The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-04 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XL.

It is long London, 1834.
ber since we have seen so good a num-
as the present. It appeals, not to a class,
but to the community. In its range of subject,
ti
f°o, it is varied and discursive, to a degree
misual with the Westminster. We hail this
change as a God-send, not the less welcome by,.
reason of its novelty. " The Suffering Rich,
thetigh it scarcely bears out its title, yet is full'
of, stern home-truths, conveyed in a caustic,
ePigrammatic spirit. Rich and poor, titled and
uWntitled, may read it with equal advantage.
~e subjoin an extract, remarkable for its bold
-e
essionas of
•_thought and indignant energy of ex-
Pr
tilli' 'Pus is the real language held by the landt-oowners ;
anparnotisitttteerrid
ible instance it is of the insolence
ow which
Iljustice has always a tendency to . It
bilit ceases in fact to be matter of personal Tres.oponsof
anlpepria,iadnedhtens to a considerable extent the 1
;—a reason why the strait waistcoat
1)14 not bY the public should be as gentle as possible,.
The slave why it should be wanting in practical. efficiency.
the the rosin -owner sees all the laws of logic violated
and
seaie,,raliation that his title may be unjust , ki,„ ;.Y less
11.47 !gnorance - inadvancing
is the astonishment of the • heritor of
, when he finds a revolution
__m_to
whici',l°w but steady steps, to send him to the limbo thi k all tYrannies go in time. The first ghe
alerl 8 °I
18 his cavalry horse. But there are
.othe_r
"serifuclall; n.ll'ilsteakesvalyl horses. He will find himself
14 defence ~ en, u he calcuiates on military glory,
Poor sol' (), laws that take fourpence a day from the
tnsig.n, Bier's
„„Pay, and a third of a bottle from the
tositio: '"ess. He had better make a.nllhonest corn-
ream most
Ortibl IYhile he can ;--his household wi
'4rd.hY if he put it off an hour too long, and finds the
then, anded operatives that live by bread,
.insinuating
hiB sand seine morning in column of companines into
have
see,,lntaries of the graces. Those very
with artificial
lai4ge'rgetr wives and children perish
io Ike: It is hard to keep down the devilwi that lurks
fork I.l,recolleetions; and a prudent man will not wait
good reason
10'1'4' he can help it.
.Can he give any
840) °se Wives and children should have been de-
to hted to him coach-horses? Let him not trustr
4 ele'dhop `Viii they fight hard for the poo.-
hottat ppers.
174 ',?411.1.1 the privilege of ' coming not at their
u- it is . Do not they single him a little now and then,
thetii;L. kid is it not as much as
God's
can do to keep
18 tt ba,er ? All injustice, by good pleasure,
Ilatert4ii).;ain • and awful will be the c?ndition of
' •-'archy, if they come to a contest with a popu-
enect 44• Precisely that state, where hunger has sharp-
's arp-
-4„..e eftrage without enfeebling the sinews.
it
''
41.0dern Greece" speaks, as a generous
hernd 'nay be expected to speak, of the early
the °es' such as Rhiga, Korai, and Coletti, of
go' ' t
is tGr
i ar es
e,
kalrseo:oilsution.
The character of Capo
drawn with a masterly hand.
an the subject of Russia, the writer is clearly
poiea ariaist• In this respect he is the very anti-
ea ii.' of Lord Palmerston, who seems to lean
lad ittssia like some simple, easy-natured young
faith !ailing on the arm of her lover, and full of
lip,. 41,,,every honeyed phrase that falls from his
of fe Ihe wind-up of this article is in a strain
stiff rvid eloquence rarely to be met with in this
struck eloquence
of Utilitarianism. We have been
to the iirertlatr;he remark, that " Greece is dear
man, because she is to literature
essay t the Holy
Land is to theology." The
strik. " " National Education" contains some.
111 l'ig suggestions, but it is too pedantic.
beingewriter quarrels with the present system as
objection t" " intellectual." This is a strange
tn-erie;'°4 to urge. Boys and girls, he seems
„ would do should be educated together, which
of
s:11,1d (10 more for the Malthusian principle
, a it-restraint than the present mode," This
1.,8 mere crack-brined theory, worthy of a
4.4 yutan professor ; but the preventive check is
, eln-the favourite hobby with our new school of sys-
a`rtgerS.
"
111141 British Foreign Policy" gives
ink
414,4. g Comment on the nature of England's
tetib "erenee with the continent during the last
-1,
‘4l'y and upwards. The article is merely in
i'eteh, but is very ably written. One would
imagined that our very insular position
would of itself have implied the expediency of
144 keeping aloof from continental squabbles ;
wn'tead of which, like the war-horse in Job,
4:,have invariably " snuffed the battle afar off,"
~kt been among ,
the foremost to rush into it.
untl_r contests in favour of Prerogative, whether
'iiiilNyipain, France, or Germany, have been as
Sear:7llS as they have been expensive ; but
tio„ el, in any one instance, have we, a na-
tiQlti".ot freemen, interfered on behalf of free-
to ,es, We half ruined ourselves in our efforts
beeile`ze legitimacy
ourbons; in the persons of the im-
(lifFere yet we stood by, coldly in-
arid thntr,when Catherine seized on Poland
land fro ''riniea ; when Alexander wrested Fin-
n, and Francis laid his iron
glo
tieBl3e:rnrltSawly.de
We have always been deaf of
turned iila that ear hag as invariably been
freedom. the
direction whence came up the cry of
~
1N,,.0
tliatribe a 4 riopoly of Food" is a vigorous
Ist4ooe ga,,ll.lst the corn laws, the sum and sub-
taken
by°l Nthich is, that " the question must be
The the people into their own hands."
Of I,:_ge,cniUs of Martin, the painter, in a notice
1,418 Illustrations of the Bible,"
,;:, e clever, but somewhat too carping
is discussed
spirit.
be4aea writer seems to act on the principle that,
use this artist has been hitherto overrated,
It .
Nl4 now high .
t high. time he should be underrated.
It is vain
lies, not in extremes, but in the
tih,: . to mean.
deny the lavish affluence of Mar-
soffiopllll4gination. He has as much as would
" great dte set up
f. p a dozen painters for life. His
ihterN ects are, want of simplicity and human
'
pat lie L h heart ;he holds
ure at never toucnes t e
flous, th arm's length ; he is cold and monoto.-
vall,d iii°ugh gorgeous, and,
- his
,
sii,„, .
From the
8 master over space.
.4imit of
0., y .
above all, nun-
wateh.to, one of his mountains, or oriental
'444, eir.,.B.' the eye travels, as it were, over
i'• 1-118 v• -
Pectiv,, ttas, too, and far-reaching per-
hiS (c ..8'
are mat
geisha chless. This is the magic of
1.e5p,,,1i
of phut is a failure. Feast," which, in every other
,_, story. No one cares for the hero
t"°, iii the% lie is a pure nonentity. Thus,
PitY, uor fear Pall of Nineveh," neither awe, nor
Passiong
al.!' are called into action ; all human
absorbe ,
irie
q talt a stand-still, for the fancy is
sttructures, fur. ne contemplation of magnificent
tilisPlay of
show skies, and an overwhelming
v, tit thou,h 1 Y, but perplexing accessories.
aldnal
rene cannot give expression to indi-
s,tovenesB6a
~, Martin invariably imparts impres-
!"
twerfoi i.?
In' sublimity to his crowds. He is
tune
of
4, " asses, as in that fine dreamy pie-
Jonah corns
the Sun to stand