The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

Throughout the entire work, we repeat, the same
purifying morality is diffused, the same evidences
of a masculine sensibility, the same. love of good-
, ness, the same child-like reverence for the Divinity.
It is high praise : but it is praise due to the " Diary
of a Late Physician." It is the meed of the au-
thor's labours and the crown of his reputation.
It must be particularly remembered by those
who may perchance perifse these remarkable fic-
tions for the first time, through the medium of the
popular edition of Mr. Warren's collected writings,
now in course of publication, that upwards of 15
years have elapsed since our author adventured
thus brilliantly before the public as a contributor
to our treasures of imaginative literature. It was
within the compass of the first lustrum of his pub-
lic life that he thus successfully secured to himself
his high and deserved reputation among the novel-
ists of Great Britain. Since then his career has been
more drily and severely laborious than might at
the outset have been anticipated by those whom
his lambent fancy, and his tongue of fire and his
tones of pathos originally won into admiration.
During the last decade especially, his energies have
been dedicated almost exclusively to that " jealous
mistress," the Law, whose interests have been ab-
surdly imagined by many to be altogether incompat-
ible with those of literature. Of the fallacy of this
extraordinary hallucination on the part of a consi-
derable section of the multitude, we take Mr.
Warren's twofold title to the notice of the commu-
' nity, as affording conclusive attestation. In thispar-
ticular his reputation as a novelist may be coupled
with the reputation as a dramatist of one of the
most distinguished among both his literary and his
forensic contemporaries. The exquisite poetry of
" lon " and the "Athenian Captive" failed to pre-
clude the ambition of Sir Thomas Talfourd from
winning two very different guerdons of eminence
—the garland of bay and the ermine robe of a
Judge in the Court of Common Pleas. Precisely
after a similar manner has been the course pursued
by our author as at once a man of law and a man

of letters. The composition, in his youth, of those
enthralling " Passages from the Diary of a
Late Physician," and of this masterly nar-
rative of " Ten Thousand a Year," have in no
way debarred him from attaining as a barri-
ster a position commensurate in several respects
with his varied abilities and his inflexible persever-
ance. Insomuch may this duality of reputation be
recognised in his regard, that we may turn, still
roaring with laughter, from his ludicrous account
of the misfortunes and gaucheries of Titmouse to
the singularly :ucid digest, by the same hand, of
the enactments in reference to Electioneering—here
perceiving indications of surprising industry, and
there evidences of the liveliest imagination.
Hence, doubtless, the double success of Mr. War-
ren—his success as a lawyer, and his success as a
novelist. Hence—with an ideality accompanied,
or, as we may even say, corrected by severe applica-
tion—the brilliant magazine writer has, upon the
Opium and other questions, approved himself from
time to time the vigorous pamphleteer. Hence,
the limner of that lovely portrait of Kate Aubrey
has contrived to carry his earlier fictions, by their
intrinsic merit, through edition after edition, while
winning for himself a silk gown and other tokens
of success in a wholly different department of intel-
lectual toil. Wherefore, in fine, it so happens
that those earlier writings are being sown, so to
speak, broadcast over the perceptivity of the
population—good seed promising no ephemeral
fruition—while the author himself, restricted by
his profession to severer studies, and more onerous
occupations, is adjudicating upon questions requir-
ing at once sagacity and forbearance in his respon-
sible position as the Hull Recorder. There is a
peculiar, and, to Mr. Warren, a very honou rable
significance in this twofold consideration. The
remembrance of it must be fraught to him with
really exquisite solace for byegone labours, as to
others it can scarcely but prove replete with a
singularly exhilarating and elevating encourage-
ment.

The Journals and Correspondence of General Sir
Harry Calvert, Bart., G.C.B. and
Edited by his son Sir Harry Verney, Bart.
Hurst and Blackett.

Sir Harry Calvert was Adjutant-General of the
forces under H. R. H. the Duke of York, in the
campaigns in Flanders and Holland in 1793 and
1794. He had previously been engaged in active
service in the American War. To the military
reader, consequent!y, this volume will present
much attraction, and those not especially interested
in the subject will End much valuable information
on the state of affairs at that crisis. In all the
turmoil of the campaign the General still found
time to write his journal, and a chronicle of events
thus kept on the spot is always possessed of double
interest, not only because it is the production of
an eye-witness, but because it records the events
and impressions of the moment, which are seldom
so correctly stated in a subsequent narrative. One
of the most curious portions of the volume is the
Appendix, which contains Sir Harry Calvert's plan
for the defence of the country in case of invasion.
It is, indeed, to be trusted they may never be re-
quired, but preparation for war is the best security
for peace. Two maps are given of the seat of war
in Flanders and in Holland during the campaign.

Fern, Leaves from Fanny's .Portfolio. By Fanny

Fern.

Works. ----
Dsooulltahresvasnd Cents. By Amy Lothrop.
The Wide, Wide World.
Nan Darrell.
Christmas Legends.
Clarke, Beeton, and Co., Fleet-street.
" Fern Leaves" is the work of an American
authoress. It is a little volume of domestic tales
and sketches full of every-day
pictures and unpre-
tending romance, suggesting thought to the
thoughtless, and disguising the lessons it teaches
with flowers. We may expect pleasure and profit
from the works of this writer.
" Dollars and Cents," a companion to " The
Wide, Wide World," is far superior to it in inte-
rest and attraction. It describes the struggles of
a family reduced to poverty by the unsuccessful
speculation of taking a country estate without capi-
tal or experience. The most difficult task was
theirs, the " keeping up appearances" with eco-
nomy while tried by the desertion of their friends
and their daily decreasing resources. The interest
of the tale, as a chronicle of family joys and sor-
rows, is sustained ; and we sympathise heartily in
the undeserved misfortunes of the family of Glen
Luna.

" The Wide, Wide World" has been much
praised, and widely circulated ; but it appears to
have been placed in too elevated a position, being
chiefly attractive as a very moral child's book, as
the sayings and doings of a girl of eleven can
scarcely be very entertaining to the generality of
readers.

Messrs. Clarke and Beeton have also repub-
lished Miss Pickering's novel of " Nan Darrell, or
the Gipsy Mother," and two works by Mrs. South-
worth. " The Curse of Clifton," and a very pleas-
ing volume of scientific stories, entitled " Christ-
mas Evening Legends." The same enterprising pub-
lishers have also issued Southey's works in shilling
volumes. " Thalaba", " Madoc," " The Curse of
Kehama," and " Nelson" are now ready. The
circulation of cheap standard literature must have
a beneficial effect on the lower classes of readers,
and though many, we trust, for the remuneration
of authors, will be always willing to purchase ex-
pensive and valuable books, Messrs. Clarke and
Beeton merit the encouragement of the public, in
the diffusion of interesting and moral works at a
low price.

The Napoleon Dynasty. Clarke, Beeton and Co.
This volume is one of the most complete chroni-
cles that have yet appeared of the Bonaparte family,
commencing with Charles and Letitia Bonaparte,
it concludes with Napoleon 111. and the Empress
Eugenie. A sketch of the history of all the mem-
bers of the family, and all those connected with
them are given, and the volume presents the addi-
tional attraction of twenty-two portraits. The
collection of anecdotes is very interesting, and the
historical information valuable and compendious.