The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-18
. .r.,s IN Novel Readers.

w. ex.ract this admirable passage con-
corning novel reading from one OF Tue l..n,
erto uncolccted papers in the nun Gio lua -
volume of the Household Ealtloi, o.
Thackeray's Miscellanics," JUST issued os
Fields. OSsood & Co.: =, -,
,raScnt day, | would be glad to suggest TO
%a lovers of those instructive works
the simple plan of always looking at
she md of a romance to see what becomes
Of the ,yersonagcs before they venture on
rho whole work and become interested in
,hr characters described in it. Why interest
ones self in parsonage who you must
know at the end OF the third volume aics
miserable death? What Is the use OF making
one's self unhappy needlesSiy Watching Ine
consumptiyc symptoms Of Lconora rs !hcy
manifest themselves, or tracing Antonio 10
his inevitable assassination! c,,,o
Formerly, whenever came to one oil Inc
fatally yirtuous characters In rohiatcc-r-
ladies are very fond of inventlng Such SUI
ferinc angels in their novels, pare, Plou>,
pulmonary. crossed in love. OF course ;
hence / do not care to read ladies' movers,
exccpt those of McSdames Gore and troll
lopc-wheneyer came to one OF those pre-
destiuucd creatures, and saw from the COM
pjexion of the story that the per>onagc IN
question was about to occupy good deal
of the readers attention, l always closed
the hook at once, and in disgust, for my
feelings arc much too precious TO be aSlta-
ted at three pence per volume. Even Ihen
it was often too late.
One NAV have got through halfa volume
before the ultimate fate Of Miss IreVanlon
was made clear 20 one. In that nall volume
one may have grown to be exceedingly IN
terested i'm Miss Irevanion, and hence one
has all the pansS of parting with her, when
we're not worth mourning for the briet
pleasure Of her acquaintance. lie Jeu ne
p0ldU pos la chondcilc. 1t is we'll to say l
never loved a young @aZelle to glad me
with his dark blue eye, but when he came
to know me well he was sure to die: ana TO
add that never loved tree or flower, out
twas the first to fade away. Is 1t not bet
ter, instead of making yourself unhappy
as YOU inevitably must be, to spare your.
self the trouble of this bootlesS affection!
Do not let us give up our affections fashE
to Young glzellc>, or trees, or flowers. ana
contine our tenderness TO creatures t!iae are
more long-lived.
Therefore, / say it is much better to look
at the end of novel and when read,
3. There is a fresh green mound in Brent
ford churchvard." and an humble stone on
which is inscribed the name OF " Anna
Maria" or :. lie jour dpreS on roydttiSur les
SALES F,unaides de la terrible !nOrgue le corps
TirqanGl ct rntSSolGnt de Bdth'tde," or SELL
tence to that effect, | shut the book at once,
declining to agtate my feelings needlessiy
for at that stage do not care q tig for Anna
Maria'S consumption, or Bathlide stlclde'
I have not the honor of their acquaintance,
nor will make it. If you had the gift of
prophecy, and people proposed 10 lntro.
duce YOU to a man who you knew would
borrow money Of you, or would be newt
ably hanged, or would subject you to some
other ANNOYANCE, would you not decline the
proposed introduction:
So with novels. The book Of fate Of the
heroes and heroines is to be found at the
end of volume III. One has but to turn TO
il to know whether one shall make their ac-
uuaintance or~not. For my part, nearby
pardon the man who brought Cordella TO
fife, twas it Cibber, or Sternhold ana HOP
l,;,s - ~s~..lI h~uo tho ston,o oh 2nrlnaps
brought for Renee at the fifth act for Mrs.
Macbeth | am not the least sorry but as
for the General, / would have him destroy
that staggering Macduff, (who always looks
as if he had just slipped off snuff shop.) or,
if not, cut him in pieces, disarm him,
pink him, certainly; and then l would
have Mrs. Macduff, and all the little
ones, come in from the slips, stating
that the account of their murder was
a shameful fabrication of the newspa-
pers, and that they were all OF them per-
fect!y well and hearty. The entirely wicked
YOU may say massacre without pity, and
have always admired the German Red Rad
ing Hood on this score, which is thou
sand times more agreeable than the Zero
cious English tale, because when the wolf
has gobbled up Red Riding Hood and the
grandmother in come two foresters who cut
open the wolf, and out step the old lady and
the young one, quite happy.
so recommend all people to- act in re-
gard to lugubrous novels and escheW them
I have never read the Nelly part OF The
Old Curiosity Shop" more than once
whereas l have Dick Swiveller and the
Marchioness by heart; and, in like manner,
with regard to "Oliver Twist" it did very
we'll to frighten one in numbers; but am
not going to look on at Sikcs's murder, and
to writhe and twist under the Jews night
mare again. No, no; give me Sam Weller
and Mr.. Weller for a continuance.