Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-28
9I.E FI-F TH7-- :. LITERARY NOTICES.

SsoAAS t@,ASA A'"oAu ohA NOWA pp l79, paper, Dick and Fitzgerald. s ..r.a.. Called, on the cover, C. brilliant work, ," which by the way, is scarcely so untrue as tho l;ost of such " Banners on the outer walls' of odern literature, though we must surely take excep- ton to the cool observation of the publishers, at the foot of the same page, that "none but first class works are published in this series,'' since, clever as it is this is surely not work of the first class, sdt taa II soats .;a, P s'.
 Three years ago, or thereabouts, appeared, from an unknown hand, !" Guy Livingstone, '' which made its mark at once and was shortly followed by "Sword and Gown." to which we now add the work whose title forms our caption. The problem of their authorship is yet unsolved
 Even Messrs. Tcknor and Fields who reprinted thersecond book, and kindly replied to some queries of the writer, could only say that the au- thor was a young barrister, of London, of the name of Lawrence. We believe nothing is def nitely known on the subject, and that even in London literary circles, 1t is yet altogethera mat ter of conieoture. a s-f ...
 It is not surprising that this curiosity should exist, for the" works themselves, so fresh and sparkling, naturally beget interest in their ere
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 They are vastly like, in 8 certain broad, fsrni- ly resemblance for which reasons in the brief mo- tice which our time and space allow a slight re- view oftheir general character may be prefsra- ble to an analysis of any one of them -e..
 They are chiefly remarkable for their striking originality, discarding the time,honored models of off; fiction, founded on slight and simple plots, with F complete avoidance of studied complexi. ties of character and situations, and replete with cIrowding incident, graphic as range of, pie lures, and pictures too of high o rdes, finished with consummate art .....',., ,...... The easy and carless-seeming grace, of the style IS sustained to its own high level by the most complete care. It abounds in rare felicity ol expression o and bears evidence everywhere of large and varied reading. '. s, s.-s "zs,....t ,-
 A. In h evidence of the remarkably vivid and pie. turessue power of this author, take single senee from from Guy Livingstone" for instance the night attack on m Mohuns d house. which is ysnpleasahtly real Or add the narration of the affair of Fan ny Chalones, or to crown all, Guys last inter view with Constance. There is scarce any scene in romance more touching than ,his The other parting, too, with Flora, is a wonder of word panting,, A sentence ofthis man makes a picture, page is better than g chapter of many another, ofhigher fame and underlying all, per vading every page of every book, this very sense of power, as if all this grace and beauty were nothing, cost no effort, were but tithe of what might be done, perhaps by any one. Which if any one believes, let him him try it, ii 4. ,maar
 We must not makeia slight sketch too. .prolx. Time M fails in which to tell of all the many fasei
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 :, They have also faults which are not great Chiefly we object to rather too strong savor of the Turf and the Ring. Wearenot used to this sort of thing here, Our civilization, in this re-
 gard, lacks England's ultra polish, upd. we find in all of these otherwise admirable books too much of this kind of slang. A critic once spoke of " the vulgar book ~ Guy Livingstone J which seems to us i'll judged and unfair notwiith
 standing these biemishes which mar nal the bright excellence of this story. Yet smother wrote wrote that he was 6" tired of the dscufsve ib iabber of 'Sword and Gown But nc more e' inhtiimnaa.taa htiina.ta knowledge of the book was in this case followed ny that hearty liking and appreciation Of its beauties which We thought to be more justly its due. 70 7o3isom &fs aa sa b'poa si 'a7fofe ot.aaa bsAnd some have said Of both of these, that their 'smoral' was bad We aRsshardly F understand thissh We could sebas this scKsfse by dozen proofs, butltakea simpl req daita4 of the he- soess For "a light offence Guy pays7a heavy penalty Royston Keensl suffers more deeply il, payment Of darker intent. Ana dfistsHto the ep itome Of 'e Ba,7san H5no,iy.a sa qo1s foa bib T
 have atsta attempted pSsa to sketch rourby b rb what hefep man very weak and erriRg-who f was nas of. ten sorely tried-rwho acted eyeriupao sthk light that Wss given Aim, at the costof bitter SC lfdei nla1 and selEsacri6ce-who nevertheless. in
 this lie failed to reap the tithe of his reward as s Alan Wynne4 was stroRgy dup toy "a certain poiat; but he had not faith enough to make him feel always sure he had done right in defiance of appear alces !; nor principle enough to keep hm nom repining ats fesHltsa Hecopld neither comfort himself n0ry others, thoroughly.a He was q chiyalrous true hearted man; but very imperfect christian. 1Ie dared not openly ryba -g se ssatIss esz24 9 .sZa.sl :. sts sssQ, 5.ss