Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-05-11
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Letter FROM ENGLAND.
London Mmsh 10. 1929

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Letter FROM ENGLAND.
London Mareh 10 1929
II is more on account of It's literary pleas res
that London i to he valued above every oiber
place. than Tor eating. 1rirkng. display o. a.
mosrment. TIE NUMBER nf books, inter, sing,
u4eful, ainbln boot 5. " hich monthly make
thrf app afance from the London press, Is IN.
Il Ell astonishing. The En2Iish n n reading
people. IN Your city. II l. Io' often that you
meel man goinb hoae At night from his tolls
stored vi h nenia 'teasarcs hrIn, upon the
closing o the COUNT e house, 1T night the
mei chan's are surr to he seen, Winding their
waV TO their harpy sponscs, mud blight sea
coal fires. with the las new ruhlica.i q, one II
|" Horace smiths oddldes,' ~ tt5itou Gro.
ker, mcriy legend. perhaps. Every street is
~ sur" 10 hasp il circulating librarv oI IL
blackstone, M ~ butchers stall. N bake house,
NJ green grocery" Aud the capitals employ.
! H. aud the fortunes maze IN thai Inc nr bus
ness. would nsinnish nnV one who had ohly
| sren ihr way we do thp thing in America
| Colburr ufs IT'S AMI no on" doubts, hit hr
has CLEARED thg thousand p0utds ae,img the
last year, by IL publications. Mnrfy has sold
! % 600 copies II Lo,d Bsron's No,ks, he lasi
wear Thirteen Ho,@dnd pounds uas laid on,
upon one Of the ann als alone, aud ,levcn upon
| another
| Mi Sparks j. here, aud has, ! am informed.
| his p,rst work neatly ready Tor publication.
! hra Il ~ Column the publisher that Mr. &
was in irnHiy with Nj ) for the copyright
Il IL understood thnt is not to br quite so TX.
rensiYe "a at first intended some fix or cisht
valamcs. instead ~ the twelve, Il frstproposrd
He would have sound come difficulty in dispo.
sing Of the eopgiiqhl al so elaborate u work
Notwithstanding. tho mort OF tho subject, aud
iis aolsunN lodged ability 10 do Justice 10 the
memory ard character of our greatest Of men
The American writer who nj this Time uccu.
pirs the larpesl space in the eve of the b. itsh
trad1np nublic To u,r CalcrldPs'- pet phrase
is ID ,rtor Channiny. | must confess had MOI
not,cad half the hcautias oi his Characters of
Napolpnn aud OF Milton tl they had been
poialed out by eontemporary British Journals
Yoa wnnld ask " Is II possible" when you see
tbr 81 srr. 4 VS. ari,rsrd 10 his name by thesr
.yst,matir ,outrn,nrrs al ty,,v th,nu Amrri.
can e,r,nt cab cottnn. AMI ucrhaps. for i,
fow DAYS longer, eur non aud whaat lie ia
c,llcd the nrolpuud tn, ,ruJltc In one
,vo,l, If character Is ttr greatest writer nf the
day :" and h, all admitted t. Weld in the I'm
NH, str,nptb al his I'm .,y.t,ous and Tho .x
ce.d,ng trnlh of hi, ,keichrs TO no living
writer " WHY does not ihi. b, illiant orpam,n,
vonr country publish lis history p said
gentleman IN me, Z Aliils S the other day
lie would Inakfa book tlai hoHld tqnat 'hoSrol
Hume aud Gibbon, " lille he avoided their
skepiicism
Yar friend Mr. Cooper, is hard brset by
The amor critics nj shr day. The last number
oil ne United Service JohinAl attask X hlm vlo-
lrnlly IoI araged ial,iiiralions of the stytr \
opinions of 'allors, in the k'd Hover. Coep.
er's novels have now become established. ROW
ever. aud they will he only thought shallow lie.
tractors who attempt 10 lessen his we'll canned
| populality rs writer of imagination Hi.
nex, novel Is looked ion with much iercst
| Washington LIVING remains in Spain. An
| English gentleman saw him few weeks since
lit ISL now three months AZ Granada busy
| amidst the runs OF Moorish magnihrence, The
| fallen mosques, aud q We'd haitlrments" 9th
Decri, ard Abencsrares. HIS neNt work, il is
said. will he se,ieS Of iomnutic lales, illuSirn-
ting the proud history % their period Of great.
urss when herr were twenty thousaud vii.
lagos on the banks OF the ';uadelauivicr, and
| the harbarians" were the pro ectols OF learned
men aud the resturers of the arts and sciences
| | will RISK n doznn Of the wine of " hch Falsal
compounded his sack and il is us dear here as
Otn Of roses tina, this " i'll hr his best book. II
suits his genius to a tilt'e. You recollect his
Moorish tale m Bracebridge Hall what beau.
,iful thing il WAS
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