The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-12
The Daily N ews.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 70, 1865.
LITERATURE.
AnuApALE, q Novel : Ry wiikie Collins For sale by |
Mr.. Il. q Courtenay, Broad street.


they cnre for Il at all il In the pngcs OF WALTER
Soorr coorER DUMAS SIMMs. Religion is studied
In MAn1oS HARLaSD, and Of tho anhoress
of 'The widc Wide Worid; and. Social Philosophy is
taught by GEORGE ELIOT tho KINGsLEYs, GEoRGR SAND
EUGENE SUE, and VIcroR HUGO.
The widoet demand for reading Of this kind has de-
yeloped most brilliant array Of talent in its SERVICE
such rs bo marshaled by no other branch of tera
turo. many writer's of novels England and America
ito Say nothing hero of France and Germany can boast
we will not even venture to guess BULwHn, JAMES,
THAcKERAY DICKENS. KINGSLEY and LEVER may be con-
sidered of tho first magnitude Not that wo
would be understood to hold ail of these in the same
rank and cstnnton, bn we give these tho FIRST place
nasmuch point of popularity even the last named
Of these is far ahead of any not here included THAcKE
RAY and JAMES. though now dead, are inserted here
because contemporaries, AMI forming an important
constituent of tho literature of tho day.
Occasionally novel by some lesser light, cometHke,
will blaze athwart the literary firmament such as
AEAM b. DE, COLLINS and others. But do not deem
such uncertain fful light sunl lent claim to count
their authors among the fixed sars They nre usually
known 'sensatiOn writer's and largely depend upon
an excess of "machiuery" and q supcrabundance of
1noretricious for the popular patronage to
which, upon strict principles Of art they could lay
claim.
At the head of tho long list OF sensation writer's wo
would place the OF Mr. WILKIc COLLINS. His
books are fully interesting (and much less njdrous
as any others of this class with which acquaint
ed Polished vigorous i'll his STYLE easy and grace
full in his narrative, and artist in description, he
avoids the faults which much offend good taste III the
writings of Miss BRATroS.
'Armadae" tho book before us, is fue novel Of it's
description, well worth reading. The interest is we'll
sustained from the first page to the last
Tho story Is complicated, and loses much of Its In
terest by being read in serial form. In ai Mr. COL
L1Ns' works we find smooth, oily, wicked man or
woman-perhaps both-who inspires us to a wonderful
degree with horror and who has yet committed no very
dreadful crime. Such is the italian Count in the "Wo-
man In White" aud Mrs. oldershsw in 'Armadale"
We have seldom met with a more strongly drawn
character than that OF the Count and he is far superior
to villain No g. we find her in "Armadalei" but tho
other personages in this story y equal any thing Mr.
COLLINS has yet produced They developed in the
most skilful and elaborate manner Lydia dwilt will
take her place In the portrait gallery Of Action.
surrounded by halo of iurid light, she is powerful
conception and we'll sustained, from her wretched child
hood to her tragic end throwing the gamor of her spells
over the reader as she does over her victims.
Intellectual, beautiful, deadly, venomous-she is that
type Of which, in her nature partakes largely
Of the snake and which, happy to say, is moro
common In fiction than i'll real life.
The plo. of the story hinges on there being two
Allan Armadiles the father of one of whom killed the
Stherof tho other in revenge for an injury. They be-
form closeAd at tho respective agos Of 20 and 81,
One of them had assumed se lasts through the baok.
He Is warm.heareG impulsve, and very surtrJnter."
and ia acahdinted with tho history of the murder,
sne other Atnu mover knows
Armadale has o remarkable dream in which the fu .
ture Is shown him In three tabloau1. each Of which
comes to pa.s in the the story In them the
myaterious woman, Lydia Gwilt takes prominent
place.
The dream makes but little impression on him. but
takes trong hold the morbdly supersttious mind
OF Mfdwhter. To him 1t prefgures circumstances
which will cause him to become the murderer of his
friend the son of the who pershed by his fathera
hand. But will not enter further into the at, ry
The remainder can only be learned with any dog Of
pleasure from the book ITSELF
Mr. COLLINS always fails in thing and that is to
enlist the sympathy of his readers In behalf OF his
heroes and herones. The interest Is absorbing often
startling. But We feel no affection towsrds those he
paints In such strong coors We do feel on laying
down his books as If we had parted from dear old
familiar friends, ss is sometimes the case after reading
the productions of aVorte author; the reason OF
this Is that In the range of his characters he has
never described ono sympathetic loving true woman,
not one noble wholesouled man. This does not say
much for the kindly feeling and sympathy OF the
thor. He may share In the joys and sorrows Of man.
Kind but If So there is nothing to show 1t in his ovels
THE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE OF Foreign Literature, W.
June number of this old avorte has come to hand The
Table of Contents is as follows:
Praed and his Works. from the British ouartsr}v |
Grotes Plato. by the late Dr. Whewel Fraser's Maya
zine. [Prcfaced with apprecative tribute to Dr |
Whewell Gold In the Firelight Poem from Tho Corn
hill. Anecdotes from Blue Book. Templs Bar. The
Peninsula of sinai British Quarterly The Literature
OF Dreams. Bentley Miscellany. Notes in Rome Art |
tsdo and Social. London Society. Memories OF the
Authors Of the Age: John Wilson. By 8. O. Hail. F. g.
ters, Saturday Review Roman London. Bentey's Mis-
ce1any. The Modern Doctrine of Culture GornhiI |
Magazine The Study of Celtic Literature. by Matthew
Arnold, Part l., Cornhili Magazine Russian MissIon
In Palestine: Tschendorfan the Grand Duke Constan
tine by Saint Reno raiandier Revue Deux Mondea
Ihe Rural Economy of Switzerland Chambers Journal
SIinaa Wam Wheweli IN Memorlam, McMlans Magazine
OXFORD and it's Colleges Leisure Hour. Freak on the
Violin, Ali the Year hound. Francis Grant Eso skstao
by the Editor IA very handsome portrait of this een
Heman' tae PRESIDENT Of the Royal Academy London,
als-A Blush Brief Literary Notices. Science Art
Varieties. NV
Surely rich and varied feast, to be found nowhere
else within the Same compass. hIr. JOHN RUSSELL, |
Kingstreet, is the agent for this city and will receve
subscriptions
THE New ORLEANS MEDICAL RHcoRp-This IA tbe
second number ofa new medical monthly, published
In Now Orleans Drs. BENNEr DowLER and g. r. CHAM.
BERs, Editors. Article is vesico.yaquisai Fistula
by DR.. sonUrPERr. 2. Bromide of Potassium, as A
romedy in Epiiipsy, by DR.. CHAMBERS g. Critical Re-
searches into Certain Theoretical views of Recent
Writers upon the Physiology of the Nervous System by
Dr. DowLER L. Practical Notes upon the Preparations
OF Morphia and Its Salts. s. Case Of Typhus Fever
Domciiary and HOSPITAL Mortality of Lying In Women
Compared In 1,sl3.093 accouohmens, by DR.. Dow1HR
T. Reyaccnatlon. 8. Trichinosis