Daily national Democrat., 1860-12-07

with Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, at his mao
niiicent mansion No. /, Park Lane, Picc5-
dilly' OF all the living authors of England
Sir Edward was the one most wished 10
see As a novelist, a poet, an orator. and a
statesman-"take him for all in al"-wbcre
shall we find his peer2 For the last thirty
years the reading world has fed upon his
thoughts, and an entire generation has been
stimulated and educated by his glowing
poetry and his fine philosophy. 1t was not
as one of her Maiestys Secretaries OF State.
who has charge of her "mighty colonies, ="
that desired to make the acquaintance of
Bulwer, Oor dropping all titles, this is the
name 10y which the world knows him best
but, rs poet of the finest fances, and as an
author of the richest and finest productions
of the age. The mere mention Of his works
Is like running over the KEYS of pleasant
memories, awakening the most delightful re-
miniscences of the times and places in which
they were originally read, and Of the living
acquaintances ever associated with his ideal
characters. Let me see if can recall them
IN the order Of their appearance, without an
overwhelming feeling OF home-sickness for the
youth and romance left behind.
E. L. Bulwer was born poet and a poll
tician in the year 1905 At the age Of 3 he
published the first blossoms of his genius in
little volume of verses, entitled lsmael"-
Five years later came his noble prize Poem
on Sculpture then his leeds and Wild
Flowers" boquet of fugitive poems private
ly printed in Paris. In 1927 he entered the
Horse Guards, and struck his true vein Of au
thorship, and gave the world his brilliant
maiden fiction the rhetorical, skeptieal, as
piring and despairing Falkland" This was
speedily followed by ONeil or the Rebel"
and in the midst of his mental and moral
ehervescence, BHlwer committed matrmonv
and retired from the army. In a lonely and
lovely part of OXfordshire, the somewhat
subdued and 6isenchanted author gave him
selfup to study and meditation throwing off
annually, at least, "three volume" novel.
Pelham, or the Adventures of Gentle
man; The Disowned; Devereux; Paul Clifford;
The Siamese Twins Eugene Aram; The Pill.
grims on the Rhine; Godolphin; The Stu
dent ; England and the English The Last
Days of Pompeii; Rienzi; Leila; Calderon, the
Courtier-his maiden play; the Duchess de la
Nalliere Athens its Rise and Fall Ernest
Maltravers; Alice or the Mysteries; The Lady
of Lyons, or Love and Pride-one of the most
popular dramas ever written: Richelieu, or
the Conspiracy-the greatest play since
Shakespeare; The Sea Captain or the Birth
llS lL---N ulcu ! 'luNe never feau or seen
ted; Money-a brilliant satirca comedy :;
Not SO Bad as we Seem, or Many Sides to
Character-his latest theatrical production
written in 1851 Night and Morning; Zanoni
Eva, and the III omened Marriage; The Last
of the Barons The New Timon-an extraor-
dinary poem, full of sarcastic hits at the
times; Lucretia, or the Children Of Night !;
Harold, the Last of Che Saxon Kings King
Arthur, an epic in twelve books The Cax-
tons; a Family Picture My Novel or Narie-
ties of English Life, and What Win lie Do
With It-just completed and published in
four volumes. These, with his numerous
articles in Blackwood the New Monthly, the
Monthly Chronicle the Westminster, the
Edinburgh, the Foreign Quarterly, etc, etc.
comprise the literary labors Of the most pro-
lihc, the most powerful, and the most sue
cessiul author of the age. The appropriate
motto on Sir Edwards crest is Hoe yiyt,ttiS
opas And all this labor has been accom-
plished in the midst Of every possible tempta
ton to idleness and luxury; under the de-
pressing effects ofphyscal debility; and
more than all, Of domestic infcicity!
Sir Edward is wealthy, independent of his
salary as Minister and his income as author
The Messrs Routledge pay him 800 900 for
a copyright OF cheap edition of his works
for ten years. As the Lord of Kuebworth
Castle, with revenues equal to the most ex-
pensive taste; as member of the British
Cabinet and leader of Parliament; but,
/ above ali, as the best read romancist and
writer Of the day, Sir Bulwer Lytton, at the
age Of iify-four, has achieved fame, fa-
ture, and a position unparalleled in the his
tory of men Of genius. In person, he is a
little above the medium hight, with figure
slight almost to frailty. His fine head af-
fords the most undubitable proof Of the gen
eral veracity of phrenology. 1t is splendid
dome Of intellect widening in the region of
"ideality," and affording ample scope for all
the superior faculties. There is nothing of
the appearance or manner Of the Englishman
about him; but, on the contrary, he is en-
trely cosmopolitan, in look, dress and con
yersation His hair, like his thin whskers
and mustaehe, is Of lightish brown color.
He wears it cut close behind and lifted up in
front, giving his head look of distinguished
loftiness.