And hew out a huge monument of pathos, "I now mean to be serious;-it is time, Canto XIII. P. 27. Having premised with these decent deprecations, he commences the small modicum of story contained in the present cantos, and doled out with a cautious economy, perfectly consistent with the intentions indicated in the following lines: .. LV. "I thought, at setting off, about two dozen Canto XII. p. 17. One sentence comprises the whole. Don Juan is invited from town to spend the hunting and shooting season at the country-seat of a new diplomatic acquaintance, Lord Henry Amundeville, whose lady, in a well-meant attempt to rescue Juan from the snares of the Duchess of Fitz-Fulke, a demirep visitor, falls in love with him herself; and here the narration ends for the present, with the following promise of a second edition of Julia: "XCVII. "Whether Don Juan and chaste Adeline To bait their tender or their tenter hooks. "XCVIII. "Whether they rode, or walked, or studied Spanish A pleasure before which all others vanish; Whether their talk was of the kind called 'small,' Or serious, are the topics I must banish To the next Canto; where perhaps I shall Canto XIV. p. 81. As to the general execution of the Cantos, we cannot compliment Lord Byron on having regained the easy bantering tone of profligacy which characterizes Beppo. The The branching stag swept down with all his herd, "LVII. "Before the mansion lay a lucid lake, Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed; "Its outlet dash'd into a deep cascade, Sparkling with foam, until again subsiding Pursued its course, now gleaming, and now hiding Canto III. p. 41. As to any thing else, it is really and truly of a very inferior quality. A few jeux de mots, not quite equal to those which sparkle unpremeditated from the rich brain of James Smith, are obtained at the expense of metre and sense. There is one very good comparison, which we shall also quote, unconscious of having now omitted any thing which is NOT COMMON PLACE. "XXXVI. "But Adeline was not indifferent: for (Now for a common place!) beneath the snow, on?-No! I hate to hunt down a tired metaphor So let the often used volcano go. Poor thing! How frequently, by me and others, "XXXVII. "I'll have another figure in a trice: What say you to a bottle of champagne ? Which leaves few drops of that immortal rain, Yet in the very centre, past all price, And this is stronger than the strongest grape "XXXVIII. “'Tis the whole spirit brought to a quintessence; And such are many-though only meant her, On which the Muse has always sought to enter :- "The rest is all but leather and prunella:" and whether the Juanic muse be sincere in her sulky professions of reformation, as some sweet simple creatures may imagine, or whether after having past a probation sufficient to be pronounced visitable, she meditates, in her own words, "some devilish escapade" to the confusion of their delicacy, seems now a matter of very little consequence. To recommend to the perusal of the world the specimen of her powers which lies before us, is the most signal retribution for her past offences, and the most effectual safe-guard against her future attempts. 1 ART. XII. A Treatise on Acupuncturation; being a Description of a Surgical Operation originally peculiar to the Japonese and Chinese, and by them denominated ZinKing, now introduced into European Practice, with Directions for its Performance, and Cases illustrating its Success. By James Morss Churchill, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. 8vo. 86 pp. 4s. Simpkin and Marshall. 1823. ART. XIII. The Utility and Importance of Fumigating Baths illustrated: or, a Series of Facts and Remarks, shewing the Origin, Progress, and final Establishment, (by Order of the French Government,) of the Practice of Fumigations for the Cure of various Diseases of the Joints, Paralytic Affections, Gout, Rheumatism, Bilious and Nervous Disorders, all Complaints of long Standing, and Diseases of the Skin. By Jonathan Green, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and late Surgeon in his Majesty's Navy. 8vo. 115 pp. Burgess and Hill. 1823. ART. XIV. Shampooing; or, Benefits resulting from the Use of the Indian Medicated Vapour Bath, as introduced into this Country, by S. D. Mahomed, (a Native of India). Containing a brief but comprehensive View of the Effects produced by the Use of the Warm Bath, in comparison with Steam or Vapour Bathing, Also, a detailed Account of the various Cases to which this healing Remedy may be following enumeration of the company assembled at Norman Abbey will give an idea of the coarse and bitter feeling which breaks out through the whole eighty-three pages, in spite of his efforts to suppress it. " LXXIX. "The noble guests, assembled at the Abbey, Also the honorable Mrs. Sleep, Who look'd a white lamb, yet was a black sheep: With other countesses of Blank-but rank; All purged and pious from their native clouds No matter how or why, the passport shrouds "That is up to a certain point: which point On which it hinges in a higher station; Thee, Witch!' or each Medea has her Jason; "I can't exactly trace their rule of right, Also a So-So Matron boldly fight Her way back to the world by dint of plottery, Escaping with a few slight, scarless sneers. "LXXXIII. "I have seen more than I'll say:—but we will see The party might consist of thirty-three Of highest caste-the Brahmins of the ton. "LXXXIV. There was a Parolles too, the legal bully, He shows more appetite for words than war. 6 There was the Duke of Dash, who was a-duke, There were the six Miss Rawbolds—pretty dears! "LXXXVI. "There were four Honourable Misters, whose Whom France and Fortune lately deign'd to waft here, But the clubs found it rather serious laughter, "There was Dick Dubious, the metaphysician, Sir Henry Silvercup, the great race. winner. Who did not hate so much the sin as sinner; Good at all things, but better at a bet." Cant.XIII. P. 46. With the beauties of nature, however, Lord Byron is still in good humour; and it is but justice to him to point out amid a dry fatiguing desert of cynical twaddle, extending in uniform sameness through twenty-four hundred and odd lines, the following green oasis of beautiful descriptionNorman Abbey the seat of Lord H. A. "LVI. "It stood embosomed in a happy valley, Crown'd by high woodlands, where the Druid oak Stood like Caractacus in act to rally His host, with broad arms 'gainst the thunder-stroke; |