The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-15 00:00:00

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seems to do, that the lamp of the-good man's life is
burning out only too rapidly under the influence of
his exalted and exalting enthusiasm. We are fain
to regard the picture as somewhat over-coloured..
There are several subjects, by the way, upon
which our traveller discourses so very ingeniously,
and with such novelty of argument and freshness 9'•
of illustration, that we regret exceedingly the
limits of our space preclude us from submitting St.
his ideas upon these matters to the scrutiny of our 123
readers through the medium of adequately ex- to
tended, quotations. Debarred by the above-men- 13t
tioned reason from transcribing the views enun-
ciated in these instances by Mr. Beste, we must 31
content ourselves with referring to the opinions
expressed by him at pp. 238-239, Vol. I. on the
subject of " Slavery," at pp. 163-164, Vol. 11., e 2
on that of the " Ballot," immediately afterwards 25
at pp. 165-166, do., on that of " Universal Suf-
frage," again on the latter subjects at pp. 173-175
of the same volume, later on, at pp. 305-307 upon. 10.
the matter of " Religious Equality," and, finally,
in the second volume, at pp. 330-331, upon the 50
vexed question of a " Decimal Currency.' Hap- 50
pily, more suited to our purpose by its brevity, is the 20
jocular explanation given by our author of that 20
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noteworthy Americanism— I 50

A GONE 'COON !
" It seems that some celebrated sportsman, some Ame-
rican Colonel Hawker, being out with his gun that was
never known to miss its aim, espied a racoon in a tree and
levelled his piece.
" 'Don't give yourself the trouble, Colonel Hawker ;'
said the poor animal. ' I know my fate. You never
miss. Don't trouble yourself to fire. I conclude to come
down to you. lam a gone 'coon.'"

As a characteristic accompaniment to the fore-
going, let us present to our readers the subjoined
sketch to the very life of

" A GENII-INE 11-NITED STATES CITIZEN. 10
" A middle-sized, light-haired man of about forty years 50
of age ; with hollow cheeks and high American cheek 20
bones ; with long, lanky, brown hair that nearly hid his St.
baldness ; with a round, bright blue eye, which he opened St.
very wide and rolled about incessantly ; with an inquisi- St•
tivo, intelligent, good-humoured and very animated look, St.
Dr. Read thus stood by my bedside. With his two St.
hands in his breeches pockets, his shocking bad hat St.
upon his head, and a quid of tobacco in his mouth, St•
which he twisted incessantly from side to side, while he
occasionally squirted the juice to the floor on the other 12
side of the room, Dr. Read thus stood by my bedside and SO
examined me ; and a bright, good-humoured smile played 15-1
over his plain but wide-awake features. My poor wife 165
was horror-stricken. She thought we had got a wild man St-
of the woods for a physician."
No wild man of the woods, however, but a gentle- It
hearted physician, Dr. Read proves to be—one who, Be
standing by the bedside of the little patient Isabel, St.
is more than once observed to turn away and brush 20
the tears from his eyes as he watches the uncom- 10
plaining sufferer. It must be admitted by the IV
Americans themselves—most touchy and sensitive 50
of all known races of civilised humanity—that Mr. .10
Beste gives of them as a community a most amiable, 25
if a wholly unflattering, description. The entire nar- 25
rative, indeed, is wonderfully candid in every parti- 25.
cular, even when explicit truthfulness would seem to ,12s
be less practicable out of consideration for what St.
the vulgar might be disposed to regard as simple St.
conventional decency. Mr. Beste, being a pure- 50
minded and out-spoken man ,and entertaining strong Nla
opinions, and burning to express those opinions, and
to do so plainly and honestly to the very letter, upon go
all possible occasions, tells "the truth, the whole 20
truth, and nothing but the truth," be the theme of
his observations a "cabinet d'aissance" or a political
institution. The result is at times sufficiently
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amusing—calculated probably to shock the deli- 16
cacy of Citizen Jonathan, but dear to the 16
honest, homely heart of bluff old Farmer 8
Bull. Altogether, we must reiterate our E,.;
panegyric on "The Habash"-the book is from 25'
first to last thoroughly delightful : a work hence- 25
forth to be stored up after perusal in a favourite 50
corner of our bookshelves—thrust between the St.
humorous Notes of our own inimitable Boz, and 12
the historical memorabilia of queer, old, incom- 10
parable Diedrich Nickerbocker.