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LITERATURE.
HF.VIIiW OF NEW BOOKS.
GRIFFITH GAUNT.
Several causes have conspired to secure for the
last of Mr. Charles Reade's novels considerable
BOtortety. While belnpf published as a serial la
the Atlantic MorUldy, it was denounced as im
Koral hy numbers of our leading journals. It
was delended bv the author in a letter in which
lie termed all who criticized him "beasts," and
t seems thai now it is to bo the subject of a law
suit. Under these circumstances, it is only
natural that "Griffith Gaunt" should be the sen
ration of the hour. Its greatness belongs to the
doss of those who have fame thrust upon them,
lor certain it is that it was nelther.born great,
or yet achieved, through merit, an exalted
pesiMon. But be the cause what it may, ''Grlf
fith Gaunt" is the literary lion, and as such de
mands onr attention.
Let ns give the plot of the book, and save our
readers the shocks which a perusal of the work
for themselves would unavoidably produce.
Catharine Peyton, a country belle, and
second. "Lady Gay Spanker," has two lovers,
the affections of both of whom she appears to
reciprocate about equally. Sir George
Neville, the possessor of Neville's Court, n
prevx chevalier, being one; the other Griffith
Gaunt, a robost rustic, the preemptive heir ol
Bolton Castle. Griffith, infuriated, without any
iipecial cause, decides to leave the country, when
the sudden death of Mr. Bolton induces Miss
Peyton to borrow 8lr George's horse, an I rido
after the departing lover. Sir George, having
eeen fit to take her horre, he gives a mortal
offense to Griffith, who publicly insults hiiti.
A duel is arranged, when, alter two shots,
Hiss Peyton arrives and, after interposing her
noise between the combatants, faints gracefully
away. The duel is thus terminated, and they aH
proceed to the reading of Mr. Bolton's will.
That document being inspected, proves that all
the property is left to Miss Peyton, and Griffith
cut of with 2000. This seeming ill-fortune is
really the flood tide of his future, for the lady
feeling that injustice has been done, and nut
knowing how to remedy it except by marrying
the wronged heir, offers herself this time, aud
the marriage immediately takes place. After
living happily together tor seven years,
a priest appears upon the stage,
find as Mrs. Gaunt is a Cttholic,
soon secures considerable influence over that
lady. Father Leonard is a young saint in per
sonal appearance, having mild and lustrous
eyes, a pallid complexion, being an anchorite
by reputation, a Jesuit by profession, and a St.
Paul in the pulpit Mrs. G.vint nearly falls In
lov? with him, and he decidedly falls in love
with her. In fact, one day at the confessional
hcjeveals his illicit affection, but she, surprised,
does not consent to or repel his advances. Matters
continues this way for some time, and naturally
attracts the attention of even the stupid Grif
fith. Meanwhile another little moral by-play
is going on. Mrs. Ryder, the lady's
maid, fails desperately in love with Gaunt.
Numerous ;chapterj are devoted to the disgust
ing recital of how she endeavore 1 to secure his
affection. She at last poisons bis ears with the
recital of his wife's conduct, when, instead of his
turning (o her for consolation, he goes off into
an epileptic fit. Having recovered his reason, he
returns to the hsuse, rinds, his wife whom he left
at home and unable to move, out walking with
Leonard, follows them, knocks her down,
tramples on him, mounts his horse, and
alter noing tor ninety-two miles wlthaut
dismounting, arrives at the "Pack-horse," and
suffer from an attack of brain fever. He is
nnrtcd, and saved from death by Mercy Vint,
the ormaW' wll0 as a reward for her Jdevo
tion, he mtLte9' totally ignoring the existence
of Mrs. Gaunt, He lives with her a year under a
fal!(9 name, has a child by her, and then being
n vovnt of money, returns to Bolton Cattle, to
Bemebope he left -
filldS h 4 A - ..nui5 lUMCi MB
waTwei Wlfe was faiul to nim, that be
izT iZ - returned prodigal, and so
V Ogives himself aa t0 return to bis old posi
tion s husband ;and father He tnu9 ha9 tw0
nveft, and & cnild by each After 0BCiuating
.Tor 'cral months between the two, they both
find out that he has played them false, and
Sirs. Gaunt No. 1 threatens his life and
his arrest. He flies in the night, and
Is heard to cry for "Help," and then mysteriously
disappears. Suspicion is excited, the pond is
dragged, "udaju found, half eaten
ashes, Mrs. Gaunt No. 1 is arrested ana
tried for the murder of her husband, makes a
rpeech which rivals in ability the great ad
dress of Buzfuz, and is acquitted by the sud
den reappearance of the supposed victim. It
appears that it was his bastard brother who
-was drowned, Thomas Leicester. At this stage
f the proceedings, 8ir George Neville, lost
some hundred pages back, reappears, and con
veniently marries Mrs. Gaunt No. 2, the bar
maid, mistress of Griffith, bis old rival. Mr.
and Mrs. Gaunt are reunited, and all live hap
pily together for a great many years, and die
at a good old age.
Such, in brief, is the plot of the story, and a
very unnatural, distorted, and immoral one it
is. Let us notice me nuauruuy oi me whole
tale. Would any honorab'.e woman, who loves
lier husband, meet another young man at mid
lght in a grove, to pray f Would it cause any
-,.nrfa if. undor the circumstances, the bus-
v0i was to be jealous T And would he, If an
-fcnrfthle man. marry another woman, merely
, ,0o i,i true wife was suspected of
mm unfaithful? Yet this is the morality
f the work. No word of condemna
t, u uttered at this horrible doc-
iritie On the contrary, it is rather com
mended by the author, as all the guilty parties
-.nmo mit haoDV In the end. Again, what sane
man will believe that Sir George Neville, the
.,. ma of a oollshed gentleman, a cnevaner,
a in fiver respect a model, a knight and a
nnhiPTtiRii. would marry a barmaid, the cast-
off mistress, of his rival? This is monstrous.
And vet we are told that such was the case, and
that thev all met once t the Town Hall, and
were surprised that people smiled, now must
Griffith have felt with his two wives beside
Jiim! His feelings can only bo properly appre
ciated by the venerable Brigham Youn?.
It is frequently the case that a few immoral
characters are introduced into a novel to give it
the appearance ot nature, but these deformities
mre Generally set off by th appearance of some
pi those who Jora the brighter side of human
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nature. There Is a mixture of light and shade,
but in "Griffith Gaunt" there la nothing but
shade. There is not a character in the book
which is not either seduced, a seducer, an adul
terer, or a barmaid, except Catherine Gaunt,
and she came very near ceasing to be an excep
tion. Now this is a hard assertion, yet it is the
truth. There are five principal characters.
Griffith clearly is an adulterer, tor he pretends to
marry Mercy Vint while his wife still lives. Mrs.
Gaunt Is almost in love with Leonard, and
comes very nearly being guilty of a crime for
which the Hebrew was stoned to death. Mercy
Vint, after marrying Griffith, marries another
man, which is a gross violation oi morality, while
Sir George, by marrying a mistress ot Griffith,
causes her to commit adultery. Nor is this
penchant confined to the leading characters.
Mrs. Kydcr has three paramours, and an Illegiti
mate child; Thomas Leicester Is a bastard
brother of Griffith Gaunt; Mrs. Leicester was
the victim of Griffith's father. To set the
morality of the personoges portrayed in a still
clearer light let us make a small,
RESUME.
Number of pages ..... 165
Number of characters .... 12
Incontinent females 9
Almost incontinent . . 1
Adulterers ....... 4
Bastards 2
Sensual priefcts ...... 2
It will thus be seen that such a work Is not
fitted to enter any decent household, and that
no lather, brother, or respectable library should
allow it to be within reach. But more of that
sentiment anon.
Again, the wills of persons are all of them,
by a strange fatality, directly opposed to what
was universally expected. We have a record of
four will. Griffith Gaunt makes one, leaving
all his possesions to Kate Peyton totally unex
pected. Sir George Neville does the same thing
also surprising. Old Mr. Bolton, after stating
that he had left all to Griffith, leaves all to Miss
Peyton. And a Gaunt of somewhere, who ap
pears at the eleventh hour, leaves all his wealth
to Griffith. It will thus bo seen that in making
their wills, people are not so disinterested as we
suppose; and if Mr. Reade is to be believed, are
governed by fickle likes or dislikes, and never
by justice.
There is another noticeable omission in the
book. There are no mothers portrayed. When
ever we find an author leaving his characters
without mothers, without the effect of a mother's
influence, we may feel pretty sure that the char
acters are not going to act rightly. And in
"Griffith Gaunt" we have no mothers given us,
and all the heroes and heroines do wrong.
The work opens peculiarly, and we must say
that we like its abrupt commencement:
'Now I say once for all, that priests shall
never darken my doors again."
"Then I eay tbey are my doors and not yours,
and tbe holy man shall brierhten them when
ever he will."
The gentleman and lady who faced each other,
pole and furious, and interchanged the bitter
defiance, were man and wife, and had ''loved
each other well." Then, without a word of ex
planation, the story begins eight years before,
and we find the clue to the first sentences on page
72, when the work is half finished. The author
commences with a climax and skilfully draws
hlsreader with him. The words, however, are
not particularly well selected.' They are not the
ending of an epoch. Griffith does not leave his
wile in despair when she says these cruel words.
If he did, the words would be well chosen; but
they do not mork an era in the story, and we
therefore deplore their select'on.
Let us give the work all the pra'se we can.
It is well written, and certain passages are re- j
markable for their power. The conversations I
are generally readable, and but once or tvvice
degenerate into the sickening twaddle of th3
dime novel. The style is succinct and per
spicuous, and deserves praise. When wq bay
this, we say all we can in its favor. Jr Eeade
has behaved most unfairly to the public. He
has acquired a reputation by his novel's for
brilliancy and force. He has gained, an entree
IT.: ?Verf h0,:-uo.u. He secured a
good name and fair lame, and under
the mask of his previous works has
sought to foist upon the public a tale which, if
it found its true level, would be laid on no
table but that of a brothel. It is because
Messrs. Ticknor & Fields published it that it
has created the attention that it has, and their
- not keep it up long. If they
good name . .t. down to
seek to sustain it. it will drag
its own level. It should be read by none who
love Vhe pure and the good. It abounds in
passages at once most prurient and disgusting,
wbich we cannot witn decency quote nere.
But as its true character has been exposed, its
author's fangs are drawn, and hereafter Charles
Reade can enter only wnere tne novels oi
George Sand and Henry Fielding are admired.
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on translating the "diyina commedia."
fourth bonnet.
llowetranRe the sculptures that adorn these
towers l
This crowd or statues, In whose folded
sleeves
Birds build their nestu; while canopied with
leaves
Parvls and portal bloom like trelllsed
bowers.
Aiwi the vast minster seems a cross of flowri
But fiends aud dragons irom iue gargoyied
Watch the dead Chiist between the living
thieves,
And underneath the traitor Judas lowers.
Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain,
What exultations trampling on despair,
What tenderness, what tears, what hate of
wronjt,
What passionate outcry oi a soul in pain,
Uprose this poem of the earth and it,
This medieval miracle of sou 1
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for sweetness and brilliancy of tone, delicacy of '
touch, and magnificent powor tor concert purposes, I
consider It a really Guand Piano-touts, ana de
cidedly -tub BKOT I HAVE SEEN 09 AMBBIOAM MANU-
AKA.Br.LLA OODDABD,
G1ULO REGONDI,
ALKKr i J A ELL,
LLNDjUY sLUI'ciB,
J. MOlHKLbS.
Professeur au Conserve
tolre de Lelpslo.
fl. ABl'HUK CHAPPEL,
Director of Monday Con
W KUHf..
JUL ft 8 BKNED1CT,
K. W. DAL 1,
CHAM. HALLfc,
jiKiitLKY ia Wards.
KKisK fV4 KUtJl,
o I ir c i o.ii i iu,
J recently had occasion to nli
CVJTI, AriJIlUOO.
hig's Concert Grand Pianos, i he hmh repmatlon of
these tnsttumontB had already reached me, and the In
strument under notice tuny sustained tbe reputation
ol the celebrated makers. It U dlstlngulsned by tne
iu Inebs, beauty and nobleness ot Its tone: by the per
fect exactness ol tne e. lire scale, and by its action,
wblchisot so remarkable a klud that It gives to the
? la) er the most comp ete master oi every shade ot
one, p p. to medium, aud In thort. this Piano
unites all the advantagts ot the best productions of the
kind, and staads side by side with the most celebrated
fcuronean Instruments. LOUId fLAXDY.
Lkifsio August 0. 1866.
Ctrl Jicate Irom Uerr Cart R'tn'ckn, Sueeettor to the
pvxtunt vt MtndeUt in, both tn the Contervatoire
and at Condueior of the cthbrattd " Otrwandiauu
Concert" in Lepiic.
1 hereby assert ana affirm that the Grand Piano-forte
ol C hlckering t-ous, of Boston and Mew York, which
I bave tried and examined. Is on of he finest instru
ments of the class that ever came to my notice.
CAKt, KELNECKE.
CertificateTom Y. Von Arnold, he celebrated Russian
P'anist and CtnP'er.
At Mr. I.eavltt's. in Leluslo, I have this day (July 24,
1866) examined a Grand Pianoforte from the maau
lac.ory ol Meters hickering At Soiu, ot Boston It 1
a t'oiicert Instrument of 1i octaves, with regara to
whl b I would make tie loilowluo- remarks:
First, the action ia so nicely balanced that any gra
dation ol powei can be obtained, from the most delibe
rate lightness to the greatest force.
(tecoud. Between the two extremes ot the key-board
the vlbratkns are perlect y e)ua la graduated power.
Ihealnglng quality otibe lustrum, nt (pro ongation ol
sound . asDeclal y In the micdle octaves. Is greatly de
veloped, and Is exceedingly oeautlfuL l he bass Is full,
nnllorm powerful, without harshness, and toe ensemble
very beautiful.
'i bird Nothing liner than this Instrument conld be de
sired, with regard to power and iu iness ot tone. In
cotc'usion It must be acknowledged that this Instru
ment Is one of the most perfect piano one of our tl ne,
namely, aa regards tone In general, and in the per ec tlon
ot its mechanical parts.
ginned) , . Y. VON ARNOLD.
Laireio, July, 1866.
THE UPRIGHT PIANO.
THE FASHIONABLE PIANO OF EUROPE
CHICKERING & SONS
Hats raid particular and minute attention, by frequent
and costly experiment, to the manu'acture of
THE UPRIGHT PIANOS.
THEY WILL BK rOTJSD
PURE AND SONOROUS IN TONE.
TREBLE AND TENOR
LIQUID, BRILLIANT, AND MELODIOUS.
TOE Bi89
DEEP, CLEAR, AND RICH.
THE TOUCH
LIGHT, ELASTIC, AND POWERFUL.
The CPBIQFJT PIAK O is, (Tom its size, suited to hun
dreds of bouses where a Grand or a Square would prove
an Incumbrance. It la suited not only ftr the lar;or
bntfoi tbe Boudoir and the Study
CHICK ERIM 4 BONs bye pa'd particular atten
tion to tbe compactness or size, and the
BEATJTY AND ELEGANOiS OF M0'afWI?"
STRENGTH AND DURABILITY OF TAB IN3TRD
MENT. .
CHICKERING PIANOS IN EUROPE.
HAFS VOS BCLOr,the peat German Pianist, by
letters Just received irom Europe proposes to Dlay only
tbe CBK KEBINO pli NO during bis concert tour Iu
tbe United Statea
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