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Returning to his home one evening, he met a military company, which from curiosity he followed, and which "drew up in front of the residence of a young lawyer of my friends, after performing in whose honour, through the medium of a very brassy band, a Secession Schottische or Palmetto Polka, it clamorously demanded his presence. After a very brief interval he appeared, and altho' he is in private life an agreeable and moderately sensible young man, he succeeded, to my mind at any rate, in making most successfully, what Mr. Anthony Weller calls 'an Egyptian Mummy of his self.' the amount of balderdash and rubbish which he evacuated (_dia stomatos_) about mounting the deadly breach, falling back into the arms of his comrades and going off generally in a blaze of melodramatic fireworks, really made me so unhappy that I lost my night's rest. So soon as the speech was over the company was invited into the house to 'pour a libation to the holy cause'--in the vernacular, to take a drink and spit on the floor." Evidently Southern eloquence was not tolerable to the ears of the British consul. Or was it the din of the church bells rather than the clamour of the orator, that offended him? (_Lyons Papers_.)] [Footnote 51: _Edinburgh Review_, Vol. 113, p. 555.]
The Thirteen

THE THIRTEEN BY HONORE DE BALZAC INTRODUCTION The _Histoire des Treize_ consists--or rather is built up--of three stories: _Ferragus_ or the _Rue Soly_, _La Duchesse de Langeais_ or _Ne touchez-paz a la hache_, and _La Fille aux Yeux d'Or_. To tell the truth, there is more power than taste throughout the _Histoire des Treize_, and perhaps not very much less unreality than power. Balzac is very much better than Eugene Sue, though Eugene Sue also is better than it is the fashion to think him just now. But he is here, to a certain extent competing with Sue on the latter's own
[Footnote 52: The _Times_, January 4, 1861.] [Footnote 53: Letter to _Dublin News_, dated January 26, 1861. Cited in _The Liberator_, March 1, 1861. Garrison, editor of _The Liberator_, was then earnest in advocating "letting the South go in peace" as a good riddance.] [Footnote 54: _Saturday Review_, March 2, 1861, p. 216.] [Footnote 55: _London Chronicle_, March 14, 1861. Cited in _The Liberator_, April 12, 1861.] [Footnote 56: _London Review_, April 20, 1861. Cited in Littel's _Living Age_, Vol. LXIX, p. 495. The editor of the _Review_ was a Dr. Mackay, but I have been unable to identify him, as might seem natural from his opinions, as the Mackay previously quoted (p. 37) who was later New York correspondent of the _Times_.] [Footnote 57: Matthew Arnold, _Letters_, Vol. I., p. 150. Letter to Mrs. Forster, January 28, 1861.] [Footnote 58: Julian Hawthorne, _Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife_, Vol. II, pp. 271-78. _Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier_, Vol. II, pp. 439 seq.]