New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-21
THE BYRON SANDER

The following article by DR.. H. oheiIon "a0-
kenzie appears in The Philadelpn'a f'e's r,or,,
IN, Atlantic Monthly for september Is OF aUG En rca in
which that it y VERY iraet more attention than all
tic rest IL processes to relate W Ne Stoye In Is5S
yrons me-, enerTatiye we never read-doubly pain
fni because IL is evident that ~ Is s fbat
her husband because she had full assurance
OF b,s Having committed incest Mrs stoves re'oaion
runs M hight might have been happy as t5s HUSBAND 81
noble woman BE so SSar ~ eonsangpay discovery must
Sar, ben vt,r and expulsion rom er<sa , milne . &,
,i s holding bin morbid f,cus,on yet filing BIN with re-
morse Mrs stowe speaks of "the deadly secret that
Law cold at the bottom Of his heart says that AT MS
aS it was not the memory Of Mary Chaworth
INA. ianootber ruilter and more damnng memory, that
oVveershadOwed that hour" afhrms that Lady Byron
knew vaguely from the wild avOwals OF the first hours
~ their marriage that there dreadful secret Of
gut that ByrOn soul was torn with agones OF renofse
and that he had no to give her in return for love
which was ready to do and dare all for him. and adds
but there came an hour OF reveaton-an hour When,
in manner which left no kind Of room for doubt Lady
Byron saw full depth Of the abyss OF nfamy which
her marriage expected to cover and understood ha
this nfamy" In order to prevent any mistake we are
told that Byron introduced into one or MS dramas the
reason by which he JUSTIFIED himself ia incest
Here we have Lady Byron, at the advanced age OF Ga
(she born in 1872 and died in 1860 positively mput
inc ono OF the deades OF crimes to the husband whom
She had deserted forty wears back and saying that
ing discovered the sim she had two years OF convusye
struggle" a wife. before she abandoned him. Two
yearsi Lady Byron lived with her husband from Jan p
isis and quilted him forever on Jan TO- 1876 periodnO
OF too years but of one year and 10 days week be-
fore she left him she privately consulted Dr. Bae the
great London physician to ascertain whether he was IN
"a state of mental arrangement" ON the road she
wrote the familiar wifeke letter, beginning Dear
Duck" At that time, 1t seems, the question was hot
whether Byron was bad, but whether he was mad
Even were il true Lady Byron is not justified in load
ing bunderbuss with destructive charge ana leaving
il to be fired of years and years atterwaTd augusta
Byron the poets only sister born In s3 married TO
Colonel George Leigh in 1907, and was thirty years
old in 1914, when, Lady Byron declares she had an IN
cesuOus connection with her brother who was then aged
twenty-sx The attachment OF Lord Byron and his hai
tender and lasting Until now no breath OF
Character She moved all hex life in the choicest circles
in London and until after her death did Lady Byron
against her this positive accusation OF terrible crime
Believe it who may, and some will,
utterly dscredt and repudiate It, England proud
OF her poet. whose writings ..,..u.,.,.-p
will not believe this and terrible SANDER II Is
awful thing to shudder at, that; when Byron and his
i'm the Shadow OF the Valley OF Death should thus have
prepared pour the walls OF dreadful accusation
against bothzwho cannot defend themselves we DC
Mrs Stowe has exhibited much want OF Judgment In
the dead The publication Of the Guccloh volume qua
not Justify her. for that contains no statement tha hau
not been before the public for years she accuses Byron
of having written letter In 1891 excite the sympathies
of Lady Bessngton whom he for the first time In
1923 She airms that Aurora Raby, in Don juan rep
''''-'''0 Earl in years and yet nfAHtlns
was portrait OF Lady Byron, who was % when she
married. yet also quotes the stanza IN which she really Is
repeated is the expansion Of Byrons married domestic
life from one year to point upon which much OF
No pecuniary temptation should have induced Mrs.
Stowe TO publish grave accusation against one OF her
own sex-even II she believed true Resting as IL does
upon the mere assertion Of Lady Byron, few Will credit
it, IL is charitable TO imagine, as we 40 tnat I Lazy
made conhdante Of Mrs Stowe, who has been 50 aston
lshingly cTedulous