That the parody is no better is to be regretted, its insertion here is excusable simply because of its scarcity, for although the editor of _The Dejeuné_ admits that it had already been printed, he does not mention where, nor has any other copy of it ever come under our notice. ―――― _The European Magazine and London Review_ for April, 1815, contained a poem entitled “_Christobell_, a Gothic tale,” which was simply a conclusion to Coleridge’s _Christabel_, although that fact was somewhat artfully veiled in a foot note, which stated “Written as a sequel to a beautiful legend of a fair lady and her father, deceived by a witch in the guise of a noble knight’s daughter.” It was somewhat ungenerous to steal Coleridge’s metre and plot upon which to found a poem, without mentioning the name of the originator. This sequel is anonymous, in it _Geraldine_ is finally discovered to be a witch of the Lake, and _Merlin_ thus addresses her:―― “Witch of the lake, I know thee now! Thrice three hundred years are gone Since beneath my cave, In the western wave, I doom’d thee to rue and weep alone, And writ thy shame on thy breast and brow.” “Thy hour is past, thy spells I sever,―― Witch of the lake descend for ever!” ―――― The most important continuation of Coleridge’s poem was written by the author of _Proverbial Philosophy_. It was entitled “_Geraldine_, a sequel to Coleridge’s Christabel,” by _Martin Farquhar Tupper_. London. Joseph Rickerby. 1838. In his Preface, Mr. Tupper gives a short prose sketch of Coleridge’s beautiful but incomplete poem, and remarks that his excuse for continuing the fragment is to be found in Coleridge’s own words, “I trust that I shall be able to embody in verse the three parts yet to come, in the course of the present year” (1816), a half promise which he never redeemed. Mr. Tupper’s poem is in three parts, and is written in serious imitation of _Christabel_, although he fully admits the temerity of his attempt to complete Coleridge’s masterpiece. ―――― Another, but very inferior continuation appeared in _Smallwood’s Magazine_, June 1841 (London. E. Smallwood, Old Bond Street,) entitled “_Christabel_, continued from Coleridge,” by Eliza Stewart. There is a total absence of plot or interest in this poem, and some of the lines descend to the lowest depths of bathos. Singularly enough, this poem is immediately followed, in the magazine, by an Italian ode “To a foggy day in England,” written by Gabriele Rossetti, father of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Michael Rossetti.