The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-03 00:00:00

LITERATURE
71/E OLD HALL• or OUR HEARTH AND

HO ESTEAD. Brj .Iniaz Mii's. 3 Vas.
Mr. John Mills is well known to the lovers of the
chase, and all vvhf) take interest isgood old English
ports. His readers might embrace a yet wider
for the genuine tone of kindly feeling, the
,L9rnely pathos, and unaffected sincerity that pervade
the
writings, are well calculated to find favour with
frle multitude. Holding the rank of sporting novels,
,I's works abound in admirable sketches of country
(teielblu;ttthhee;
appealhay
eaand not:her a higher reeommen-
'to some of the deepest senti-
rants of the heart, they tend to strengthen the do-
ttie
estic affections, and increase the happiness of home,
Pnnirtraying it in its natural character, as the centre
°"e 1/11,1 ' 1 e°,llforf', :the empire of love and kindness. The
E„-0,7, ," ,„ 11 '"
hears great resemblance to the " Old
entletran;" some of the characters are very
srmilar, out we are glad to see them again, and wel-
rne ',;hem as old friends. We have here another
ii-xis.s..r.tple of t}-.e old country squire—the delight of
friends, and the father of the poor; we have the same
ethofeet delineations of huntsmen and whippers-in,
ugh vve do not find an equal to Tom Bolton; the same
—ea of an old country house, the scene of hospitality
vstraplicity, in
the
Ind kindness; acapital illustration of warm-hearted
person of honest John Hardy; a
:3' good likeness of sweet Mistress Caudle, and
Itlier°Lls minor characters, all interesting from their
4close adherence to nature. The whole narrative con-
tains many stirring anecdotes of the chase, and accounts
porting of every description, written with great
18°11r and minuteness, full of variety and amusement.
To the lovers of the country this work will be
1.-Inevaluable, while the inhabitants of town may find a
d• fresh I g change in contemplating occupations so
Ifrerent from their own. Before quitting this sub-
about we must observe Mr Mills makes some remarks
intention, may
farewell of his readers : if such be his
entl", mav it be like the farewell of a successful
actor, repeated over and over again, always ending,
44!'1l beginning." We hope soon to meet him again
wish
the field ;"
Alen attendant, if he pleases, we will
him farewl.

• EVENTFUL EPOCH. A Novel, by Nicholas
Th' Michell. 3 Vols.
Ind Is work does ample justice to its title ; it refers,
• eel, to an eventful epoch—the period of the
I„,lneh Revolution : that great struggle forms the
• of the story, but we find little concerning
fe4.nee, the author's object being to pourtray the
irls
Pori od of the English during that momentous
teas
--, and in this he has been very successful. Truly
Chthat an eventful epoch for England as well as
arce ; every breeze that crossed the Channel came
baged with the aspirations of liberty; the English
Pale felt the magic of the spell, the sentiments of
e
re,,
d an echo in their hearts ; the cruel ex-
s;4m, ,oup.
„;; ".nich fury drove the French, checked their
in vainto a great degree, yet was the lesson not
fr "'u the people felt their power, and if they forbore
re°,:' using it, the very consciousness made them
thelst onpression, and warned their rulers of
e dan
ger of arbitrary legislation. The author of
t'"he,,work before us is evidently a high Tory, an
etire
revolution • anxious to
enemy to the whole
nianif
in t, est his antipathy to the republican clubs farmed
to
_,•""?land on the model of the French, he yet pauses
11.'1° Justice to individual partizans, and introduces
'0 a very interesting character, Walter Pellew, a
°lith of ardent temperament, hitherto devoted to
Aetuos it •
iterature ; burning with the love of freedom, the im-
y of •
his nature urges him to the extreme ,
he to be a martyr to the cause he loves so well,
I,Bc°rus the calmer wisdom of sober-minded friends
"'S whole soul is engrossed with one idea. The
f
this patriotic rebel and his fond, devoted
Thy' forms
a most interesting portion of the work.
bi whole story is full of variety, well calculated to .
La
ease the general reader. The hero, Archer Clive,
onto South
of noble family, and high promise ; he
tion
kP,lrliament at an early age, and excites atten-
"Y an admirable speech on the slave-trade in
?port of Mr. Wilberforce, and this at a time when
tich conduct was deemed insane. Being deprived of
'rPfortune, he proceeds to study the law with great
g 18ti?nee and fortitude, and when he gains "his own" he
'sPlays extraordinary generosity towards his enemies.
itch is an outline of the " fortunes of Archer Clive,"
▪ orief
;„_ sketch of a very interesting story, written
with a considerable degree of spirit, and interwoven
i'tth many passages of fine feeling and tenderness. It
'4lettlivenedby passing glimpses of the great men of
hero
day, more especially Edmund Burke, whom the
,'"iero meets, without knowing, in a stagecoach, be-
tinning the acquaintance by praising his remarks on
tre French Revolution, no doubt to the great delight
4e ion unsuspected author. Interesting as a work of
m, these volumes are also valuable as serving to
tistrate a period of modern English history rarely
Celebrated by the pen of the novelist. The various
• racters are pourtrayed with great force and vigour
'that of the heroine is of peculiar beauty.
a:ith`4o:l7oSf AND—MODERN INSTANCES.
proved - 2 Vols. By Thomas Cooper.
11:1'tisgiatory of these two little volumes has already..
ted himself to be a poet of no ordinary capacities,
Par be Publication of a prison rhyme, entitled "The
Suicides ;" he now, however, advances
Sooleaai,,ro to consideration as a writer of prose fictions.
liter:,Ut the most admirable productions in our native
to ti;e'llre have been germinated amidst scenes which
ungeni,ll,4hilosophical mind were apparently of an
disionagt` or dispiriting character, and men have occaci
ailed into being works breathing purity an
`ll every line, while they themselves have been
Th riu,ed by debasing and degrading influence.
his his dungeon, did the Earl of Surrey permit
tem arnation to wanton in an idealizing and unfet-
his d ibertY ; thus Burns, at the ploughshare, wove
4,01;1Y-dreams into verse, and wrought himself
.a
loner:f-Place for ever in futurity; thus, when a pri-
renees"c! Sir Walter Raleigh chronicle the occur-
insa °Ygone times • and thus, in a thousand other
• anoe,
of ' has the human intellect risen above the force
ever onmstances scatheless and uncramped. What-
it be ZaY be the predominating bias of a man, whether
means r action or for thought, that bias will ever find a
hecnitable.
Lei
ionroonf.aturoem, plishing its purpose; once implanted
it can never lie dormant, its course
that The bias of Thomas Cooper is—
selfy, a in{!tiSt Write ; it appears to be his " other
kind imperative of second nature ; its commands are
b ive to him, and these commands could not
b;sga,!nsayed even by the walls of Stafford gaol:during
r Confinement for conspiracy." In issuing his
gatory of Suicides" to the world, he acted well,
,It bears the impress of a generous heart and a
„u Pious fancy ; in publishing his present work,
all deference
Saws and Modern Instances," we think with
`"'t deference to himself, that he has acted somewhat
rashly and unwisely. Nature has gifted him,
that abundantly, with all the exigencies and qu a poet, 'alifi-
eations of but in aiming at another sphere in
liter,
ha attire, as in the present instance, we conceive
hbas outstepped th dictates of prudence. That he
‘,;:,..8; an observant eye, and no mean perception of the
„0
ey: 11 phases of character in his fellow man, is
for need by several passages in the volumes before us ,
i! example, in the rapers headed " Raven Dick, the
nuLther Intellect; or, Who Scratched the Bull," an The
ival Lever that lacked a Fulcrum ;" but that
thesPossessss the capability of adequately pourtraying
front Phases of society is not at all to be deduced
the
Qtheir pages. In speaking of Charles Dickens,
retomrrateHY Review, some years back, very justly
vulgar e' that his delineations of low life are never
troom grape are, on the contrary, fraught with (a-
llot bea and elegance; this praise, however, can
daises, as to the delineations of the humbler
twentv 7 iven by Mr. Cooper in these three-and-
ineti'r °gelle& They retain throughout an over-
cl
;teattle of the subject which is being described; they
themMselves in a palpable lowliness of metaphor,
1-erY Riallnge poverty of language. Besides these
runeir,d'lng defects on the part of our author, he his
exeusabi another of a fir more incorrigible and in-
tio e nat in .
us afire :attempting to endue his descrip-
Preface tnat air of " naturalness" to which in his
atd sia,‘" ostensibly aspires, all the common-places
nrieducug Phrases in vogue now-a-days among the
seriten ated are interlarded with almost every other
few inestea'ne9f. this intolerable blemish we will give a
h e„,:s
-a-,"„PanY was large, well-dressed, and from the
"Jaeteaus nvi''arauce of the numerous leather port-
``A
eh, B,e.
wa' too ange of neat suit- was purchased (for the lad
habit, whBQicalisile to be fooled into- the kichshaw dandy
"Co the Cockney recommended"), &c. rile •
al inn lnttlerciai
gentlemen, even at the first-rate com-
b 1` Ur, mot don cut it quite so fat," &c.
com-
ber 0 tinier was completely flummoxed and fiab_
()1 a hea,,, r, RS Jonathan would say, he was struck all
In
tea, t &e.
anti
&tile' 117
, the man he could plainly see was up to
&to
ada isy !
rattled
the young ladies thumped and
Thes &c.
Bele e are but
eLted at rand a few of the obnoxious vulgarisms,
,„/vo"rn that it _ °En, and constitute a blemish in the
%Not, of ,
_rottld require a very considerable pro-
se ions uties to obliterate. In all future pro-
Ch rrie,:v‘e w°llld recommend Mr. Cooper to avoid
thing
ness ~ • etrioio.._
us and •
mistaken efforts at " natural-
lte,!ing that they more particularly, than any-
Poetii:-'l;,',,re,nder his present work a failure. As a
sterl's
of hi - sire .
readrs, y excited the admiration and regard
418. el..,_lsout he has not as yet advanced any
"'n to Popularity as a prose writer.

metre'
larg-' '3 NEAR Losino—x.--During the lag fortnight
a.ember of snipes have visited the outskirts of the
stye liplis which circumstance indicates approaching fros :
vir
.._l7, rth-
ou i2l,l.?_f_these birds have been shot in Battersea-fields and
-common.
ver;lBA nal zEL Con,
D ' N MARKET, JAN. 2We have
lipavvrn supplies of all grain, owing to contrary winds antd.
teo- Water 8. At oar market to day there wqg a good a
G.,4.11et of
buysbrs, and
a fir business was :. .. led in all
11,717Pfions wheat at fully last week's prices Good barley
ion .resly, and eotunion sorts in fair request Without alters-
,,, 'll 'value. Beans in good demand and but few offering.
mil tact it4,01,_
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