The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-04

An0 1Ieeaueusei ea0cuOu W. W nave VAS0
place on the 10th Of Jan4. Berege and Gen
Bulus arc to be the moot prominent candi-
dates.
Belize and British Honduras advices to the
14th of June say1 The colony has been thrown
into fearful state Of excitement by the re-
ports Of Indian raids on the Northern from
her, but the facts were greatly exaggerated.
MannsElbDs.
Others there are who are content to copy
the superficial characteristics Of renowned
man, in the hope Of COPYING the underlying
ability also. Mr.. Charles Dickens popular
lied . school which hes it thousands Of dis
ciples in the world outside A. we'll a. in the
Office of Al tie Year RSand. Not only has
tha gentleman's particular province q =
lances each mounting hobby copied from
bis very mannerisms have been copied too
Thus whom Mr.. Charles Dickens feels it his
duty to preach up pauper or preach down .
poor law, not only does Mr.. Andrew Halli-
day follow the Same lea, but hs constructs
his sentences on the modal Of his chik And
this last departnsnt Of ths great autAor' q
speciality department constsfuting In itself
. school which may b. called the school Of
Homely Periphrss;s-has hundred imita.
tors. NJ, Dickens has adopted it lately, and
all Mr.. Dickens disciplss necessarily adopt
it likewise. The recipe i easy. Instead Of
expressing your thoughts in short and prin-
cipal sentences - most people do, you en-
ploy participial circumbendibus. Thus, if
you meant to tell friend that you had antic
ipated rain, you would not say, ~ thought
this morning it would rpia;'.. you would or
press it thus: 'srhe persuasion came to me
thso y,orosn0 hat ( ~h,.l1 enk IL t,s,, 81
raining" This construction il to be uni
formy pursued throughout novel that is
TO say TO you write in this way yourself and
you put the same construction into the mouths
Of oil your characters. On this principle, in
Mr. Dickens last novel; When bradley Head
stone asks Rouge RidefAood what Eugene
Wrdyburn said to him, he puts it thus
"What turn did his ins3lence take to-day ?''
ut took the turn" anspers the other, "of
wishing | might be hanged" Another
character intending TO ask, What do you
suppose r. employs the following perphrasis
.iPut your superstition into language and
bring 1t out But perhaps the best illustra-
ton in the whole book Of the psrticipial cir
lcumbendibus is TO be found where 6rddlsy
Hsadstone wishes to have another meeting
with Lizzie HexAam. Iix1ie asks him what
he means and he answers, Limit my mean
ing for the present to the whole case being
submitted to You in another interview
Of course people in ordinary life do not
talk like this there would be more time
wasted and more unintelligibility in the world
if they did. This construction Of converse
ton only exists in Mr.. Dickens late novels
and in the many who initiate Mr.. Dickens
Ia course Of time the frequency of imitation
will show the trick and destroy the fascina-
ton. In ike manner A. X. H. B. has thrown
into the shade his prototype Mr.. Helps, and
people have forgotten the style Of the origin
ator in that OF the initator This too Mr..
Swiuburne will wean The world Of its over
estimation Of Festus bayley and Alexander
Smith, by simply exagdetating the excellen-
cies Of those poets intd Determines -Loadon
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