New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-16
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
10TH AIR.
IOTuAIR By the Right Honorable Il. DIsRAELI. $40.
PIP. 2IS. ID. Appleton Co

o,oa;t Of having written novels in his youth. That
after sucb a severe experiene he should at the age
of sixty-fve with the reputation OF great leader to
take care of and the possibility or at least the hope,
Of future political prizes in his view deliberately re-
yers TO the dangerous amusement Of hls younger
time. has been proclaimed one of the most remark
able facts in modern literary biography. But in
reality it is strictly in keeping with his char
aoter. His ambition has always been to do
what no other man could accomplish. His
fame hereafter viii rest chiefly upon magnificent
trumphs over social disadvantages and barriers OF
coaventionalism. From his birth everything has
been against him. The child of prescribed and
hated race, he made himself power III the most
preiuGiced and conventional country of the world.
Without a liberal education he secured the fame OF
literary accomplishments and scholarship. Graduate
Of an attorneys Office and without arstociatic con-
ncctions he became star Of fashion III the
most exclusive society in Europe. lie De
gan his political career by satirzing
class so proud so powerful, and so in
tenselv conceited as the English squires, and ended
l,v making himself their leader Freetrader or PRO
tectionsi as whim or convenience Dictated he yet
persuaded mankind that he profound political
economist Rejected by more than one constituency
AZ a Radical he managed TO be the standard bearer
of the Tories With the record of years of Iorysm
weighing him down, he had no difficulty IN suddenly
converting himself into advocate OF universal sui
frage. Through all these changes, which would
have branded any other man as renegade
and an adventurer, he has, strangest
of all. kept the respect of a powerful party. and
avoided the Judgment which almost invariably fol-
lows these gravest of political msdemeanors. When
he made his first speech i'll the House of Commons
and was laughed down. he exclaimed, The time Will
come when you shall hear me; and i'll two years
his prophecy was fulfilled. We can almost fancy
that % or 80 years ago ne may have exclaimed The
time will come when you shall allow English Min
listers of State to write novels and again his pre-
dction is accomplished.
That Mr.. Disraeli has the profound political pnr-
pose in the present work which some of his English
critics attribute 10 him not quite prepared to
believe. Certainly such purpose is necessary TO
account for it. Literature was his first love, and
there il nothing strange III his recurring TO it during
the leisure of his old age, for ii is love which
man ever outlives. Lothian is full of political
theories and maXims, but books with great purpose
are only written by VINO are ruled
by great convictions, and MIR. Dsraeh has
always been the master, not the servant, of his
principles. Still, his followers may learn from 1t, If
they WILL these great lessons 10 shun the Pope, be-
cause he is not only a Pagan full of pride, but
enemy Of the English constitution; to shun Liberal
ism because in its warfare with the Pope it com
promises itself with inconvenient revolutionary
schemes, and involves fighting and dis
comfort and finally, to take refuge
IN the bosom Of the glorious British
aristocracy and live your becomes an idle
gentleman. OF course if you have no acres ii is
another matter: but Mr. Disraeli does not write for
such people. As literary production the new story
is all that the admirers of Vivian Grey" could have
wished. The def hand has lost none of its cunning
The wealth of glowing description, whose richness
oil, r,oi,f MI ar,ipt n.
keen satire the sparkling epigTam, the wonderful
sketches Of society the airy skimmng over the surface
oi e. touching upon its fashionable graces laughing
.ite at its fashionable follies-all are here We
Knew them of old The brightness is undimmed and
the spirit is unsubdued Mr.. Disraeli is too well
bred to feel anything He has too much respect for
the scnSi5ihties Of refined socety-the POdsnappery
aad Veneering. and Prunes-and-Prism of the ele-
vatcd circles in which it is the privilege of his read
e.. 10 move 10 show unpleasant scene or yul-
G. person, or to dwell upon a sorTow or pang.
Lothian is novel of the parors Of dukes and the
county houses of county magnates, and though we
r.. few chapters among the GarbalGianS in Italy
and with tourists at Jerusalem and on the Libauus,
We NEE. in all these places the most uneXceptOna
bic En..ish society and nothing is allowed to !
shoe. rs.
Lotlmir" is a young English nobeman of vast !
w,a.'E and cyl-.d position: We are not told either
b.. rank OF he ule. Left orphan in his infancy
h.. is brought p under the charge of two guardians
one e c.n scotch lord, the other English clergy |
uau. WHO having "gonc over to Rome has become
Cart,aa Gra olson and the main stay Of the papacy
IT, tle r- IA isles. We are introduced to Lothian |
lust as he is on the eve of his majority |
aad marirc his entry into society, and the !
story r. chiefly occupied with the efforts |
&C C..J.r.l Grandson to tempt his ward into
the C'uTch Of Rome and the Efforts of his other
friends 10 Keep him ont In the character of the
golden I..4c for which the two parties contend
ing J. is generally supposed that Dsrach intended
10 pam, ga, Young Marquis Of Butte; but the paral
bel rot carried out to the end for the Marquis has
gone over but Lothian remained behind.
LotAair makes his first appearance under
the an pieces of "a duke and duchess,
y hose names also withheld. The family is
aGmil.lly skctched The duke is young, gay, good,
handsome and fond of his wife and children.
Every day when ne looked into the glass and gave
III, ,, touch 20 his cOnsUmnate toilet he offered his
Grateful thanks to Providence that his family was
not unworthy of him" The duchess is beautiful,
and great hcrces, and those who speculate race
were interested an watching the development of
their progeny, who, in form, and color and
voice. and manner. and mind, were re-
production of their parents, who seemed
only the elder brother and sister of a
g..,eG circle. The daughters with exception
c..ne first, and all met the same fate. After seven
teen years Of a delicious home they were presented.
4.d immediately married and all to personagos of
h.u consideration. After the first conquest this fate
seemed as regular thclorder OF Nature" The one
E..-A.cr who remains is Corisande and after few
ta,. acquaintance Lothair aged 20, asks permission
uf he duchess 70 offer this young lady his hand The
conversation is 50 neat and the young mans CON