Pictures from English literature . ach other—their next of Nydia. Shewas not to be found—none had seen her since the night. Every crevice of the vessel wassearched—there was no trace of her. Mysterious from first to last, the blind Thessalian hadvanished for ever from the living world ! They guessed her fate in silence ; and Glaucus andlone, while they drew nearer to each other (feeling each other the world itself), forgot theirdeliverance, and wept as for a departed sister. One scarcely knows how the novelist could have otherwise disposed ofthis most beautiful creation of his genius. There is
Pictures from English literature . ach other—their next of Nydia. Shewas not to be found—none had seen her since the night. Every crevice of the vessel wassearched—there was no trace of her. Mysterious from first to last, the blind Thessalian hadvanished for ever from the living world ! They guessed her fate in silence ; and Glaucus andlone, while they drew nearer to each other (feeling each other the world itself), forgot theirdeliverance, and wept as for a departed sister. One scarcely knows how the novelist could have otherwise disposed ofthis most beautiful creation of his genius. There is a wonderful pathos andcharm thrown around the poor flower-girl, that command for her by far theprofoundest interest that we feel for any of the female characters in the and brightness, joy and sorrow, nobleness of feeling and errors ofeducation. Nature had sown in the heart of the poor blind girl the seed ofvirtues never destined to ripen, and of feelings which her sad destiny hadthwarted and turned into THE NEWCOMES. William Makepeace Thackeray takes high place in the literature ofthis century, and when it has passed away, his name will still be fresh andgreen—his fame large and enduring. But, like others, he won his wayslowly. The growth of the oak is slow, but its life is the life of ages; andit is still in the vigour of its middle life when trees of quicker developmenthave grown up, and bloomed, and perished. Yet as we look back upon theearlier contributions of Thackeray to periodical literature—the lively andpicturesque papers of Michael Angelo Titmarsh—we can see the germs ofthose powers which were in after years to expand into such strength andexcellence. That eccentric but brilliant writer, John Sterling, saw what wasin Thackeray, and predicted his future greatness. Alluding, in 1841, to TheGreat Hoggarty Diamond, he wrote to his mother, What is there better inFielding or Goldsmith ? The man is a true genius, and, with quiet andcomfort,
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