The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-02 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1857.

LITERATUBB.

A liles Lwow. By Mr.. Gott. Hunt and
Blackett.
We are always delighted to see a new novel by
Mrs. Gore. We tremble lest each one that we re-
ceive may be the last. We have been too long
accustomed to these delightfully brilliant literary
Jess dart juts to contemplate seriously the passi-
bility of being obliged to do without them. Not
that these novels are in the very highest style of art.
They stead in the same relation to nature as an illumi-
nated fountain to a downright waterikll. But who
denies the beauty and splendour of an illuminated
fountain ? Perhaps, to one unacquainted with than, '
the meet intelligible description of the kind efaledill
life rananees which Mrs. Gore delights to aonpaN
wadi be that they are nineteenth-century
of such bky_tales as the Counties d'Anlnhy might
write, and Wattesamitt illustrate. There weal&
be • rural living in the mast
of oottagasSith a uproar paternal
Theninerplt be dressed in dr nest
of tine her toe in way
to wake 4•A=sari= ort, and great countesses
aloha with wrath& Look at hie in Watteau's ,
=is iersitair dr aneention that bat as. is if
Plir shoe et the Mar kaiser
instead of satin, list of raw Instead of beaver;
there is nothing to distingvirk barber the tartars.
Nothing P We forgot i the is her 11118111111/14 which
she has gained by staying attitudes in the running
stream ; there is bar beseent leek, whisk she kaa
picked up hen gaming upon the eeentinanees of
those sweet impassible sheep. with red and blue
Mande round titer seeks s and there is her
incomparable wit, which she has gained, we
in , by talking to herself. And so,
w Prince Fiorbello, tired of dancing the meet
Fustica.
of minuets with tho counteares, sees
, he is prepared to fall into the moat out-
rageous transports of love, which he interprets by
curious attituda, in which the toe is always pointed
outwards. Poor Fiorbello is, however, refused, and
he rushes back to court. There the conversations he

carries an with the fluttered lords and the enraged
countesses are so painfully brilliant that no mortal
being born oat of the atmosphere of a court could
comprehend it. One person alone is to be excepted.
Rustics cameo to court. Her dress is more superb,
her minuets mare graceful, her wit more cutting,
her replies more faudroyants than those of the
whole court. Who is to prevail over the obdurate
heart of this haughtybeauty ? Her cocain Rustic°.
He was left behind in despair, with the flowers
fading on his crook, the bows of his sad-coloured
silk inexpressibles untied, and the tie of hie
me loose when Rustics came to court. In
i, he rushee to mart too. The blade of his
rapier is more brilliant, the point of his repartee
more acute, the taste of his costume more refined
than those of princes, counts, and cavaliers, Hs
patronises the countemes with the most beaming
condescension. He walks through minuets with the
most perfect grace, astounds everyone with the'
magnitude of his acquirements, enters into en-
counters of wit with the most perfect sang /raid,
silences his antagonists with the most consummate
skill, and finally leaps with the air of a Vestria
into the heart of little Rustics, who he
been dazzled with those multitudinous ahem
which have aimed the misery of p=
eountesses, and ladies. A cottage
like a palace, prams with flowers that surer
fade, lambs that mew pow adore the temptations
which draw Reese mei Illedies away free court,
white goes sate ammeilig at *sir deportee. . . .

MAL, allowease de asap of teleetsois, this is
mil the eshotease of ow stew best of Mrs. Core's
Her delight in to show yea not exactly that
good misty is not a very
pleameat42, but that a
may beams thoroughly to it. lihe vgallest *my kor parsons parvenus, hot
may bosom the psmi specimens Else adopts ase
Itted to take the shim oat ot the stars of the
=of society. Ohs talks kite a wicked re-
of the hollowness of rank and &shiny but
she cores sot a buttes for a hero sr heroine
who is set quad to create a serudisa la the*
weld emir whisk wok and bites MN despotic
• B. she drum op this world in the Meg sap
tivating of colours, and am shows you that hie* awl
heroine are just fitted for it, in spits of low birth or
word of he As maws the denims. of this
world dew politieirey leW t wittiperwassi of
Sub. 111 Ist (unbinds= a strewth,
wissity iretellest, sad rednessat ter above the run
et cedlairy aartels, bat is shows you that kw par-
venus are above the rem alma Her grades& degree
at abashes for the Emmet is to mob him a eon-
pain ot eristosrate.
"A Life's Lamm' has many of themes' thane-
teristice of ids yredessosess. Thom is a Bennie
Balfour, dee doeghter of a mall tomer, sad Elisha
Hildyard, issr sods, the on eta 111sasheeter trades-
man. In spite ef their law WA therybeth arrive at tho
summit of misty. The anthems b set content until
Mamie essithi high bra ladies with the extent
other esseasplishmais, sad drives rejected noble-
men to despeir by her refesals. Then she is al-
lowed to be married to her wads Elisha, who, on
his part, seems just nseMst IMMIgh not to think
himself much better than the world of aristocrats by
whom he is surrounded. Let MI sal. injustice, that
all this is told in Mrs. Gore's best style s that she
showers; wit, grace, and even learning, dauso the
pages, with her usual felicity, and that her amirers
cannot afford to deprive themselves of the pleasure
of reading " A Life's Lessons."

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