The daily union., 1852-11-30
BuIwer. m iscellany and Gossip.

This sketch Of principal literary celebrity Of the age,
(and from the Age. LondonJ is pertinent and well
stated that think readers will be pleased to il
at length:
"Bulwer Lytons great effort is to unite in himself the
gentleman Of fashion and high breeding with the author
OF first rate literary reputation and, like most other
ravagant attempts, il would appear ridiculous his
literary uinmphs less complete. Upon the wit, poet.
writer OF plays and novels and orator, he would inocu-
ale The owner of knebworlh Park, dispensing county
hospitaes, and the man OF fashion in London receiving
only wits his table He has striven through life TO eff
feet this combination, and in great measure he has
ceeded The su npluous fellow -comnoner OF Trinity
Hall. Cambridge, conlrived to make driving his own
horses and similar eccenirices, compatible with win.
ming the university prize for the best English poem The
gentry OF Herefordshe were not long ago invited 10
Macenass country sea and the entertainment included
theatrical representation of his own play, just as il was
also acted w his amateur literary friends before the
Queen, at Devonshire House. Feeling a sincere sym
pathy for the trials OF artistic life, he would express il
like eudal chieain, and so he approprates from his
domain site for an hospital for decayed men OF letters
and art When he has few trends 10 dine with him
in London, The party might consist OF Talfourd, Ma
cready, Dickens, DOrsay (but that he s dead,) and
perhaps young American author, who has been in
trodpced, and is there upon trial. As he is essentially
refined and iasiidous, you will probably find that he
has furnished the rooms OF his house in accordance
with the tastes of The Tudor. the LOUIS Quatorze,
and other historical eras; and, being fully indulgent
his Imagination in the effort OF composition, he has
been said 10 write in appropriate costume and even
through the fumes OF opaie In the country houses OF
his acquaintance you may possibly oe snoWn some sacred
apartment, in which the confession of Aubrey, in Iev
ereux, written al midnight in a cowl, with skull
on the table the black bugled bed curtains, within
which the author OF Richeeu rested his inspired brow.
In estimating both the intellectual character and writings
OF Bnlwer Lyon, it impossible to avoid comparison
betwxt him and Byron. Even The circumstances Of their
private lives strikingly similar Their arisocratc
lineage; their great dependence in early years upon
mother; their unfortunate matrimonial xion their
attachment daughter in both cases, though from d-
ierent causes, frustrated; their personal vanity, warm
temper, and egolism their nonenuly in Parliament
also sundry high and generous qualities and feelings
which have undoubtedly distinguished them both. And
these pecullartes of HE and disposition have nctured
the prose of The and the poetry OF he oiher Each
has shown morbid desire TO put Dress and be the
hero OF poem tale 'Chllde Harold the Corsair,
&c. were vehicles for the personal confessions OF their
auihor Pelham, the Student &c. self lik
OF their artist This habit is incompatible with attaining
the last highest step WHICH genius 10 entitled TO reach.
is attributable, doubt, 10 these cases 10 that
sef-exaggeraion which the Hereditary privileges OF
wealth and station apt 10 engender, and which only
experience and self examination can allay Byron was
Gu, off before he became wise but, Johnson said Of
Goldsmith, with reference different subject, pre-.
dict thai Bulwer Lylton is coming right The later
productions Of his pen have been free from the
pedanlry nseparabe from drawing inspiration too much
from within. The scholarly cut.lhfoat and eegan,
adultress may hope, henceorh abandoned TO the
canape OF lierature and his works seem 10 be acquiring
that breadth and depth which make them worthy OF
coming irons great master OF the English tongue"