Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-01-22
Death Of Lord Lytt0n, the Distinguished
.- Novelist

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Lord Lytton, better known to the world
as Sir Edward BuIwer Lytton, whose
death is just announced by cable, was born
at Heydon Hay, county of Norfolk, in
1905. The strong literary tastes of his
| mother, who was heiress of the LyttOns
of Knebsunth, Hertfordshire, greatly con-
tributed to the formation of his mind, his
father having died when the future Lord
| Lytton was yet young. The family from
which Lord Lytton sprung was rich, re-
| spectacle and not altogether destitute of
| hereditary honors.s r b. EFsr ~ ss E.
| LORD LYTToN's EARLY YEARS AND EDU-
CATION.
Lord Lytton was educated by private
tutors, but afterWard entered Trinity Hall
Cambridge, where he graduated in 1926.
He gained the ChanceIlor's prize at the
University for English versification, by q
poem on Scripture" in 1925, and the next
year published collection of youthful eff
fusions, entitled "Weeds and Wild Flow
ers." His vacations were occupied by
pedestrian tours through England and
IsScotland and jaunt on horseback over a
great part of France. But be was always
a man Of fashion, and while figuring
among his equals, or those who deemed
| themselves such, the sumptuous fellow
commoner of Trinity Hall contrived to
make driving his own horses and other
juvenile eccentricities compatible with in
tellectual pursuits.
LORD LYTTON's CAREER AS a NOVELIST
The remarkable career of Lord Lytton
Us a poet and novelist began nearly fifty
called "O'Neill, or the Rebel" and in the
same year his first novel, "Falkland,n ap-
peared anonymously. In 1928 "Pelhamn
was published, and, notwithstanding its
its originality and power, was very adj
versely criticised in many quarters. AL
most every year thereafter he gave the
world some new literary work But, not
withstanding the difference of opinion
among the critics as to the merits of his
second novel, for which at first there was
some difficulty in finding publisher, it
was generally admitted that the author
was a man of no ordinary powers. When
Pelham" had been followed by "The Dis
owned "Devereux," paul Clifford and
Eugene Aram.n Bulwer wisely called
halt in his career as O novelist, and, for
time, appeared before the public as editor
of the Ney Monthly Magazine. To that
periodical he contributed series of pa
pers, which have since been published in
a collected form, and entitled "The Stu
dent" The reason he assigned for becom-
ing editor was peculiar. AT least he is re-
ported to have said that he merely did so
to show that a gentleman might occupy
such position. While exercising edto-
rial functions he was engaged with his
England and the English" which was
published in 1888. After having stood the
brunt of the abuse which this clever and
caustic anatomy of tile national character
brought upon him, Bnlwer broke ground
with his romance, "The' Last Days of
Pompeii," which was followed, as time
passed on, by "Rienzi,n Leila, or the
Siege Of Granada, "Calderon, the Cour-
tier,n Night and Morning, Day aud
Night y |The Last of the Barens,Y > sIa-
noni," Harold" 1.-THE Caxtons, ~ "My
Novel, or Varieties in English Life,n
''What Will He Do With It?" and "a
Strange Story."-N. Y. Herald, 1871.