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LARA, a Tale'; pp. 93.--JciltiF.eftic; a Talc.; pp. 31.

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This Work is alre4ay well
_kioWn to the Pub-

lip, owing, as we ituagine, to .a must successful
ruse played off by its miserable Airtlinr, who has
caused it to lye propagated, and, ‘chat is stranger
got it to he believed that the first of these
Poems is the production of Lord 113110 N, ,md -the
last, of ItocEitS, who formerly ~.vrote riit in-
different Poetic, entitled the Pleasures. of Memory.
.Why the. Noble Lord And his poetical Friend
•should hayse had so little regard to their reputa7

tiimß :is -to stiffer this injurious rumour to.teiriain
lincotitradictecl we arc at a lo'ss to 'conceive : Cer-

iatil we itre, that neither of them • can.alford so
heavy a drawback upon the-stock of their reputa-
tions as is involved in the Publication in ques.tiOn;
and that not even a partnership of their talents
co ild sustain so overwhelming a Tun 'upo❑ tbe
,Finn. But though these great Bards have thought

it beneath their care to refute the insidious pre-

tensions of the pseudo poet, it is our duty as cri-
.
tics to save them from the scandal; to exposb the

imposture attempted. upon' the Public in their
names, and prove that though' Lord BYRON may
be misled by the cacoethes scribendi to forfeit.the
pledge given in his laSt work, not to appear for a
long period before the literary tribunals, it is not,
at least in Lara, that he has.forgotten his promise
and sinned against his veracity. " Crede- BYRON"
is his motto ; and who,, the Deuce; would credo
YaON were he to publish a Poetn within a little
month alter be had solemnly assured the World

that he was determined to write no more for se-
• veral years ? ! Such inconsistency would be irre-
concileable with propriety of conduct, and we are
-sure the Noble Lord cannot wish to -entrap the
public opinion. But the design of- this forgexy,
'and the intention of foisting " tiara" upon the
world, as an effusion of this misanthropic:ll Lord
is rendered evident by a very artful and Jesuitical
Advertisement prefixed to the volume 'which
,says---." dee reader of " Lira" may. probaby re-
gard as a sequel to a Poem that recently ap-
peared : whether the cast of the I-lerO's character,
the turn of his adventures, and the general out-
line and colouring of the story,Anay not encou-
rage such a supposition, shall .be left to his de,
termination. To his conjecture is also referred
the name of the Writer, the knowledge of which
would be of no service• in assisting his xleeision
on the failure Or success of the attempt." It is
thus cunningly insinuated that Lord BviroN is the
•author ; that he had broken his word ; and that
this was the sequel to the " Corsair." We are
,surprized that Mr. 'Mu 1111.AY could lend his name
to-so gross ait imposition:, and so impudent all
insult to the veracity of the Noble Peer, whose
publications hiive been so productive in the way
of business ! Such doings must' hint the sale'of
his Lordship's auth.mtie \Yorks, published here-
after, at the expiraticm of the, two years, during
which he is to observe silence,, andeonsult the
.oracle. But, independently of this promise, who
.can have so ill an opinion of the Noble Lord's
judgment and powers of indention as .to sup-
pose, that if lie were to forswear himself and
write within the proscribed time, he would have
been so foolish as to revive that tmainiable and
disgusting personage, .the "Corsair," and con-
fer a second poetical existence on a character, of
whose first the whole• literary world were com-
pletely tired, tVhere would the fine lancy'and
.prolific imagination of the writer be, were he
-merely to call Cur:RAD, LARA,---and GULNARE,
Ca LED,—and. serve up the same dis‘n again for a
.Pecond course, without variety or alteration, till
his surkited
.guests exclaimed, with a celebrated
I,agical hero—
' What! shall e.rononhotonthologos cat Pork,
• '" And thus at second hand !" •

. ,
W.hat ! shall we have nothing but roast pigeons.;
roast pigeons, till we are sick of, da,inties.• For
heaven's sake let us have a plain joint, no matter
bow sifiiply Brest ! We think, ve hear Air,
hocrris exclaim, or, rather the person wit° has
usurped his name, " then you have Jacqueline,-
and-that's simple enough in all consieuee,"—=which
N true—but we shall address ourselves,toJacqne-..
line, anon.
One of the •distinguishing features of Lord'
BvaoN's poetry is, the .potent delineation of the
strong, particularly the malevolent passions. Ue
elucidates all their workings ; he traces with a
master's hand their faintest as well•as most vivid
indications,; and while our feelings are roused, by
the pictures he conjures up, we are tempted to
exclaim with more of horror (mingledvith pity)
that). of admiration, " What a mind has this
'1:111 P. The powerful interest excite& by these,.
delimeations7,-the deep sensations caused by his
!lark and gloomy colouring of scenes, in which
Ituman nature is exhibited in dreadful conflict,
or wove dreadful league with almost demoniac de-
pravity—the bitter emotions commanded by an
able pen, while Painting the ruthless violence of
internal fury ; the gnawiugs of unappeasable re-
; the shrieks of agonized conscience ; the
of unrequited lov-e ; the minute acts of
midnight ' mil der; and all those things which
soix
drat;
along the captive soul while they
and confound it—these, the prominent
'beau ies and defects of Lord 13tYnoN's chosen sub-
jects amid. style, his imitator has servilely taken as
his model in Lira. But alas, he wants the abili-
ties of hiS original, 'and could we for an instant
yield_ to the deldsion that Lord BYRO' is really

`the .)k ivifh
‘i „di it tailing on is tier,: t "
• Lara, is a sombre being of the 11YRoNschool
a Cassius without the Roman's.virtues, alud even
a Ch.inad, without tV. fiery add dazzling- corer-
prize
.of the Corsair. The Writer is evermore at
tvropting to imititte:his prototype in the finish of
his portraits by tofilute but sharp touches, which
.are ffieant to betray an intimate kno•Nledge c.t lie
workings of the guilty mind, as their indices (like
the hectic of a Moment) pass-o?er the co)tnte-
mince. He imitates him too in his obsenr,ty; in
his abruptness; in his occasional disregard of
grammar, and ;penury -of sense ; and in all the
peculiarities which mark the style A. the Author
of the Giaour. 'ln these respects he is rather
successful, hat, more regularly feeble than his
LOrdship i. , his obscurit.es- remind one of the
`palpable obscure=—his 'abruptness is utter twin-
offencts against Priscian rank laid
'unpardonable; and his want of meaning, truly
the twice-told tale of an idiot.
• Full of souotrand fury—signifying nothih ;.

Conrad, ,aliaS.Lara, appears in the new; part of
'a Spanish Noble, returning abruptly to his im-
inene patronage, after -a Jong and mysterious ab-
senee, 'accompanied by a single linage, 'who turns
out to be a woman resembling Gulitare,' Seyd's
inislress,in disguise.' At home, Count 'Lara leads
-au odd kind of recluse, social', abstracted, ob-
servant; oOnscience stricken, repulsive, attractive
lift ; he .visits a ne..n..;lthouring Silrou, Orho,
and recognized as something {untold), by
'sOinebody (unknown)—a qa-arrel _ensiles ; the
strano-ar is murd'ered tu'his whys butite (the S.tille
story is extant. in Caleb ‘Villiains and the Iron
Chest) ; Lira fights and ratignsiics Otho, adds
rebellion to hi-s other virtues, and is slain in bat-
tle. To he consistent, he of course dies without
-any of the companctions visitings of .Common
.villains, and his female Page departs this life, to
keep her worthy master company. Such is the
ontiine of this renovated Corsair. But in exe-
cution it is far inferior 'to Lord -13YRox's pre-
ceding works—as might indeed he'expected from
eppy,! We have 3 taLed, that it is is parts tin-
intelitgible—offen ungrammatical : to .which we
may IlyW add,' that it is throughout slovenly, and
that the brilliant passages, of which there are
several, are too freipiently injured by a careless-
hcss and imiccuracy which are
,altogether inex-
cusable. Words 41'e chosen, not for their 'appli-
cability to the regitired sense, but to the measure
or rhyme, and solid rationality is without scruple
sacrificed to jingle, alliteration, or the march of
language which conveys no definite idea. As a
fortuitous example of Sonic of these Assertions,
we shall transcribe the second stanza of the first
canto.

" The Chief of Lara is returned again:.
And, why had Larii cross'd the. bounding main ?.
Left by his sire? too young sucf: loss to know,
Lord of himself ;—that heritage of woe,
That fearful empire which the human breast
But holds to rob the heart within of rest!—
With •tione-to check, and few to point in titne •
'['he thodsand pa,lll,v that. slope the. way to crime;
Then, when he most required coMmandemeitt, then
Had Lava's dlniug boyhood govern'd men.
It. skills nut, hoots not, step by step to trace
Ells youth through all the mazes of its racel
Short was the course his re;tlesSness had run, •
But long enough to leave Lout half undone."

• We shall not dilate upon this inelegant specimen
of Lara. Whoever will take the trouble of
weighing the words marked hi Italics, wilt soon
perceive that some, of them involve stark non-
sense, and that- the others are exceedingly ill
ehoseti to express what the Author intended.
The confusion Of the image of n person left lord
of himsey-'—an empire of his breast over his 'heart,
is an incomparable absurdity—nor is path's sloping
ways- much better. " Cononandenicut" • means
restraint ; what " skills not," means we have not
skill to ascertain. At page 5, we are ,vliimsi-
cally told, in illustration of the 'common thaxim
that the absence of news had caused the period to
seem
long,
" But leek of tidings from another clime
Had lent a flagging, wing to weary time;
which two lines are pretty bombast, or we have
no knowledge .of poetry : and only four hues
lower dOwn We have the following couplets--,
" His faults, whate'er they were, if scarce forgot,
Might be witaxght him by his varied lot;"
" His soul in youth was.hanghty, but his sins
No inure than pleasure from the stripling

Query, what is the meaning of pleasure win-
ning sins from striplings ? ! Page 24 is 'remarka-
ble for a description bf Lava, which is au enlarged
paraphrase -of SHAXESPEARCS Cassius ; and in
the next page we are informed, iii a language
raised above our comprehension, that he was
" A thing of ,lark imaginings, that shaped
By choice the perils he by-..chance escaped ;"
and,oll the succeeding description, in pages 26
'and 27, reminds tis most closely of CoLeatDoii's
character of Ordonio in the tragedy 'of Remorse.
(I'o be continued to-morrOw.)

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