The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-09-29
THE NOVEL---AN ADDRESS.
ny TIE LATE BAKNwELL y. STUART.

Ladirs and Gentlemen
Our efforts tonight will be to at.
tempt to draw your thoughts from the
vexatious issues Of the day, to leave
the sword whore it has fallen, there to
rust, wreathed with cypress, would
that it had been with laurels, and to
carry you to the Ideal World "aloof
and affair."" where calm arts pure dwell
lers dream, and beyond the "lovely
rainbow on the dew of tue spent
thunder clouds" which have lately
%Eept our horizon, to gaze upon ";he
peaceful blue" Of the sweet eI,y Of
literature. If your speaker does this,
or aids any one to do this, his mission
is performed,
Oar subject is Mc Worelus Work
Of Art-Hs Distinctiue F'ut~rcs The
Sphere IL Occupies IN Literature -A'9
It's Chief End.
Science, literature and art are
words seldom eomprehended by the
many who use them, nor will it be our
province to define them further than
to clear tho way for the subject before
:,Ius. Science is the knowledge Of the
many digested and arranged so as. to
be available" by ono. Literature is
the mouthpiece Of science, making it
known, and art the application of
science to attain certain end. That
end may be utility or physical com.
fort, resulting in the uscful arts; or
may administer specially to the sense
of the beautiful, resulting in the fine
avis There is frequent interming-
ling, and each particular science has
its ars utlis, or its urs mgenaa asre-
viewed from the standpoint Of the
poet OF utilitarian. Besides this
beauty in the essentially useful, there
is a doterminate sphere from which
the mere useful is excluded, far
above ''the harmonies which aid our
practical sagacity," and as the fruit.
less flowers Of tho Gelds,secms only to
be an application of science to graft
fy that response 10 the sublime or the
beautiful which fills tho heart of all,
from the savage looking up through
primeval caves to the stars. fsshaking
in the azure," his car bewildered
with the ripples of waters and the
note Of night birds-to the gentleman
IN the velvety drawing room gazing
at the snow scene "amid tho Alpine
Mountains cold," or dreamily watch
ing the gold fish of his aquarium
flashing in the gaslight. There is
music and sculpture and painting
Literature has it's fine arts too. These
are, lst. Poetry, Cd. The Drama,
and 81. Prose works Of fiction. 1t is
then to province OF the fine arts in
literature-prose works Of fiction our
way shall lead !. O., to that applica.
tion Of science by means of literature
to the attainment of the qualification
of the sense Of the beautiful or aub-
lime, as displayedin prose works of
fiction. la.34 .G spt .Ht III
Even this domain is too extensive
to scan in the time at our command
@d we will be, compelled to narrow
our limits from prose. works Of fiction
to the Novel, and still narrower to the
Nnslish Ncyc! :, ~ s 7s, -, q, III !.
We tl,iuk It viii be granted that
amid the complications Of social ex
istence, With which we have most to
do, and know least abou,, the novel
holds no mean place, when we find it
futtering from thousand presses,
read by, and in fact, entertaining and
amusing tho civilized world oal}ri-
tian's soldiers il. the Indies, Ameri-
oa's furbelowed belle5 the ,eanny
SCOT. the IIiberniap gentry, the Baa
blue and the bBoor, sohuokle, weep
and autter with emotion; every ono,
if the honest truth were known, does
enjoy good novel. 1t .is "a thitst
never qdenehed, q desire ever strength H.
ening, There Is no mail bag that has not
novellin IL, no. Bookstore without its
s'latest novel;" and the public appe-