Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. And the Miscellaneous Papers Written Between 1843 and 1847
There is, moreover, another point in which the auto biographical Scheme, not necessarily of course, but as a matter of fact and by likelihood beforehand, has ham pered and clogged the narrative and exposition. We get too many things recounted and too few acted, with the efi'ect Of something like the re'cits in conventional French tragedy. Barry's experiences with Dr. Johnson, for instance, would have made a famous scene of the same kind as those actually furnished by the Doctor in The Virginians, where the scheme is also in a way autobio graphical, but more loosely managed and less concentrated on the display of a single character.
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