New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-02
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The gifted author OF n series Of orIlAsnt TO
rnances, Of which the two latter are best known IN
this country has been 90 risrepreseniee and caium
mated by the English Reviewers, that kind d
opprobrium has been attached 70 her nsme, and as
we Americans have received, up TO within late
period our impressions Of foreign writers through
tie English an entirely false opinion has prevailed
among the mass Of uniformed persoas, who can
not read foreign literature in is native dress az y
the true character OF her writings. few months
since, wealthy gentleman OF high standing II Bos
ton translated COssUELo and 70 the surprise Of the
many, it was found that this work bore throughout
and ia all It's parts the stamp Of the highest beauty
purity and elevation Consuelo, the heroine IS
sweet bat noble creation lofty, devoted, and self
sacrificing soul, in which love. fascinating as
it's chastc entire in IL parity and eyrity buns
with a lustre truly celestial and SEES before as
type Of human character, which may we'll arouse
in the bosom Of every reader the deepest admira-
ton and the aspiration to dwell IN similar realms
Of feeling So full Of peace, elevation. innocence and
/ perfect selfreliance.
/ Ours is the age Of Novelresdng tic Novel IS
exercising an influence that is scarcely oalculaole
nothing can stop it Now we must have novels
and as people will read them, let as have those
which set before the world models Of noble chsrac-
ter. Of noble endeayors for the iust aud the good
/ types Of pure souls, Of which exalted sentiment,
! the ideal Of human affection form the central IN
most life. Such novels could be made TO exercise
/ an elevating and enno5lns influence, aud inspire
the minds Of their readers with desire to emulate
/ the high model thus PLACED before them
All Art be it Painting Sculpture Music, Poetry,
Romance should have for its aim the delneation OF
the Ideal in Humanity. The Artist Is supposed to
be toe being most filed with that Divine Love
breathed into our Race by Him who made Man his
representative his vioegerent on this earth, his
work is to embody the Divine Love Of the Soul IN
forms. colors tones delnestions aud descriptions,
which appeal 70. which strike the senses-whch
the senses can comprehend 50 that the material
nature Of Man may be made to commune with its
high and exalted counterpart the spiritual ele-
ment and be brought into unity with the Divine N
the Universe and 10 order also that Man may be
/ educated through the Senses 70 the hiEhes, par
ticulary at periods OF infancy and Others when the
senses are predominant or act alone II the mission
OF the artist be truly fulfilled not only the above
/ important ends attained but the Soul has the de
/ light Of behol2ing Itself magcd or mirrored in the
external world in the artists material creations,
/ which is the source of its external JOY.
! 1t is deeply TO be desired that the distinguished
writer's Of Romance of our Age should comprehend
/ fully the noble work which they might perform.
/ II they could comprehend their mission. and would
discipline aud elevate their souls to point which
would enable them to create type. oimoral grandeur
and dignity, which would set noble examples
before the minds Of the people and quicken in
them refining aud exaltng aspirations, they would
accomplish truly glorious task But this can
scarcely be expected. The thousand and one be
! littling and pervertng Influences which our daily
life with its anxieties, poverty conflicts dis
trust and sehshness, is pressing upon the souls OF
men. drag them down into the slime and mud, and
those who write become bat the painters OF what is
and not what should be. Has not England greatest
living writer Of romance just now thrown upon the
world work. well termed the Children Of Night
which contains pictures or types Of that black and
cold intellectual depravity, which has not warmth
enough to putrefy and thus become hideous, and
disgust the mind, like some Of Paul de Kocks
novels Ii it be proved that by an inverse
action such works havo q favorable influence, by
exciting a hatred within Us of what is internal then
we should approve them but We doubt it. IL is Ike
looking upon pictures OF irghtul crimes OF scenes
Of starvation plague, Of filthy beggar boys they
do not excite sentiments OF the Ideal, bu: accustom
the mind rather to the hdcous and debasiHg.
Ofthe few writers Of the present day, who have
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Of which We have spoken, GEORGE SAND stands
preeminent. Her WORKS have, far as We are &C
quainied with them, some high aud noble aim
and in every work those exalted characters,
SO exquisitcly drawn that they ofer. 20 the heart
the keencst living lessons Of moral beauty. Justice
and goodness that can well be studied. We are
not sure that GEoRoL SAND has done this work in
tentionally and with consciousness Of what she
doing may be that it is the result OF al IN
stnctive prompting OF the sou--of certain true and
beautiful sentiments with which Nature has ca
bowed her. working out their Destiny IN word
that 1t is instinct rather than seliconscions pur
pose II may be also that her practical lie mas
49,. -. ..-.y .esyeots a. variance with the pure
and lofty creations Of her soul commnping silently
with itself IL is said 50, and as we DO not know
the contrary, We will not deny 1t 1t is possible
also that false external social ie that false and
. peryerting Influences such exist abundanty IN
the societies OF Europe may have tainted or soi.ct
somewhat the surface and yet left the center pure
Be all this as II may it svery certain that GEoRGI
SAND has traced some OF the finest characters thai
have ever been drawn that she has unioded h,
4 human heart with sublime skill and shown ther,
those divine affections which they who have fsitl
in the goodness Of mans nature believe are en-
shrouded in this sacred receptacle, and are a
some day 10 bloom in luilness with celestia
splendor. CoSsuELo is one example Of this
JACQUES which is the name OF the hero oithe worl.
as OF the work itself is another
JAooUEs We will venture to say. is one Of tn
most original characters ever struck out from III
brain Of man or woman. The basis OF the chsrsC
ter is noble bat unyie ding nridc sentiment q
3, the most absolute rectitudc justice and dignity
which holds the measure OF its acts in the intcrns
= councils Of the Soul invisible 10 the outward worlc
Joined TO this IS a feeling Of deep and teDde
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