The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, March 18—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
41 per Cent.
End of month... It&Pan Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 69 571 Mexican Loan ... 16 50
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 260 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier —1472 50 Home Debt —
End of mouth... Deferred —
Account

RAILWAYS.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean

Southern..... 557i
Western
Eastern .. —
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 3Bu
North of Spain 75
Saragossa
Roman 45

NEW ROYALTY THEATRE.—The Prince and
Princess of Wales, attended by their suite, visited the New
Royalty Theatre last evening. _ _ .

A meeting, convened by the mayo'r, was held in
the Council-chamber at Birmingham yesterday, to make
arrangements for the visit of the Social Science Associa-
tion in October next. His worship presided. A very
handsome subscription list was made up in the room.
TILE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.—A private letter
from the camp at Zoula, dated Feb. 18, states :—Great acti-
vity still prevails here, and long trains of mules daily
start for Senafe, with forage, ammunition, and other
stores. B steel battery has not yet marched. They were
inspected on the 10th, and the inspecting-general ex-
pressed himself highly pleased with the appearance and
discipline of the battery. They are held in readiness to
proceed on short notice, and take only one change with
them, as they form part of the 2d brigade of the ad-
vanced division appointed to march on Magdala. It is
generally expected here that it will all be over by July.
Rumours are very rife. The other day, when it was said
that Theodore had released the prisoners, great conster-
nation ensued amongst the men lest they should have
come to this place and have to go away again without
" having a slap at the King." Everything is very dear:
Butter, 3s. per lb.; cheese, 4s. per lb. ; jam, 3s. for a small
pot ; and I am sure the pound weights are not larger than
the half-pound weights in England. It has rained here
for the last two or three days, but not heavily. It is the
first rain, the natives assure us, that has fallen for four
years ; consequently the grass has commenced to shoot
up almost miraculously, and little wild flowers, such as
we often see growing in England, have male their ap-
pearance.

'TIE JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES DIRECTORY FOR
1867.—Among the many directories now published none
certainly can be of greater utility to the large commercial
interests of the country than the Joint-Stock Com-
panies' Directory issued by Charles Barker and Co.,
of Birchin lane. The volume has been greatly en-
larged, thoroughly revised, and ono of the great
features of it is that it contains a treatise on the
Companies Amendment Act, 1867, which has been spe-
cially prepared for the work, and the greatest care has
evidently been taken also to revise the whole of the sta-
tistics in order to bring down the information to the latest
possible period. Through the effects of the late crisis
numerous companies have been placed in liquidation.
These also will be found specially recorded. The ap-
pendix presents the principal loan and financial operations
which have been completed during the last few years,
together with a classified list of directors, from which it
will be at once seen that the book is a perfect volume of
reference for all matters connected with Joint-Stock
Conniff.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, March 18.

The much-taliced-of pamphlet came out this afternoon.
As regards quantity, it is less than was expected, and I
hear that it has bivn cut down from eighty pages to its
present size—fifty-tour pages. Its motto is, " Vox populi,
vox Dei," and the writer, who is;believed to be M. Conti,
the Emperor's Secretary, justifies the adoption of that
tientiment by recording the various occasions on which the
Popular will has declared itself for the Bonaparte dynasty,
bald the number of votes by which that will was ex-
pressed. In fact, we have an historical résumé
of the various plebiscites, beginning with the 15th of
December, 1799, when General Bonaparte was elected First
Consul by 3,911,007 votes to 1,562 ; and coming down to
the plebiscite of November 1852, when the Prince Presi-
dent was elected Emperor by 7,824,189 votes out of
8,140,660. Six times altdgether were the people appealed
to, and the result is that from 1799 to 1804, Napoleon I.
received 10,000,000 of suffrages ; from 1848 to 1852, Napo-
leon 111. received 20,000,000 ; " 30,000,000 of bulletins
signed by the French people—these," says the pam-
phlet, " are the titles of the Napoleonic dynasty."
The writer goes on to argue that the principles of the
constitution are thus settled upon a fixed basis which
cannot be altered without another appeal to the people.
At the same time they admit of " progressive ameliora-
tions." The Constitution is " perfectible." " The
Emperor openly proclaimed this on December 31, 1851,
when he said that he intended to bring the country to a
wise exercise of liberty. Let us add, that the decree of
November 24, 1860, and the letter of January 19, 1867,
have accomplished this promise." In other words, France
must not look for any farther extension of liberty. At all
events, the Emperor will appeal from the capital to the
departments before he will grant it, from the cities to the
communes—feeling pretty confident that another plebiscite
would only confirm him in the course which he has adopted.
It is thus I interpret the pamphlet. I see that Liberal
journals like the Avenir National understand it in the
same sense.

The Paris papers are taking considerable interest in
your parliamentary debates. M. Odysse Barrot has a long
article in the Liberte upon Monday night's. He says that
Mr. Gladstone's speech recalls the best days of Chatham,
Pitt, Burke, Fox, and Canning, and Mr. Disraeli's reply,
far from detracting from it, only added to its brilliancy and
increased its importance. Of the Premier, M. Barrot says,
that in spite of the applause of his supporters he was killed
on the spot (rests sur le carreau ), for he shewed himself
inferior to the eminent post which he occupies, and
below the formidable task which circumstances impose on

him. M. Barrot is very severe upon the fact that the
word " laughter " occurs thirty-four times in the course of
Mr. Disraeli's speech, and says that jokes and epigrams
are scarcely the way in which to treat the just complaints
of a nation in mourning and in arms. The writer goes on
to say that " power will doubtless not remain long in the
hands of Mr. Disraeli. In England, with a people essen-
tially practical and serious, power cannot remain long in
the hands of a flippant man, who thinks of amusing instead
of governing."
Some of the journals publish a very curious letter from
Bismarck, justifying his conduct to a friend. He says :
"Although I have very little spare time, I cannot refuse
to reply to an inquiry addressed to me in the name of
Jesus Christ by an honest heart." He goes on to express
regret at being the object of scandal to many Christian
souls, At the same time, it is impossible for a man in his
position not to give rise to scandals. " Thank God," he
adds, " I have upon my conscience no other sins than those
with which the world is well acquainted, and for which I
hope for pardon only through the blood shed by Jesus Christ,
So far as I am a statesman, I am not sufficiently decisive ;
I do not place myself sufficiently above conventionalisms.
In my own opinion I am rather a coward, and I do not
decide in questions which come before me with that clear-
ness which springs from confidence in God. He who
accuses me of being a politician without conscience wrongs
me ; before condemning me he should place himself in a
position to put my conscience to the proof." He then
goes on to defend himself with regard to the Virchow duel,
and declares that when he entered upon it ho was past the
age when men are influenced by their passions, and that he
consecrated his life to the cause of his country after long
and painful conflicts and humble prayers to God. If he
has been absent from church for some time, it is because
he has been ill. He would like to go more often, but the
state of his health forbids. Having thus explained his
duelling and his non-attendance at church, he goes on to
explain his supposed connection with Lucca, the opera
singer. He declares that it was quite innocent, and that
the taking of their portraits in the same carte was merely a
pleasantry which he would not have permitted had he
known that it would have hurt his friends.

It is now expected that the Italian Ministry will be able
to carry all its financial measures, and to this expectation
is no doubt owing the recent rise of 2 per cent. in Italian
securities on the London Stock Exchange. The tax upon
grinding corn will reduce the defi cit by nearly three millions
sterling, and the substitution of a tax upon property for
one upon income will give about the same amount, and it
is anticipated that these, with other fiscal changog, will
reduce the present deficit of £8,720,000 to about £2,000,000.
In order to strengthen his position it is believed that
General Menabrea will make overtures to, the third party,
which at present holds a place between the Government
and the Opposition, led by Rattazzi.

There has been a new excavation at Pompeii in honour
of the visit of thu American Admiral Farragne, whose
rnol ements are considered of sufficient importance to
telegraph every day to all parts of the Continent. The
site of the excavation was a room in one of the largest
houses yet discovered, and as the work Men dug up the
hard massed ashes a circle of eager faces looked on
intently. The revelations were gloomy enough, for an
entire skeleton was found in one spot, while in another,
though the form was apparent, one or two bones only
were forthcoming. Here the operations were stayed, as it
is the intention of Fiorelli to fill up the vacuum with
plaster of Paris, so as to unite such portions of the bones
as may yet remain and preserve at least the form. It was
evident enough, however, that one of the victims lay
crouched up in a corner as he died in his agonies ; while
the other :ay prostrate as though death had terminated his
sufferings immediately.
It is a great pity that Garibaldi's friends cannot put a
bridlt into his mouth. Every year his statements become
wilder and fiercer. He has just written to Karl Blind, the
German refugee, from Caprera, March 10 : "To combat
Bonaparte is to combat the Evil One. In my opinion,
therefore, not only all Germany ought to withstand him,
but Italy also. Nay, the whole world ought to make com-
mon cause against him." This from the founder of the
" League of Peace and Liberty."

The attempt to form a Confederation of the South
German States, if• it has been seriously made, has com-
pletely failed.
Events in the political world are rapidly approaching a
crisis. After full consideration the Liberal party has
resolved to challenge the policy of the Government as to
the Irish Church by a distinct resolution on the subject.
To-morrow evening notice will be given in the House of
Commons by Mr. Gladstone of a motion declaring that
the immediate disestablishment of the Irish Church is
necessary. The Liberal papers express the utmost confi-
dence as to the result, and have no hesitation in declaring
that should the resolution be carried, the Government
would have no honourable alternative but to retire from the
position which they now occupy. It is argued that for the
first time since the death of Lord Palmerston, Mr. Glad-
stone is at the head of his party. It is further held that
the Irish debate and the speech of Mr. Gladstone have
welded the Liberal party firmly together, while it is
believed to be certain a large number of the Conservatives
hold aloof from Mr. Disraeli as Premier. The probability
that the proposed motion will be carried is therefore
thought to be very great. One thing is stated as certain :
it will have the approval of the country, and no Liberal
who values his seat will venture to vote against it.

On the other hand, the Conservative journals earnestly
protest against any movement for embarrassing the
Government during the swiftly-passing time of the dying
Parliament. It is, they say, the conviction of the wisest
and best men of all parties, and especially of the Liberal
party, that it is not desirable to have a change of Govern-
ment during the present session. The Liberals are not
ready to form a Ministry that would give satis-
faction to their own party, and till they are
accession to power would be a misfortune to themselves
and to the country. Further, a party contest in 'the
present Parliament, elected as it was under circumstances
now totally altered, can decide nothing ; and a dissolution
before the work of Reform is complete and the new
system in full operation would be a public nuisance.
Finally, a change of Government means the confusion of
the Reform question and the total waste of a session,
whereas if this Government remain in office till its work is
done, it will be fairly open to the Opposition to appeal to
the country at the beginning of next year for a verdict on
the respective claims of the two great parties, and, if
successful, at once to carry out their own policy.
Mr. Gladstone's policy is denounced as harsh and violent,
and the " patriotism of the independent Liberals " is
appealed to, with a view of checking the Opposition leader.
While hoping for the best, the Conservative organs recog-
nise the possibility of Mr. Gladstone triumphing for a time,
but with the certainty that a day of retribution will
speedily overtake him. " Once let it be understood,"
exclaims the Standard, " that the policy of the Liberal
leader is to abase, cripple, and rob Protestantism in the
interest of Romanism, and we shall be launched in a
religious contest which will set the whole empire in a
blaze.!'

LITERA TURE.

Atherstone's Fall of Nineveh.

Ihe Fall of Nineveh. A Poem. By Edwin Ather-
stone. A New Edition. Two Volumes. Long-

man and Company.

A generation has passed by since this noble poem
made its first appearance. Within its author's life-
time it has assumed its place in the Poetic Litera-
ture of England as one among our very few great
epic masterpieces. Forty years have now elapsed
since, in 1828, the first six books of the Poem were
published in an octavo volume. As many as one-
and-twenty years, since the entire production—ex-
tending to thirty books in all —appeared, in 1847,
in two duodecimo volumes. Those two volumes
now stand before us, side by side with the present
re-issue of the work in two yet goodlier post
octavoes, which may henceforth be regarded as
the Standard Edition of the largest, the most highly
elaborated, and in every sense the noblest product
of Mr. Atherstone's imagination. Although he
himself is content to designate the present re-issue
of his " Fall of Nineveh " its Second Edition, we
prefer—if only in remembrance of the splendid pro-
mise manifested through the precursory volume
of 1828, comprising within it the first half dozen
books through which the work could even then
be judged ex pede liercidena—we prefer, we say,
to speak of the present re-issue of the work
in its ripened completeness as simply and vaguely
—A New Edition. Whatever the actual num-
ber of the Edition—whether the Second or the Third
—the present is in any case, as we have just now
said, the Standard Edition of this great Epic
Poem—an edition in every sense worthy of
the work and of its author—of " The Fall of
Nineveh," and of Edwin Atherstone. According
to an emphatic announcement, inscribed upon the
title-page, the work, as it is here submitted to the
world, has been " diligently corrected and other-
wise improved." It extends, in these two hand-
some volumes, to as many as 634 post octavo pages
of beautifully clear letterpress, embellished at the
outset (in the shape of a frontispiece) with a highly
effective engraving from John Martin's celebrated
painting of the Destruction of Niueveh. Poem and
Picture, by the way—it is interesting to recall to
mind, now—were conceived and produced, quite
independently of each other, but simultaneously,
or rather contemporaneously, by the two friends
—John Martin and Edwin Atherstone. Working
together—as thelatter took occasion to remark as far
back as 1828—working together in their respective
arts upon the same subject, they agreed to treat it,
each according to his own views and impulses. Con-
sulting together, and disputing together, they trod,
each upon his own path. The Picture had fame in
its day, and is still borne in honourable remembrance
as one among many kindred manifestations of a
genius remarkable for two, at least, of the attributes
of sublimity—vagueness and vastness. However
deficient he may have been in other respects as a
painter of portentous audacity in. his conceptions,
John Martin surpassed, as we conceive, all other
artists in his delineation of stupendous distances
and of astounding multitudes. The poet's diviner
art demanded, however, from the painter's friend
and colleague—his rival iu one sense and his
some time contemporary—far loftier, grander,
and more varied qualifications. Whereas
the artist's endeavour involved merely the filling up
of a single canvass—the poet's involved the building
up of a whole epic, an epic in this instance extending,
not to twenty books as in the "Jerusalem Delivered"
of Tasso, not to four and twenty as in the "Iliad" of
Homer, but to the thirty books of " The Fall of
Nineveh," as that astonishing event has been re-
counted by the hand—almost we had said in prefer-
ence by the voice—of Atherstone. Thirty books !
An Epic Poem—in blank verse—extending to
thirty books In this age of hurry and pre-
occupation, when men converse with each other
from opposite shores of the ocean by flashes
of lightning, when they are whirled over the
earth at the rate of a mile a minute, and accom-
plish in a single day work that would formerly have
spread over a month—the reading of an epic in
thirty books, written in blank verse, and descriptive
of an event as far removed from this present hour
and from all our ordinary sympathies (it might be
supposed) as the Fall of _Nineveh—may seem to
the generality to be a wholly wild and imprac-
ticable adventure. Frankly, however, we would
now say—Put this seemingly wild and
extravagant adventure to the test ! Opeu
the first of these two goodly volumes—glance
through the prelude—dip into the first book—turn
the leaves—scan the numbers ; and certain are we
that in the instance of the vast inajorLy of
his readers the Poet, like the Ancient Mariuer
in Coleridge's wierd ballad, will have his will !
He arrests us on the threshold. He holds
us with his glittering eye. We must needs tarry
and hearken to the marvellous narrative herein
recounted, when once that narrative has been
commenced,—following its progress incident
after incident, eagerly, breathlessly, until its
august and appalling conclusion. If enthral-
ling interest is looked for, here, in this epic
poem of " The Fall of Nineveh," it will be found as
undeniably as in any (the most) sensational novel of
the day, told in three volumes by the most popular of
living sensational-romance-writers ! With this enor-
mous advantage ou the side of Mr. Atherstone, as
compared with that ephemeral romance-writer, that
the medium through which the former kindles in
his reader's mind, the glamour of this enthralling
interest is—literature. And literature, too, at its
best and loftiest. As an effusion of the truest
poetry, both in conception and in treat-
ment, "The Fall of Niueveh" need shrink from ,
no comparison. Mr. Atherstoue comes no more
into the same category with a Sir Richard
Blackmore, than Cauova could have been regarded
in his art as coming into competition with a stone-
mason. The eloquence, the music, the sonorous
flow, the elastic adaptability of the blank verse in
which this wondrous history of the "Fall of Nineveh"
and of the death of Sardanapalus, is here related by
Mr. Atherstone, afford as noble specimens of that
highest order of poetry as can be found anywhere
in the whole range of our national literature. If,
in the manner of his verse, he must needs yield
the palm to Milton, it is mainly by reason of
the earthlier character of the theme here
selected by him for treatment, as compared
with that, surely, sublimest theme that epic
poet ever could have chosen, that supernal theme
which so kindled in Milton's imagination " the vi-
sion and the faculty divine," as to bear his enrap-
tured fancy, his very soul, as it were, even while
sojourning here in the trammels of the flesh, into
the heaven of heavens. Extravagant though
it may appear, to some, to speak of the epic
poem of a living contemporary as comparable, in
the majestic flow of its blank verse, to the blank
verse of Milton, or to refer to the delineation of its
battle scenes as truly and wonderfully Homeric in
their vigour, grandeur, and variety, we hesitate
not for one instant to speak thus—and quite
deliberately—of this " Fall of Nineveh," as it is
here described in thirty books by Edwin Atherstoue.
It is written throughout with au impassioned force
that often rises to the height of sublimity, that
never once swells into bombast, or becomes exag-
gerated iuto hyperbole. Everything is pro-
portionately colossal throughout. When the
" stupendous palaces" and " august temples" of
Nineveh are referred to by Mr. Atherstone, he
a single touch, conveys to us
thus grandly, by
upon the instant a notion of their immensity
by describing them as—
" - by the eagle alone
In full beheld."
In a kindred spirit, again, he opens up to our view
in a single line the vast perspective of the proud
eitv's streets of edifices by depicting them as—
" Straight as a sunbeam ; a day's journey long."
Once or twice—but very rarely—he disdains not to
employ a colloquial, occasionally even a grotesque
expression : as where (vol. i., p. 79) he describes the
hurling down of a war steed--
"-- with loud squelch and jar onto the ground,"

Otherwise, his language is always of befitting dig-
nity or grace according to the varying requirements
of his theme : now descriptive in mellifluous num-
bers of banquet scenes radiant with sung, and
dance, and revelry, and suffused with an

atmosphere of intoxicating and be witchin
voluptuousness--now delineative, in word-paintings
of wondrous passion, fury, fire, and splendour, of
the shock and glory of battle when the clashing hosts
contend like serried armies of fiends incarnate, and
their leaders like the demigods of Greek mythology.
One solitary instance, selected almost at random,
will here suffice to illustrate the astounding
power of his words when recounting the deeds
of might done by the heroic combatants.
Arbaces, in his war chariot, is bearing directly
down upon the Assyrian monarch, in their first en-
counter, when Sardanapalus (happily for Arbaces
with an erring aim) casts his deadly and ponderous
lance against the Mede—
"— With such fury flew it, that, the car
Striking in front —right thro' its coat of brass,
And thro' the oaken plank, and inner plate,
Crashing it burst; and, in the gaping rout,
Angrily gnarring jarring, rocked to rest."
Abundant illustrations of a similar kind might be
readily adduced from other portions of this impas-
sioned narrative—ex uno disco oinnes, however, the
whole thirty books being sown as thickly with
beauties of this description as a starlit nig4t with
constellations. It should be remarked especially,
moreover, that the interest of the story is admirably
sustained throughout—incident following incident
in rapid succession and with a most natural sequence
—the effect produced being often one of au enthral-
ling character. As to the principal personages de-
scribed in what might be termed without extra-
vagance this most veracious history—for Mr.
Atherstone, in the broad outlines of his plot,
is scrupulously faithful to the few cherished records
of antiquity—they are discriminated with singular
felicity, the consistency of each being cleverly sus-
tained from first to last. Sardanapalus himself is
especially noticeable among them all, as a mixture
of good and evil far more consistent with probabi-
lities than the last of the Assyrian kings as he is
described to us in ancient annals. Viewed through
Mr. Atherstone's verse, the Monster disappears, and
the Man, the King, the Warrior, the Volup-
tuary, each becomes here distinctly, and vividly, and
always pisturesquely visible—subordinate only, all
through the poem, to the true hero of it, the royal,
heroic, peeress, puissant King of the Medes,
Aruaces. Then, too, there are the priests : there
is the Babylonian priest Belesis, and there is the
Assyrian priest, Barak. Contrasting vividly with
these, and with other similarly austere and majestic
forms, there, moreover, are the beauteous shapes
of Azubah, the • concubine, of Atossa the
Queen, and of Nehushta, the girlish daughter of
Sardanapalus. There are likewise Salainenes, the
King's brother-in-law ; Peresh, the royal leech ;
Nebaioth, the captain of the guard : together with
Almelon, the leader of the Babylonians ; Abdo-
lonimus, the King of Arabia; Rabsaris, once the
dearest friend and afterwards the deadliest foe of
Sardanapalus—Rabsaris being the father of the de-
ceived and fallen Azubah. There, too, are Ahab,
the Bactrian, and Jerimoth, and Ziniri, and Senna -
cherib, and Adriel, and Abiathar, and Abijah, and a
throng of other wise and valiant warriors, too nume-
rous here to be particularised by name, Medes, and
Persians, and Arabians, and Assyrians, and Baby -
lonians, men of all countries, customs, creeds,
colours,costumes, and characters. As befits alike the
nature and the general effect of a literary enter-
prise so considerable in its dimensions, so vast in
the scale of its proportions, so densely peopled,
and so majestically, and, upon the whole,
so consistently conducted from its impressive
opening to its impassioned close the in-
terest, the eloquence, the power, the passion,
the enthusiasm of it all attain their climax (as is buy
right in art) in the very last of these thirty books,
in the noble passages which bring the narrative
to its conclusion, passages through the luminous
beauty of which Mr. Atherstone portrays, as with
pen of fire, the appalling destruction of the great
city of Nineveh. It rises, this ambitious descrip-
tion, by a grand crescendo, to the crowning, culmi-
nating catastrophe.- From the first fall, out of the
thickening, blackening atmosphere, of the portentous
ice-bolt—a hailstone " large as a man's closed
hand"—and which smites one of the mail-clad
soldiers to the (last, dead upon the instant, to the
apparition, after the self-immolation in flames of
Sardanapalus among his concubines, of the dark
cloud, that every instant waxes huger and blacker--
" inward lightnings" gleaming through and
through it— . . _

"As within it fought

Legions of fiery Ande—
an is tub of Lerror, preternatural, appalling, anl
yet never once straying, even by a single piirasei
into extravagance. While Nineveh is still one
stupendous coutiagratiouits final doom ap-
prtmehe6 1

"A loud blare

Of thunder's trumpet told its coming on"—
the poet exclaims iu his thirtieth book: just as in his
fourth book he had preluded his delineation of the
opening battle, by sounding thus the advent of the
warrior horst:Men—
" The fast-boating hoofs along the ground
Made running thunder."
At the toppling down of the enormous To-,ver of
Ninus—
" which for thrice five hundred years,
Unharmed, had stood as though defying Time
To lay his rebel hand on its great state "
the poet writes—

"The century-beat
Of the Time-cycle's mighty pendulum,—
Measuring the dates of empires and of worlds,—
S wept by, and boomed its knell. Shuddering at heart,--
Like some o'erbeetling cliff, on ocean's marge,
Thousands of years by billows undermined,
And worn by eturms,—it bent its giant knees;
Bowed its great head ; and, death-struck, in a heap,
Sank down together!"
Whereupon the whirlwind, in its terrific vortex,
described as lifting up " high in the air"—

" The burning ruins—in one monstrom wheel,"

out of which come—

"- fiery drifting, like the dust of hell."
After this, it is, that the " dire roaring" of the
whirlwind, "strongest in dying," is described as re"
sounding, as in a death shriek, whereupon—

"That dread voice
Called up the awaiting earthquake. Ho arose
In his deep regions ; and the plains and hills
With a sharp tremor shook; for well they knew
His terrible footstep. Gathering up his strength,
He stretched his vast, far-reaching arms, and shook
The solid earth, as winds the deep sea shake,
In long, slow-rolling waves."
Then, it is, that follows this magnificent description
—which shall be our last fragmentary extract from
narrative that ought, for its adequate appreciation
and in simple justice to its author, to be read in it°
entirety :--
"The enormous walls,
Like a fast-sinking ship, rocked heavily ;
Writhing, and twisting, as they knew the hand
Of death had struck them. Like a riven scroll,
From summit to foundation-stone they gaped,
A hundred hideous fissures. Still they stood ;
The ruin of a moment, yet so firm
Iu their vast bulk, that ages long had lived
The ghastly grandeur yet,—but that again
The Earthquake shook; and lo! from north to south,'
Like some gigantic billow, eagle-swift,
Running aslant in thunder and in foam
Along the howling beach, the eastern wall,
Through all its length rolled inward."
Nu wonder that the Edinburgh Review 1005
since remarked upon the author of this Poellio'
" his descriptions are magnificent ;" or that tb
late Earl of Carlisle, carried away by his entlltl;
siusm, shrank not from pronouncing the 10:4
in his opinion, " the finest epic in t",,
English language." Irrespective of, and wholJl
apart from, all Mr. Atherstone's other poetie'ilo
writings--taking no accJunt whatever of
historical romance in three volumes of ``f'.o
Sea Kings of England," or of his scriptural ronialo
in three volumes of "The Handwriting oil ti.,o
Walt"—having regard alone here otherwise to
twenty-seven books of his " Israel in Egypt," t° of
"Midsummer Day's Dream," to his "Last 'ass t,
Herculaneum,',' and his " Abradates and Pantbc.too
—apart altogether from those other poetic f
,
of his imagination, our author has secured to brof
self, by right of this one great poem of "The F3l d,
Nineveh," a lofty and enduring place in our P°
lish Walhalla.
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