The Songs if Rory 0',11lore. Wriiten and composed by SAmeulmeEtt.
This author vell deserves Iris name, for he wooes every Muse in turn : be is the Lover par excellence ; and so equitably anti systema- tically is his flirtation curried on, that neither can boast of ;we fi.rence or complain of neglect. Nor has lie the fickleness of an In inn Lis attachments ; ire finds dcorner in his heart for them all, and coaxes and caresses each inn succession with unabated love, though with divided affection. To the geueration of critics Inc is a welcome cus- tomer : a tale of Lovidt's, a song of Loven's, or a picture of Lovett's, furnishes cqutilly pleasant occupation for successive members of the fraternity. Such it has been with regard to the present publication ; which displays its author's musical sicquirements most favourably. The Songs are six in number, rallied inn style, though not much varied in point of merit. Sonic of them, like many other Irish melodies, claim kindred with " Langolee ;" but there are two-" 'line Land of Dreams" and " the Land of the West"-that possess beauties of a higher order. One excellence they have in common, and from which they will derive in no inconsiderable degree their power to charm-a scrupulous atten- tion to accent. This results from the tIIII011 of the poet and the MU. EiCiall in the same person. The want a regard to this important point is so common, that the Songs before us almost form exceptious to the general rule. A century ago, AnuisoN ridiculed the emphatic par. tiality of musicians for tines, ry.k and aims; and the littachment still continues. l'ot' example, in the voltune above noticed (which we open at hazard) the musical accent is thrown in the two following lines as we have marked them, mid thus repeated six times....
Far their country's freedom call, And her Is routs speedy MIL
We recommend Mr. LOVER'S example to the imitation of musicians -of higher pretensions and greater notoriety.
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