The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-17 00:00:00

LOVE AND ROMANCE.

- . .
t'2" an,l of young nicn I.;:tween ogt:Lecn
and twenty-four, fall victims to what they call love,
than to any other particular class of disease—and
more particularly in England and Ireland than in
any other country on earth. This is from the force of
early impressions peculiar to those countries, and of com-
paratively recent growth, the effect produced by a certain class
of romance writers. These writers give an obliquity to
the young mind which leads to destruction. Scarcely has
a young girl laid down her Reading made Easy, when she
becomes a subscriber to some trashy library, and the hours
which, in the country, or in a land where education is un-
known, they would employ in jumpinc, about in the open
air, are now consumed with intensity of' thought upon the
maudlin miseries of some hapless heroine of romance, the
abortion of a diseased brain. Her imitativeness, as Spurz-
heim would phrenologically observe, becomes developed,
and she fixes on her favourite heroine, whom she apes in
every thing—sighing for her sorrow, and moaning to be
as miserable. She fixes immediately upon some figure of
a man—some Edwin, or Edgar, or Ethelbert, which
she thinks will harmonize with the horrors of the picture,
and she then enjoys her tears and her tortures to her
heart's satisfaction, Languor, inaction, late hours, late:ri-
sing, and incessant sighing, derange her digestion
paleness, loss of appetite, and general debility follow ;
the cause continues, the effects increase, and hectic fever
puts an end to the romance. We have known a young
Irish lady who read herself into this situation. She was,
at the age of 13, as lively, as healthy, and as beautiful
a little promise of womanhood as that country ever pro-
duced. When the Leadenhall-street of romancers crossed
her way, an officer of a very different sort of troop be-
came her hero. She would "sit in her bower," (the se-
cond floor window), and gaze—and gaze upon his steed, his
helmet, and his streaming black-haired crest, as he passed to
mount guard, until she sobbed aloud in ecstacy of melan-
choly. She never spoke to this "knight," nor did she even
seek to have an acquaintance—least, perhaps, that a formal
proposal, a good leg of mutton dinner, and all the realities
of domestic happiness might dissipate the sweet romantic
misery she so much delighted in. A year passed over—
" she pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melan-
choly," entered a convent (for that is the climax of romance),
where she died in a few months.—Medical Adviser.

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