The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-02 00:00:00

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

"Fathers and Sons," though not one of Theo.
dore Hook's best stories, is still a very entertain.
ing one, so much so, as to make us regret that
we have now come to the end of it. It is brought
to a close in the present Number, and the denoue-
ment is such as might have been anticipated. The
roue father, after all his plans are defeated, be-
comes a melancholy hypochondriac—in plain
English, a desperate bore and croaker; and his
roue son gets shot through the thorax at Bou-
logne, for being detected in the act of taking
certain liberties with honesty at cards. As for
the young heroines, they are happily disposed
ofin marriage to the lovers of their own choice ;
and the intriguing housekeeper, Mrs. Sinylar,
is left to chew the cud of disappointment at the
frustration of all her worldly schemes of self-
aggrandisement. "A Sea-Totaller" is a smart
hit at Temperance Societies, and has much more
naturalness than is usual in Mr. T. Hood's prose
sketches. " Recreations in Natural History" are
descriptive of the peculiarities of the owl—a grave,
formal bird, who has often reminded us of a Master
in Chancery. The portrait of this winged symbol
of wisdom—who, by the bye, is a far better sym-
bol of solemn, dull common-place—is by Mr.
Hood, and is equal in drollery to anything we
have lately met with in the Comic Annual.
" Graduates and Under-Graduates" displays a
familiar acquaintance with the habits of Univer-
sity life, and gives a diverting sketch of an im-
posing Oxford Don, by name Pomponius Atti-
cus Potts. " Bully Bottom's Babes" is by Dou-
glas Jerrold. It is a satirical portrait of a certain
class of thick-skulled Do-Nothings, who—as the
old adage says—are born with a silver spoon in
their mouths. How just is the following :
" Nor are Bottom's Babes less like their sire, if
they have suffered no transformation. There
are those who came into the world with the ass's
head, and live and die, wound in the arms of
doting wealth. The hard task-masters of life aro
often of these. The foolish, arrogant censors of
the faults and back-slippings of penury are to
be found among them; the full-fleshed moral-
ists who shake their
ha
small delinquencies
Shakspeare's Bottom, thsewggeaYveer,ar
i In
sweat
have
of strug g len g men,
the true lineaments of a vulgar nature embla-
zoned by luck. 'lt is here we recognise the self.

MORNING' SIN

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ig as
sufficient creature of worldly success—the
rant Bashaw of life, wearing his bravery him
ordained and necessary part of himself. To
there is no such power as Providence. it ispart
~.
of the world's destiny that he should be Pr;
cisely what he is. He is the begotten of fL-I.';'
and owns no obligation to vulgar fortune."
Poole's " Phineas Quiddy" does not din
in
interest as the tale proceeds, and abounds the
shrewd, worldly reflections, that show thatat to
author is a close and caustic observer of l;
day life. The " Manager in Search of a 'taof
is exceedingly laughable, but the
ch datals oer.
the hero, Mr. Bajazet Gag, and the
his adventures, are a little too much exaglo.
rated. By way of extract, we quote the
mencement of Mr. Hood's sketch of the
ter ,

Totaller :"
so‘c‘ila'lllGteilaslysiotues7ahtatthiet
sameis," de
bier of grog—rather stiffer than the last—fur the --„,1 be
of Temperance and Tea-totalism had turned up,
could not discuss it with dry lips. " I'll telly in
Temperance is all very well, provided it's inclulgeo or
with moderation ; and without injury to your hen r•
tinhiexiPngressideft.nretsinfitltmerbe;
business ; but when it sets a man spouting, and swsKg
ing, and flag-carrying, and tea•gardening, and druebbsluve
himself up like a play-actor, why he might as we
his mind unsobered with anything else. tie'
" That's very true," said the Vice President—a gentle,
man with a remarkably red nose. ~
continued
11
" I have seen many T Procons,
the President, " and I don'teatotal hesitate essito say that ~
man and woman amongst them, was more or lessl
toxica what
h, I is
" Eh, ?" asked a member, hastily replevin,
cigar. whet
" Yes, intoxicated, I say, with pride and vanitYlkp rib'
with the bands of music, and the banners, and t.-white
bons, and maybe one of their topsawyers, with his,, quite
wand, swaggering along at their head, and lonkinp' biar
convinced that because he hasn't made a Beast c 6
t 0 tei
self he must be a Beauty. Instead of which, ,yresg
mind, there can't be a more pitiful sight than boo
hulking fellow, all covered with medals and 01136,5;01s
a Lord Nelson, for only taking care of ifrk"o"ll_,, Lrtien'
health, and trying to live long in the land; a""vvrby the
larly if he's got a short neck and a full habit. "
Royal Humane Society might just as well make It'xcess,
cession of all the people who don't drink water to
11 e's an
a
instead of those objects that do, and with ribisw.l life 'pre'
medals round their necks, for being their own
servers !" 14115'
" That's very true," said the Vice. " seen 11 cute
°
ter Grand of a Teatotaller with as many or
about him as a foreign Prince !" the I'rr
" Why I once stopped my own grog," continued ac'
sident, " for twelve months together, of my °stuck esefle
because I was a little wheezy; and yet never atociel
a snip of ribbon at my button-hole. But tba woel7
merit,—whereas a regular Temperance fellr;nioll!();
have put on a broad blue sash, as if he was t' Thuienn°
the Bath, and had drunk it all up instead of 5"
in it."
" That's very true," repeated the Vice. d e Fr'of
" Temperance is, no doubt, a virtue," said
dent, " but it is not the only one; though, te„ld s"„'"iL
some of their Tracts and Speeches, you o'0" ;As isal;
that because a Totaller drinks Adam's ale, he:l47
cent as our first Parents in Paradise, whit panei
their pardons, is altogether an error, and the r
Sin and strong drink are not born relations; ;:tke r
often come together. The first murderer 000 r
was a water-drinker, and when he killed Vice'
cL
ther, was as sober as a judge." ;e
" If that arn't true," exclaimed the red-n
" I'll be pounded !"
rresi
"It was intemperance, however," said the „oionsioo,
" because why ?it was indulging ardent P,"l,- °pi°, 0
fermented feelings, agin which, in my how's' ratio vg
we ought to take Long and Short Pledges, the .011)0
agin spiritous liquors. Not to mention O,
things that come out of people's mouths, and ample,
deleterious as any that go into them—for egrhaPPii;
fane swearing, and lying, and slandering, arl"guitlt
guage, and which, not to name names, are --kipeor`
parties who would not even look at Fine Old
re
Rum, or Cream of the Vall9r."
and he
" That's correct, anyhow, ' said the Vice
• 0 Ire:
plenished his tumbler. ders
"To be sure, Temperance has done NW mind,f
land," continued the President, " and to mY
short of a miracle—namely, repealing the Old e eer
Whisky-and-Water,—and which would have sr ePti3
much tougher job than O'Connell's. llowevear'poleepr
Mathey has accomplished it, and instead of a r 0,0066
in College Green, we are likely to see a ,far „s 1/°‘
sight, and that's a whole County of Cork villa- 01
to it." jibe
" Humph !" ejaculated the Vice, and took
draught of his mixture. " But they'll take ore
spirit in loo."
" Like enough," said the President : ftcrilitehPlittt':
we get accustomed to strong stimuluses, we (hose Jo
go without 'em, and they do say, that many °`;',ol, j,4
ties who have left off liquors, have taken to °P.:ielyo
the greatest danger with new converts and pr°'
of their rushing into another extreme."

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Almost all the prose papers in this "tsiow
Si
l
are of an anecdotical character and will ctel,.'",,
not be the popular on that' acc 02' lev'
dotes and personal reminiscences of°eumin' es:;:ssc'
howeverl indifferently related, possess all'ist
opt:rfraaLerLestitoe,fisert:
dmet°
continue
unrivalled
sat:- ntueedeodaerunrr success
Scott,
sochei
asocvent
Lend: ;est
seao:ei
l'el:;:veit
iej 4:111;i:ffooy:i
:eertil:
ee,el;
may be overdone,, and we think Ll'et.tirtielmei.
insitl e
for
r" a
somewhat too much of it. The Plea- san,t,ll,tiCet,
AlitSeruamrymleorunHgoeiri.dtahyo/u7 oo"' "i
otiecieitve,
dispensed with some of the perS°ll,ll au i,llO for
Shenstone, who was at best lit," Arlalbl',.4oos
rent poet, and, as a man, re dew Pee.„-qte§
his touchy, restless vanity. the 0;01
can be curious to know ahelD„ cbr
and habits of such an author, ich°'',,fe for'aute
Ballads"—despite Johnson's praiser; 10 5,(300o.
far advanced on their road to obliv.l°A-e. oingl,"( -of
incidental allusions to landscape elr,-h-e
gestcd by his " Summer Holiday, ;fl-rcl.
this agreeable melange talkS of porstiiite
broke's " temporary passion" for ftlYiroogl. t $
but adds, that he " had not passed Thint
_,l°one
trials of life in a temper that ntte"'
garden." This is justly said. Bolingbr° feet
of those feverish, aspiring spirits t 0.3 a ref eif
comparative solitude of the country I ill ilitite
hell, and who are never comPletelYart io ,re,
element but when tak an active P
great business of life. fn his rehlette f00c0,93
ment among the Pyrenean mountains
himself a resigned philosopher, -where'olitic,i,Pe
nothing more than a disappotnted Pa poll'o
He wrote some' elegant " Reflections_,orid iota
in order to convince himself and the 101,. si
he was perfectly contented with hl'ioo foto)
would not exchange his tranquil seelus rAibli/ver
that ambition had to offer ; but he vi,a's, nebtol
in his estimate of his own feelings, I°'et
ceased to sigh after the political 111.jity t"pot
lost, and to speculate on the possoll-030,
restoration. Bolingbroke was a gre31,,,e50. of
his was not the highest order of greaicrolt,„ail
wanted soundness and elevation an "priria
thought and sentiment. Despite its , rte,
enchaining eloquence, his philosoll'lJ,. or
shallow, and conduces to no ennohlitv P' ip
factory results. It contains no nutriti°3. t"trof
ciple to feed and strengthen the liligneati°dti,iol
Bolingbroke of his sounding amPlij:uperP:fla
style, and you shall see at once how 'ajetitiO
was the matter which he palmed 11131 sser"
for philosophy. The " Greater and -1-'e wade
*of Old Pall Mall" is another artlee 4tiote43
almost exclusively of anecdote. N,teele,
brief personal sketch of Sir Richard most e
of the last days of Purcell, one of the weer
nent musical composers this country iup
duced mer's 54203
Sir Richard Steele, who lodged at ape va-it as Jete
mall, kept by a Frenchwoman, sometimes, illan ob,
by Prior, perambulated Sr. James's Park, . 3 h,ceo
toothpick in his mouth, and hands now ['chinVie.
now in his breeches' pockets, when tinny
toerote
provokingly forbade him the indulgence of !
ner even for one, and that one his nuserablries, '."O-05;
are many pithy stories recorded of these solits
riv/att, 0,
their gaiety and witty soliloquies under such; 000.00 J
but as James Quin sensibly observed, theYnioyeci 11,14
Ling to relate after a man of the town has chrr, to:
dinner, and is seated with his friends in %Do, '4o'
presence of a magnum bonum of generous whi
turn to poor Purcell, whose lamented death in ott 're
premature. He had been long engaged tt,°;'b° `vet tl'`''.'
versary meeting in Covent-garden, at W.O and; ';
sent the managers of old Drury-lane thaatreliansfs,Tr
of Lincoln's Inn-fields; the celebrated come 4,00 1) id
and many of the elite of those joyous times. ipiingrif
fey took the chair; and there was much ..fi%7ll3lt;so
hilarity, so that Purcell did not leave the col,,ita to A
until an hour after midnight, and then he .ter, 01'00
to his residence in Tufton-street, Wrestniiriscards:ol
Purcell, being
dbeaicncgompanied him to within 5 fewd:elarevlie
home. This friend was Dr. TudwaY, whoa. Ord
stormy, and a sharp wind blew in from th I,Y
wine, and returannedinlvioamlide apterthfeecttli7 seo'bheaid.. te-ir4„",eehinioigcll,l:°:l
ed
drove the rain in his face. He had his Pr.' .aslo° for
hat it
the street-door in his pocket, but found t 1,00,
by his shrew of a wife, who suffered him wue co o$
vmi
oolreentthlya;n
bhuatl f-sanc-h hour,wa sd uthrien
gtevmhpicel; toir,c.thtu."; tioplieloeir%
virago, she would not permit the servanire hio,_olll
door, observing, "I am determined to en at lc_ 50
tavern-going habits!"
subsided, the door was opened, and he flee Chair o'becl;
exhausted a state that he sank into
ascended
to inisovd'
parlour, and with great difficulty
shortly r°:- 1
and, alas! from whence, indeed, he was pbottri%ey
Her evil humour Tit pat,n„,,
but only to be borne to his
pository for the illustriousgrdaveeadi,nitVheestninejrniitoent9l:roltl°le'
Not long after this Jezebel solicited sub_ 5ee;140,0053 the
p.tiblication of a complete collection of h
and be'gg,eavir,4
steal compositions, sacred and secular, rost 10,110,
patronage of the benevolent " towards ill'vbient P, ,piet
and very afflicted widow!" And the. henreencrottlesr
for want of knowing her real character, b
the appeal, and the work sold to a vast ;tent' on'
• by t"
while all that this rare genius obtained