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 MR.
THOMAS.
— This gentleman, so well and so favorably
known as the author of "East and West," "The Adventures of a Lawyer,"
"Clinton Bradshaw," and other minor productions of high merit, has now
in the hands of Messieurs Lea and Blanchard a new novel called "Howard
Pinckney," of which, from some loose pages which we had the pleasure of
glancing at in MS, we entertain a high opinion. "Howard Pinckney," if
we are not much mistaken, will place Mr. Thomas in a position which he
should have occupied long ago — a position in the van of our
literature. He has only to do himself justice (as he has here done) in
his subject, and there is no better writer in America. Let him eschew
"Pelham," and throw all mannerism to the dogs, and he will do honor to
his country and to himself. He has the true soul of genius. We here
wish to record a prophecy that in ten years from this date his works
will be more extensively popular than those of any of our native
writers. We would say even more than this — but we have a horror of
being suspected of puffery. |
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