The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-09-29

oho 'hoe bc hau gwen uS lcSS true, DuG
q pleasanter picture yet oven in his
hollow pictures and his foxliko wis
| dom and Dyes looking through and
through, we feel there is lion heart
| capable of tears and love-, Disap-
pointed /, slnaa Af .a. syH
"At first hc struck a jnrring tone,
! But ever sirovc to make IL true.
ferplexed in faith, but pure in deeds,
at last he beat his music out" e.s.s.a
And his Pendennis, Henry Esmond
and Newcomes, show him d prince Of
noveltsts. In style he surpasses them
all, careful, compact, classic, it pos
sesses all the delicate grace and hu-
NOR of Addison, wit of Stoele, the
terrible irony and scarcasm of ,Junius
and the kindliness Of the gontle Gold.
smith. Many of his passages arc
models of elegance in writing.
| AS painter he fails in the sconery
Of his back ground. His speciality is
cab, club room, n parlor, law
| yer's offioo, or o bookstnll, and Scott
is infinitely superior to him in this re,
spect The sea, the moors and noun.
tains have only q scholarly aspect in
his pages, and for rural scenery thcre
is but little enthusiasm-bu but as de-
| lineator Of charactor, aud the ways Of
the world, ho is surpassed BY none. -.
lie knows how to draw high life and
a gentleman, so that you recognize
him in Col. Newcome, as he walks the
Indian steamer q prince, or in his
smock at the military hospital, the OBJ
ject of public charity, or when he an
swers adsum, when his name is called
by the angels lowering around his
death bed. ,4'' rs 80 w ". I1r
He knew too we'll that the pure in
heart may be. hunchbaoked. That
"the greatest good in life" may be
perhaps not even to be, happy. "Pov-
erty, iilncss," humiliation, "may be
rewards and conditions Of good, as
we'll as that bodily prosperity which
oil OF as unconsciously set up for
Worship" He folt life to be s'no idle
ore," ~ sha' f'N w E'' So aI9'
"But iron dug from central gloom, ,,t.
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipped in BATHS of Kissing fears. I.
And battered with the shocks OF doom, y.
To shape and use." 20 .vIJ3,fe7 III ia
And he has given Us Characters
wrought out by his earnest sagaoity
which startle us with their correctness
to life, and touches Of humor that flll
our hearts with noble yearnings for
the good and glorious amid the inces-
SAINT hollow din Of tho vanity of vani-
ties--the world. Right with him was
not might, but he showed how the
mammon of unrighteousnoss glittored
and gloried in the sunshine, and that it
foil "on the just and the unjust alike"
That magma est Vcritas is grandly true,
but to ct peualebit from lifes sad cx-
perience he must demur. We rise
from s'the feast of reason and flow of
soul" in his works, and feel that
Thackeray knew the world thoroughly
and loved the true and pure in heart
wherever and whatever they be. In
tho wide range of history we doubt
if there is more even writer than he
is, superior far to Bulwor and Dick
ems in the uniformity of his taste and
beauties of his diotion, and in this
respect reminds us Of the German
Opera. There are no "genls" and
"arias" planned for great singers alono
to display their vocal and histrionio
talents, but all must be stars, all ar
lists, to make the discords and the
symphonies, the orchestra, the actors,
and the scenery, ono grand enchant-
ing whole fSom overture to anale.
We have attempted to draw our
idea from the characteristics traits of
Of the master artists in prose fiction.
1t is only possible to name within the
limits Of this effort, many worthy
names, whose works present to dis
eliminating taste many beauties, and
to a acarping criticism many faults.----
Such are the Brontes, Miss Muloch,
Baroness Tantpheus, tho author Of
Guy Livingstone, Charles Kingsley,
: eCroly, Lever, Warren, Cooper, Sims,
Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne and
Miss Augusta Evans. These all in
the spanglod fermiment Of art are as
the pleads and a1a @
II "Gli.ter like swarm Of fine f;cs,
Tangled In silver braid. ~
Turn now from tho artist to his
work and lot us endoayor to show it's
placo in literature. First then, tho
novel is tho true reflex in prose OF
the prevailing phase Of art Of modern
civilization, and accords with the
spirit Of the age, As, in the earlier
ages the inceptions of art were Of tho
simplest form and verses, and adyane-
ed In con,plexity and variety as lux
ury and civilization marched. First
the simple fable, (muthos,y then the
dialogue then the trilogy, then tho
tetrofogy, then the drama Of modern
times with all the adjuncts OF music
Of the most blended and magnificent
order, with dress, and with scenery,
suited to, aud combined iii q single
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