The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-08-13
The Meaning Of ''LOthair.'


its author a genius or a charlatan. But its
motto might well be Hamlet's fathers -
Remember me ~ For he has remembered
The Roman Church drove his ancestors
from Spain. With defiant pride they chose
4 name that marked them Jews of Jews
And now their descendant, having won
every prize in the most powerful of Pro-
testant states, turns in the fulness of his
renown, upon his old enemy, and haugh-
tily cries to Rome,'' GO You drove me and
mine from moribund, miserable Spain =
Begone from England ~ "Lothair'' is the
Jew turning Rome out of England! The
author skillfully hints and sketches-for
nothing more is artistically possible in a
NOVELETTE, various methods, intrigues,
Establishments, appeals, arguments, coer-
cions, cajoleres, and falsehoods by which
the Roman Church is believed to entice or
entangle, to terrify or subdue, its converts
He offers, indeed, no argument which
would deter any young English nobleman,
even were he so very sentimental as Lothian,
from going over to Rome but he very
plainly insinuates that those who manage
conversions to Rome have the most merci-
nary motives in view, and are wholly un-
scrupulous as to means. The heroine of
the tale-Mrs. Colonel Campian, the Ital-
ian wife of an American, of the Southern
States, who, having lost everything in the
rebellion, has become the spouse of the
Pytheness of Roman republicanism-Mrs.
Campian, who lives in delicious ease in
England, and falls disguised as a soldier in
Garabaldi's assault upon Rome, is one of
the person"ges who must not be looked for
beyond the perfumed page of Disraeli.-
The hero is in love with Mrs. Campian, the
Italian free-thinkcr and red republican;
with the Lady Corisande, the fair daughter
of a proud English ducal house, and devo-
ted to the Low English Church and with
Clare Arundel the loveliest and choicest of
Roman Catholic maids i'll Britain. Not to
speak lightly, the hero is and is not in love
with all of them at once. He is kind of
"little JOKER of lover. But as there
may be those who have not read the story,
the Easy Chair will not tell whom the
much wandering Lothian marries at last
Let them be assured that here is a novel as
different as possible from the stern actual
story of everyday life to which we are ac-
customed. 1t is a kind of fairy tale. Even
its approaches to reality are SO remote as
to be glimmering and soothing. 1t is an
aromatic reverie in a boudoir.
But if, upon the publication of this story,
Blackcood, the messy warder of ancient
Toryism, turns and rends the most bril-
liant and able of living English Tories, in
an article which restores the old lrlstre to
it's pages, it is simply because the feeling
of Mr.. Bull upon the Hamburg steamer has
been always the latent feeling of his party.
1t could not refuse to follow its only capa-
BILE and audacious leader, but it inly chafed,
and felt with scorn that an outcast had
come to the throne. The cardinals of the
blue blood were kneeling and kissing the
foot OF Il pope who was born mulcteer.-
That is merely to say that Disraeli, in all
these forty-five astonishing and picturesque
years, has not inspired confidence. In the
midst Of his most dazzling political tri-
umphs, as in the best Of his books, there
was always the same feeling that he wore
4 mask. The same distrust stole in and
asked, "Does he really believe what he
says? Has he any principles? Is, he a
Tory from conviction, or soldier of for
tune, with his sword at the service of the
longest purse? The cynic strain, the ex-
quisitely airy persifage of the stories
what do they mean? Was that the courtly
smile of Mephistopheles? Is the man
hooking us -
Yes, it is impossible not to feel that the
son of the ancient race has repaid this dis
trust with superb disdain. His genius is
alien in England. He is essentially lonely
in the country which he has ruled, and all
whose prizes that he sought he has seized.
His is the air of n man who has solved ''the
Arian mystery and who can show the
proudest aristocracy and the most finished
civilization splendor and an antiquity
which dwarf and deride them. He feels
that the Hebraic tradition is the foundation
of Christian development. He sees all
Christendom named from the incarnation
in the elder race unworn and conspicuously
efficient i'll the life of to-day. lie muses.,
like his Tancred and Contarini Fleming,
until the busy west dissolves, and the East
seems to him the sole fount of art and
wisdom and progress and repose, and all
else a garish modern hubbub
He sees and finds and feels all this-or he
seems to. He is consummate artist in
politics and literature, and therefore in
many ways inscrutable. 1t is true that his
Toryism is suspected; but it would be
very remarkable if he were not Tory
He abandoned the Evolutionary policy of
his party-but it was to savp his party
The English Liberals did not, and do not,
trust him. Why should they? In this
very book he tlouts and insults them. And
if the Tories suspect that he is satirizng
them-is it their fault ?-EpIToR's EASY
CHAIR, in Harper's Magazine for august.
What's in q kissa Really,
when people come to reflect upon the mat
ter calmly, what can they see in kiss p
The lips pout slightly and touch the cheek
softly, and then they just part-and the
job is complete! There is kiss in the
abstract! View it in the abstract-take it
as it stands-loGk at it philosophically =
What is there in it, after all9 Millions
upon millions of souls have been made
happy, while millions upon millions have
been plunged into misery and despair by
this kissing and yet. when you look at
the character of the thing, it is simply
pouting and parting of the lips. In every
grade of society there is kissing. Go where
you will, to what country you will, and you
are perfectly sure to find kissing There
is, however, some mysterious virtue in a
kiss, and we deyautly hope it may never
go out of fashion
A NOBLE YoUTH.-Some years ago, q