WILLIAM JERDAN, M.R.S. L., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE REAL ACADEMIA DE LA HISTORIA WITH HIS Literary, Political, and Social Reminiscences and Correspondence DURING THE LAST FIFTY YEARS. VOL. IV. LONDON: ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE, & Co., 25, PATERNOSTER ROW. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY /3. 1860, July Pickman Bequest. LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. TO SIR E. L. BULWER-LYTTON. MY DEAR FRIEND, I am much gratified by your having done me the honour to accept the dedication of this volume to you. It may remind you of one who took the warmest interest in your early literary adventures, who rejoiced most heartily in the development of the high intellectual powers he was well aware you possessed, and who exultingly anticipates the greater aggrandisement of your fame by the stores of instruction and delight for which the world will yet be indebted to your Genius. That you may long continue to enrich and adorn the literature of England, is the earnest wish of, My dear Friend, Yours most sincerely and faithfully, W. JERDAN. November, 1853. CONTENTS. II. PERSONAL NOTES ON THE WAY-GLIMPSES AT PERIODICALS AND DIFFICULTY IN PLEASING PUBLISHERS-INCIPIENT AUTHORS-GRIFFIN, ROBY, W. H. AINSWORTH, CAPTAIN WEDDELL, LORD NORMANBY, DAGLEY, CARRINGTON, PARDOE, CQSTELLO-GRATEFUL FEELINGS IV.-EXAMPLES OF THE SELFISH-THE OPPOSITE-THOMAS HUNT -THE LAW-G. COLMAN, PRISON PORTRAITS, ANECDOTES AND APOPHTHEGMS V.-REFLECTIONS ON LIFE-DEATHS OF MY BROTHER AND CHILD MR. COLBURN, LADY MORGAN, LADY STEPNEY VI. THE PERIODICAL PRESS-CRITICISM -LAW OF LIBEL- T. MOORE-DESTRUCTION OF BYRON MANUSCRIPT- VII.-T. MOORE THE QUARTERLY REVIEW-WILLIAM GIFFORD, EARLY ORIGINAL POETRY BY HIM WALTER HENRY WATTS-DANGEROUS JEST CURIOUS COINCIDENCES VIII.-EGO-MY BROTHER GILBERT-THE FINE ARTS, ARTISTS, AND LORD DE TABLEY-PROPOSAL FOR PUBLISHING A IX.-REMARKABLE INCIDENTS-MR. CANNING-FORMATION OF |