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IN view of the general election to be held in November, with a greatly widened franchise, a book with such a title as The Parliamentary History of England, from the Passing of the Reform Bill of 1832 (Elliot Stock), by Mr. John Raven, ought to be interesting. We are sorry to say that Mr. Raven has missed his chance. He has scampered through Hansard' or such briefer records of political events as came in his way, and has compiled a very bald and incomplete epitome, in which an average of about seven pages is given to each session between 1832 and 1860; but his information is scant and his discretion is scantier. He misses great points and elaborates trivialities, and his grammar is as faulty as his judgment. Here is the choice sentence in which he describes the Municipal Reform Bill of 1835: "It was proposed that the charters of the boroughs should be taken away, and that there should be one uniform system of government, to be styled Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, and one uniform franchise for the purpose of election; except in some of the larger places, where it was desirable to have a recorder or other magistrate; and the qualification of electors was settled to be persons who for three years had been rated to the poor, and had paid their rates." 1836, he tells us, 66 another Bill was introduced to lengthen the time for the execution of murderers after their sentence," adding that this was an improvement on the old arrangement, by which" any one convicted of murder was directed to be executed on the day next but one on which he was convicted, unless it should happen to be on a Sunday, in which case the execution was to take place on the following Monday, and mean time to be fed on bread and water (except in case of illness)." The same confusion of ideas and grotesque inaccuracy prevail through Mr. Raven's History,' which fortunately ends with the fall of Lord Beaconsfield's Government, and therefore does not attempt to mystify the proceedings of the past five years.

And in

We have already spoken of the external merits of the "Riverside Aldine Series," published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., of Boston, U.S. The clear dark type and the neat covers leave little to be desired, and it is difficult to find any fault except with the paper, which is rather too stiff. Some of the books announced seem scarcely worthy of such handsome treatment;

but Mr. T. B. Aldrich's volume called Marjorie Daw, and other Stories, contains some pieces which in their way could hardly be equalled in American literature. They show an attractive blending of sprightliness and pathos, a delicate humour, and a cultivated perception without a touch of morbidness or of the artificial refinement and the contemplative regarding of modern life which please so many of Mr. Aldrich's countrymen. Of the ten pieces in Mr. Aldrich's book, Marjorie Daw,' 'A Struggle for Life,' Quite So,' and 'The Little Violinist' are the most noticeable. The last mentioned is quite first rate. It was originally published ten years

ago, and helped towards the formation of a society for the prevention of cruelty to children, which still exists in Massachusetts. The story of A Struggle for Life' is well known. A man accidentally shut up in a tomb kept life in himself for days, as he thought, by eating a candle, and when he was at last set free found that he had been imprisoned for an hour and twenty minutes. Mr. Aldrich tells the story excellently. Is he the true and first inventor of it?

MESSKS. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS have sent us the first volume of a new series of shilling books, to be issued monthly under the title of " Routledge's Pocket Library." It condeserves warm praise for the taste shown in its tains The Poetical Works of Bret Harte, and production. The "Library" ought to be very popular. We have received from the same publishers two volumes of Prof. Morley's " Universal Library": Burlesque Plays and Poems, an excellent selection, and The Vicar of Wakefield, along with Goldsmith's plays and poems, &c., printed in rather small type.-Mr. Scott has sent us two volumes of his excellent "Canterbury Poets": a selection from Marlowe, for which many readers will thank him, and a pretty little édition de luxe of Keats's Poetical Works, which rightly includes 'La Belle Dame sans Merci.'

We have on our table Military Manners and Customs, by J. A. Farrer (Chatto & Windus),A Treatise on Future Naval Battles, and How to Fight Them, by Admiral Sir George Elliot, K.C.B. (Low),-A New Book of Sports (Bentley),-Recent American Socialism, by R. T. Ely (Baltimore, U.S., Murray), Hygienic Medicine, by E. W. Lane (Churchill),—Lunacy in Many Lands, by G. A. Tucker (Government of New South Wales),-The Nature of the Fine Arts, by H. Parker (Macmillan),-The Works of Art and Bric-a-brac Doctor, by A. Barthelet (Low),-A Directory of Writers for the Literary Press in the United States, compiled by W. M. Griswold (Boston, U.S., Cupples),―The Religion of Philosophy, by R. S. Perrin (Williams & Norgate), -Darius the Median Identified, by C. F. Watson (London Literary Society),-The Story of my Life, by J. M. Sims, edited by his Son (New York, Appleton),-A Walk through Lincoln Minster, by the Rev. E. Venables (The Author), Launceston, Past and Present, by A. F. Robbins (Launceston, Cornish and Devon Printing Co.), Talofa, Letters from Foreign Parts, by C. E. Baxter (Low),-John Bull to Max O'Rell (Wyman),

The Money-Makers (Ward & Lock),-The Face at the Window, by E. Carr (Griffith & Farran),-Matrimony by Advertisement, by C. G. Payne (Vizetelly), -The Cross and the Dragon, by the Rev. B. C. Henry (Partridge),—Ursula Vivian, by A. Swan (Edinburgh, Oliphant), Voices from the FlowerLand, by Emily Reader (Longmans),-Moods and Memories, by W. Maccall (Stewart),- The Emperor's Wish: a Play in Five Acts, by F. L. Cartwright (Field_&_Tuer),-Lorello: a Play in Five Acts, by F. L. Cartwright (Simpkin),

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woman who suffered in her life more than any other woman of her race and generation from baseless slander, and after her death was exhibited to universal reprobation as a creature of unnameable iniquity. Byron's sister was a woman of no brilliant endowments. Neither clever nor beautiful, she lacked the mental force to be looked for in the sister of so remarkable a man. Deficient in personal grace, she had no ambition to dazzle in drawing-rooms, and was seldom at any pains to set herself off to best advantage. In costume the dowdy goody of her female acquaintance, she Furhad no appetite for masculine admiration. nished by nature with an intellect that might be accused of narrowness, she possessed only the attainments that are regarded as matters of course in English women of her period and social

from Lady B. about 10 days ago, and will own to you that it was not only grief, but a disappointment [sic], for I had flattered myself such a sacrifice would not be made. From my representations she had said and urged all she could in favour of keeping it; Mr. Hobhouse the same......This most excellent advice created so much disturbance in B.'s mind, that Lady B. wrote me word 'he had such a fit of vexation he could not appear at dinner or leave his room." Claughton has since that conceded the 5,0007., in dispute, and I fear this would finally end our difficulties. B.'s spirits had improved at the prospect of a release from the embarrassments which interfered so much with his comfort......I do not know what are B.'s plans. Lady B. says nothing can be decided They have been anxious to procure a temporary upon till their affairs are in some degree arranged. habitation in my neighbourhood, which would be convenient to him and delightful to me......Lady B. is extremely kind to me, for I am well aware how much I am indebted to his partiality for her good more beautiful than ever......

are much dissatisfied with all this, and I cannot understand why they do not make their dissatisfaction felt. The Society of Antiquaries of London is one of the two oldest chartered societies

It

in the kingdom. It receives from the State plendid apartments. It has a good library. ncludes among its members the best antiquaries of the day. And yet its entire work is to meet laring its sessions for the purpose of reading spers and to publish some of these papers in olumes which are always in arrear. May I enture to suggest that the duty of the Society is encourage archæological tastes and archæogical research? It has the priceless treasures Fetthe British Museum within reach, and yet it oes not institute a series of archæological lecares like the Scottish Rhind Lectures. There te very many people in the metropolis alone ho would gladly learn, systematically learn, mething of the many facts which archæological I am convinced that the ociety ought to set itself to the work of educaon in archaeology. By the institution of educaonal lectures, by creating in conjunction with Pese a class of associates of the Society, by anding archæological scholarships, and by her plans not now necessary to enumerate, the ciety could do a great and needful work, and upy in reality the position it is entitled to of ing the foremost institution of its kind in the antry.

ness and the courage of high principle. What she was during ten years of her far from enviable life appears in the letters, which exhibit her by turns as a sister delighting in her brother's genius till he seemed (at least to her) set on using it for evil ends; the mother of a numerous schoolroom and her playmates in their play brood of children, who were her pupils in the which she quitted only to discharge her official hours; the cheery ruler of the rural home, duties at Court; a wife who, loving her husband loyally while suffering much from his indiscretions, was content to train her offspring at a modest country house whilst he was pursuing sport and pleasure elsewhere; and a solicitous for her own spiritual welfare, whose chief source of unhappiness was a growing fear that her idolized brother would never take reli

woman

gion to his heart and become a good man. It was creditable to Byron that, though capable of

P.S.- Lady B. writes me word that she never saw her dear Father and Mother so happy; that she believes the latter would go to the bottom of the sea herself to find fish for B.'s dinner; that he (B.) owns at last that he is very happy and comfortable at Seaham, though he had her last letters she mentions his health not being predetermined to be very miserable. In some of very good, though he seldom complains, but says both that and his spirits have been improved by some daily walks she had prevailed on him to take, and attributes much of his languor in the morning and feverish feels at night to his long fasts, succeeded by too hearty meals for any weak and empty stomach to bear at one time, waking by night and sleeping by day. I flatter myself her influence will prevail over these bad habits. They had been playing the fool one evening "old and young," B. dressed in Lady Milbanke]'s wig snatched from her head for the purpose his dressing-gown turned wrong side out, Lady B. in his travelling cap, and long cloak, with whiskers and mustachios. What a long P.S.t all for your private ear and to be burnt as soon as

and is held out.

On other points of much-needed reform in the aracter and usefulness of its work I cannot lly touch in this letter; but I must be peritted to point out what splendid machinery possesses for the purpose of associating with all the county archaeological societies, and of us under taking a work too long, alas! negeted, an archaeological survey of the country. here is, besides, much statistical information

hich can ce of vas r instance

aces where

mains hav

ot be obtained without the assistand extended co-operation-such, as I have often urged-indexes of British, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon

commonplace sister and honour her for being a good woman. It was the more creditable to him because she never humoured him unduly in his perversities, never called his evil ways good ways, but steadily refused to be one of those flatterers all that was wrong.' who (to use her own words) "encouraged him to Readers do not need to be

reminded what Byron thought and wrote of Augusta, or of the evil his wife lived to imagine

of her; but it will afford them novel and not wholly profitless diversion to observe what the sister thought and wrote of her brother and his wife between 1814 and 1824.

(1) Touching Byron's determination to sell
Newstead.

Mrs. Leigh wrote on November 24th, 1814, from Six Mile Bottom, co. Camb., to the Rev. Francis Hodgson at Braddon, Towcester :

happiness: and as you say Newstead is the only

I trust indeed there is everything to hope for his

drop of bitter in the cup. I try to banish it from my thoughts, but I cannot from my dreams, where it haunts me eternally. Alas! I see no remedy; but I never like to despair, and you would smile at my irrational dreams.

(3) The Byrons at Six Mile Bottom; Mrs. Leigh's admiration of Lady Byron.

"B. and Lady B.," Mrs. Leigh wrote to Mr. Hodgson from Six Mile Bottom, March 18th, 1815,

arrived here last Sunday on their way from the North to London, where they have taken a very good house of the D of Devonshire in Piccadilly. I hope they will stay some days longer with me, and shall regret their departure whenever it takes place, as much as I now delight in their society. B. is looking particularly well; and of Lady B. I scarcely know how to write, for I have a sad trick of being struck dumb when I am most happy and pleased. The expectations I had formed could not be exceeded, but at least they are fully answered. I think Being in mortal mould than she appears to be, and I never saw or heard or read of a more perfeet scarcely dared flatter myself such a one would fall to the lot of my dear B. He seems quite sensible of her value, and as happy as the present alarming state of public, and the tormenting uncertainties of his own private, affairs will admit of...... Many thanks for your kind enquiries. My bairns are well delighted at being able to scream oh B.!" again, and approve much of their new Aunt. I am not quite sure that Georgiana is not a little jealous of this formidable rival in B.'s affections.

gs and other information.

G. LAURENCE GOMME.

MRS. LEIGH.

fritz I amended my 'Real Lord Byron' and at it into a Standard edition, twenty-four etters, written by the Hon. Mrs. Leigh to he Rev. Francis Hodgson between the date her brother's engagement to Miss Milbanke ad the end of July. 1824, have passed by sale and arthage to Mr. Alfred Morrison, who, having he poet's honour, now renders literature another nabled me to wipe a dark stain of infamy from unsiderable service by permitting me to use te, epistles for the further illustration of the ister's character. To those who rejoiced in the bsolute disproof of the Beecher-Stowe scandal he letters will be all the more acceptable on count of their precise accordance with what I ote on sufficient testimony, something more

and fears for their happiness.

In a long letter Mrs. Leigh wrote on February 15th, 1815, from Six Mile Bottom to Mr. Hodg

son:

his sister's distress at his want of religious conviction and peace.

Some days having passed since the departure of her visitors, Mrs. Leigh wrote from Six Mile

I am sorry to say his [i.e., Byron's] nerves and spirits are very far from what I wish them. But this is also for your private ear (above all don't speak of it to him). I think the uncomfortable state of his affairs is the cause. At least I can discern no other. He has every outward blessing

I have every reason to believe that my beloved Bottom to Mr. Hodgson on March 31st, 1815 :from him and his Rib. They are now at Seaham, and not inclined to return to Halnaby because all the world were preparing to visit them there, and at S. they are free from this torment, no trifling one in B.'s estimation as you know. From my own obtheir and knowledge disposition and ways, I really hope most confidently that all will turn out very happily. It appears to me that Lady B. sets about making him happy quite in the right way. It is true, I judge at a distance, but, I assure you I don't co what I hostid on cely conclude hastily this

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to any other person, that I had many fears and much anxiety, founded upon many causes and circumstances, of which I cannot write. Thank God that they do not appear likely to be realised. In short, there seems to me but one drawback to all our felicity, and that, alas! is the disposal of dear

this world can bestow. I trust that the Almighty will be graciously pleased to grant him those inward feelings of peace and calm, which are now unfortunately wanting, This is a subject which I shall all you express. I think Lady B. very judiciously not dwell upon, but on which I feel and have felt abstains from pressing the consideration of it upon him at the present moment. In short, the more I see of her, the more I esteem her, and feel how grateful I am and ought to be for the blessing of such a wife for my dear B. Pray, dear Mr H., keep all these confidential (strictly confidential) com

(6) Byron again at Six Mile Bottom; his good looks and spirits.

In a letter of congratulations to Mr. Hodgson on his marriage, Mrs. Leigh wrote to him from Six Mile Bottom on September 4th, 1815:

My Brother has just left me, having been here since last Wednesday, when he arrived very unexpectedly. I never saw him so well, and he is in the best spirits, and desired me to add his congrats. to mine upon your marriage......

P.S.-I forgot to say when on the B. subject, that he gave me the best accounts of Lady B.'s health. (7) Byron's domestic trouble; Hodgson summoned to 13, Piccadilly Terrace. Byron's domestic troubles were nearing the worst, Lady Byron was resolute on separation by agreement or decree, and Mrs. Leigh almost despaired of the reconciliation of the husband and wife, when in her trouble she wrote, on Wednesday, February 7th, 1816, from Piccadilly Terrace :

DR. MR. HODGSON,-Can you by any means contrive to come up to town? Were it only for a day, it might be of the most essential service to a friend I know you love and value. There is too much probability of a separation between him and his wife. No time is to be lost. But even if you are too late to prevent that happening decidedly, yet it would be the very greatest comfort and relief to me to confide other circumstances to you and consult [with you]. So if possible oblige me, if only for 24 hours. Say not a word of my summons, but attribute your coming, if you come, to business of your own or chance.-Excuse brevity. I am so perfectly wretched, I can only say,

Ever Yrs. Most truly,

AUGUSTA LEIGH. [P.S.]-It is probable I may be obliged to go home next week. If my scheme appears wild, pray attribute it to the state of mind I am [in]. Alas! I see only ruin and destruction in every shape to one most dear to me.

(8) Byron's reluctance to see Hodgson; he welcomes only those who flatter him and encourage him to all that is wrong. Hodgson having hastened to town in compliance with Mrs. Leigh's urgent summons, and taken a room at the Gloucester coffee-house, Piccadilly, there was an interchange of notes between him and her as to the best way of informing Byron of his friend's arrival in London. From these imperfectly dated notes it appears also that the clergyman had interviews on the same subject with the lady and her cousin George Byron that were kept from Byron's knowledge, the state of affairs being indicated with sufficient clearness by the following note from Mrs. Leigh to Mr. Hodgson, dated "Friday Evening, 9 o'clock":

DEAR MR. HODGSON,-I have been unable to write to you till this moment. Mr. H[anson] staid till a late hour and is now here again. B. dined with me, and after I left the room I sent your note in, thinking him in better spirits, and more free from irritation. He has only just mentioned it to me, "Oh, by the bye, I have had a note from H[odgson], Augusta, whom you must write to and say I'm so full of domestic calamities, that I can't see any body." Still I think he will see you, if he hears you are here, or that even it would be better, worst come to the worst, to let the servant announce you, and walk in. Can you call here about 11 to-morrow morning, when he will not be up, or scarcely awake, and Captain B., you, and I can hold a council on what is best to be done. The fact is he is now afraid of every body who would tell him the truth. It is a most dreadful situation, dear Mr. Hodgson. worst is that, if you said "You have done so and so, &c.," he would deny it, and I see he is afraid of your despair, as he terms it, when you hear of his situation, and in short of your telling him the truth. He can only bear to see those who flatter him and encourage him to all that is wrong. I've not mentioned having seen you, because I wish him to suppose your opinions unprejudiced. You must see him, and pray see me and George B, to-morrow morning, when

The

The next day Mrs. Leigh was able to write to Hodgson :

B. will see you. I saw him open your note, and said I had given his message this morning, when I had seen you and talked generally on the subject of his present situation, of which you had before heard. He replied, "Oh! then tell him I will see him certainly. My reason for not, was the fear of distressing him." You had better call towards 3, and wait if he is not yet out of his room.

(9)

Glenarvon'; Lady Caroline Lamb; Mrs.
Leigh's attitude towards her brother and
Lady Byron.

Byron was at Geneva with Shelley, Mary Godwin, and Claire, when on June 10th, 1816, Mrs. Leigh wrote from Six Mile Bottom to Mr. Hodgson:

It is impossible by letter to give you any idea of the proceedings and confusion after you left town. I suppose you have heard of Lady C. L.'s extraThe ordinary production,-Glenarvon, a novel. hero and heroine you may guess; the former painted in the most atrocious colours. If you have not, pray read it. You foretold mischief in that quarter, and much has occurred, if only that I hear this horrid book is supposed and believed a true delineation of his character, and the letters true copies of originals, &c. &c. &c.! I can't think of her with christian charity, so I won't dwell upon the subject. But pray read it. I had a letter from Lady B. the other day. She is at Kirkby, and I fear her health is very indifferent. The Bulletins of the poor child's health by B.'s desire pass thro' me, and I'm very sorry for it, and that I ever had any concern in this most wretched business. I can't however explain all my reasons at this distance, and must console myself by the consciousness of having done my duty, and to the best of my judgement all I could for the happiness of both. Have you by chance, dear Mr. H., some letters I wrote you in answer to some of yours, and in favour of Lady B. and her family? If you have, may I request you not yet to destroy them, and to tell me fairly when next you write, if you ever heard me say one word that could detract from her merits, or make you think me partial to his side of the question. Whatever ideas these questions may suggest, at present keep them to yourself.

(10) Byron's health and spirits in Switzerland;

the two reasons for his seclusion from society; forthcoming canto of 'Childe Harold'; Ada's greater resemblance to her mother than her father.

Six Mile Bottom, October 29th, 1816.

He [i.e. Byron] speaks of his health as very good. But alas! his spirits appear wofully the contrary. I believe however that he does not write in that strain to others. Sometimes I venture to in

dulge a hope that what I wish most earnestly for him may be working its way in his mind. Heaven grant it!......He has not mixed much in society: report says from necessity, his friends from choice. You may have heard also that another Canto of Childe Harold' is about to appear. From the little I know of it, I wish it may not contain allusions to his own domestic concerns, which had better have strain, which must be so galling to the feelings of been omitted, and I fear he indulges in that bitter the friends of poor Lady B. I believe I have not written to you since I had the pleasure of seeing her and the dear little girl in London. She was looking a little better; but I am sorry to say her health is very indifferent still, and I cannot but feel great uneasiness about her. The little girl is a very fine child, but with more resemblance to Mother than Father; still there is a look. I never saw a more healthy little thing; it was a melancholy pleasure to see it, and a very great comfort to see dear Lady B.: for I had suffered great uneasiness, of which I gave you hints, and this has been entirely removed.

(11) Mrs. Leigh's views respecting Byron's character, his mental troubles, his rupture with Lady Byron.

Six Mile Bottom, November 14th, 1816. On the opinions expressed by Mr. M. I am not surprised I have seen letters written to him which could not but give rise to such, or confirm them. If I may give you mine, it is that in his own mind there were and are recollections, fatal to his peace, and which would have prevented his being happy with any woman, whose excellence equalled or approached that of Lady B., from the consciousness of being unworthy of it. Nothing could or can remedy this

fatal cause but the consolations to be derived from

Six Mile Bottom, March 4th, 15 His [i.e. Byron's] last letters have been un fortable. In one of them, after giving me the his of a new attachment, he says, "And tell Hod his prediction is fulfilled. You know he foret should fall in love with an Italian, and so I ha I should prefer giving you a more agreeable mes dear Mr. H.; but I don't like to withhold any o words to you. As for the circumstance it all to, it is only one among a million of meland anticipations of mine......He has lately given self and others much needless worry on the su of the poor dear little girl. I forget whether you, but must risk a repetition. Somebody w I believe merely as a piece of gossipping news, Lady B. intended to pass this winter abroad, w occasioned a letter addressed to me by B. t dispatched with all speed, insisting upon a pro that the child should never leave England course I transmitted the message. The answer Lady B. had never had any intention of qui England." This did not satisfy, and several o have followed. At last, thank Heaven! the bus is transacted thro Mr. Hanson; and Lady declined answering through me, much to my faction, as I am [? was] not doing any good in i appears that the child is a ward in Chancery, I must own I consider fortunate as things a present. I did not know it till I went to 1 where most unexpectedly met poor Lady B came there on this business. You will be gl hear that she looked much better, and I h really stronger, and gradually improving in h tho' still quite unequal to hurry and agitati any kind. I told her of your request that I inform you of her health, and she desired say, she felt much gratified by the kind in you express for her......I am glad you were agreeably surprised in the Poems. I own I w but the different opinions and impressions a flections of different people are enough to dri mad. Your approbation of the lines on poor Howard (our particular friend) delighted me much. They are what I was most anxious s be approved. Of course, you know to who Dream alludes, Mrs. I am very much of opinion in all the points of your observation.

you seen the Reviews? The Quarterly has great offence to those who call themselves Lo friends and party.

Hence it appears that Byron's daughter taken under his charge by Lord Eldon i same month in which the barbarous Chan (as the Shelleyan enthusiasts style him Harriet Shelley's babes from their fa

bleeding breast.

now who can in his very perverted way of thinkHis letters being unreserved on all such points ve me more pain than pleasure, but this I say to in confidence. He is still at Venice......The tle girl is always well, and represented as the est and most intelligent child it is possible to twith. I hear different reports as to her beauty. me people say there is a strong resemblance to her her.

4) The Venetian excesses; Byron's appearance

towards the close of 1818.

Of our poor dear B.-I have received 2 letters thin this last year:-the last dated Sept". This is I can tell you from him, and that he wrote (as al to me) on the old subject very uncomfortably, d on his present pursuits, which are what one ald dread and expect; a string of low attachments. him-I hear he looks very well, but fat, imnsely large, and his hair long. Mr. Hanson has ly returned from Venice, having been there to a and seal away our dear lamented Abbey.-The Mrs. Leigh to the Rev. F. Hodgson, from St. ses's Palace, Dec. 30th, 1818.

(15) Portraits from Venice; a reference
to Allegra.

I was too well convinced that it was the only thing to do, from the little I had heard of them. The day after Mr. H. arrived to tell me that it was settled that at 12 next day (being Monday) he, Mr. Moore and Mr. Murray, Colonel Doyle or Mr. Wilmot Horton on Lady B.'s part, with perhaps some friends of Moore, would be here to give them up to me and I was to burn them. You may guess that I acquiesced from a sense of duty, and as I would go into a Court of Justice if required. I thought I should have sunk at the bare idea of it, but it was to be done. About of an hour after this was settled and Mr. H. gone, came a note from Mr. Wilmot Horton with quite a different story, Moore and Murray having both been with him. I sent for Mr. Wilmot (who is, you know, our cousin) and I begged for an explanation of what was quite incomprehensible to me; and after some time, I plainly saw that Moore was shuffling and protesting against the destruction of the Memoirs, wanting them to be sealed up and deposited in the [? care of] Mr. Wilmot, &c.; and I told Mr. Wilmot that, if I was to have voice in the business (which I by no means wished) that it was my opinion and unalterable determination that they should be destroyed, and immediately, that I thought delay would only bring change of feeling and opinion,-that, as for publishing the unexceptionable parts as Mr. Moore wished and proposed, I thought, if the whole was to be canvassed and cavilled over, to determine what was and was not unexceptionable, upon which there might be a difference of opinion, that the whole might as well be published at once. So the Parties-Messrs. Moore, Murray, Hobhouse, Colonel Doyle for Lady Byron and Mr. Wilmot for me, [and] a Mr. Luthell [Luttrell], a friend of Mr. Moore's met at Mr. Murray's, and after a long dispute and much quarrelling, upon Mr. Wilmot stating...... was my wish and opinion, the MS. was burnt and Moore paid Murray back the 2000 gs. Immediately almost after this was done, the legal agreement between Moore and Murray (which had been mislaid) was found,and, strange to say, it appeared from it (which both had forgotten) that the property of the MS. was Murray's bona fide. Consequently he had the right to dispose of it as he pleased; and as he had behaved most handsomely upon the occasion and the other (between you and I [sic]) as ill, it was desired by our family that Moore should receive the 2000 gs. back. Of course, whoever succeeds to my Brother's Byron's death; Hobhouse's fear that Byron remunerate the loser, and one would prefer doing so property would consider it incumbent on them to should be accused of terror and methodisti- by Murray. I am afraid this has not yet been accal sentiment; Mrs. Leigh's account to Hodg-complished, though Mr. Wilmot declares it shall be. son of the destruction of the Memoirs; Only imagine that with the bond there was a written her opinion of Murray's action in the affair; declaration of Moore stating it his own and Lord her opinion of Moore; her remarks on Hodg-lished:-so in 1822 Mr. Hobhouse heard from poor B.['s] opinion that the MS. never ought to be pubBon's project of becoming Byron's biographer.

In the inner side of the cover sheet (dated rch 27th, 1819) of a missing letter appears postscript to the absent epistle :received thro' a Col. Cotton, belonging to the Gloucester, 2 portraits from Venice the other not a line except the address to me in his own 1: one of the Portraits a vile one of himself; the This Child there, whom he calls Allegra !! Don't 3tion her.

A reference to Don Juan,' written from St. James's Palace, April 17th, 1819. have nothing to say of foreign news. I assure I am very low about him. This new Poem, if isted in, will be the ruin of him, from what I learn. Indeed, if his Friends-those he terms allow it, one may believe it. But if you say nothing, for it would not do good, I ve, without you were on the spot: And I was ged not to write of it, as the more opposition di-approbation manifested, the more obstinate fill be.

Laving written to Mr. Hodgson on May 15th, 4, immediately after the arrival in England he intelligence of her brother's death, Mrs. gh wrote to him again on the 31st of the e month—an unusually long letter containing

se passages:

B. himself that he never wished it should. This is, dear Mr. Hodgson, the whole case exactly, and I hope you will not disapprove of the part I had in it, which was not of my own seeking, but as I was drawn into it. I felt it my duty to act as I think he, poor dear Soul! would now (divested of earthly feelings) approve.--I must now say a word of the kind that it would gratify me more than I can say, and wish expressed to me in your letter. Believe me, that I am sure no body would execute it with more feeling and ability than you; but I'm sure you will understand that I am very delicately situated, first in taking upon myself what may appear to others to belong to them to pronounce upon ; — and there are still others who will wish me to give my sanction to them, and whose feelings I would not wound by giving a preference, whatever I may feel on the subject. After all, do not let what I say deter I see no harm in more than one attempt to do the you, and rely on any and every assistance I can give. thing. Do not mistake me, dear Mr. H. Believe me, it is impossible to do more justice than I do to your attachment as well as every other requisite. I am only afraid of interfering where it might be thought I had no right.

....I try to think that my poor dear B. is snatched aus to spare him future trials and temptations. I tell you I had received a long letter full of choly details relative to the last 9 days from servant Fletcher, whom you must remember...... appears to me that he had never entirely reered the effects of 2 Fits in February, and her remarks that they had made a deep imSon, and produced great attention not only to ut the more serious duties of a Christian. Now, Mr. H., THIS is my greatest hope and comfort; think it impossible that Fletcher, who had lived im 23 years and must have known his habits ately, could have been struck with such an without there had been grounds for it. Mr. bhouse, on reading that part of F.'s letter desired tror het it, as many people might imagine (18) Fletcher's talk about Byron; Mrs. Leigh's

visit to her brother's coffin; her account of his appearance; her contemptuous reference to Moore.

After giving Mr. Hodgson some particulars of the arrangements for her brother's funeral, Mrs. Leigh wrote from St. James's Palace on

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had made him methodistical. But I tell to you, because I feel confident you will derive Sit the hope and comfort I do......You have atly seen in the Newspapers long histories The Memoirs and my name mixed up with and I am anxious to tell you the fact. The day (and the very day I received the fatal intelSee that I saw Mr. Hobhouse, he said, "Now Bs fame. There are those Memoirs," and prothing we have to think of is to protect July 8th, 1824 :ded to tell me who had them now, Mr. Moore, of a long squabble about Moore and Murray et them [sic], which is of no consequence. ext day he came with a written agreement in hand, to state to me that Mr. Moore would pay ray back the 2,000 guas. he had received from or them, and give them up to me and me only, .H.observed "I should recommend you, Mrs. destroy them," which he need not have done, for

I have not yet been able to see Fletcher, as he has been detained on board the Ship to attend to the effects till the Custom House should release them. But I believe I did not tell you that I could not resist seeing the Remains. He was embalmed, so it was still possible......and the melancholy comfort that it bestowed on me never can be expressed......There are few can understand it I believe. For my own part, I only envy those who could remain with and watch over him, till the last......Such are my feelings, but

I know there are many who could not bear it. It was awful to behold what I parted with, convulsedabsolutely convulsed with grief, now cold and inanimate! and so altered that I could scarcely persuade myself it was him [sic]......not a vestige left of what he was, but God's will be done! I hope I shall resign to it. I hear that Fletcher says that for the last year his mind and feelings appeared to be changed much for the better. He expressed concern at having written Don Juan' and other exceptionable things. He talked latterly with great affection of his child, and in kind terms of Lady B. This is all comfort, dear Mr. H. I tell it you, for I know how truly you loved him and his best interests. I long to see Fletcher, to judge for myself. He has been cautioned from the first to restrain his communications, as there will of course be so much curiosity.You may, perhaps, read in the Newspaper what is not the fact and annoys me very much, on the subject of my having seen the dear Remains. As I went early in the day and walked through the pouring rain there and back, to avoid the possibility of a carriage giving rise to any suspicion, and there was no soul present-and only those in the house who had the charge of the beloved remains — I flattered myself, I might have indulged myself unnoticed, and indeed I believe it is only guessed I have seen Lady B. which was a great trial. She was much agitated. I believe I told you how handsomely she has behaved to my cousin, the present Lord B.-I am glad indeed that you approved of what I had done about the Memoirs: nothing can be so bad as the person's conduct, to whom they were originally given. What do you think of its being affirmed they or extracts from them are now in print!!! and such things as we never heard of !

at.

The series of epistles closes with a letter in which Mrs. Leigh acknowledges her correspondent's written description of the funeral at Hucknall Torkard Church, and speaks again of the consolation coming to her from the belief that towards the end of his brief career her famous brother had become a devout and penitent man. Of the previous letters I have given only the passages that may be serviceable to the poet's future biographers. But this last of the twenty-four I give in its entirety, for the more complete exhibition of its writer's womanly goodness and of her affectionate intercourse with the clergyman whose admiration of her brother's genius and generous qualities was attended by a clear perception of his failings and errors :—

St. James's Palace, Thursday, 29 July, 1824. DEAR MR. HODGSON,-There certainly is a spell upon my correspondence with you! I have been so harassed and worried with business matters, that I have not had a peaceful moment to say a few words to you. I felt your kindness so deeply in writing me those sad mournful yet grateful details! I can imagine all you felt that day, and only wish I could have been there too. Respecting your very kind wish about my boy, dear Mr. H., I can only thank you again and again. You cannot doubt my wishing him to be with you, and my gratitude for your kind wishes on the subject. I think I may say without partiality, that he is a well-disposed amiable boy:-nothing particular in point of abilities, but by no means deficient, somewhat inclined to be idle. He has a very peculiar nack [sic] of making himself friends wherever he goes, and if he falls into good hands I have every hope he will turn out well, but his temper is hasty and irritable to a degree, his heart excellent. I flatter myself upon acquaintance you will not think my maternal partiality has dictated too much in his praise.-I really will not pretend even now to sit down and write to you comfortably, my head and heart are in such a distracted state with the various inevitable consequences of this sad event. I think I

must go away somewhere soon, for I want repose.

I regret, too, very much that you did not question Fletcher, but I flatter myself you may have future opportunities, and I should encourage him to communicate with you freely on that most interesting subject. You see, dear Mr. H., that Mr. Hobhouse and a certain set imagine that it might be said by his enemies, and those who have no Religion at all, that he had turned Methodist, if it was said that he paid latterly more attention to his religious duties than formerly. But let them say what they will, it must be the first of consolations to us, that he did so. I am convinced of it from Fletcher's assertions, and a letter from a Dr. Kennedy in Cephalonia to Fletcher since the death. I shall ever bless that man for his endeavours to work upon his mind. In some moments one regrets there was not more time for them in others one recollects what threatened, if a longer time had been granted, and one ends by a conviction that all must have been for the best.

-Friday, and only time to say I will write again soon. Tell me how I can [send] you a mourning ring, which I have thought a little of the hair would make more acceptable.-Best compliments to Mrs. H. Ever yours most truly, A. L.

Nicely critical readers, taking an especial interest in the evidence touching the destruction of the Memoirs, should compare Mrs. Leigh's two accounts of the matter: the account given in her signed and dated letter to Mr. Hodgson, and the same writer's unsigned and undated memorandum of the same affair (obviously the later composition), which may be found in the Athenæum, August, 1883, and in the appendix to the Standard edition of "The Real Lord Byron.' The two versions of the same narrative exhibit several of the minute discrepancies to be looked for in a story written currente calamo into a hastily composed letter, and the same story told more carefully in a paper designed for future testimony. But in the main and essential particulars the two stories are in exact accordance. Hobhouse was the person to require and insist that the "foolish documents " should be destroyed. JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON.

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