The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1881-02-16

Ssmrsr Tfrgas ought to be the motto of Benjamin
DisrzeI Eari of Beaeorsfield- 1t seems marvel
loSs thst a man who commenced life as a brilliant
novelist. and then throwing the more delicate art
aside vent boldly IN for every prize which SIC
cessful career IN politics offered career in which
one would think every particle of romance, every
atom of respect for his fellow-meu, would have
been beaten oct OF him, should have been able to
sit down III his declining days and produce Work
50 full of the grace and freshness OF youth as
Erldy-liOu7 pOsseSses- In this continued nay
increasing. freshness DisraeI resembles Bulyser,
Scott, and Inackeray, anu Is IN strong contrast 20
writer's ike Charles Dickens, Charles Reade, and
others os that school The difference between
them lies IN the set being cultivated men and
gentlemen whose inteilects improved Win age.
like old vine; while the other party Is formed OF
men Of great mental bFllliance upon one point or
50. Who write up that particular point until the
public becomes sick OF reading about II, ana then
irving some new line, they falI most dlsTlally.
The cultivated man, like the trained general, can
change his front. but the merely smart writer,
Ike the szash buekier. soon exhaiIsts himself and
SINKS into oblivion. Endymi0ua Is IN admirable
poIitici sketch Of the principal events when took
/ place IN England between Iss0 and 1ccJ- We nave
szstcIled out for Is under the very thin disguise
Of fictitious names ana few ansehrunlsrls, the
people Who have figured IN those events. The
hero. EnivmioI. seems TO be something OF a self
portrait. de struggles forward from the obscure
position Of q clerk IN one Of the public otees to
the utmost pinnacle an Englishuaus heart can
desire, Prime Minister We have portrayed for Is
Z the late Emperor NapUleOl under the name OF
Prince FIorestan. and very s1gagingiy portrayed,
Lord PalnerstOn as Lord RJehamptOn- Baron
Rothschild as the Banker NeuchateI- Archbishop
Manning as Nigel PsIruddock- Alr Cotden or MI
Bright as dob 11OsnberTyr anu 50 Ioltl. ILe
feuIale characters are finely drawn The coldusss
and st4tsiiness OF Myrs EeTrars- the eapricious-
ness and vet the eadearing qualities Of Lady
AlOatfort, the gentle trustt1l1ess OF AdrIaIa ers
touched N upon the canvas with master hand
There L 10 sensational excitement about this
book but II Is ole Ehich one can read, lay aside
and then 90 10 again with pleasure II Is full OF
bright dialogue and pJthy and sarcastic sayings.
What could, In fez words sketch the character
Of an ignorant old farmer than the fnllOSIng:
ssAh he Is d dangerous man. said NJ. Eer-
rars. -Dog YOU know | think be Is sud Farmer
Thornberry very seriously And BY this token,
Ss sryz k70eiegs y chemistry y HsesssaSy for tie
some remarks upon gaming and the turf run
a. follows:
= Ti,e t1rf at that tiuae had not deTeIoPed into
that yltss institution Of netioTal Generalization
which X no= exhibits That disastrous character
n1ay be mainly attributed to the determination Of
our legislators to pat down ginning nouses a1d
ztich- practically speaking. substituted for the
perriciDuS folly Of comparatively limited class
the ruinOus madness Of the comr1unitE.
Short pissy szytlcs
= An insaIar county s1biect to foss and EIth
powerful middle class requires grave statesmen
Very sarcastic, as spplied TO England
This IS Of a yozng university man:
ne EaC been the nero OF tlE NrDaALAA- NALD a.
Czmbrid-e, and many believed IN euEsesI1ence
that be must become Prime hinisser-7 Pullcturss
n an I1stau. inflated college reputation DIs-aeh
Il college, and II several places Is bitter
zP.yu the unITersIries-
- Life L always interesting when you have
purpose and i've II It's fulhlueut- Is said of nan
whose aiz was directed to a petty and contracted
p1rPose-'7
-Grs1s men should think Of Opportunity, not Of
Tine Tine Is the e1euse Of feeble and puzzled
spirits. They make time the sleeping partner OF
ttesr lives % accomplish hat ought 70 Be echieTed
bv their own Will We could imagine this beng
peuned about the tine that DisEfei brought the
Indian troops 70 Malta 70 ehecEaate the k1ssian
pans
The book teens With oshsE ike remarks The
Ouc blernish if II can be called bieuIsh- - the
rather Gorgeous surroundings II WHICH az times
the zutor Delights 70 set Eis characters; but tnen
If he did not do this II zo1ld not De DISrzeH Eno
wrote and We can pardon s1eh ezlDsralee o.
fancy natural to his Eastern extraction when Ee
have hid before Us sch an excellent novel ss
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