The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-19 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Chursioda : a Tisk of Faith mid Chivalry, ami other
l'oesos. Dv Fianna loser. Mont
The title, " arti;it in words," may be fairly °on-
side Ito sir Edward Bulwer Lytton as his very pecu-
liar propeet), insiduuch .i he made it himself, fur
hire if. At the beginning ..f a second edition of
ens .4 hie later novels, the literary baronet wrote
Ufa. to the Ahlptid in
wort, d„i„ aw u, you, artist in marble, this
welldoroi e”rk .4 my mature manhood ."
respeeto.4 wh.ch oppressive compliment, and
it. v..rollary invective levelled at adverse critics,
4.8 se believe, indulged in a few es-
traooliovoli, cati.te; rvivarks one of them being to
the r 116:: flat there dwelt thou in Regent-street an
ingeurnk- parson calling lunwU " artist in hair,"
to who. the work of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
ebool.l I. ive bar more properly inscribed. We
eatop.t -.4giret any azootolubetit of this kind in
rehot-ne, t.. Mr. Ernest Johes's volume of poems,
which lw has dedicated to Sir Edward Bulwer
nwnt, rhetorical, dexterous is imagery, arid
isapiiwiid.ed in putt'. of kyle, Mr. &lust Jones
would seem to have aheye.l au unexceptionably
writ. t r •pohie in his Choice 44 a peg fur those
artittie rlireeriese of ednuring sympathy which
'sake ,q. his 4iodioutiiro whims to the author of
" Zanorii." The mare we revel " Corey& " the
MOM 'Villa M. us be•CilMis the feet of M. Ernst
Jame be. out paralleled tuttorally to Sir Edward
Mid wer Lytton.

Let as a. 4 be understood as imputing • charac-
teristic hi... Merrily to Mr. tallest junta, though it is
litienit to interpret the won,* .4 this same
eLdiention in • way to avoid the plain Con.
Amnion .4 *a avowal that lie has iu his time
talked a ee.y great deal more than be has meant.
Nir E .wand &Lem Lytton, as a consuom
Si veneer of the argument "teat the
/1110111,11 c ..f ,ettere is he,..tul and shore the political
Lamers- •.1 the laming .I.ry," Mr. JOl,Oll 011entou-
'irate, Li- belief that "the politic% of • Milton
and a Dri lon, .livene though they be, perish like
their live.," while "their poems are immortal as
their souk " Now, ibises& Le true only in a *caw too
little for 1L high-sounding terms of the prop, eition.
Milton's hdetical "pinion,. and ideas
are lost ii. Ike splendour .4 his poetical genies.
Nut is this all that Mr. Jones intends us to under-
stand whe: he alkak.4 of the politics of Milton 1 Are
we to take no thought of principles which guided
and g"verio,l Milton, moulded his thoughts, nay,
inspired graudt-st poetry lls there really no
hoc " the field ..f party and of passion"—
we are quosing Mr. Ernest Jones—into that com-
mon grow, of "the higLer attributes of huma-
nity," th.r Republic of Letters to wit, except by the
utter sacrihce of politics 1 An orator who has
identified Ids oratory with the extreruest and the
'met deci•led political views will surely not be
Let to an-s er us, "None—positively, hopelessly,
none."

" Cora”,) t" is a tale told in a erica of detached
porno, cal ing in farm and metre. Thu youthful
has, leave, his home to march in the ranks of life,
and to tlg'.t by the "gods of his creed—Eno-Kr,
laith, and Time." Nor is the soldier-metaphor a
metaphor Corayda wins great distinction on
the actual bell of battle, and, being severely
wouniled, is borne to the royal tent, where he
in first In "h• a hole awl then mimed to the
household train "f the sovereign. This po-
*taste is a stroukwilled, Gun-mottled, eagle-
eye•l uuroa:rh, of the Marcum Alraachid caste. He
has a ilamtliter, between whom and the page
Corayila au attar 1 lllll••nt quickly springs up, and the
count. of their love is as rough as the most in-
satiably ronuautic reader would have the heart to
wish. About the middle of the volume " truest
timid sail Pohlad knight" are made happy, and the
curtain fah, ou " l'orayda." Of the afte•rpieces
ar " other poems" we may my, as of the opening
and princi;•al perfonuance, that an adroitness of
etpreetioe is noticeable throughout; epigram is
distribute.; at intervals af almost mathematical
equality; and as nearly as the most artistically
ad. rued el.spieuce can resemble poetry, these verses
of Mr. Eri.,-4 Junes resemble it.