The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-06-05

after all, however" says she, ''if be-
came that reviled but now very fashion
able parsonage, a female politician, 1t
was much in the same way as the Bour
geois Gentithomme spoke prose without
knowing It; a circumstance, perhaps,
not. uncommon with Irish writer's =
For myself, at least, born and dwelling
in Ireland, amidst my countrymen and
their sufferings, | saw and described,
felt and pleaded; and if a political bias
was ultimately taken, it originated in the
natural condition of things, and not IN
"malice aforethought of the writer" In
each successive novel, too, the charac-
tiers will be found more and more boldly
contrasted, the scenes prepared and ar
ranged with finer artifiice. If we can
not but note the strong family likeness
which exists between all their plots,
through every one Of which a brilliant
and devoted woman fits in masquerade,
now to win lover, now to save friend,
now 10 make proselyte, we must also
insist upon the living nature Of many OF
their dramatiS persona, especially the
broadly comic ones, InstancIng. The
Crawleys ("Florence Macarthy,") and
Lieutenant O'Mealy, ("The OBnens,~
and Laurence Fegan and Sir lgnatius
Dohgerty, (''The Princess, ")-and upon
the thousand indications scattered here
and there with apparent artlsssness, but
real design, which prove, that though
the writer loves TO foot upon the surface
of life and society, she can at viii, drive
into their depths, and bring up truths
new and valuable.
Our remark applies with yet closer
pertinence to the next works, which we
shall group together, France and TIA
ly,' the result of Lady Morgan's CONT
mental travels undertaken shortly after
her marriage, (the latter, il will be re
membered, praised by Lord Byron as a
fearless and excellent work. and with
them "France in $780," and "The Life
and times of Salvador Rosa" These
are deservedly installed upon the shelves
of our libraries, in spite of the gross
and unmannered abuse so long showered
upon them; no insignificant proof, BY
the way, that Lady Morgan's antagonists
could not confound her travels with
those ephemeral and unidea'd guide
books and tours, which are permitted to
pass away with the hour and be forgot
ten. And they deserve this standard
position, not merely for the liveliness,
and colour, and poetry of their descrip-
tons, but for the speculation they con-
| tain, which, granted that it be often per-
verse, often illiberal In its liberalism,
! is always sincere and earnest. The
second France" however, must be read
with al allowance for lis writer's pro-
disposition to take up arms against that
spirit of romantcism which has Tepla-
ced the literature of Voltaire and Beau
marchais with another more couvulScd,
more inflated, more.exaggsraled, but still
we cannot but trust, moro instinct with
the spirit of faith and poetry. To our
selves, the ''Salvator Rosa" is the most
delightful of Lady Morgan's books; it
was written, she tells US, under the intlu-
ence of Rossini's music. and it reads like
a strain by that gorgeous master OfsouIh-
ern melody;-a fine whole, oil glow, and
colour, and enthusiasm.
In addition to these works, we have
yet to mention one or two of less preten-
sions, "Absenteeism," "a single yolume,)
''The Book of the Bondoir," already quo
ted, besides many happy contributions
to the more select periodicals: and tbs
dramatic Scenes from Real Life" so
gayly characterised by their writer, as
"a thing that may be read running or
dancing, like puff on dead wall, or
sentiment on French FAM" a thing, be
it added, far less unsubstantial than these
words imply 1t is understood that La
dy Morgan is preparing yet another
work for publication, upon, q subject SO
often touched upon in her previous wrl-
tings, as to prove that she has studied II
long and earnestly-the influence and
position of women.
And here our scanty notice of this brill
liant woman must end; after our ha ing
added that whether grave or gay, dsyo
ted to politics or the arts, her writings
are but fair aud unhatering reflections OF
herself. Ere we conclude, however, we
must once again advert to the fate they
have encountered, to their reception
not by the public of Europe, but by the
critical few. And we do this to record
our protest against the dishonest and
personal acrimony with which for some
twenty years they have been indiscrim
inately attacked, and attacked by those
too, whose registered attachment to an.
Gent Institutions and principles, ought
we think, for consistency's sake, to have
enjoined upon them at least slight de
gree ofcourtesy and fort earaRce toward,
a writer of the gsntler sex. If to have
endured "the pitiless pelting Storm o
vituperation and misconstruction, il
fighting the hard fight of unpopular
against popular opinions; if, in short, I,
be Jealous and consistent in the supper