The Sun. — 1846-01-03 (London, England)

AND MODERN INSTANCES. The auti, 2 Vols, By Thomas Cooper. Proved b. .00r of these two little volumes has already. bitirl4B pt.o:soef the If to be a poet of no ordinary capacities, Publication of a prison rhyme, entitled "Th. Suicides ; he now, however, advances lathi to consideration as a writer of prose fictions. liter,bf the most admirable productions in our native to the have been germinated amidst scenes which unge~il unphilosophical mind were apparently of an tioriapal or dispiriting character, and men have occatlißait'Y called into being works breathing purity and eecorl in every line, while they themselves have been Thus..coin by debasing and degrading influences. his his dungeon, did the Earl of Surrey permitterea "Pnation to wanton in an idealizing and unfet-41 tibertY ; thus Burns, at the ploughshare, wove 4%144Y-dreams into verse, and wrought himself a lenee.ll.-Place for ever in futurity ; thus, when a prireace; ",d Sir Walter Raleigh chronicle the occurjestae- bYgone times; and thus, in a thousand other of ei;eea) has the human intellect risen above the force ever hseurnstances scatheless and uncramped. Whatit he TaY be the predominating bias of a man, whether Ineeti:r,aetiOn or for thought, that bias will ever find a la o„°' accomplishing its purpose; once implanted 13 icionzatatuhriee: it can never lie dormant, its course that h The bias of Thomas Cooper is— Lrn,ust write ; it appears to be his " other be galtthper.ativnelnd of second nature; its commands are to him, and these commands could not his„bsayed even by the walls of Stafford gaol;during ph, confinement for conspiracy." In issuing his for ,:gatory of Suicides" to the world, he acted well, copiobears the impress of a generous heart and a ,vint fancy ; in publishing his present work, all st? Saws and Modern Instances," we think with thiaieference to himself, that he has acted somewhat that Y and unwisely. Nature has gifted him, and eati abundantly, with all the exigencies and qualifilit:an,s of a poet, but in aiming at another sphere in he hnlure, as in the present instance, we conceive " outstepped the dictates of prudence. That he you observant eye, and no mean perception of the. evie°,llB‘, Phases of character in his fellow man, is ,for by several passages in the volumes before us ; Intellect' in the papers headed " Raven Dick, the e oi, Who Scratched the Bull," an I "The poual Lever that lacked a Fulcrum ;" but that then ssesss the capability of adequately pourtraying ,f,rorat tPhia-s. es of -society is not at all to be deduced Lee Qua ryes paps. In speaking of Charles Dickens, reratteh rlerlY Review, some years back, very justly valgar e‘,l that his delineations of low life are never ttetrie out are, on the contrary, fraught with ex11°t begraane and elegance; this praise, however, can 'asse, warded to the delineations of the humbler went given by Mr. Cooper in these three-and"° Y sketch 'throughout over, eter,, es. They retain an eiote of the . a'e thee, subject which is being described; they 41.11 e; stra selves in a palpable lowliness of metaphor, tie-Y Rler-ng Poverty of language. Besides these (lhir nlg defects on the part o.f our incorrigible he has 4 anothert' of a far more incorrigible and inel°4 witt nature : in attempting to endue his descripFret t • aee h a air of " naturalness" to which in his ultad slae: n,stensibly aspires, all the common-places ndiee„,? Phrases in ew,hitista•neesf. this flentebe7h are vogue now-a-days among the interlarded with almost every other intolerable blemish we will give a leng.the conan.--114.-I`P a • anY was large, well-dressed, and from the ,steaus ePPearance of the numerous leather port, A , *at t change of ha 6. ne' seesih, heat suits was purchased (for the lad . It:which te to be fooled into the kichshaw dandy eororae Cockney recommended"), &T. etpoiai innsreiai gentic_, wen even at the first-rate cornk (lotet cut it quite so fat," &c. ofe'9aciated ; c'orrtiraer was completely flummuxed and jfabher 8:e Jonathan was would say, he was struck all stluft! tact, the&c, man he could plainly see was up to 4Jet rattled 'll lacked • as:''Y I the young ladies thumped and selecteease are but e' Work -at rend° few of the obnoxious vulgarisms, porti that it wo T, and constitute a blemish in the dbet;nb of bea,.,11.114 require a very considerable prosech"ls we would to obliterate. In all future prohes, ,;neretricio eid recommend Mr. Cooper to avoid Poet seein us and mistaken efforts at " naturalnt els 8. that the Poet he ke, render his Y more particularly, than anyhis 8 alreed present work a failure. As a at_ nrearier_, y excited the admiration and regard clehri3s btuot he has not as yet advanced any popularity as a prose writer.  4 ,SNIPxs """.........—.....„.. Zarp,e nunizib LoNbox.--During the last fortnight vti4oliq, wii4eitt. wandsworthoneo oil ii;4l °f these bird: csinipes have visited the outskirts of the raystar ctates approaching frost. and e been aho ux Battersea-fields ‘li4r° 44(atr:ELbreConiviLMARBET,