Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1858-09-22

This j. the title Of o novel. by the au.
thor Of that desersel!y popular work. the
''Lanpsighier.' Tor which We are Indebted TO
the publishers. Love. love. love. the eternal
,heme which never loses interest the boy
Who never grows old. aud never arrives at
years Of discretion j. served up seeandaa ar
feR in Mabel Vaughan. The heroine Of our
n-'vei. who is beautiful. intellectual. imPul-
sive, noble hearted and rich. makes her debut
In her fathers palaiial residence on Fifth Av'
enue-and after an ensiable career of fashion
and folly. finds her heart unsatisfied. and her
aspiration, uuful6lled. She lives fasbiona
bly,. dresses fashionabIy. Is loved fashionably.
aud finally becomes Disguised with fashion,
Here are the FIRST symptoms OF the change
wrought In lie pe,,. Of Japonieadom. who, It
seems had the misfortune to possvo- "sa'''
sort OF useless sppendage ia those aristo-
cratic halls Our author thus mournfully
opens chapter XIV:
"A few weeks more pass away. The gay
world is as gay as ever Music. laughter.
dancing, fashion aud display. still gild the
surface OF that phase Of Humanity. which
hides it throbbing heart behind the veil OF
conventional usages. or brushes down ITS
aching sorrows beneath the weight Of an as
sumed gayety. little while ago. aud Ma
bel was one among the crowd who wore no
such veil. aud bent beneath no such weght -
Her motions were free. her smiles genuine and
her heart ligh. But the case is altered nov !;
the immunity exists no longer and Mabel is
changed.
at is not that her health is undermined.
cheeks nor is it the effect Of safety. for the
i new element. which a superior misd has had
power to infuse into her daily life. has lost
nothing of its charm. Yet the once buoyant.
happy, careless Mabel is sadly changed"
: The novel.reading reader can easily per.
. ceive what is in the wind. II would not take
a Philadelphia lawyer to discover that Mabel
D was IA love. Unfortunately Tor her, she be-
= gin. by loving the wrong man. This is the
: worst thing that can happen to a heroine
/. lint novels would not be novels without some
complication of "a belle passion. and some per
a certain ordeal in ordes to fit them for their
manifest destiny, and SO Mabel in order the
better to appreciate the right man Bayard
, had. of cocrse to love the wrong man Dudley
The young lady's condition. while SO pertina
ciously engaged in loving the wrong man. j.
thus portrayed by the author "ohe oei's'eo
herself happy-out it was happiness our
J. chased at the expense OF much imagined
much hoped for. much forgotten Such as this
so called happiness was, 1t was subject 10
many interruptions Like all selfish natures
Dudley was ungenerous in his affections. he
demanded more than he gave. He scrupu-
D lousy avoided any other declaration OF bis
E sentiments towards her. than that which ms
; whole ma,,aer conveyed but still assuming
{. rights TO which he t. ad established no claim
E he besitnted not TO exercise his influence ovel
I her habits of thought and life, and even pre-
sumed to criticise aud occasionally as we have
seen, take umbrage at her eondue.. III wa
. true, he possessed a grace and tact wii'ei
knew how 10 veil what was in reality ofiicious
beneath an air of faitering assiduity. and his
tCCtDlIllluts luiHlshtu "h 'A'"oN w VIZ"
would have been overbearing in another"
J. The sapiest reader perceives the position o
/, the parties at a glance. Such state of things
II could not Last. Mabel tests the truth of III,
poets words
u sAna some WE trusted with fond believing
Have turned. and stung "a t.. the bosoms core
And life has seen,e. hut a a vain deceivins
Prom which Nc turned aside -heart-sick and sore.
;. She begins to find her heart yearning for
Il passion which the mere man of the worl,
0 failed to inspire. By series of misfortune,
oar heroines position in the world OF fashio,
huctuates Her horizon darkens. The CLIO
} ries Of Japonicadom pale. Dudley himssl
n becomes fat and Improbable. Fate. or som,
other unseen but friendly power. now comes Il
:, the rescue, and takes our heroine's compiled
" ted miseries in hand. and is evidently goini
|, to set things to rights Mabel comes TO tn
, Great West-and here Of course she finds tn
right man. at The right time, aud in the RICH
d place. On the broad prairie. the young her
y encounters the lady who is to find in him con
q ISOLATION for the past He is high souled
/ chvalrous, man OF the West He is making
: stump speeches around the county. and hi
T. fine ora,ory. aud noble nature succeed in fill
u ing the heart. too capacious for the nsmb,
2 PANTY Dudley. Now the clouds disperse an'
D all is e.ienr de rose of course. All the rest o
the story goes merry marriage bell
and over tableau Of love. matrimony, an'
n domestic happiness the curtain drops. Tn
r p,oral A. uComa In tia West"-if that ism
T" sound morality we saould like to know wha
!" is. We recommend Mabel Vaughan with on
D" whole heart.
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