New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-19
SKETCHES OF LECTURES.
EpsIl,h Society, as Portrayed by Thnckcrny.

~ ! 3. HUHTisGToS
large aud ence assembled in Hope Chapel last evening
tC heara lecture on the above subject by j Huntington
author Of The Forest" Lady Alice" &c The lecturer
made Lis appearance upon the platform at o'clock &C
conpanied Us Archbishop Hughes and Bishop OConnor
of Cincinnati Tie lecturer said that he ought to begin by
apologisrg for disappointing his audience last Monday
evening" but he they would excuse him when he
told them that be had been confined to his bed almost every
day since and only appeared before them tonight by the
consent Of hi. physician IL commencing his lecture he
remarked that the question in regard to the utility of what
called novels which he should on the present
occasion put aside and before his audience
classes Of writing. criminals bat as truthful por
trayero of the society whereof they treat What
ever may be the influence Of noyelreadng and
whatever moralists may say in regard thereto, 1t Is
fact the speaker maintained. that there ever
will be more produced and reared 70 the end of time than
any other KIND of writings NOvelsts are witnesses from
whom derive great deal of curious Information which
could not get al in any other way They witnesses
Of the very beet sort tesyng to great truths There
law Of the human Imagination from which of them
can escape, which compes them to draw their materials
from the world of reality while they to turn away
from IT, What Should We know about the real mode OF
life among the Mohammedan Arabs without the collection
of tales knOwna The AroJiqq Nights EHtrtaiam nts 2
The Arabian tale writers (vho has read them with de-
light inform Us that their cOUntrymen charitable to
the and hoptabe to their friends but that they val
ued but lightly such virtues temperance. truth and
sefdenial. In the fctions Of Christian Europe,
the heroic sufierpgs of pure maidcns. and the gal
laEtry Of noble knights to defend them from wrong
have always been favorite themes with writers. Chri:
tan romanccs turn more less this point. which
shows how the public taste sympathses with womans per
sonal dignity. and its pers and msforunes In the Ara
ban Tales there Is not one instance of this kind Thus
fiction | repeat becomes witness of the greatest i'm
pornce of the moral character of the regnng ideas of
The people among whom it Is written Homer makes Us
more familiar with Greece than HerOd0tus Rome lives
sill with all her vices and expressions by the pen Of the
satri,t showing how little political supremacy do for
a Pagan people The manner, and customs of Old Eng
land still 1--we IN the writings oi Fielding. steele, Sternr
and Goldsmith and p0sterty will do the for Eng
land in tie works of Dickens. Ihackcray and Bulwer
We hear Great deal about the Iaborng Glasses OF Eng
land. should Ike to know something about the moral
and sanitary classes who dOHt abOr-WhO need no wash
houses, or Model Lodging House, TO be provided for
them but who clean neat orderly, and well behaved
men-men who read and WRITE and wear glove, ana Keep
their boot, well polished want 20 find ont what Eng
land crii-fd has done-their ways OF thinking and their
habtua aims in -thcr SDfr'tuGt life. which after all
i, the real mission al man / would Ike TO know
thing OF the unmarried women OF England such history
a. mi ht be gwen Us by Currcr Bell
The lecturer now came TO speak Of Mr. Ihackeray
writings which he considered nexceponabc witnesses
English lie and character and the author a the only
worthy successor of Smole and Fielding. SAID the lee
urer He writes slang but II Is with the classic elegance 81
who has received university education. There
not an English writer whom Ec has not parOdcd
while his own representative syie copied here and there
from Fielding OF the most nervous that any English
writer has employed Ihackeray Is not prctcndcr
He tri.es every class of society lie spares neither no
Dies lords nor parsons lie ms sdr-fl Inc SCutf Il-l
the Yankee the French, the jews, and the people Of
fashion above all. The lords that everybody toades the
editors which literary cour;alltnese Ihlckeray
has dealt with and the sting OF ms satire rs ruth e
the pathetic crcaUres OF Charles Dickens shall have been
replaced by something else, and the works OF Buwer be
antiquarian curioses, Ihackcrays works VIII take
their place along with those of Fielding and logah and
people will 90 TO themo see how they wrote III the reign
Victoria the First.
The lecturer now went into keen analysis of Thacko
ray, prin pal works. The Snots Of ENGLAND " Vanity
Far Pcndenni," and Henry E,mond;' showing
that their principal is in tine admirable manner
with which the author satso the fashionable cl,se, IN
England Tie lecturer said that might call lhacke
ray i1fc,s writer; and no doubt said he, # sentimental
Young adc, to be- judges he i heartless II an art
~ write moves and j. another 10 read them rightly Thou
sandsc ely Dickens 10 one who sheds tear q" hacke
ray Vel Ihackcray Is the more pathetic writer OF me TWO
What millions have cried over Il nce Toms CABIN!
The Duchess Sutherland. Carlyle says mas sc torrents
over H. Now must say that although entertain deep
SYN udty for the colOred appreciate merit IN
the book read il through with dry eye 1t is not very
often that professional actor VIII cry when some one else
is acting sublime tragedy. lie has been behind the
seer g. and understands al tire tricks ot the play 1t Is the
same with the writer reading anoyel But there are
massage, in Vanity Fair and Pendenn which are too much
iorme In truth ladies and gentlemen leave out OF TINS
world chosen few, who, although III 1t are mol oi H. ctI
there be beautiful pictures than are III t19 DOCK
Here are to be found passages Of tHc pathos lice Aao
appear, the great Vanity Fair of British Society IKE Bed
lam broke loose Thackcray understands the true moral OF
such story and has done II justice. '@N"" '""''"'""
What Shall we say then Of English Society painted by
Thackeray Considering the high preenslons to superior
liberty for white and black and tor all superstition every
where great deal might be urged by counsel IN aggray
ton OF But the Court will content itself WIN
gentle sentence in these words Old England: Physl
clan heal thyself ~.
But to 1hackeray must give good word HIS testl
mony has been downright candid and right to the point IL
been rather damaging to the defendant but that as an
honest and we will close by applying to INN the
words which finely said of his own hero at the close
of one of his books Let us give hand of charity to Ar
thur Pendenns With all his faults and short cOmings he
does not claim be hero but only and preacher