The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-11
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~ Mansfield Tracy Walworh. Aulh9r ~ "
Warwick New York: G. W. Carlelon u w.
Charleston: Holiness BOOK HOUSE,
we ara kindly informed that "the secret ol
..,ha e,ccess Of Walworths novels lies In MS
..strong Imagination and his analytlcal pow
..ers which enable him to form intricale
..nloia which few novel readers can fathom.
This Ia true, in the sense that wen Known
oonnndrnm Ia Intricate, and hard TO iathom.
Tho nuestion Is, Why is q pine tree ike al
elephant? The answer s, Because tnele
in both. Mr.. Walworth's plots are unlalhunl.
able. because they are so grossly i.np'ooa',s
ond contradictory that no cane reauer "ouiu
dream of suggesting the true solution. Not
+. ,bere ANYTHING In the style OF "beVery !"
r.d.on the faults Of construction. IL is WITH
ton in American, not In English. The tone
snegests Grecian bends and Boston dips. LII
extravaganza 1t goes beyond the ARABIAN
N,phtsn and sLoihalr," with nothing OF the
noelrv of the one, or the Wit Of the other.
The wealth of the hero Is greater an hundred
fold than that of Monte Christie, and conspic-
uo,,s character is ''dream-chlld," who comes
no one knows whence, and goes no one knows
whittier. It Is suggested, however, that she
ls of supernatural origin, which may account
for the clalrvoyance which, with dash Oh
spIrltualism, flavors the book. There ID no in-
diyiduality In the characters. They all talk
alter the same pattern. more ruoolshing
book has not been printed this season; yet it
will doubtless be devoured by many VINO
would scorn the "Day's Doings" and "Beadle
Dime Novels"
Cloth. Pp. 1872. Price 81 rs.
LIFE AND TIMES OF THE Rev. JOHN WESLEY,
NJ. A., Founder of the MetnoolsS. Sy uie
Harper & Brothers. 1872. For sale at
Fogartle's Book Depository, No. EGO King
street.
The third and closing volume Of this inter-
esling work, containing some 700 pages, with
a likeness Of Wesley OF the age of IS, has been
published, 1.ad completes the American re.
print of the English edition. 1t details the
events of Wesley's life from his 65th to bis
ssth year; and all In oil Is one of the most
readable books to be met with. It abounds In
anecdotes, records the varied experiences OF q
life without parallel In modern times, and
gives the history of a mind pronounced by
southey to be the most influential mind of the
last century. When SO years Of age wesley
spent couple of months In the composition
of q life of Fletcher, working fifteen hours q
day The next year, on one occasion, ne
was nineteen hours In stnge coach; stepped
out of the coach Into chapel at Birmingham,
where congregation was waiting for him,
and began preaching without delay. Before
five o'clock next morning he was of again;
travelled nearly eleven hours, and at night
preached at Gloucester But even this was
not all. The morning after, he set out again
at two o'clock, travelled till balf-past four In
the afternoon and preached in the evening.
And all this without the feeling of WEAKNESS.
His sprIghtliness among his friends was as
what surprising old age During the dfiy
years of bis itinerant ministry, 1t is estimated
that he travelled quarter of million oil
miles and preached more than forty thousand
sermons. He died March 2, 1871. A most
eligible site in Westminster Abbey has been
recently onereu ior tuo eieeIion Va AAo
ment to his memory.
EDNA BRowNISa. Novel. By Mary j.
Holmes. Author of Tempest and Sunshine,
Lena Rivers, Mlllbank, &c. New York: G..
W. Carleton Co. Charleston: Holiness
Book House.
This is a very interesting novel. The charac
ters are we'll drawn, the Incidents are exclt-
ing, and the style is unaffected and pure. It
would have been better II Miss Holmes had
contrived to dispense with 80 commonplace
an event as fatal railway accident, and the
fair rival of the heroine could have been put
away more decently by fever or galloping con.
sumption than by paralytlc stroke. These
blemlshes, however, do not prevent the novel
from being easy and pleasant reading.
Cloth. Pp 423. Price 81 so.