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Sir Ed,vnrd George Earle nulsvcr |
1.ytton.
Sir Edward Bulwor Lytton, whose donth has |
long beon expected, md occurred Oh Saturday,
vaa born in 1906. Although but CT yoara OF ago ut
bis doath, lo Inns given forty-Boyoa ycars to
literary pursuits, mud to wide aud useful ac-
tivity in politics and philanthropy. His
father, Gonoral William Earle Dulwor, died too
aoon to exercise any influence on young Bulwer's
culture, whicl, received ita literary bent from
bis mother, hoirosR Of tho Lyttons OF Knob
worth, (. woman Of Ano poetic mould md gen
erouB Bympathioa
At Cambridge ho gained tie Chancollor's prize
for English versihcation by poem on !" scu1p-
turo." Li};o many other distinguished mon. the
! most valuablo part Of Ills Uniyeraity career waa
that which lo devoted to studios beyond tho
curriculum. 1t was IN this way, In pursuance
Of tho advice Of friend who had lived at 'Toi-
mar, tho literary home OF Goethe. tint be &C.
! qnirol the deep familiarity with German ltora-
turo which gave lasting tono 10
hiH mind. His first volume waH punished
In ha 21at year. Il was enttt1od "Woeda
aud Wild Flowers" Noxt year he published
Dyrouic poem, entitled "o'Noill, or tho Rebel"
Ills first novo1, :" Falkland, appeared IN 1877,
anonymously. Noxt yoar cano " "Pclham,'
which was good enough to excite great deal OF
adverse criticism. Tho Disowned," "DoYor-
eux, " Paul Clifford, i" followed rapidly from
this prolific pcn. 1n 1881 appeared " The Biz
moso Twins, aatirical poem: In 1852, "lsa-
geno ARM = In 1888, "England and tho Eng
lish !" in 1885, s'Tho Student" In addition to
this work, he was at this time filling the od1-
| H{THHzt98.
In 1884, he wroto the "pilgrims Of tho Rhine !"
and Tho Last Days OF Pompel,' the last ex"
cellont not only 90 q noVol, oot salo u w 'no
best Introduction to tho study OF homan ant!qul-
tics. Tho noxt eight yoars Woro among hls onsl-
est. In thom ho published Hien2l, the Last
Of tho Tribunes )" Athens Its hlso anu talis
work Of research and historical criticism, inter.
jcctod butween hia l'Shfer, though no doubt
more laborious, works; "Ernest haltraVora,
: its sequel; Alice, or tho Mystorie8; Loila,
or tho Siogo Of Grenada" !" might nnd hloen'
, ingi" "Zanoai," aid "ThoLast Of the barona' y
He succeeded Us q dramatic author not lcaf
brilliantly than in fiction. His frat effort II
1886, "Tho DucAesa do 1a Va'liore," Was fail
uro, but tho "Lady of Lyons" and "Riclo
t Lou" aYo Of Worldwide famo, and "Monoy
l las boon very succosslul In England. "Harold
. tho Lnst Of tho sa1on Kings" WAS published i,
. 1Ri8 BfnCe which tInlo IaTo appeared tho 'tA1
TONS" domestic novel Of English high Life
Il "AIy Novel, or Vanitiee Of EngliHh Life" Wha
o Will He Do with It" besides countleas numbe
y of pampA1eta, shorter plays and poems, an
j. brochures. Among thoBo may be named 9TH
;, Poems and Ballads Of Schiller" translated Int
:, English motro; !" Eva, tho Ill Omened Marriage,
~ Z" Lucrotia and Tho Children Of tho Night. con
10 don,uel by rites a. being too full Of LorTora
n "TAo New Timon,' a-.satrical poem; liking A1
ID thur" au epic =" Not So Bad az Wo aaem," aa
m s.Tho Crisis" political essay in the Whig il
III interest,
:, Just before the Anti-Corn Law agitatio
" culmiuatol in tho SUCCESS Of Golden, i
al Inherited the Knobworth estates Of hia niotho
or which gave him an additional ito, II any wo,
N needed. to connect him with tho landed clasao
ur and. in 1851. no find him vigorously preaehr
-, prokoctlonst viewa, III IA 1ottor to John Rll1
Esq., OH Affairs Connected with His I4ande
*' | 13rcnortu md Tho Taranun W1in 1,iYe Ihnronr
o- III Ind tbo raro faculty of symua thizing w;
or +rouh1ea In Ind mover Limsolf oxporicncod. ar
II fonnd lo1anro from his busy Ito to lead
tho organization of q guild of lItocsturo and q
for oyoryorloa and Impoverished literary me-
uo hnn boon twice elected Lord Re
to | tor OF the University Of Glasgow, II
il frat time In 1856 when Ae d
IL. livoroa m address, tlofenlipg classical Studio
a. In PARLIAMENT. which Nj. Dulwer entorod in |,
I'M 2Gth voar. ho was i Roformer, aud IL remembor
n. for hIg onpostion to tho stamp dutlos OF nov