Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-05-09
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LEIGHTON CoURr a Country House Story, by
denry Kingsley, author of Ravenshoe,
- The HIllyar5 ana the Burtone, etc.
Tlcknor i Fields, Bost N.
If novels are to be written at q i they should
be written by persons of genius. Is is possl-
bic that as many works OF fiction are pro-
duced by poor authors IN En2land this
country, but more novels are written by the
best English minds than by the bes: American
authors. Bulwer, Dickens, Thackeray, not
to mention a score only less known because
these are 50 famous, have given Eng lsh works
of fiction the highest rank IN popular iItera-
ture. Henry Kingsley, while holding place
below these great masters, has yet gained a
decidedly high reputation as an author whose
volumes have i value quite beyond tina. OF
most OF the ephemersl ficuons OF these times.
This volume, Leighton Court, Is an English
story, and will OF course be read with much
better appre eciation of It's character, incidents,
and descriptions of scenery by English than
American readers yet few who admire IN
books a vigorous sty lie and characters portrayed
with the tAciie, pen Of a master, wno enjoy
descriptions OF the vigorous AID exnIlarasIng
out door life of the English people away from
love-sick sentiment which forms the sta pie ol
50 much modern fiction, will, alter commence
ing Leighton Court, put 1t away without
reading every page of ls.
We shall give our readers no sketch ot the
story,-lt occupies less than TWO hundred
pages and Is therefore not tediously loug-
but we cannot tor bear TO give them two snort
chapters, which have value, quite indepen-
dent OF the story, and are interesting ske Iches
of English scenery ana English bravery. Inls
is the opening chapler:
The river Wysclith, though one OF the
shortest IN course oi the beauClful rivers OF
DaItmoor, sun claims high place among
them. None sooner quits the barren granite,
and oeglns To wander sea ward through the
lower ana richer counsry which hes between
Moor ana the None except Dart
sends d larger body oil water to tie sea, anu
none lorIns u smaller OF less dangerous estu-
ary.
Indeed, its course is SO exceedingly short,
that the members oil the Wyscnth Vale hunt,
whose kennels were within d mile ot the sea
were veil acquainted, from frequent oOserva-
ton, with tbs vast melancholy oUg IN wnIcn
Il look It's rise. More than once, more Than
twenty tunes, within the memory OI old Iom
Squire, the lean, little Old nuntsman, mad The
tox been run into IN the midst OF Jnat great
waste OF turbary, from whence the infant
Scream Issues On ground winch no man lea e
alone a horse, dared to face. Laura Seeker
ton has clever sketch in her por tiolio of the
Wild, OesoIate, elevated swamp as IL appeared
on one ot these occasions "a sweep OF elIOw
grass, lnterspereed " .th lung, ana black oog
pits the centre, lar away from numa an
nelp, Confused heap of struggling hounds
kIillng Luer iOx round the edges, IS Ia, dr. as
Jney dared go, reo-coaied hUrsemen, most
cleverIy grouped IN twos and ,hIees oey ond
al, IOW, Ugly lOi VI WA eAiCi WIN =
Laura Seckorton could paint as well she
could ride, which io giving her very hIs
praise indeed.
On u not summer s day, ii you had crossed
the watershed iIom lne nortnn ard iiom sne
nea0-waEero OF the Ouse, Tor Instance, and IL
you Iound yourself IN this 0esolate, lonely
81. amp, with no signs OF anlmai lie except
the cry oi The melancholy pee~lt, OF The
quaint, dull note ot ,he ssonecnat, You wouid
nud Is hard TO believe that anything 81 wIid
fierce, anu loud the river W yscntn c1uid Q
born oi such solitary silence. But you hold
on your way round thJ bases OF the low gran
lie lore, be tween the tumDied rocks ano The
quakln, Jog, ior iour or tive miles, you will
uegin, ai,r OF, to near a tnkiins OF YaItis
you Will meet broad anbef-c0lored slream,
anu lind That the many trlckiIng I'll 5 isum
the great swamp have ualIed, anu are quietly
preparing tor GheIr journey 10 the ST.; ale
maAIng Ior that gep IN tue granite below
which the land drops away IN the unknown
depth, anu from winch YOU can u vista OF
d s.eaming gien mics below, III which che
river, So quiet and 80 small up here, spou Is
AID raves and rOars like gam as he IS.
Right and lett, tar, far below you, are crags,
tors, castles OF granite. Twenty streams irom
fifty giens, from u hundred sunny lonely hills,
join river tar below !; until tired of ues-
sih6 anu loAihS onooe VIC Sit1iiee CIASs Ia
the glen vi Fen thousand voices, he hnos hls
Way ous into the champaign County, and you
ste him wandering Ou IN woe waving curves
towards his estuary. All this you can See on
u biighty eastery day =; with Il clear south
wind, Laura oeckerton USED 10 say, that, stand
lug within TWO miles vi The rIvei . source, you
CAN make out the fisher boats on tile sands at
It's mouth, and the setting sun blazing on the
windows Oh Leighton Court, which stands on
a knoll vt new red sandstone the head OF
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