiceli ie Carxton, "mny novel" and. "What ill he d'o' with it' are ageoimene. Hl ie Isebolarlyr ecoerte4 me oQS', nd nobl e tunatfwhi.a das philosophy anid varnmn8 an on, tl e heady passtons~of his yQth.. d ard or aetraeted' ffozn M4aat: nd ave us tawdy moralhty' and - heaggalst agliness without true getlt. Th i (:sin -the tlne, but it was on, but in his 'later .days, 'ot itide &amellowedg thi tones dandtwo hly. 'alenitas drasughta ii odssaSy 'drlte.'in age Idouli~aotes Epiop aans ini th& redi anid) uob)61' emete 'of bat phleudphy. Rish"-thivtas ate nbabe'b thlt 'ords and ntonidtt ydesoIption, mannera or da h isd' uOl fi e l.bc lt4~ 4 ol"# npmarken~In4 the naesipnp, t l beroes will livo 'p"' -0 1 eitten Dharacterprfloti 4%1-r - than. ab friends wo'baib bnat. Wo w6%ild call him the Byron of nootsts, Diqkons,,as an itbi iltion, is opfr the faul ojl aside his art 'to attemp b in schools, prisons; amp . has'encroa6hd On 6 1the statesman, and has rI~dio vel, as a wolk of aIf, to mak fiere ittacks on society in siotne of the evil, phases it presented to his sympathy. Although useful and d'oubtless bene Soial in soibe respeots it deti-aots from bis power airan artist, qnd he mily b )ompared ;to that shool ;of aft . of wyhich Ilogarth is a f6utiider,'wl*en by is pencil he'Illukit6es tbe progreas of industry and idlenes-iithpersons of ,wo apprentices starting life with the ianle advantoges, and thiough-a-series )f pictures, the one griduily rising o the dignity of Lord Mayor while ;he other ends at the gallows. Faulty in this respeoot he has not rithstanding peopl'ed the world of. imagination with many friends and eoquaintanees familio.r to us all. rhoy are oddities jii'reip life, but not innatural in their libqamonts I for we ;ee their traits pceplng ,omt here and hore in our onward march. They are types of ai* trV, gant. lasi of human beingq Niop rqyj r law or met with a UrzaV a , aam fVeller, a Micawber,..' kwiek,'or Toot., yet we have spf4 hnan na :ure displayed in all thejlg~htaa rpvyJ4 >ut in these ebaracters .8o mnuqh g 'Piokwiekian" has bp'otPe a Jouse iold word. In this paiou1ar sphere if depicting oddities Di ens isunsuv )assed as a portrait' , inter.' Ili's eads are not those o"e ntlemen, hir annot portray a gentj .an, ut the owel of good humor, 'fmtbonesty grid iAmh are shown, glist4Wing in the 'ough'stone or earthly Xiiatrlal be akes in hand. Ther, $s no inore ioble and heroio char ter than old ?egotty he is but V, minon sea nan to the end. H g reat as an rtist in other respects.. lis street Dones at night in TonRi, the riot eene in Barnaby Ip, his storm t sea, in David C; perfold, the uelling scene in Nichalks Nicholby, he death scene of Little Dom.bey, nd the scenes from poop life. are, atural beaptiful and.o ti Adi ime, ]RI style when exie4 in One f these scones is. concentrated, owerful, and grand, while as a gene al thing, he writes with too little pro aration' and too much ease, and has eteriorated to worthless verbiage on is last efforts, being for the most part 0O verdant and leafy for tate. His rorks roes)] thke Ittlia! nOe,& hio the interludes are indifferent nd sometimes tediously long; but rhen the stars comi upon the stage be music gathers force and swells in rander tone, and we listen odiohanted 3 the singer to whon all interest con. orges. Enthralled by the -voices of antral figures, we forget the minor 3enes- and charaoters, and, for a mo. lent the "old blue sky," "the old glad ife" is upon us, And this Maria dan eoothe with t tenor note,. 'he souls in Vurgatory.' The whole philosophy of Dickens iay be summed :up in hia own .floi aus-langage fro~m a'hrnaby Rudgeg'" It is something oven to look upon njoymaent so that it be free and wild nd in the fa'e of nature, thougli. irt but the enjoyment of an idios It isomething to know that Heaven has 3ft the capacity of. gladness-in- sucoh a reature's breast rit is something' to e assured; that however lightly m ien 3ay orush'that faculty in their' fell iws, the Great OWester of' ankind nparts it even to hle d'espie and lighted work. Who would not rather me. a poor id106happy in the sunlight,1 lian a'wisp mnan. pining~ ins a aened s nob a spiritand able to oheerugdin be shadows that fall as won march to. be dark'rlver, but -there aren ma pho, would prefer the wise' man in be dungeon to the f'ool sporting in-the tushine and his great rivale :Thaok ray is one of that~nuiberb . aabe of greatness in anye field 'hackeray, like many otheri devoted is every energy to the 'exaltation 'of Is art in literature.- 'Wi ha s ente nd observant mind, hIgh~ neducated, na noble heartywhonh tok his pen 07 write fictiongits was no hbelidy rorke H~e wast detoitminedcto'digeat 11 he bad ever Iekrnede. and afl+4that 'Itense thought And..knowledger could uggeat aM glhEl* forth to th.enrd a tie fem Sancieusn of histgwr t. grst, he inerelyg.. d% teeuint equlesqeise in tihe world fesII is? ut ~~b la bd lieert ~~f~i e eti5t1*l4 ilessly it'our owahesrts rlb 194 ,u6 to their lealll reseltdid his ohari actors, and we lay aside his, book witl a- depressed feeling, and an eaTnest do sire that he had given us a loss true,bu a pleahanter picture - yet oven in hit hollow pictures and is foxliko wis doi and eyes looking through anI 'through, we feel there is a lion hear capable of tears and love.- Disap pointed "At first he struck a jarring tone, 'But over strovd to make It true. Perplexed ha faith, bit pure In deeds, At last, he beat his nusieo out." And his V6ndbh'nis, ITonr1 Esioni and Newcomes, Ahow him 7prince ol novelists. In b1tyle ho urpasses tho all, careful, conact, classie, It pos sessos'all the deloate grac' and hu mor of Addison, wit of Steelo, th terrible irony and acarcasmlof'JiIAi and the kindliness of thogontlc Gold smith. Many of h1s 1 a8sages art models of oleganee in writing. As a paiuter he fails in tho sconery ofhis back ground. His specfality is a ab, a club roo'hi a parlor, a law. er's offiboo bi a bookstalk, and Scott nfnitely superiors to hiin in this re soeot. The sea, the moors and tuoun tains ha*e only a sobolarly aspect h his pages, and for rural scenery there is but little enthoisiaem-but as a do. lisatofoff 'haF taid the ways of th4M6dCh'I" iiasod by nodo. I11 koW iav'hw to'dva' high life and a gontlenfan, Ao "'thit you' i'ecognizt him in Col. Nenooibe as ho waks th< Tndian atoamer 'a p rince, or in his stnocleat the tilitary hospital, the ob. joet of public charity, or when ho an $wers adSum, when hitt natne is called by the' angels hovering around his death bed. lIe' knew too well that the pure in Nehitlzibay be. hunebbacked. That "the greatest good in life" may be p6rhlaps not even to be, happy. "Pov frf, illness," humiliation, "may b< rewards and conditions of good, as well ae that bodily prospeity which ill of us unoonsiously' sOe "p for worship." He felt life to be lino idlb "Dut, iron du om ontral gpon1 And heat s- hot witb burning inr, And'dippelin Vth-s, hl'ssIng fers, And battered with ike shoul of doo,, - To shapo and use." . And he has given us Charicters wrought out by his earnest sagaoity whibo startd'o us with their cotirctness bo life, and touches of humor that fill >ur hearts with noble yearnings for he good and glorious amid the inces 3ant hollow din of tho vanity 'of vani Jles-tbe world. Right with him was not might, but he showed how the mammon of unrighteousness glittered md gloried In'the sunshine, and that it roll "on the just and the unjust alike." rhat magna est a'critas is grandly true, but to et prevalebit from lifes sad ex oerience he must demare We rise ,rom "the feast of reason and flow of touly'i'iri his works, and feel that rhaekeray knew the world thoroughly ted loved the true and pure in heart wherever and whatever they be. In .he wide range of history we doubt if there is a more even writer than he a,. superior far to Bulwer and Dick mns in the uniformity of his taste and beauties of ls diotion, and in this respect reminds us of the German 3pera. There are no "gems" and Varias" planned for great singers alone ~o display-their vocal and histrionio ~alents, but all must be stars, all ar. ~ists, to make the discords and the ;ymphonies, the orchestra., the 'actors, nud the soenery, one grand enchant r3g whole from overture to fttmne. We have attempted to- draw our .dea from the charaoterletic traits of mt the master-artists in prose fiction. [t is only possible to name within the imits.. of this effort, many worthy mames, whose works present to a dis >rlminatingtaste many beauties, and ;o aoarping eritiolim many faults. Eaoh are'the Broutes, Miss Muloch, Baroness Tantphous, the author 'of luy Livingetone,' Charlos Kingsley, Droly, Lover,' Warreti, Cooper, SIms, [ring,'-Nathaniel Hawthorne and n4iss Augusta Eivaris. -These ' all in he epanged formiment of att are as thoe ode and 'Gihier like a segrmn otfiAne fltes, Tangled In a silver braid. Turn now from the' artist to his rrk Iand'1le us endeavor to shrow its ilaco jsn' litqrqiaue. Jfirst thenk, Jhe notis thq true) re~oen prose' of hhspriRn phase of. art of. modern mivli1adtot. and - acoords with the ;p9f i of the age :Asia. the earlier ge the inoetionsp of sit we're of tbe tinlpleat form f4.eruQe amd advans d inoiopfesty ad variety as 'lux ary anId civilization' nareh'd; 'first i p le b i tho, thenirb r5iflO 'e ri then: . he , tbe1(o or'ei n' odetn iia1U *t 11l tha dnotea of imossh wit abeg ?1s the V O 1t' a itsglor hn h nor8a Vi imonizo several styles in their propor' tions and advancomonts. go the nov el calls ill ideas of all arts to its aid, its very compositeness reflecting the necessities of a high culture ox isting and requiring it, in its recrea. tions of fancy and imagination, and indicates a high effort of art in writ ing to supply this demand. Second, we would call the novel "the philoso. phy of domestio life," to givo it its distinotive feature in literature. Iistory is the philosophy of a na tion's life-a description of the body politio and the march of empire. As to the phase of interest it assumes, it is very much dopondent on the power and pillosophic pen of the historian I pthorwise it would be -a bare recital of dates, aotions and events, as uninter. eating as Homer's catalogue of the ships. The chroniolo of revolutions, 14w,' liberty and man as he belongs to socidty, nuoh is left to inforence, much to speculation of the author, and we are biassed as the advooato is power ful. Biography, as a general thing, is either a history of the times in which an actor lives ; a pedantic recital of his or her attaininuts; or a story drawn from letters, remains, &c., which gives us as. inpartial an esti maic0 of a man as Scott or Abbott in their lives of Napoleon. If written by friends we sec only the good, the evil lies buried, and we read the lives of no frail men, while we know the inconsistency of human nature from St. Peter to the present hour. Who has read the impartial life of an indi vidnal. Where then do we got a fair view of the fine side of a people portrayed. The faults and foibles of the indivi. dual in private life, his greatness, his ioys, his sorrows, his happy laugh, his hollow sneer, his heart brimful of oharity, or his brow scowling with suspicion, malle and envy, or fushed with wrath ? Where do we see him, by the cosy fire with lisping inno conce around .him ; In the street, in the church, in the ball-room, in the sick chamber, in storms when the evil king is abroad oi' the winds, In the valleyd green, or standing on moun tein tup with the breath of heaven in his glowing.f..oo while morn comes "Furrowing aU the orient with pearl,", at the eradle or by . the graveT In these and many other scones from na ture painted in prose, where we re peat, do we find this gap in literature filled up, but in the novel? Not less true because drawn from the imagination, since it con forms to that ideal, truth, abstracted from the eoncrete mass of human knowledge, and equally true with his tory, because one la the philosophy of individual life as painted by genius, and the other is the philosophy of a nation's life as painted by geniu, We do not know but that a great novelist is superior to the more annalist and many historians, both in truthfulness and the original creative powers he has to exercise. The one studies the human heart as the motive power in the machinery of govenment ; the other gives inner workings as, husband and wife, parent and child, master and servant, brother, sister, lover, or'friend. The historian gives rougli geographical or architectural featuro of the world.- The novelest, the beau ties of scenery, the ifashes of jewelry, the, pictured pomnp of palace. Uuts, hamlets, saloons, ci ties. We see the fretted ceiling and hear the seleian ceremony of the cathedral, with voic es sweet, riding on the swelling tones of the organ ; or else by some poor but happy hearth, "They chant their artless notes -In simple guise, They tune their hoawts by far thme Whlost, aim, Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise' Or plainti've marlyrs worthy of ,the name." The drama holds a domain perhaps more powerful, but certainly more qircumsribed, by its necessary, divls ions~pf aets an$ soonesy and the peri pheynalla ,of music, dressy painting, scenery and actors to gitve it its highi est effect.. Any good novel may be dramnatized while but a poor tale could beo only drawn from the. beat. dramatie effort, if' stehed to the dual dimensions, of the novel. On theo'conitrary a meagre tal'e is' capable of being turned into's splendid play as accomplished by Shakespeare. Un rotreined by metro and rhyme ~f poetry it is free in detall and capablo of length without sameness, We eon 'toid, therfotor thatii a wotk of art iti.domein is distins and its niohe In the temnple .of fame ad exalted a aniy qhet effort when pl4o94 there by g .S'rohig from crystal o oryet i e Th lpqeteiment.,qbiefly pad Ia the ah Y..o6v6 0 Mbebt Anon. it. Song is w11A and.aa and again it Is the Wall of the bas broken. Love gan centre out int"st and is the jewelled ohalioe" whioh ond tains the draught so refrififni t6 th6 imagination of the iradetb "Love takes up the gliss of time aud (un it in his glowing hand. Every moment, lightly shaken, runs itseltl golden sands. Love took up the harp of Ltf1 and smote on all the chords with mig , , i Smote the chord of Se, that trembling passed in muslo out e*lggt."F' The Greek tragedia .j 'W the power of death in the 4 b ad the "TO ANAOXAloN" 94hoom: i nevitable fato in their songs and,horuse. All artists have use4 death to excite the sublime feelings of. the heart, and the novelist woilds it with po*erful effeot, "The pain is not in parting," but h6w we shall meet again, whether the 4ear faces that is disappearing frqtq our door will return to us again In this. world, or whether we will meet in the' same old way, with hearts unoh'aoiged and tears of love brightening the eye. Death, that certain parting unseen and unexorable, which makes those we love so "qar, so dear, because We feel that all differenoes, all mutual joys, all frivolties, all heart burnings, '6l loving looks, all twinkling humor, all high beating hearts must nsi in ,. "The littlo sprinkling of cold earth -that. falls, E choed from (he cofias lid." Lastly the chief end of the novel seems to us to be delight and the opening of the crystal f6antains of art to the reading world in cottage or mansion. It softens the hard hqart of man as ho travels the stony path. way, and he turns with pleasure . to gazo on this "groen of the soul," after his aching eyes have been data sled by the glare and "wild pulsation'r of the harsh world. It exalts tastei enlarges views and has taught many who live for "tho gloss of satin ani shimmer of pearl," that there are many like the beautiful Bohemian girl in the opera, who dreamt that they "dwelt in marble halls now sunk in black despair." It teaches that there Is such a, thing: as misery, that there Isgh a thing as charity. It is grand in - thq lina ments of the ideal, ,peopling the world with,beaniful ~eteques of Imagination anq the bumatbheart -ith ennobling 'tbodght, Its -'indu oiIs like that of all lib6rl afte't "Adtets is, perfisgium ac solatium prosbe*( ;'d& lectant doni, not. impediuntpfris ; pare nioctnt nobiseumi, peregrinestur, ruele" cantur." They afford a pleasing re fuge and solace from the sterner reall. ties of life ; they delight us ,at out firesides, they do not Impede us to our pubhio bushyess, they dwell with us in our meditations and dreams of beauty by night; they wilk with' ne under the noonday sun,and they touch with a sublimer grandeur or sweeter halo the seenes of the God of nature', "'A thigof beauty is a joy fovev'er. F u e a 4 0 * 4 0s u - . 9 f e g Northern eities are in high glee over the rich and enormous trade a e*hlb they expeot to be the result. of the reviving prosperity of the Suth, the R1adioa[ oioials' of the *overnmen see, in the aU0ceu of ou agri ' irq, but anotLg o n #ative injustice and oppresio. .I"o so tent with the certain prospeot tihe. the internal revenue from the Southfr orn betateo for the present Agoal' year will be about fifty pet'eent/ gvater" than. that of List year, thi., are at' ready7 hatching sollemed to' shift the whole burden of tazatin, from the~ backs of the "loyal's manufactierers to those of the "rellel prddoors.. Among the modifloation& 'f th'd fee. nue law we are assured will undoubi odly be recomnmeiid to .the6 semin Congress a tax of one oent poundt on cotton. This, it is oalocBreph the tempting dhv'raoters of; whiobto. Yankee- Congressmen mag be Ifr'dl fron, the tact that it wft aea 1 tgrtftheir constitneu . an 1i unpopular eotibne of' tihfw~ts law whfch Impose spe'olal taee. - Charteston, News Tarx ~uROPE'A Gvi'iauw MEegU. dwMn'il 8;iatN...The 1A~Wegeh*' itt ornmonte appear 4tohave "diooy*e the valae of takfag'bes tlse is line. under their . cntoff d i7 have learned h6 hatthe publ~o are tale ethe m rulhlaqs Iu and Ini *itserlauddh espeetdfll to moey oethssa 2 Awnitar~~ feeyahaer $en *h *fskaopo