The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-05 00:00:00

nevolent 1 e.td, acknowledged this clescrvea vrelc• me.
orchestra played alternately Scotch and Ir:sn Inelud:ei."
Among the eh ticest of my recollections of that "*0
to Edinburgh, ar the I:.‘v days I passed with Lord Jeffrq
his agreeallt, retreat, Craig Crook. I Lad *:en retcrkt
written the words and mu,ic of a glee contained
lume, " Ship a boy which there won its fit st Lorours• d
often, indeed, was I cllled upon to tepcat it, that the uPin
echoes of Craig Crook ought long to have had its buru""„
by heart. in this 11c):0

CECIL. 3 Vols. •
Bentley, London, 1841.
Cecil is a novel of the Vivian Grey school,
possessing all its assumption, but combined with
more point and vigour of style than any of the
novelists of that school have yet exhibited. The
hero, who is his own biographer, pourtrays
him-
self as a fashionable coxcomb of the first water--
a character of no great interest, but who, never-
theless, is here rendered interesting by the re-
deeming touches of quick and kindly feeling' in
which it abounds. The Hon. Cecil Moll
is indeed, by no Means so • much of a eox;
comb as he represents himself to be, ail°
so far, therefore, his idiosyncrasy is not con-
sistently maintained. Flippant he certainly
is, addicted to the frivolous dissipations of bir°
life, ready at the small talk of the boudoir
and the club, and vain of his personal
• accom-
plishments ; but these are the mere supertiela
points of his character, shuffled aside and re-
sumed at will; his better and more enduring
qualities—and which are evidently the most na-
tural to him—are, his strong common sense, or
larged by habits of thought and observation, him •
ready sympathy with genius, his unaffected
moral courage, and, above all, his scut
sensibility. The story of big life, which
is told throughout with -.unflagging ~
wears an aspect of reality which we do ,nut
often meet. with is fictions of this class, beil
just sufficiently spiced with romance to intereofrf
the reader, wallou .. startling his credulity.
course, as may be inferred from its title, the taw.,
abounds in sketches of fashionable
.life,
reminiscences of the Carlton House coterie, •
when the Prince was in the flower of his III"'
hood; but these are far from being its chief ex; '
cellences, for, notwithstanding their occasional',
sprightliness 'and, caustic humour, there is 1; •
aristocratic arrogance about them that repel"
rather than conciliates the reader; the best ~port-
ions of the story are those wherein the alitili
essays the earnest and the•pathetic, as in his er,
codes of Emily Barnet and her distracted fatber+
the death of Cecil's nephew; and the entire nar-
rative of Franszetta, the Bohemian dancing-g!„r
in which last episode there is as much g'en°le
10
' tenderness and manly vigour of description, e-5
to be found in Hope's account of EuphrosYne;
and the last moments of Anstasius. We bavn
spoken of our author's flippancy. There is ar
instance in point. Alluding incidentally t°
greatest livino• poet, he speaks of him as :dr
fellow called e'Wordsworth,'' and' yet, notiv",..t
standing this affected contempt, he does net
hesitate to. borrow from him the
~,111,°,sit
striking thought in his novel.
,_•`::;-0.
our readers may not imagine we are speak''
without warrant, we quote first our author.
tame, flat, prosaic imitation and next the. 011
ginal passage from which it is taken with°,ll.s
acknowledgments. "We bring with us," 6145
Cecil, in one of his moralizing moods, "int° this
shabby little planet, a reflection of the heavenly
light from which our souls are emitted ; but 04
longer we live, the more: the earthly partieled
obtain the ascendancy over its brightness, se,
blot out the spark divine." Precisely the saA,lll-
idea is thus exquisitely developed by W°l*
worth

" Heaven lies about us in our infancy ;
Shades of the IT:san-house begin to close
Around the gr:iwing boy;—
The youth who da ly lurther from the last
Must travel, still is nature's priest,'
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended,
At length the man r.erceives it die away,
And fade int) the light of common day.
1.,
We would recommend the author of Ceel
should he again try his hand at fiction—to ecil
deavour to think for himself, and not deg
and disfigure the noble thoughts of others•
we have already hinted, he has considerable, irri
ta-
lent, but certainly not so much as to justify
ds °lto
in affecting a tone of superciliousness towards,
author so immeasurably his superior as lir°l.
worth.

LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE. the
A well-engraved half-length portrait 0-
f
late Lady John Russell, forms the frontispiee,
to this Number, and if the portrait bear ant'ro
semblance to the original, she must have ueoe
an exceedingly beautiful woman, pocsessiog2of
Of those lively, intellectual countenances w;ic.
paintcrs love to draw from. In the literary
partment of the Magazine' there are some eni-of
tabling tales in prose, and divers small pocfo"/
which the less Jaid the better.

METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE-
Mr TroHope, we perceive, figures PrAW,
nently among the contributors to this eriou,'loo
and leads off with a tale entitled the "Blue
Belles of England," which Las already reao.'in
its seventh chapter. There is some sarctesrni..ch
this tale, but it wants grace and elegance, w 111,109
are qualifications in which this clever writer tit.
alwriys shown herself remarkably defieaentr
" Address to the Twenty-second Bay of Jaffe
ary," is a poem from the pen of kr. ye-15e
Raymond. The stanzas possess considero,o
melody of versification, arid- a vein of gelll-1,1;ot
•snsibility runs through them, satisfying 115;ory
the poet's heart was in his subject. "11's`/:01
of the Jews" is a theme not to be hastily tn-01,
up after Millman, who has already FaldT,totz
said well, too—all that is necessary to be 51,';.00
the subject. It is here treated in a manner Lull-
means calculated to recommerd
likeily" is much improved this month, e.sPecigo4.
as regards its dialogues, which are spirited Iv
pointed. Of the few remaining articles,
best is the " Memoirs of en Italian Exile."

EN. GL ISH JOURNAL. iSt‘
A cheap, amusing weekly miscellauv, 011;01
ing partly of compilations, and partly of orig7,o
contributions. Mrs. Hull and Douglas Jerjuing
are among the contributors; the latter fur
a clever sketch of character, drawn manliest
from the life, entitled the "Toll-bar KeePY.,
There is also a spirited poem, by Cyrus Re"'
the subject of which is the " Fate of Saul."

MONTHLY LAW MAGAZINE. cre
There are here some sensilL observationg
the. subject of the Earl of Cardigan's trial,"bed to
in., after stating that his Lordship was entitl,
the writer proceeds to reinari‘.s
Tor Our own part, we regard the acquittBl:he
matter of slight importance; the fact that
has been tried is all-important • that fact rite
serve. as an admonition. and a precedent the
magistracy; that fact will lead to inquiry' 1134
all duels, no matter how they terminate;
that fact is the first huge stride towards 01'10
pression of a barbarous and frantic custom.
„,,oir •
the " Spirit of the French Bar" occurs a Inel—reri
of the celebrated Royalist advocate, 31. 13e1.1100
who, the biographer assures us, is just nnwn
most eloquent, as he is the most popular, 1:111!- ItO
!
France. "NO other man," we are told, gap
feted, so cried up, so flattered, so 1 ,ved, ssr)l,l3
ized. , The Radicals like him2on account e'rtero
occasional democratic outbreaks ; the sIIPP°A" io[r
of the July dynasty like him by turns, accord
to the part he takes in their quarrels aulbini
themselves : thus the niers' section admire the
for his attacks on the Mole section ; and 0°,:°664.,
Mole party are in raptures with him for Wpro
slaught he has made on the followers of 1111,. to
a tirade against the Doctrinaires is everytll7, 0
Dupin; an apostrophe to the left centre gal"
laugh from M. Guizot."

•
THE SPORTING MAGAZINE 44'
The first embellishment is a beautiful engl„- ,01"
from a painting by Turner, the compositi°;l4
which is correct and. spirited. " T"chiot
Take" is a good "second." The literarYTheto
led by " Whalebone," who chronicles the 1"; i
and the takes of " the Queen's Hounds." hy`ei
Curling Match between the Perth and getoftie
Clubs"- follows. Passing some others we :-dia
to a veterinary paper, in which the writer, sl
ended
with Dr. Elliotson, who first reconnileillife
kreosote for glanders, states that his soil:: 0-
was saved by its use. The young man, 3. re-
pears, while examining a glandered horse'tter.
ceived on his face a portion of th e poisonous 11180rof
The disease manifested itself in a day or out
and assumed a most fearful character. 01„.
aftcr the kreosote. was applied a nge aoli cha
most magical took place. There are 1 rch
other interesting short notices in the Naek.
number, and our ancient friend, therefore, 011
hig
amination will be found fully maintaining
place amongst his three younger rivals.

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