Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-02-18
rEyA GAZETTE & VIRGINIA ADVERTISER,
Meath Of Lord Edward BuIwer Ly ton.


ing eight lines fifty cents.
Death Of Lord Edward BulWer LH ton
From advance sheets of Backwood's Maga
zine for February, by the Leonard Scot
Publishing Company, l40 Fulton street, n
i, we print the following short article OF
the death of Bulwer Lytton. We are certain
that our subscribers will read with eagernes
this brief tribute to the memory OF an au
thor who, as novelist, poet. essaylst, or dra
matist has been foremost 10 mems mouths
for the last quarter of century.
EDWARD BULwER LYTroN, Lord Lytton
died at Torquay on the 18th Of January auc
by his death his country has been deprived o
her foremost man of letters. We ourselves
have to mourn the loss of much-loved friend
and an Invaluable contributor, with whom our
relations have subsisted for more than thirty
years: nor do we think that the correspondence
hetwcen us was ever more active than it has
been during the last six months. So completely
did his letters, manuscripts aud proofs, lDdl-
cate man in the full ardOur and strength OF
his intellect that when We received, on what
nroyed to be the day of his death, melancholy
note written by him two days previously from
Turnu,y, describing the illness with which he
had been seized We grievcd indeed tor his
min, but never dreamed that his great and
hnsy mind was almost at that moment laid at
rest for ever. The following is the note re-
terred to--the last, We suppose, that any one
received trCn him -
TonoUAY. Jan. IT, lS13.-'I am suffering
terrible agony from species Of Tie, aud am
utterly unable to look at any proofs or do any
business to day, or for some days !; the pain l
have been suffering is very. trying.
In the evening of the day on which We re-
ceived this note, We had telegram from his
SOD, Mr. Robert Lytton, telling US that his
father had passed away that day about two
o'clock. We learn from another source at Tor
quay that Lord Lytton's illness began on We'd
uesday the 18th, when he wrote to our friend,
putting off an engagement for the following day,
aud .ayiug that he was then suffering more
pain in the ear aud head than he had ever en-
dured in his life " From this agony he OBJ
uned some relief; but about FIVE O'Clock on
the Friday morning he complained again Of
& severe suffering In the head, aud from tnat
time there was little hope the end at last,
which occurred on the following day, was
peaceful aud painless Lord Lytton when he
died was III his sixty-seventh Year.
I,isa heavy blow when death thus strikes
in amidst the busy interchange of friendly or
afcrtionate communications but to such al
flctions We have lived to become accustomed,
and can only bow to them with SUBMISSION
when they come upon US. While under the
Influence of such feeling, it is not our lnten-
ton TO attempt an estimate OF Lord Lytton
genius, or to give list of the wor ks that have
come from his pen Such list would be like
the catalogue of library-and OF library,
too, of a very high order. On some future
day We shall take occasion to express deliberate
ly what we think of the man who for forty
five years has held foremost place IN the
literature of bis country, and who has gone
down at last uudeniably the first man for varied
genius aud literary power that his country
possessed. :,
To ourselves, as to others Of our own stand
Ing Bulwer was great name when we were
children, from the attraction possessed by s
senes of books written when ne was hlmsel'
little more than a boy and reading those
books now in more mature years, no one ear
refuse to say that his frame was well deserved
His reputation abroad, and particularly II
Germany, was always great and. we remem
Der, when first going into that country ID early
life, being constantly asked whether we knew
the "Beruhm,e Bulvar." The hold he thus
early got on the mind of Germany was never
lost, aud his own love and appreciation OF the
best German literature revealed a community
Of feeling thut we'll explained this sympathy
We shall venture at this time to say te"
/ words with regard to Lord Lytton' connection
4 with the Magazine. AS far as we can remem
tcr, few short pieces of poetry had been sent
from him before 1912. But 10 September OF
that year he began his translatoDs OF Schiller :
ballads, which We thought then, as we! thluk
them now, the best rendering OF the great Ger-
mans glorious lyrics. They read like Eoglsh
ballads, which, with all our admiration Tor the
oest tranSIat ous of Goethe, the pieces OF the
B e'uer poet never DO. The translation OF Schll,
a UT Was accompanied by notice OF his LIE
u s'loen IN genial, afectonate, and sympathet
81 Ntone' We'll deserving of the subject ln the
50 SSlIos OF 1915, we remember with what de-
81 aE9T 1r, We Received and read the first MS volume
u Inc Caxtcus. The public did not know
D "lo was the writer aud considering the
q SI:'e'y OF Its character, and its unllkeness tc
u pIs p Previous books, this was not surprising
mu' me tale very soon made its way and 1T Is
unnecessary to recall to our readers minds the
nam names Of its successors, My Novel, ane
70 nat will he do with it?'
NSic VIC uIAI
uaae BY hin to 'Blackwood; ; and it will b
very difficult to find series of essays contain
,us more Wit and wisdom, more knowledge o
,. usliAlud' and greater dignity and rectitude o
sentiment
Long after this time he published in ou
pages his translations from Horace, with the
1nsl'IaIy able essay on that classic which intro
IuSea them. The amount of labor which b
bestowed upon this work, both ON its first ap
iuiance i,iEe IN the Magazine and on its subsequeu
as5 publication as book, was almost unexampled
IIu i"S 90 one knew better than he that for sucl
aOor , on his part there could be no pecuDiary re
o,t Sstn equal to what might have been obtained il
v'nerheids ofexertion still more easily within hi
intr;; rIt~er; But he worked with heroic energ
| maGn his heart was in his subject, and he neve
on "urSed ueghgently. We have seen him at hi
H"a Wv" house, when he seemed to be doing moth
Is' 'arn out in morning mass of elaborat
Ia e.'efs aud MS. that the most active man G
vLess vILsness could hot have accomplished. Thos
0S ctS were associated with him in she Colonis