24 MARCH 1832, Page 16

PUFF PARTICULAR

MANIFOLD are the ways of a puffer with his book. In noticing that "very extraordinary novel" the Adventures of a Younger Son, we took occasion not only to praise, but to describe it. To have referred to this review, would have been a stale scheme of attracting attention to it; but to pick a quarrel with its terms, is a piquant mode of introducing a spice of eulogy. Thus gently and Pleasantly do Messrs. COLBURN and BENTLEY find fault with the critic, whose approbation fell upon Burlington Street like rain upon the parched earth- " In reviewing that very extraordinary novel, the Adventures of a Younfer eon, the Spectator says, This is a very clever book : it is a sort of fighting Don Juan, containing all descriptions of adventure in the East—except those of Jove; for the hero does not make love, but offers battle.' To this latter assertion the numerous readers of the volumes will in all probability demur ; for they can- not forget the character of Zela, the heroine, the whole of whose acquaintance with the hero, from his first romantic courtship of her, to her untimely death, is one dream of pure, exalted love. Zela occupies a very considerable part of the volumes; and her character has been pronounced fully equal to the Medora, the Haidee, and the Myrrha of the author's friend, Lord Byron."—Morning Chronicle.

The idea of advertising Zela's "dream of pure, exalted love," is amusing ; and it does seem a most unpardonable thing in us to have forgotten the hero's " acquaintance ' with a lady who, single- handed, is to be considered equal to Medora, Haidee, and Myrrha. But if Messrs. COLBURN will have it that the Younger Son is a Don Juan in love as well as battle, we have not the slightest ob- jection. Our notion is that the book is an able one, and does Mr. TRELAWNEY great credit as a man of talent; and it is a redeem- ing point, that where so many violent and unruly passions of the human heart are exhibited, he has kept the thing pure of Don- Juanisrn : to indulge in one pure, exalted dream of love, was no part of the character of the hero of" the author's friend, Lord BYRON."

We may just take this opportunity of' requesting, that adver- tisers, when they refer to us as an authority, will be careful to insert any little qualifying words, such as "not," &c. which some- times, from their smallness, escape attention.