New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-27


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other things he says:
The stanzas entitled e The Burial of Sir John
Moore who fell Al the Battle of Comma in
1905, u were first published in a Belfast newspa.
per. IN the June number, being the third from
The commencement. of Biackwoodis Edinburgh
Magazine. fyol. j, 3. 277 the poem Il printed
with the following editorial notice: "This little
poem first appeared in some of the newspapers a
Few DAYS ago tits too beautiful not to deserve
accordingly inserted it among our original
poems.R This was creditable to Christopher
Northis good taste. From BlackWood the poem
was generally circulated in Scotch and English
newspapers.
Renewed attention was attracted lit by the
publication, in 1924, of volume, by Captain
MedWin Zone Of Percy B. Shelleyfs relations y
which he entitled Conversations with Lord
Byron In the year 1922, Medwin became init
mate with Byron, then living at Pisa, having been
introduced BY Shelley. He made practice be-
fore he went to bed of recording his recolectons,
while they were fresh, of his noble and poetical
hosts table-talk. Many errors were3 pointed out
in Medwin's book, but there is no doubt that
many Of these were Byron s own--Whether acct
dentally, wilfnly, or with the view Of mystifying
his guest-and that the " Conversations, as re-
ported, were very much in the tone Of Byron's
later manner. The sOealled g Conversations y
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evidently manufactured out Of letters and ionr-
mails which Moore published. She met Byron only
three times in her life.
MedWin reported that one evening, when the
conversation rauinpon modern lyrics, Byron went
into the next room, thence brought volume from
which he read, with eaFnestness and effect, the
very stanzas on g The Burial Of Sir John Moore
about which Inow am writing, and said he thought
they were admirable. On being asked as to the
authorship, he said he did not know, but had
thought the poem might have probably been writ
ten BY Campbell, only that he could not see why,
if so, he should not have claimed it. Medwins i'm
preston at the time was that Byron was the
author. but that having praised the poem in the
frstinstance, be did not like to claim it when his
guests admired it,
Medwin's notice of the poem, which he re-
printed, created desire to ascertain who wrote
it. Various contemplate scoundreis claimed the
authorship, particularly a Doctor Marshall, OF
York, who took pains to describe the circum-
stances under which he wrote it: but the public
curiosity was satisfied by declaration from the
Rev John 4. Russell c6aplain to the yiceroy Of
Ireland. and curate Of Sd. Werbnreh's. Dublin.
another of Charles Wolfe's friends, that Wolfe
was the author, and none other. In 1926 this Mr..
Russell pubIished. In two volumes I2mo, Re.
mains of tie late Rev. Charles Wolfe, a. b.,
curate of Donoucbmore diocese of Armagh with
q brief memoir of MS life. Wolfe was born ia
l79l, was ordained in 1917, and died of consump-
lion IN February 1923, at che Cove Of Cork, now
he Graduated he received MANY ACCIDENTAL
bor6rs iaidn ,;,iza fo,. i ,oe1, ~, TIgur+bs
He was chosen to deliver the opening speech be-
fore tie Historical Society--a distinction which
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11,st Vyogfa 7;d 1,rsto q Tbe Rns;af of air Tobn
Moore In Inc soiiowing month fAnril. 1925 mr..
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