Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-04-03

write long with the reed pen iron style In
those days slowly and with many Alot but
the books they lewere anonted by posterty with the
oil Of cedar and enclosed in caskets Of cypress but
aays armed with hs steel pen, Eugene Sue
every day forty pages Of forthcoming before he
takes his breakfast; and when the whole story has been
duly completed and published its pages goated
for week by professional novereaders and fumbed by
Partisan shop girls after which its leaves by
twisted into hollow for the sake Of holding small
commodities in the groeers trade, pasted the
inside Of trunks.
It would seem, herefose from the history of ltera-
tue that the novel requires for its full development and
multiplication such combnation of labor-saving nsan-
tions shall enable to write without stopping to
think and then to print what under other circumstances
he would not have thought worth his while to write.
These nvessioRs ha~e already said printing,
paper mills and steel pens and while these three abide
the earth 1t is safe presume that literary mantua
makers and sentimental millnergrls viii continue to
joce in dngy novels with paper that the Hapers
and Stringrs and Townsends will make money that spec
tacles for neaxsighted persons win be in greater and
greater demand and that ocuhsts will have plenty Of
patients But making cad DEPRESSION from our
subject, and therefore must hasten to return
tons.
The first Of the books above named readers per-
eeive is of joint authorship Mr. James has written
much in his that suspect he is very glad to
have any father of his baggage for him.. We
told, however, in the preface that the curious
partnery in literary abo-s Of Beaumont and Fletcher
first suggested to the two friendly authors the idea Of
composing prose work Of fiction in the manners
and we are further informed-for it is presumed g the
public may be pleased know it"-that each has con-
tribued nearly possible equal portion with the
other the whole work; SO that there is not chap
ter not page which each hand and each mind has
not abored" The minute details of their plan of joint
authorship it is added would probably not be very
ing or instructive to any In opinion, how
ever these .inute details would have been just such
likely to have proved if not Instructive at least
very amusing" We should like to be infinitely inform
ed concerning the biparte conception, CESSATION Sc. Of
the in embryo We read in fiction of strange
births-how Minerva sprang from the head Of Jupiter
after Vulcan had opened it with his axe how Bacchus
born from Semee and the thigh of Jove how Gar
gantua into the world through the left of Garga
melle; how the ssyalant Chevaier Jourdan de Bayes
to light with leg white snow and the other
black ebony. But in Adrian have sort Of cpl
and hermaphrode creation concerning whose gen.
Grafton left wholly in the dark. Dropping, how
all obstetrca metaphor, let us examine page of
Adrian in order to if detect any traces of
this joint authorship We extract the in which the
heroine the putative daughter of fisherman is first in
troduced to Adrian:
'sThe young girl before him was probably not more
than eighteen years of age TALL but
yet in perfect womanhood The graceful flowing OF the
lines her whole FORM especially when she moved to
and fro in the little parlor had something which might be
called almost luxurious in it, The rich rounding of all
the limbs and yet the great decacy of all their proper
tons such seldom in the sheltered
dollhouse plants of the higher Weather circles The
small delicate foot and hand the tapering fingers, the
bosom heaving beneath its modest covering the length
from the hip to the knee the smaness of the waist and
yet the perfect ease which showed that movement
hampered by dress, and point of symmetry pro-
duced by art-an seemed to belong to another sphere
than the small cottage and the life of labor.
g The face, too, in harmony with the whole ex
quistey chseed delicate in complexion clear bright
evening with the eyes blue heaven, the eye
ashes long and dark like the rnges of the night and the
eyebrow clearly but gently traced beneath the ivory pal
at least seemed perectonalmost too bright and beau
n for EARTH indeed had not been for the warm rosy
somewhat poutng lips, and the rich, geamy brown hair
which, in the glossy tange Of its curls seemed to link the
angel TO the human nature"
Now, we must confess that this page (for it makes
page in the volume the appearance of work put out
contract partesthe bargaining to execute
description of the heroines physique according TO Gun
by line, rule and goniometer land exactly has her
been TAKEN that any mantua- maker could fit
Ella Keeson with dress the other Of the contracting
parties had evidently bound himself furnish head
in harmony with the whole !" and think readers
viii with that this part OF the portrature bears
witness the strokes and touches of boder reer and
suspect the practscd artist Of the two But
what exces curiosity in the whole to compre
bend how men, of the average gravity and
arrived at than middle age, could deliberately sit
down to essay such task and actually carry it into
operation-adjustng together the 'lines Of ideal
FORM gaugng the rotundity Of imaginary limbs, measur-
ing the model 'length from hip to knee spanning in
idea jump waist and painting eyelashes and eyebrows
for fancy piece All this indicates forcthought and af-
terthough and, readers perceive in direct
conflict with theory Of the production Of novels.
Florence Sackvlle is autobiography and that it
partakes of the very Of modern novel is suf-
GENTLY attested by its denouement We ranscribe its
concluding paragraph:
Surrounded by all my frmest and dearest friends,
there further for delaying my mar
rage and therefore, three months from the day upon
which Mrs Lyndon returned stood before the altar
the old parish church at Ingerdyne-a bridep'
/ Could any boarding school miss with very "suscept-
bic susceptibtes" desire better ending That quaint
old Frenchman Huet would have been greatly pleased
at the denouement Of Florence Sackvie !" for in his
curious book entitled Orgne des Romans, he makes
very grave objection TO the pastoral Of old Lon
gus because he the birth Of his shepherds
and does not finish at their marriage; be extends
his narrative even TO their children and old age" Now
this Che adds is entire departure from the true char
acter Of this Of writings It is necessary soI
at the marriageday and say nothing the consequen
Une heroine de Roman CROSSE accoachce est etrang
personndge Doctor johnson used 70 say could