The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-28 00:00:00

often to have in it, somehow, almost the effect
of wit. Whatever he thinks he says—and
moreover, not by halves, but right out. Ills
ova
epoch—either sex—no matter which or what:
be
" has at it" quite frankly, quite outspokenili
" What in this age qf cant"—quoth he, at one Par
—" I suppose we should call ' her mission.'" 443
other while, he remarks—" The monstrous custom
of forbidding ladies to follow their dead had n°,t
yet occurred even to the idiots of the nation.
Another--he • refers to " what the canting dun:ie.,
of the day call a 'sensational' novel."
little incidental touches of olillantiw, too, l'ave.:
ilol
ineffab!,: charm of honest bluntness about thello7t;
measurably beyond that of mere conventional s' '0
--as where he says, " Women seem cleverer than n)
it
in this that w hen they resign their wills, the)" do re
graciously and not by halves. Perhaps they
on,,
more accustomed to knock under ; and, you k'nh;
practice makes perfect." His pathos, again, )'j be
simplest and directes.t well imaginable. It won' cAI
difficult to give a notion of the exceeding tendern,,
for exarnple—a tenderness eloquent even to tor
vibrating in those few words of Griffith at the close
of the tenth chapter of the first volume—"b
t'o
Kate, you are crying." Then, too, his (that l';th
say Griffith's) explanation or expostulation
e,.."
the old Squire at p. 230 of the same I'ol'lllla it
" Merry ! My arm it Worries me, my belit- at
aches, my heart is sick to death." Or, again' ;r
account of Kate's " Multiform Cry," as °nr,-,33,.
calls it—describing that same Multiform uribat
the manner following :—" Although she had
of
one fit of crying—to the naked eye—yet a Peran-psit
her own sex would have seen that at one mom
.iier
she was crying from agitated nerves, at an°li,ea
from worry, and at the next from pity, and t of
from pure grief." Occasionally, iu the conr3e it
his narrative, Mr. Reade makes a slip 33,0•
seems to us— 1,
as where he represents Brother ival
nard (so improbably !) perfecting with 3 ,of
touch or two, in the pulpit, his pencilled liken' s°
Mrs. Gaunt ! Here and there a telling Pbrlir„,
has about it a thoroughly delectable tersene;
"Sobriety," for instance, says he—one while--sre
ing of the then prevailing vice of intaxicatl°tho... er
" Sobriety had not yet been invented." •An°ocl
while he probes human nature to the quici, %-oiDt
that too with the lightest touch of his Penlog
—as in his reference to Mr. Peyton 's r,
" a person, who, notwithstanding a certain sures,
ficial good nature sees his own side of ac 1,10,"
tion very big, and his neighbour's very
orb'Altogether, " Griffith Gaunt" is a noble vi
a work dashed off with a few vigorous, almost
less, touches by a master hand—a work, 11° the
worthy of aspiring to take its place among

classics of our imaginative literature

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BEE MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, TileSaeSB
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal I:11113w
Princess Christian, walked and drove Yesterig,
Flora
drove Her Majesty, with Princess I)°,,ioro
drove out this morning, attended by the Bel''

Macdonald.
, brir
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Prinntehoi
tian drove to Kew and visited her Royal 11440$
the Duchess of Cambridge and his Serene Ilig' of
and her Royal Highness the Prince and Princess

Teck.
The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Lieuteill
Haig, also visited the duchess and the prince 311

princess, and afterwards went to London•

Princess Beatrice drove out. d gr.
Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Sahl an
Legg, went to London last evening, and I‘l'. nl
sent at a concert at St. James's Hall. Ilis
highness afterwards returned to Windsor Cast'

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ROYAL VISIT TO WOLVERHAMP-L -;the,
Yesterday afternoon a special meeting e'i-ch
Wolverhampton Town Council was held, at 11:4jieot
£l,OOO was voted to the mayor as an instsllPiy,
towards the expenses of the preparations for recievecl
ing the Queen and royal family ; it was also ITO
83,
that the Recorder be requested to prepare ali
dress ; and the Town-clerk gave the result °f ei;•
interview with General Grey yesterday, at 1311 all
ingham Palace. The Queen has consented t°
the arrangements of the corporation ; and the T° the
clerk expressed his belief that, in addition t°o co
members of the royal family who are ahead)" :1
to have
promised to accompany the Qa,e„ehn`,:
Duke of Edinburgh would be present. I",,stio
noun cement was received with eollls`-
applause.
..pt

The Duke of Devonshire is entertaining 3
party at Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
-11,tike of
The 60th anniversary of the birth of the ,odal
Buccleuch and Queensberry having fallen en a ".-th the
the event was celebrated in Dalkeith on Monday
customary rejoicing. bare
The Marquis and Marchioness of .AilesbUll
left town for Savernake Park, near Marlborongil. ar riVea
The Earl and Countess of Coventry have
at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square. were
The Countess Cowper and Ladies CovPe'Deicir°
to leave Wrest Park yesterday, to pay some Yisits;rit•
taking up their residence at Panshanger for the de for
We understand that the day is not yet 6%Aedeli°
the marriage of Viscount Dunlop and the Lady
Hervey, sister of the Marquis of Bristol.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer an % oe*
Disraeli have left Grosvenor-gate for StrathfieldsaP
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Wellington.
aflapCe
Sir Henry and Lady Fletcher have left f
Hotel, for Spratton House, Nottingham. b Vie°
A marriage is arranged to take place e the
Miss Emilia Gordon-Cumming, youngest daughter afl
late Sir William Gozdon-Cummini, Bart., of AllitYor°ol.6'
Gordonstown, and Captain Sergison, of the 4th pal`
only son of Mr. Warden Sergison, of CnOeld
Sussex.

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PROPOSED NEW JUDGES.—'The COM- th t •
aatahedmedthietsaeieossfiunsrrai:oltnojounfdge should be appointed to each °f the
eent cli
judges, it is said, have approved of the suggestioa ' Ireo
courts ; and it is rumoured that at the coral:0'1°1,0301
of
thethe subject.
new Parliamentad dtihtmieornG.
aGol vrejourvndemg,
eaesn:
et
8.1 v;iiidsl 1
asifuni oleaerttoc°:t
cases to be referred to him, he having had great sad ,s 0°
in such matters. Mr. Selwyn, Q.O ,is raentiesed
more
oh
re
ei r
recently, predecessors,
Ena Rayrk virsofi
IrdTßil
ISat
now Solicitor-General in partibus. . 0 OF
TWO OF THE GRAND CROSSES OF THE °RP 001
THE STAR OF INDIA, now vacant, are likely fob° cisc° 'Ser
on Lord Napier, the Governor of Madras, and °11;01. bsli.
iirrnticGetieFoonrielgree
mom. Fitzgerald, the lately-appointed Goveriaor ea .- „I:aii.,
the same
A. 03°
,Crleecreki
received
dd
fromL olearr;i 0 i y
BRUTAL VIOi.E.NCg•".„,r" ober
named Joseph Grady was on Monday charged at I,oiel
ter with highway robbery. On Sunday night olotig
M'Oarthy, coachman to Colonel Mayne, wan p` set te°,,
Nicholas-street on his way home, when he w4,i-rhils"-A
by three or four men, and felled to the ground. Lay 01:1-‘,
the ground he was beaten and kicked- about tho "' " ' 51'"
he recognised the prisoner as one of his asssilents4srent
men robbed him of his watch, and separated i° '34 10
directions on the alarm being given.
Theprison-
committed for trial.
Wng held i,el
'0
FATAL ACCIDENT.— An inquest --
of 3v-5,
Penton-place, Kennington-road, on the body a pied
Goodwin, aged 22 years, a drayman. The dace
Bsieis tlo'
been in the hospital for a fractured leg, and {ell fleil s'a,cl
charge was moving about on crutches, when I' setti"
again fractured his leg. Unfavourable syroptoal!,ive tile
in the limb was amputated, but he did not sult:iilentb.
operation. The jury returned a verdict of accidon Lionel
It was stated in Liverpool yesterday thav solo s°
Holdsworth, a commission agent of Liverpool, for
rrestea
arrest a reward of £2OO had been offered, had beell2:o con-
at Lille, in France. Holdsworth, it is alleged, "tile sla
cerned in matters connected with the scuttling of
Severn. MANI'
MADONNA MARY. BY MRS. OLIP to,
A hen°
VOLS.—" From first to last," says the ---, vigor,
" ' Madonna Mary' is written with evenness an . cod
and overflows with the best qualities of its writes:far fig
and humour. The story is thoroughly original., an
the
its plot and leading incidents are concerned,. 'au , svi
strength of the narrative is such that we questio I"._. 0
fullness in
reader will lay it aside, notwithstanding the .. ~., iisi
throat and the construction of his heart, untillo a,
shared in the happiness which is liberally assigned..urtitin.
actors of the drama before the falling of the greet!,
_" soil°
But the principal charms of the work are
.°O7 wbiell
humour, fineness of touch, and seeming ease wit
_.,,,eron°
Mrs. Oliphant delineates and contrasts her nu--
characters."