The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-04

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strsipi; and Psissils, sxqrisits,y drawn picture
Of feminine beauty, tremalous dependence, and d.
voted love. Those four personages gonstitute she
dYamails p9s0aG Of the Bithedale Rom lnce, story
fully told withA as to absorb the reader from FRS.
to last and to impress him with the highest opinion
Of the writer's genius and capabilities
Coverdale - rather an observer tn In an actor n
the Biithedale community. Discontinued with the
ss6shness and worn out methods Of action Of people
out OF doors he gives himself ap to the agricultural
pursuits OF the new society with vehemence and
desperation that would lead you to suppose human
produce, from the bowels Of the earth. Bat, his
bodily labo, over, his chief delgh. Is in the inves-
tigation Of the moral natures OF his companions
and the dissection OF their souls. Nothing caa be
finer than the recorded results of such delioqte IN
quiry His analy ses are those of poet, embo1y-
ing. h. the way, a vein Of common sense, and re.
yeaiIg appreciation OF the humorous, whioh are
as essential the formation Of the poetic chaancter
az ths hjc hest and nooest OF its elements. Hoiiaes-
worth il IN intellectual black smith, rough hewn tom
q rock about thirty years ofage, witha great she;-
nv head, heavy brow, darn 60 npexion,and abCndant
beard, gith more grace, polish o. court8sy S1aS
we'll bred bear, yet in his GentieE moods evlau.ng
ga tenderness in his voice, eyes, mouth, all gs-
tuye which fe men could resist, aad Ec rJelen.P
HoniDcsvo rth has taken 70 ths social establishment
pet philau th!opic theory which Las ensigYed his
gnirA and for the sake OF which n ~ prepared 70
rays ice himself and ,yery body eiae. lie LAS IA
,ern OF refo ming cTr t1kls through ~ Appeal 10
iner bi gber instincts an0 with this view ~ is ~.
hctNas ro establish E0c endOv college l1T tie
cOyti,n ami Instruction Of the most hardened cOI-
vo,s hoiassuoysh has 40 sympathy with Virtue.
III caun0t 81 hold ot the deW tved, society snail
gam 10 Aieg RON him 9a9 lesson taasbt "a inns
character is that the mos. g ersa philanthropy, u
The s4task 81 transitions, deSeIeFatcs inin tno last
un,aitigattd selishness; aud i Is conveyed With
contnrmate skin. One CT the inmates Glr5aty re-
ferred To- Zeuohia-is n bsDdspne woman, witt .
large Inheritance. She worships Hclng- dorth,
t.l,tal ,,f Nd
lady's doNry, with which he hopes at eaEth to SIT
his IA theory anoat. The lady loses her nauney,
and the philanthr1pist resigns his mistress. IL ].
lingseorth is picture No l. painted by orr piss
CuyeIdslc and more vivid and impressive tocnte-
nance seldom stares out Of canvass to excite tho
srectators emotion, and TO make him wonder at III.
rare insights into the human soul yogcnsated ~
Providence TO the gifted imner.
Ierobia herself is portrait No. ?, Her beauty is
deficient in toitness aud deii,aey bpt she is re-
rarhably beautiful, nevertheless. and has such m
overflow Of bloom, health and vigor, shat man
might well have fallen IN love with her for their
sake only Shells stately and imperi0us; nd>lent
in her quiet moods, but when in earnest, alive TO
her finger tips Her requirements are many. Sne
has earned vast reputation as al authore.s, in
America, and is well known for the passionate and
POW erfu appeals made TO ths stcrner sey on behalf
Of the rights Of woman. An men bow 30 her save
Hollingsworth, the gloomy blacksmith, to whom
she bends. In his ssence the unconqnerable is
subdued. During the frs. week Of her residence on
tne TIlsciAla Is
introducedto the society, and made TO her
peeial care. The girl throws of the simidty,
but she blooms into loneliness, and her nature also
cliDgs inv oluntarily sronnd the rugged man Pris-
ella, ii appears, is Lenohias hafsistcr, and the
more rightful inheritress of the proud woman's
worldly fortune. Her shy nature sostens the stony
heart of Hollingsworth, inpene.rahle to the more
dominant spirit of Ienobia The revelation IS made,
and Lenobra commits self-destructior
The vision OF Priscilla-the third OF Coverdale's
portraits is painted in fairy tints to such as serve
to afford CLEAN OF evoreseent beauty, ZOO trans
parent and thin to take its hold in the dull earth
passage or two from Coverdales own lips will con-
vey notion Of the feminine sprte-
When she bad come TO be quite at home among ne, T
used to fancy that Priscilla played more prank, and
perperaed more mischief. than any other cir. In tae
community For example, once heard Sils Foster 1.-THE
farm managc-) in very gruiI voice threaten to rvet
post becaufe he, with other young people had
canbcrod upon load Of hay, and caused II 20 slide ,f
the cort. low the made her peace never knew but
very afterwards old Silas with his brawhey
round PIisciiias waist swinging her TO and fro
and finally dercsiDg her on one OF the oxen 10 take
her rst lessons in riding She met with terrible misha
in her first efforts TO milk she let her poultry into
the gard, generally spoit whatever part the dinner
che took in charge she broke crocEey she dropped
biggest pitcher the WELL and except With her needle,
and those little instruments for purse making,
was A. unser, able member of society any young
lady in the land There ether sor. Of efficiency
about her. ye. everybody kind 10 Priscp,aerery-
BODY love Der laughed AZ her to her face and iii
not laugh behind her back: vcryboy would have given
her hail o his last crust or the / sser saie OF hs
cake. The ewere pretty certain indications that
al c,ntccus Of pleasant weakness n tn girl and
sidcid her not quite allie r. look after her inter
ess tgt her battle with the world. Her sim PIE
les childish 6ow 81 spirits often made raj. She
seemed 10 ike butterfly at psy in ckerine bit Of
sunshine mis- hiking i. broad AMI ete,ns, saM-
We sometimes hold nirth 90 greater acooun;a-
by than sorrow; IL must show good the echo
IF its laughter back lrs Grily Priscilla gse,y
moreover. OF nature that rlcwed how delicate
instrument she and what fragile heartstrnes
her As they made sweet music at the allie t
touch IL would require but stronger to burst them
al, asund,r Absurd il might be ] tried 70
with her and persuade her 10 I've SO joyous thi
that If she would draw less ayshy upon her fani OF
happiness. 1t would last the longer. remember doing
20 one summers evening when We tired akorers, sat
looking like Goldmiths old folks under the village
horntIee while the young people We're az their spcrts
u is scarcely necessary to state that the attem pts
made to reform society ut large, By individuals
intensely occupied in their own deeply personal
ceIns, led to better results than have been yield
ed by the we'll laid plane Of crafty adyon.urers
At the end Of the fret summer CoyerdAe quits the
establishment in disgust, having been rsortally Of
Tended by HolliDgsworth, who spurns him for his
reform. Not long after his departure, Zcnobis
throws herself into the water, having witnessed
HolEpgworths preference for Priscilla; and after
her death Hollingsworth and Priscilla retire to .
small secluded cottage, in which they live separated
from the world, the strong man leaning for support
upon ehe mild nature Of his parsnerthe gentle and
fragile girl afordiDg in the depths Of her feminine
heart, shelter, guardianship. and protection. No
EraIG eulnce IL Dult 1or the Tel0fatlon OF Cr mas
no single criminal finds reformation a. the philan-
thropist's hands For the rest OF his life he buses
himself with single murderer, the destroyer OF
Ienobia!
We convey TO adequate account Of this striking
work by the slender description of it above given
o work manifestly proceeding from writer who has
drunk freely and fully st the well Of English litera
ture, and mbibed the best qualities of the jnygo-
ratisg waters. The Btithed0t Romance is the in
t.ectus exercise of true poet, Of who is eager
to read whatever nature bas 70 teach, and who has
the faculty Of utterng in words the spiritual instruc
ton derived from his royal mistress. a few eyidsn-
ccs OF the faculty will speak for themselves. We
may open the book at random. Coyerdale has left
the society and returned his hotel in Boston He
looks out of the window ard the backs Of holss
opposite. His poetic eye diseerns mora than mere
bricks and mortar -
Bewitchpg TO my fancy MI those hooks and
nes where Nature like stray partridge, hidts her head
aroong the long established haunts of men II IS like
wise 10 be remarked general rule that there /, far
more Of the picturesque truth 10 native and char
act ris Tic .Ldences and yaslY gInatfr slscnsNnnss