The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-05-25
CHEVELY, OR THE MAN OF HONOR.
BY LADY LYTToN BULWER.

We have encountered copious extracts from.
this work, comprising, we presume, the better
portions of the productions; and have been struck
with surprise at the vivdness Of its pictures the
strong moral accuracy of its thoughts, and its fire.
quent didactic vgor. Lady Bulwer, infuriate
from love and jealousy, is said to have written
'Chevely' as satire on her husband, after their
separation; but this we do not believe. Il is a
picture of one-half the eminent statesmen and
diplomatists in England, whether connected with
courts, the bench, parliaments, or the career Of
letters. The dedication Of the work opens thus:
|"Io No One Nobody, Esq.,, of No Hall,
Novhere.
''DEAR SIR: In dedicating these volumes to
you, acquit myself of a debt Of gratitude to the
only man whose integrity have found unin-
peachable, and whose friendship have proved
unvarying. Among the most deserving of my
own sex, have, in many instances, found sin
cere and unchanging affection, united with those
highest and rarest virtues, which from adjoining,
reconcile us to human nature, though truth COM
pels me to acknowledge that have known others
whose deep rooted selfshness, puerile vanity, and
vascillating weakness of character proved them
to be natures worst anomalies-masculine wo-
men,"
The dedication is framed throughout in the Sc
IScLcet SCiil, dAu HC lIoHy u ~ 10
bly, deserved, in its application general por-
trait of the very large class in England to which
we have alluded, and with whom may be ranked
a majority Of the movers in the high society of
the metropolis. Well did Burke say truly long
ago. 1.-THE age Of chivalry is gone" A system
which vents itself in clubs and coteries has over
thrown the beautiful attachments of domestic af-
lection, has plunged into the paths of political and
conventional ambition ten thousands Of fathers,
whose commerce with the world, and thirst for,
Its emoluments and honors, had become unqhench-.
able, and filled with that nsatiate fever, the pull
SEES which God designed to move in the calm te-
nor Of domestic life. By this system, the 400
mea-the res,orers, the blessings, the Az of hui
man life--are left, to pine in coroding sorrow and
neglect 1t is the cursed mania of society which
produces this state of things--whch beckons
men among each other where the selfshness of
one strives with that Of his fellow; where over
reaching plots and scoundrelism ofevery name go
hand in hand for while, until swept apart BY
diversified affinities. Who can deny that in the
following, Lady Buwer speaks truly?
at is in England alone that there is dark and
Ejesuitical hypocrisy in the systematically unjust
conduct Of men towards women, and those gen.
tlemen who write the most literally and lachry-
mosely about the errors of female education,
which tends to stalify their intellect, warp their
Judgment, weaken the moral tone of their natures,
and in every way unfit them to be the friends
and companions of men, are the very first prac-s
cally TO labor for this state of things, which they
affect to deprecate; as most husbands appear to