New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-17
SKETCHES OF LECTURES
49,, Rel and Nathaniel Hawthorne
ny ". HUSTIsc1oN, Esq.


k61f'As - u.kino his appearance upon Ine sage
ESQ a. n o,u,menced his lecture as iono"S'
sfoce0~. - ,-,,xyx: The subject OF the lecture
hpus;ro does pos a. first sgtd az .1is ~ the
- s. sst IL ia OIL me Ia &c. oil IL h
fsf ~ tro living novel-wnfefs anu, a. ,bisct
sosks q W. ;cse novels TO make them me suoJsc'
svfthvnn Everyb body knows that movers are w III
r.dipo and therefore surely tney 9' -,
proffabe Would il not have been De''er
uppfOEtsD's ~ iecture upon hs Russ Pavement anu
bad gseIh YOU TO the Baric99es' ana 70 tno
<D osres French Revolutions lhen' agSnt' tIsiS
de old topic q the spap'S nounr What other theme
tken nA 80 ,,opr;efy have touched upon But iaaS5
sight 10. here Is cause for everything II We co9u
.ne sod out and If have elected OT d yOat tbsTe IL
rsfrt hs In truth there is no topic II we viii nghly
rnefss h that is either trivial or despicsole,
rene, NJ thought so private ana so Seciudeo ma -
bIopH :. snouob does not lead into the king hgh-
fohoSso ''ss ,tveyssI principles But il matters
Ep. a.. how you examine the sr1lect DeS'o ~.
sh "a genteuen really think that noyeiists are ho1
bes 5s regarded with tTivaiity or inatteDuon i1
B0y 49,; Ere band into your house, and especiaiy
vas come light or combustlole matter you "ou'u
t5 4 A no small or trivial mater; ana y WI
I.der magazine, you would tninf II ~, ~ - aa,r,
psu@, novel threatens the safety OF our country
~ nns,;,,;on and has raised storm OF indignation
Erohort ali Europe Do you think me story Oh GHcss
800 Calm is u a mere trin5i lAPpI4u9el Irso
&C., a. The barbados Of Frances but there was power
before that spread for the novelist all over the
ndo,a This il WAS that overturned LOUIS Philippe,
ns'o oost The coupd etat Of Louis Napoleon Ana
shea the laws Of saofea Fal~sD G tbrown into
n' beuss; and Whist viii happen night AFTER
~ Emily have retired, needs no ProPhet 70
III Books there are in which eyh IS Dienoeu
- goo0-bOoks which genius renders fascinating
"a dsnoerous AZ the same tmebOoks against whose IN
ssses We ought he the guard. Beside philosophers
huld ever be Acquainted 18th the popular hcuonS OF lh
Ss, have been At sea IN calm when the snip u9'eu
Nv along the sails tapping against the mass ana as
- Ey on the deck under the awnings, small mccoy cOuu
,suld appear the horizon. We would regard H. hot
ssh ,py feeling Of alarm, but our experienced Iappn
snh see In this bright ea,herycOud the gathering Storm
ad very soon the ireshening breeze and the drops
n rain came aad by nghtfall we were sSudding
rsder reefed tOpsails, beating up against the eaie
Eoyels are very beaufi fol and amusing producIohs
IL thew too do not come without horizon bear
no A prophecy which we may not wholly understaHu
B1 may be that the rude hurricane 10 oennd mems
he first bloody French Revolution walted tne
Rosseau and Robespierre-and still later on NletJr hugo
ssd hs eoaborsrs The two Novelsts we shall examine
pbeht are not unworthy Of our consideration C9Trer
BsL E Woman-Natbsniel Hawthorne, OF course, man
hey are of different countries and different characters-
r,giisb and Yankee Born and bred New Englander'
Nathaniel HawbOrne's nationality Is his ualt ana 80
With Cuner Bel was the real English woman more
,uhuly portrayed There Is good deal OF Engish angu
y In her dress and gait She speaks French, OF course
IN great huency; but STILL there is IN II the old
Epgleh accent. che is real English W0mt n; ana
Nathaniel Hawthorne is true brother Jonstisn'
nsd His true by the Society Of Cambridge and Boston,
Iut sI the genuine Brother Jonathan Such man could
never have middle name by any chance or he had,
he would sis n himself Nathaniel +. hawthorne
a. On Percva Hawthorne He would never do away
vah the plain hOmelke Nathaniel or Nat when
boy and he will be called Nathaniel now. As Currer Bell aud
hire different in and IN country So too there IS DIS
tpguhhabe difference in their thoughts feelings and Ian
rvsge Currer Bell is unmarried woman; and this IS
, important in making just estimate of her talent rs
vr Her maiden estate is the reality TO which she must
Lvsss awake But Nathaniel Hawthorne, on the con
tar u husband and a father, and besides ali the
multiplied experiences of manly existence to which the
rude hBRges of poverty and adversely have been added
he domestic relations unioded 10 his eye like the map
Of biz country the picture OF the City which he has
taveed C1rrer Bell the daughter OF Protestant min
itr-Of what sect | do not know. Her irst book was
Jat Eyre autography which had unprecedented sue
IN this country being over 10000 copies sold
ale at that time before Uncle i ms CGbia unprecedent
d Miss Jane has good deal of the old Adam in her
Ae Of your soft sentmen al children She rises up
nt the hard Justice and want of love OF her protector
The speaker here continued the narrative OF TINS WORK re-
wng the progress Oh story 10 TO the time Jane Eyre
he heroine mariies Rochester the hero lie then con
ued Currer Bell has not particle Ofhumor in her books
She fod and sound throughout Wherever she attempts
Wit che always fails But fine moral runs through
al Der works from the first page of Jane Eyre 10 the last
o Ylleie Her style, though simple, is wonderfully Wig
Onus and concise for q She the purest and
he best Of English, and she shines almost permanent in
Der power Of picturesque description She paints with the
kce hand of mistress of what she with the brgh
intuition OF the artist Neither Dickens nor Ihaekeray de-
scribe like Currer Bell This is of the truest marks OF
rus artistic power Currer Bell is genius, nothing else.
applause
f6e lecturer now briefly reviewed the works of Ma
issne Hawthorne-the Scarlet Letter, the House Of me
Srsn Gables, and Bliltcdoe R0mGace-and said that no
book from an American pen had engrlven itself deeply
UPON the mind Of the general reader the Scarlet Letter.
Yet II very difficult cTiticise and hope will be
long before we possess literature Of furnished by
he hand Of consummaie genius Hester Prnn is one OF
those characters which he delights TO paint Elegant,
beautiful, brm full Of strong womany feeling but not
weak sentimental Zenoba, in the Bhed0is Romance,
s another Hester Prinn. Two sisters could not ba
more alike than they are. She Is the freshest and
he rosiest woman of thousand as Hawthorne himself
sys. Zenobia is the abandoned female as Hester
Efnn. Their domestic position is precsiy the same Hes
ia married to old deformed physcianZenobis 20
soung handsome man, but man whose evils were al in
Is soul "Whst kind Of being am linked with" cries
fobia; if my Creator cares for my soul let Him release
asfrom this horrd bond Thrown of from the love OF
hdngworh, she browns herself What the moral in this
do not know unless the author wishes to show how
Hspsgan theory Of life leads TO Pagan death
Lecture ON the Higher Law.
large audience assembled last evening at the Colored
Congregational Church Sixth 81 to hear Lecture from
lkfDERloK DoUGLASs on the Higher Law" large
dsnce Of both white and coored the former predOmi
isngl we're present and harmony and attention were
Einitsied by all present The meeting was opened by
egpg nom the choir prayer was offered by Mr. Little
llh and hymn again sung Mr. Rufus +. Hibberd
vs called 10 the Chair aud introduced the Lecturer.
M DOVGIAss-who said he felt somewhat embarrassed
addressing meeting composed of distinct classes
y cd not feel capable OF throwing any light the
sagec Of Slavery bat he held that truths immu
abe and the most immutabe of these was the right Of
uUy beng who had the imprint of the Amightys hand
on him. to the possession OF his liberty his life and the
s Of his happiness" and this he would term the
higher Law"
he lecturer then proceeded to the consideration of his
m and the happy manner in which he treated it, called
wine AmeSt appreciation of his audience.
4ier the lecture the Chairman announced that Mr.. Lit
sohn from the West would lecture this evening at the
snptrsnoe Tent near the Crystal Palace, when all Obec
eas to the Maine Law would be fully answered After
FgG the meeting adjourned
ne New-York Young Mems Christian Association.
his Association held is first snniv erSary last evening
e Reformed Dutch Church, Lafayette place. The
ssace filed the house o. Z. WooDYORD. Esq, Presiden,