New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-03

quarters he always has been and always vii
be-he is culogized in others: but nowhere is b.
treatcd with indifference. That is in itself
healthful sign. Matthew Arnold would have re
! i,lced to see at last the leaven working
When it was projected anew into contempt
rary literature and criticism by Mr. Henley ".
thought that Il could not have a better sponsor
His first volume devoted to the letters II 1904
1912 was expanded by nearly two hundred
nages If notes at Onc@ 80 iiluminatiyc and y
original that Of themselves they promised
win readers for Byron. Their excellence hu
oven moved Mr. Prothero handsomely % express
regret that circumstances should have put ia s
| his hands rather than in Mr. Henley's. th
! wealth of new material accumulated by the
house ~ Murray. But circumstances could no
! be controlled and. besides. Mr.. Henleys illness
along with other obstacles, has kept his edtio
at a standsti The second volume Is not ye.
published In the mean time the Murray ed
ton not only has unrivalied sources to draw
upon but promises TO be carried speedily TO CON.
pleton Two IF the twelve volumes are before
US. and comprehensive. well-edted ana we'll
printed books they Mr. Ernest Hartley
Coleridge edits the poetry MIR Rowland
Prother looks after the prose.
The former has based his text on the six-vo
ume edition published by Murray in ISL He
has also collated afresh practically all the print
cd no.ms with the original MSS. In some i'm
| nortant cases this collation. has been the first
eyer made Numerous cancellations result and
| some variants have been added. me edition
further includes at least thirty hitherto uhpup
lished poems including fifteen stanzas oi me uh'
finished canto Of Don Juan. ana conSiaeraDle
fragment Of the third part of The Deiofmea
TRANSFORMED" Eleven Of these unpnoshea
poems are given in tn. in.tIa! volume d me ne"
edition We have read Them with great are. ous
with small profit.
Oh, well / know your subtle Sex.
| Frail daughter Of the wanton Eve
while jealous pangS our souls peip'X.
No PASSION prompts you - relieve.
Oh, should be- a baby fool. -
T. sigh the iupe d female art "a
Woman perhaps thou hast Soul, 80,
But where have Demons hid my Hr1it'
This is very Ike he Immature Byron of 1874.
and IS therefore amusing, but As poetry il IS
sad stun Furthermore save that 1t prehsures
slightly the vigor and temper If EngliSh "i' Is
ard scotch Reviewers published in 1900 here
! IS nothing upon which the reader particularly
care, {, pause in The address TO a Knot Of IN
/ generous tfiA.tS. Written az i''''' ~ "'''' 800
opening lines may be cited.
Fan On Rail On ~ h-artlrss crew
Nh strains were never meant Tor ypu'
ErmorsclrSs Rancpur still reveal
And damn the Ve:s. YOU cannot feel.
But Mr. ColcrdGe might fairly have charar'
teriz,i not only these waits AMI -trays Of By-
RON, Adolescence but everything down - he
English Baris" A. Of slight if any literary
value" and a. being typical simply u "a moody
STRIPPING" The fact that Byron meyer hal A
cons,ructiv. faculty. that he was Away, th'
| "improvisatore" loes not by any means np.y
that the spontanrity of his earliest poems. A. d
the later ones. had L talismanc virtue in ' TX.
ician, - atone for the faults Of youth. Al n;
earl, verse Is Of rni.idl!ng valu. We read -.
cause it il Byrons. and because it throws D 'h'
on ,he development IF his personality. n. be-
cause il is poetry Thus it is divertng - rad
in Well Thou Art Happy"-one Of the poem:
in Hours If Iileness'-a stanza like thr fo
lowing.
Thy husbands blest and 'tNill inpIrt
some pangs To view his happier lot
But let thepi paSs-Oh. how my heart
Would hate him If he loved thee not
| This is "A perfect biographical note. Writtil i
1Si)S when Byron was twenty. these lines. anu
in fact the whole poem Of which they form
part reveal that subtle note of patronag' mex
is discerned constantly in his early corr'sp' mi
ence and which. for hat matter he meyer lult'
shook OT. one see him observing MARY
Chaworth's husband with precocous gravity
and with owlish doubts AS to the power ~ ma
individual 10 bring the proper amount 81 hl vi
ness into the life Of the lady with whom he
Byron. had believed himself to be in low" IhH