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LITERATURE. •

MR. DISRAELI'S LOTHAIR.

SIXTH EDITION. THREE VOLUMES. LONGMAN AND CO.

[CONCLUSION.]

Already we have tasted the •ortolans, and heard the
trumpets. Everything throughout the book is in keeping
with those supernal enjoyments. When a mere paintei
like Mr. Phoebus, not an august patrician like I.othair,
Opens a chest in the cabin of his yacht, what are produced
from it as its contents ? " Several velvet bags, one full
of pearls, another of rubies, others of Venetian
sequins, Napoleons, and golden piastres." . Another
while, at a • chance resting place. in Italy,
the travellers are thus lighted,
_and warmed, and
perfumed in the banquetting hall. "An ancient chan-
delier of Venetian Crystal hung illumined from the
painted ceiling, and on the silver dogs of the marlale
hearth a fresh block of cedar had just been thrown, and
blaaed with an aromatic light." Is the armoury of
Lothair graced by 'a tomb to his grandfather? It is a
" Ora of alabaster, surrounded by a railing of pure gold."
All through the work, it is as if we were alternately roving
over Tom Tiddler's ground, "picking up," as Man-
talini lisps, " the demnition gold and silver," or saunter-
ing through either the Valley of Diamonds or the Jewel
larden of Aladdin. If the reader is tempted, for a
moment, by the gorgeous novelist, to turn his thoughts
heavenwaids,it is of a celestial region he dreams, like that
Of which Sir Walter Raleigh sings—
" Then those holy paths we travel,
Strewn with rubies thick as graveL"

Yet the book that is thus powdered with diamonds, and
dusted with pearls, and seamed with bullion, and en-
crusted with precious materials, squandered one on the
top of another—a lacqter of ormolu on a veneer of satin-
wood—gold gilt, roses painted, violets perfumed—is dashed
off here and there so artlessly, in a vein so free and easy, that
we now and then stumble over the most surprising collo-
quialisms. At one moment we are told that certain intelli-
gence, imparted to an exceedingly consequential person-
age, called Lady Farringdon, is "stunning !" At another
we hear of the Standing Committee of the Holy Alliance
of Peoples only receiving " men of their own kidney."
It strikes one, again, as an astounding piece of familiarity,
characteristic rather of a new member scarcely out of his
teens, than of an ex-Premier and thrice Leader of the
House of Commons, that the latter can jocularly write at
the close of his twenty-second chapter, "I'll take you to the
smoking room and introduce you to Bright, and we'll trot
him out on primogeniture." Scattered through the work are
several really admirable pen-and-ink portraitures. At p. 39,
of Vol. 1., there is a very cameo-profile of Archbishop
Manning, under the name, style, and title of Cardinal
Grandison. What, again, can be better, in its way, than the
life-like sketch, given a little later on, of that Head Gar-
dener at Vauxe, who, living always there, "had come
to believe that the gardens belonged to him, and that the
family were only occasional visitors ; and he treated them
accordingly." Or than that dismay of the Duke on his
chance recognition of an old schoolfellow in Lord Agra-
mont—" I was at College with him, a very good fellow ;
but I have never met him since, except once at Boodle's ;
and I never saw a man so red and grey, and I remember
him such a good-looking fellow! He must have lived
immensely in the country, and never thought of his
person,' said the Duke in a tone of pity, and playing with
his moustache." Gracelessly, however, shall we confess it ?
for we observe
,one of our contemporaries refers to the
character we are about to allude to as though it were a
social pariah of the most brutalized description—the cha
racter among all the characters depicted in "Lothair," to
our fancy, is that of Lord St. Aldegonde ! To us he is
thoroughly delightful. Even when in a sybarite banquet
he goes dinnerless, until, pressed to eat something, any-
thing,le prefers a request for cold meat, of which there
is non'cvthere procurable. Even when, at some of Pinto's
fugitive witticisms, some of those little jingling sixpences
withlbich the pockets of the non-Crossus of conversation
are crammed, St. Aldegonde breaks into a frightful shout,
while Hugo Bohun titters immensely—" Then St. Alde-
gond, throwing himself back in his chair, and talking to
himself or the ceiling, would exclaim, ' Best thing I ever
heard,' while Hugo Bohun nodded sympathy with a beam-
ing smile." In truth, among all the characters in
" Lothair," we accord the palm unhesitatingly to St.
Aldegonde. But as to " Lothair " itself ? Well, as a
whole, it is so unequal that it is simply monstrcus. It is
like the realization of the Horatian Mermaid in its utter
monstrosity. The first half is brilliant, while the last half
is—there is really no other word for it—bosh, or say (for a
choice out of the slang dictionary) twaddle. The morality
of this tale of fashionable life is so refined that Lothair, is,
described half through the book, as head over heels in love
with another man's wife, Madame Campian, the Italian
cara sposa of a Yankee Colonel. The' religious stand-
point of the author—he, the author of " Sybil !"--is Exeter
Hall. His bran new craze, phobia, mania, call it
what you please, is that extremely wretched
fag-end of a dip-candle, that perforated orb of a
scooped turnip, the miserable bugbear of such creatures
as cracked-brained Lord George Gordon, and sing-
ing Mr. Whalley, and lugubrious Mr. Newdegate—
No Popery ! So dazed by the ridiculous apparition is
this usually keen-eyed satirist, that, while deriding the
Italian reverence for the Madonna, he seriously records
(evidently regarding the incident as quite rational on the
part of the contributors), how several of his leading cha-
racters prostrate themselves in homage, as at thefeet of a
goddess, before his exceedingly questionable heroine, the
wife of the Yankee Colonel aforesaid, " the divine Theo-
dora," as one calls her, adding—" I adore Theodora"—and
exclaiming yet further in regard to the feeling she inspires,
"It is not friendship—it is worship." So serenely per-
fect is the consistency of this deliberate caricaturist
of the belief of the most numerous body of Christians in
the world, that while deriding what we only hear of from
him, and what therefore, according to his own showing,
might be after all only the idlest and the wildest rumour
as to the pretended celestial apparition of the Blessed Virgin
in one of the Roman Hospitals— an apparition by the way
never once described by any of Lothair's would-be Papal
proselytisers—by Lady Vauxe, for example, by Monsignor
Catesby, by Father Coleman, or by Cardinal Grandison—
the author of Lothair gravely and quite seriously, a
little further on relates (with an air as though he actually
believed the incident to be not at all a violation of the
probabilities !) how the glorified ghost of the divine, the
worshipped, the adorable Theodora appears by moonlight
More the enraptured eyes of the hero of the tale as he stands
lOurnfully one night among the gigantic ruins of the
Coliseum. The arch satirist has such a keen eye for the
detection of the atom-mote in the vision of his neighbour,
with a whole timber-yard of beams piled up mountainously
in his own. As to the morality of the story—why, that one
amcng our Dublin contemporaries already referred to
as having spoken of Lothair as one of the most immoral
books ever published, can hardly be said to have been
shooting so very wide of the mark after all. Not only is
Lothair himself described, as we have said, half through
the book as in hot pursuit of a married woman—the
divine Theodora to wit, otherwise Madame Campian, wife
of the Yankee Colonel, so named—but the death -bed scene
of the latter is actually depicted, as having been marked
by an incident almost as revolting in the audacity of its
conception, as that related by M. Eugene Sue imme-
diately towards the close of Le Juif Errant—
meaning the death, in the very midst of the consum-
mation of the love of Prince Djalma and his enamorata
the Princess. Colonel Campian, complaisant hus-
band as he is, meeting Lothair close by the chamber
in which the former's wife is dying, sends the
young English nobleman in to console the beloved and
expiring Theodora. There at that final interview between
Madame Campian and Lothair, at the end of a psycho-
erotic-religious conversation, full of sounding phrases
meaning very little indeed, Theodora pledges her ardent
worshipper by what certainly appe'ars to us a frightful
oath under the circumstances, and having done that asks
him to embrace her. In that embrace she expires. Call that
Platonic. It is something warmer to our mind than mere
Platonic love with the chill off. It is—in the idealized
presence of death, and in the midst of all this solemn
babble about religion scattered up and down these three
volumes of a flashy and fantastic fashionable novel—in
that presence and through that babble it is (according to
our sense of it at least) a something appalling. If not
demoralising it is certainly unwholesome, it is surely in-
decorous. Reading the book through, we can hardly
wonder that the hitherto faithful Maga, should under so
wild and daring a hand, prove restive at last, and fairly
kick over the traces. The spectacle presented to us by the
publication of this amazing book—" Lothair, by the Right
'Honourable B. Disraeli"—is certainly novel. It is one
startling alike to the world of letters and to the world of
politics. It is that of a veteran statesman, of a great
party leader, of a some time Prime Minister of England,
descending from the proud position attained by him

JULY 19, 1870.

through undoubted genius, untiring industry and indomit-
able perseverance—attained, too, in the midst of much
obloquy, but at the same time of the very widest and
heartiest admiration=descending from that proud position
into his old haunts, the fair fields, ever fresh and ever
new, of our living literature, thus, in his matured manhood,
riot in his hot youth, to scatter recklessly, broadcast,
and with both hands, the wildest of all his literary wild
oats ! These wild oats of the demure Lothair being
wilder by far than those even of Vivian Grey, that Prince
of Impertinents.

APPEAL TO THE GERMANS BY KARL

BLIND.

An appeal, by Karl Blind,• is being distributed in Ger-
many, which begins with the following words :—"
Germans shoulder to shoulder,' must now be the watch-
Word. It is no longer a diplomatic or dynastic qUariel.
From the. moment that Napoleon's army sets foot---on
German soil, the paramount-linty is to resist the imposi-
tion of the foreign yoke. The Rhine frontier is the goal of
Bonapartist military policy. Let, then, our nation, in its
entirety, chew that there is no section of it which looks
with indifference on this despotic invasion ?" After
having stated that he continues the " implacable adver-
sary of that policy which, in 1866, tore our country to
pieces for the sake of princely aggrandisement," the
writer says that the history of the first Napoleonic wars,
in which Germany was vanquished through her disfinion,
Contains a terrible lesson, from which it is to be hoped
that all par'ties have profited. He wishes that the reunion
of the Federal Austrian provinces with the common
Fatherland may be sealed by the people of that part of
Germany coming to the aid of their brethren. The appeal
concludes : " Therefore serried ranks and united re-
sistance ! No illusion as to the enemy's aims, and no
hearkening to the voice of the tempter ! Before all, Ger-
many's independence as against the foreign aggressor !
Once rid of him, with redoubled energy 'to the work of
internal deliverance."