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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 18, 21 January 1881, Page 4

: The L^n'on correspondent of ibe JV.Z. Times wtites :— TM* letter would be hordly complete without some reference to the literary evert of the month — I allude, of courae, loLord Beaconefirlo'a new cove), Btraog»ly enough called " Eodymion." This. however, is like the noble author. Anyone with the Dame of en ordinary person could never find a place in the aristocratic, not to cay impossible, atmosphere in which bis Lori'shi^ habitually lives. Brown, Junes, and Robinson could never be heroes. I bears the some stamp as all Ms other works. Everybody is veiy handsome, very rich, or else has magnificent talents. The brush is loaded with color and dabbed on regardless of light and shade.. To be poor ia a crime j to he onambitiouß is be to a fro' ; and the Alpha and Omega of life is to get on regardless of consequences end indifferent to who may be crushed in your progress. Like all the works of the quondam Mr Disraeli, there is political color pervading the story, and Lord Palmerston, the Emperor Napoleon 111, Mr Sidney Herbert, Mr Milner Gibson, and many others figure under the names of tbe Earl of Boebamp'on, Prince Floreeton, Mr Sidney Walton, Mr Jarrocks, &c. I do not mean to imply that the novel is cot worth reading ; on the contrary, from tbe extracts I have read, the work is full of BpatkJiDg epigrams, brilliant conversation, remarkable descriptions of men and thingt— in fact, a good specimen of the peculiar creations of its author's genius. It is a wonderful evidence of tbe unimpaired force still retained by Lord Beaconifield at tt c age of 74, and after all the wear end tear of six yean*' arduous cocflict and work as Prime Minister of this country. His crushing defeat in April lest has net weakened bis natural force, nor created apparently the slightest feeling of despondency. It is impossible not to feel aomirßtion foi a men of this stamp. Few public men, few men in privtato Hie, have gone through eb many vicieeituaee, so many severe defeats, or suffered so much from social drawbacks. Yet his geniuß, his energy, hie untiring perseverance, his unruffled composure vi der adversity, have t>t length had theii reward, and have placed him in tht highest position to which in tbu country a eutject can attain. By-ano-by, when he bas p»Bted awty, the lif< ot the Earl of Bt&confcfield, E.G., will be a notable example, to be put before young men for their etimulue, and, in malty reepecm; ihtir iamauoo. He is a eelf-made bqbq.