The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-14 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

The Newcontes. I\l7--s--osiihaaclrkaxce.
tr,
earyxian.,dxf. By W. M.
The descriptions oafTc
tNheewmcoosntiebscilliaarnet
thatnif the ha
master-hand of William
pears to have acquired ppsioecsitetaynidn "abouthe
the reach of further
now writes best.
improvement.aTv i
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amy a. n a
Histoe d
u fromr a ustylet theauthor
op l_.
aitel.iis
• raallcilhyisidwiormi—taintga, H e most
anthdeSW.or a
while in
than abounding ease beyond
His new work is, among
confessed, even by th‘
portions of
wrote as he writes now,
o "Vanityf„petl
de
nFni.
it
si r. ; : '
even in the best
orA And
of W. M. Thackeral
the most finished chapterspurely, fluently, and
yet, as a novel,
Bashi-Bazouk and Pe
eTiebnecieNs.ewcomes'' must be
tec moreontri
biuntfoart,utaotebde
irtaadmirersrked
scarcely any. Hardly :notherwise M. A. Titmarsh,
otherwise Flunkey
told in the Anti-Jacob
Knife-
grinder. Interest, strictlyi.b
yellow lush otherwise Punch's
by extraordinary deficiencies.
to say such as is generally ins Story, there is
there is absolutely
porti noon,
yorne
one. The
Twhathe Colonel had to
hasbe
down,
eetwunrn, eads i
tt to
ehri his ,
at by Mr. Canning's Knife-
consequently, tli© luminarynar-
rative,regiment
of the tale having gone
we have
the succeeding
only
whispers hearo
bo::
Hobson,
behind
1: ali
t t 1
eo vr
thewe travel on through
of the serial in a
twilight of disappoineitas
were witnessing the l inent. It is as if we
" Hamlet" being ast
two
Denmark any more inak• or three acts of
performed without the Prince of
his appearance. Colo-
nel Newcome is no loniegrbefore the footlights.
Aarlnf
re
es d, scenes.
Ethel,an d
and then in audible
0 tst.llhiilreeilßdirceerlisaeitinc_/-ce,
to do only with the rest
,colimeense—e'Clive B
t hl3t T areic:.
1,
11 ofl
they the B e a
comeu -
1 i I 1
te and now and then of
oW;a‘fsctetilLady'laregAeNi 1 inef en;
ei—inggsnsua:nfht 1 avl asel xif t-aai tsni on
Tno .3rh
ea 11,
°col the development of
enotylike Dr. Syntax,
tawlimiet hsotsfeterepyl
relhaving returned
to India—Clive, accompanied
J. J., goes on a
bcounttilnikenetayloutonugr
ainrtissetsarcahs
Whole family,
tiful and. the Picturesque.
wunitehxptheceteedxleyeputpioon'a
ofE tßhealrnaensd
it Brian, who
u the young
turn up some time afterwards, after
tfhey have gone
on to Baden and settled down there
there
oen-hearted
ag?..l_caliil4ady Kew is
tahsettetoooLintfihneitaeriesntojoeraymtieentii
,Guards, who
Lady Clara
dlord,
nEn
at hi
re?
and'saffihaanncdesdo,mge
.a gay,
At mnaandlz,
little incident of an episodical
character—..betweenG
honest Jack Belsize, late of the Horse
psuudidieeynnly(nmoewetesnhgiasgoeldd
t`o` yboeumnagrl:ievde)t"
and
se t we
placee n
Jackth that vY afterwards.
graphicelara—
table Mr. Barnes) on the promenad a ahnd by his
abrupt apparition, haggard, and with
euing of the
beard, drives her on the instant intofainting fit.
a uge bushy
Barnes arrives at Baden immediateel
Belsize Lord
Lord
The scene which takes place on the evening
13
theday ofse publicene
which meeting
ttakes
eb
Clive's bedroom in the midst of Cigar smoke,
wranglings, and explanations,
perhas
the very best in the whole book as deem
description. Clive Newcome, Jac
Kew, and M. le Viscomte de Florac the
inimitable and delightful M. de Florae the most
exquisitely choice delineation after that of our
beloved favourite the dear old Colonel, 1)
eYond all
question the best sketch of a Frenchmaneverti dashed
off by the hand of an Euglishuaan—
four
are the interlocutors. With their wrangling le
reconciliation over tobacco, seltzer water, and
yisses," and champagne, the June number " "ri-
closes.
The instalment for July brings us to the departure
of Belsize, Clive, and J. J. from
Baden—
poor Clive being forced to beat a retreatbefore
hEthel's unattainable fascinations. As tl
ero himself grotesquely informs J. J. while they
are packing—a retreat somewhat after th
of that in which, in 1803, the Colonel, thene manner
h.Lieut.
,Newcome,.h
with his horse killed under him and
his nether man clad in a pair of very ti '
considering
t buck-
skins, ran away as well as he could, nsid
the close embraces of (literally) his small
iering
clothes,
fairly ran away from the Mahratta
horsemen at
the
siege of Asseer-Ghur ! The three having
posted away from what was danger to the hearts '
of t Yro arClollg thew—lease 80,4 t I
eIl 0 th• rent of g