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81 The World of Literature.
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"DEsIs D DuvAL"-" NAPoLEoS's LIFE OF CESAR
% The Bibliomanists and Reviewers havc had, to-
a long time past, butfeN really great works upoI
which to exhibit their accustomed mania. II
December 1863, while we of the South were shu
I.out from the world of letters, and the worlc
| in general, the London Times announced to those
admiring worlds: Thackeray is dead" And'it'
ercat and llastrious rival the Paris lfoniteur re-
echoed the eyer-to-be-tamented sentence: "L'
Mensieur Thackeray est mort" " Denis D"oai,'
his last novel, unfinished and posthumous, hos
furnished the critics of the world Of letters with
food for not q few hpplaudipg md oulosistic ro
views; and has scared up many long famished
literary Bohemian to something like food anda
stomach. All agree with Dickens that it prom
sea to bo the greatest Of the great works. of the
great TnAckERAY-.he greatest Novelist and Sati-
rist of his day. Denis Durap is but frag-
mcnt, bu. ea pede herculsm; it is written in the
same facile style that rendered. THAcKERAY the
greatest writer of fiction in all Britain. It's un-
finished pages tecm with love and tenderness and
devotion and duty and human strength and human
frailty, mingled with forcc' and felo9aonce and
satire and thorough knowledge Of human nature.
Oh, the pity that Pendennis should not have been
spared to complete this capsheaf to his fame! We
have read him and known him, laughed and wept
with him, lovcd and admired him; and we hum
bly, pray that the sweet dews Of affection, so gush-
ing in his own great heart may fall ever gently
on his honored grave. ..-Sz
Another and different book, unfinished as yet,
but Of which the author is still li.inS and work
ing, is the "Lifs of Julius Cse'ar," by Napoleon
III, Emperor of tho French. Tho llustrious birth,
eventful life, and exalted position of it's author,
have given to this publication au unusual interest
and prestige, and to the Reviewers bound
less field of interminable criticism. Many assert
very strongly that it is not the production of Ma
poLgoN ; and in defence of such assertion, urge
thut no man like LoUIs NAroLEoN, on the throne,
and administering the government Of people SO
tickle, inflampatory and revolutionary as the
French, could find leisure for the production of
history: or be capable Of other great mental c1-
ertion than the direction Of tho vast machinery
of his immense government, with its countless
and complicated duties; especially when it is
known that all questions Of Importance concern
ing the State are submitted to his personal cIami-
naten and solved by his individual responsibility
And it is further urged that the knewn gallantry
of the Emperor occupies all his spare moments,
and that intrigues and aaires du coeay are re ndis-
pensable to his existence. E q IS
This last assertion is predicated entirely upon
the past life and habits of tho Emperor, and to
those unacquainted with his personal history Of
late years. may present an apparent verify. Such
m acquaintance however soon, solves the mystery
of atgreat Emperor, ruling over great and OK,
citable people, turning his sttention to- and merg
ing his time and taloat in, writing history.
Tho truth is this:, The Emperor es today il
fully equal, mentally, to the Emperor of ycster.
day. The world acknowledges him to be not only
King, but Master of tho French. ALI Europe
names him the prince of Diplomatists. Physical
1elo IN 10
man. Louis NApoLEoN'ha has lived to experience
sadly the truth of the line: "Time steals on us
and steals from u.s." His Majesty has long suf
fercd with disease scarcely known in this coun
try, called by the imperial physician, Suere oua
Rognons !; something like capitalization of th'
urine. This disease is said to be slow in progress
but sure Of its victim it's said further to impair
to the outward man the jaundccd and pblegmati'
appearance which marks the Emperor.
Disease, 'fatal, Slow aud certain racks tn
proud man whom the world enyies. Intrigues
| ofaires du eoeur visions of love and beauty, th
charms of the matchless Italierne, the Countess
Castiglione, are, for LOUIS NAPOLEON, in tho past
The physicalnan is;dsad as it we're, but the min
burns as bright and active as ever. And tn
royal representative ofthe great BuOnaparto seek
refuge and interest in the most instructive ah
instrecting pursuit ;sy
To such circumstances the world is indebted 70
. the History in question, of. which only tho fri
volume is as yet published. We suy indebted, 70
We consider it profound,' philosophical and reha
Gle; and hope t9 present, in future, such skelc
ton of it, as may induce tho studiops and literar
among our readers to turn their attention thereto
sy sThe,secretary of the Interior has.decide
that all pcusions granted prior to the commence
ment of tho iate war ceased to accrue from On
after the date Of the. Presidents proclamation dc
claring the State or district in which the pension
er was demici1sd to be in insurroction, and tha
tho payment Of such pension can only be resun
ed from and after the establishment Of proof (
the pensioner to be restored to fae rolls.