Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-31
Disraeli and Garabaldi as Novelists.

The New York Times, in an article
on DIsraeli's new novel, says:
He depicts character and describes
society witA the grace and wit which
characterized his writings at twenty
He affords again and again the proc
that his nature is in reality a genia
one, that his impulses are generou:
amt noble, that all his aspirations
tend toward the elevation Of the hu
man race. People expected him &c
write sharp satire on his political
foes. He has merely written bril-.
liant novel of society-drawing q
portrait here and there, doubtless
but in the main combining himself to
the exercise of that inexhaustible
Imagination which has always been q
distinctive feature of his genius.
Disraeli has attempted to show
the iDsidious progress Of the Roman
Catholics, and has thrown a food OF
light on the tactics they pursue
His hero is very nearly persuaded to
join the Romish Church, and the
portrait ight have had the name OF
the Marquis of Butte, written under
it at once, only that Lothian resists
all temptations, and remains a prot
estant to the end. The Cardinal
whose eloquence nearly makes q
powerful convert is understood to be
a "composition"-the late Cardinal
Wiseman and the present Archbishop
Manning being both laid under CON
tribution for it. A satirical sketch
of an Oxford Professor is understood
to be meant for an English Professor
now connected with the Cornell
University, whom Disraeli once de-
scribed as ''wild man" The book
will be memorable chiefly for the
worldly wisdom with which it over
flows, and FOR the "Disraelian" cpl
grams which stud almost every page.
1t is q noticeable fact that the English
journals most bitterly opposed to
Mr.. DisraeIi ere almost vehement in
their praises of his novel. At the
aye Of sixty-fve, aud in the midst of
. busy session, statesman does not
often publish n book of this charae-
ter.
The June number of Putnam's
Magazine contains the folio wing:
Garibaldi1s so called "novel," enti-
tied "The Rule of the Monk or
Rome in the Nineteenth Century,"
has been criticised by the journals
as u literary work, as if the fiery
democ meant to rival the fame OF
Thackerny or George Sand, and has
been condemned as plotless, charac-
terless, styl5less, witless Bat, ia
point Of fact, the form Of novel is
merely disguise, to make q political
manifesto OF unusual length readable
in Italy, among a people whose criti-
cal powers GAribaldi understands rs
we'll Is he does their passions. 1t is
a red-hot invective against the priest
craft and kingcraft. which, united in
the papacy, curse Rome, Italy and
Europe, with burden upon mems
bodies, minds and souls which he
wishes them TO cast off. In this
view, 1t is written with skill and
power and it may be doubted
whether any literary art could add
to the influence il will exert, in teach
ing tbs peopls both how they suffer
from tho tyranny that is over them,
and how theE' may do without it's
real or pretesded services. 1t has
already been translated into nine or
ten languages, and is read wherever
kings and priests are hated. 1t is
thus one of many forces which COM
bine to warn the rulers of Europe
that when 1913 comes again, it will
come TO stay.