The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-25
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y : the ftSCl ia SCtllls I'll some re-
Spects devcd to literature, it may not
be improbae that some of its mem
bers have nd book entitled, [ think.
TIE Fors,en Bride.' | remember
rea, inc thiDook when | was eleven or
twelve Yes old. and though l have
read some the works Of Scott. Dick
ems, Thackav. De'stael, Irving. and
others. | dit think | ever peru>ed any
tDing witt much interest and pleas
Blind FlCer Girl" of Bulwer, nor
the despoIent "Rebecca" OF Scott
htyc enlist my sympathies SO mucl.
as tie artlS heroine of this novel
MINI Leic ter Whether the merit
lay in thesslc of the writer or the
charao tiers 1.-THE work do not know.
a | was TIN too young to close
book and thk over its merits and de-
iects. IL nj dclincations of character
and its >tyl,o lind where its b, autIes
lay and theittractions that kept my
attention o its pages till the Ell /
even doubt low whether | could Ave
thc l1t.encto read il again it may
lnW seem d but aS cannot find It.
mi don't k w where it can be acquir-
e l. ! would obliged 10 any memb ber
ol the IIoehold to te | me where il
van ht gott' 1t was the first novel
ever read. al to it i owe a taste for
fictitious opposition. | do not ap-
prove of on!illing his bookcase eX-
rlusively WI novels and rOmances
but it Is mu better To have some than
none at al A disregard for history
aud bio9rHr is more culpable than
dislike toIf Hitter literature it is best
lnr Us if we ,ul1 turn to Gibbon and
Met auleyvh as much pleasure as to
the last nov No one with taste for
elegant cOnosition can think these TWO
great hiStO,ns dull; but when we tire
# battleS-sl sieges. the intrlgues oi
courts and mps. and t e notes ut the
foot of the re which ALWAYS make a
book dull: is with great relief we
turn to an ;thor who deals with hu-
man naturend portrays it i'll the inter-
estiny episos and disappointments OF
love and anition. The great achieve
ments OF gr men i'll the past would
he little ;lttded to but for the poet ;
song Achi.s would have long since
been torgotn but for Horner's raptur-
on> strains. Wise and great men lived
louS hctorehe age of poetry; there
were touIids of empires and philoso-
pliers long efore the poets harp was
tou he'd b these names are forgot
+ ten:
In vain Il -chemed, in vain they bed
Iney rad Poet. and are dead "
! sometime 20 LAWYER was asked
Ia give the imile of the Indian aud his
+ iomahawk. As Lawyer is still Il
contr, ,butorJf the f. x NJ. will he
/ please step to the Hous eholI aud give
what he coAders the finest simile in
the laugua He thinks : Grays
! Elegy' thenest poem Of ambition
aud regrettr penned." Though adj
mire it hgl, and it only has immor-
talized the .me of its author. | don't
think ''Naleon's Farewell would
loose by mparison with it. When
the land offs glory and triumph re-
cedes from gaze and he l. leaving far
behind the Drld those that admired and
feared himhc author OF this exquisite
poem has + into his mouth sayings
upon fine ems | might mention one
other whicfor independence OF mind
and content for vanity Is unparalleled
in the who range OF English Litera-
ture. | rr to that little piece Of
Burns" man is a man for Il that !!
Without dit the Scottish peasant hao
within hin he elements OF nobility
and did n'envy the stars and ribbons
of Earls al Dukes. bat like IA man o
indepcude mind. could look ano
laugh at ahat." Can any member o
this deparlent oLiise me with full
definition the word Dude 1t i.
presented so many connections ant
so manyssributes assigned to the per
son who'll acquired this title of dis
tinction. tt it is hard through all it:
mazes of aracter to find what really
constitute MS exalted parsonage. He
is sonnet thi we suppose almost human
some deges below man, and few
above a anlkey. Violet, let us have
your opini of the Dude, and if n