Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-21
D'Isracii.


Literary journal, just twenty years ago, we
find brilliant comparison of Bulwer and
DIsraeh as novelists 1t is, we learn, from
the pen of our gifted fellow citizen, George S.
Bryan. Esq. D'Tsraeli is now playing a
great part in the theater of the worlds his
tory-a statesman of no ordinary sagacity
and influence He is every where theme
Of conversation and we have deemed it a
matter of general interest to reproduce por-
ton of this article, not doubling our readers
will be highly gratiied at the perusal.-
Charleston Mercury.
five mistake not, the voice of fashion and
the will of the majority have constituted Bul
wer king of the modern noveists. 1t seems
to be almost a settled point that he excels all
his contemporaries, and has succeeded to the
throne of the Wizard of the North But it
may be, as it has been before that the ma
jOrity is in error, and that most infallible
Judge, fashion itself, mistaken. Though we
submit ourselves, as in duty bound, to the
powers that be, yet we confess ourselves of
the minority, who would give the crown to
Dlsraeli, and displace the monarch of King
Numbers. We think Nature has been more
bountiful to him. She has endowed him
with an intenscr spirit she has gifted him
with larger share of that creative power
which the world has baptized genius
Throughout the works of Bulwer, over all his
pages, can be seen n refined taste, controlling,
harlnonlzing, composing reducing his varied
materials to order, and disposing them with
erect; from every quarter culling appropri-
ate imagery, and assimilating the thoughts
and sentiments of Others. You feel that if
you are delling with an author of some genius,
you are also conVersing with the pages of one
OF still greater talent aud art. The copyist
too often arrests your attention. The voice
of another is too oftel recognised You can
not accede to him the highest merit-origi-
nality. And it is precisely in the points up
on which he plumes hmself-his sentiment
and magery-that he is most plagiarist and
least original And these are the chief
charms of his writings. In them lies the spell
which holds the world bound But his tails
man came to him at second hand and is at
best thing of partnership, compost and a
manufacture, and we are swayed not by the
form in which it greets our vision, or the
drapery with which he has disguised it, but
by the intrinsic virtue, whose creation and
vitality was the work of another. D'Israeli
wields talisman all his own. He neither
bought it, borrowed it, nor stole it. 1t came
to him the free gift of Nature; as much his
eewn as the song of the nightingale, as distinct
from any other as the notes of the nightn
gale from those of the lark. You are the
subject of new spell, and stand entranced
Oy song you never heard before its like
even you have never listened to, and it recalls
no other voice. He has opened to the world
an intellectual region, as virgin as that which
sreets the children of the North, when from
out the waves rose upon their delighted
senses the tlowery and Odorous shores of Flo
rua Its sweeps of decorated prairie and
gorgeous savannas of oriental growth itsre-
splehdent skies of quivering snowy lustre /;
iIs oalmy gales, dissolvng the spirit in luxu-
~, and wooing it to soft repose. So surpri-
ecu ana delighted was the world when Vivian
urey made its appearance. And the ocean
'Csseu stranger did not roam the sunny fields
VI Tue new found land with more eager and
I'NrOied curiosity than did the reading world
nurFy through the passionate, wild, vivid
pages of Vivian GREY
n point oi novelty and freshness we con-
meet IL out with one incident in our expert
go go recalls to mind when, for the first
no ,,n.e' III the same land of flowers, flock of
pJtIqGets' wtI t' IKE cloud of gold and green,
snn ann" lne'r bright plumage gancing in the
w W. uarted' with chattering noise, by u.s.
W. S'oou IN mute amaze, and with child-ike
t; %ouuer; followed the brilliant winged spec
Ur Iele liil IL van shed from our sight 1t came
oPoI our vlsion-a revelation 1t spoke of
I":r I"oIher cline; it told of another sun and
IN ;suter skies. And not only in novelty, but
M ~ sluiliarlty of character, may the genius of
ola % oe compared to the brilliant specta
which nave recalled, and to the gay land in
thn ''on S we witnessed it. His spirit belongs to
ae oouth and to the East Their birds gilt
~ no' with more gorgeous plumage, nor
. more witching song their sky glows
L,.a WIN a more vivid lustre; their gales are
.ueGed with no richer odor in all, and
yoi'' an' there broods not more dssolving
ana P'VouSness Luxuriance, prodigalty,
taste; wild minglng and confusion of
d,snOs; eccentric, errant. wanton, bewil.
s, 'u maze but life is there, life in its inten-
cay, , Tue very riot and revelry of life-the
m;oI. Slowlng, teeming. rejoicing beneath the
i'IbHtenlng n 'bt glances of its burning sun. 1t is
no s attribute of life, and the life. giving
AL mat DIsraeli outstrips Bulwer 1t is
nns"p gs SRcommunicable ~ gift, which cannot be
sttuSsed by labor, which study may in vain
arm PI 70 win; before which men fold their
mir .ut ahd are content to despair, aud to ad-
tbo wherever 1t manifests itself, whether in
form. 'otce OF the orator, or the wondrous
oftLo VI .he sculptor, or the ardent creations
hi J w Palnter-it is in this power and quail
bnt 'ch men may be mimicked and initiated
eiloso5 5Hot De reached, which comes to pri-
A AZ! 'ew, the grace and bounty of Nature,
N nrona nrncCon' dignity flowing from roy.
blsasnros s"OlVe and granted at her queenly