Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-01-22
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raise mediocrity to distinction never crowd to
hear donkey braying from a pulpit, nor ever
buy the tenth edition of q FOOLS book Some
times the contrary occurs, so that fools and WISE
| bad men and good, are more or less lucky in their
turn, and honesty is the best policy, or not, as
| the case may be.
eff this be true of the world, those persons
who find their pleasure get their livelihood by
describing its manners and the people who live in
1t, are bound surely to represent to the best of
their power life as it really appears to them to
be; not to foist off upon the public figures pre-
tending to be delineations of human nature,-gay
and agreeable cut. threats, otto. of.rose murder
ers, amlable hackney coaehmen, Prince Ro-
dolphs, and the like, being representatives of
beings that never have or could have existed
At least, If not bounden to copy nature, they are
justified in trying; and hence in describing not
only what is beautiful, but what is i'll. favored
too, faithfully. SO that each may appear as like as
possible to nature. 1t is as right to look at o
beauty as at a hunchback; and. if to look, to de-
scribe too; nor can the most prodgious genius
improve upon the original. Who knows, then,
but the old style of Molere and Fielding, who
drew IRON nature, may come into fashion again
and replace the terrible, the humorous, always
the genteel impossible now in vogue? Then,
with the sham characters the sham moral NAV
disappear. The one is sickly humbug as well
as the other. | believe for my part Hogartb's
Square, to be more moral and more beautiful
than Vests biggest heroic piece. or Angelica
Kaufman s most elegant alIegory !"
Ia 1874, The Fat Contributor is one of the
earliest introductions, we believe. of Thackeray
to the public in Punch; Jeames's Diarv, q hit at
the railway mania of 1915; the series of papers,
The Snobs Of ENGLAND, by one of themselves
The Proser, by Don Pacifico; Mr. B,oacn's Let
ters toa Young Man about 1olon, on Loue, Mar
rage, Men, and Women; The Prize Norelrsts,
series of capital burlesques of DIsraeli, Bull
wer Lever, James, DC, quite equal in spirit and
effect to Horace and James Smiths Rejected Ad-
dresses; another descriptive and sketchy group
OF articles, Travels an London, with variety. of
Mlscelanies on France, ireland, and other aues-
tons of the day-these identified the pen and
pencil of Thackeray with the laughter melting,
truth-asserting, humanity defending pages of
Punch.
A Journey from CoynAW TO Cairo, appeared
in London In the year 1915, of which Fraser says
IN gossiping article, "a delightful compound of
mlrsh and melancholy, an agro dolce of sagacity
and Jun, never tagging for one moment Welding
to no adverse influence of time or place, landing
or sea- finding utterance at every emergency for
some pleasant sally in a continued SERIES begin
ming off the Needles of the Isle of Wight, and
ending with that of Cleopatra"
Mrs. PERKINS, Ball, with capital illustrations.
was the first of set Of Christmas Books which
III several seasons Illuminated the holidays. 1t
appeared in lS47. Then came Ou, Street. a sim.
liar picture of the middle class of London society.
Redecca and Rouena, continuation of Ivanhoe,
DR.. Birch and his Young Friends. a sketch of
the school-day times. The Kickie6mys on the
Rhine was production of a larger growth.
Sketches after English Landscape Painters, by
L. Marry, with short notices by w. Nj. Thacke-
ray was published, an elegant work in 4to., by
bogue, year or two since. The letter-press is
model of neatness and delicate artistic percep-
ton.
Vanity Far, a novel without Hero, was pub
lished complete in 1S4S, and Pendenn,s in l84o
and 1850. The History of Henry Esmond COM
pletes the trio of the authors more elaborate
works.