New-York tribune., 1882-08-13
G11vpsEs or SHELLEY AND BYRON
RossETTrs NOTES OF TALKS WITH TIRE
LAWNY.
Fom The Anenauu

LAWNY.
Trou, the Auendum
February 49,. 1s72-Called again on irelaG"Sy haG Se
asked whether he thinks mat one'Iel' ~ h'h m ,o
lived 10 the age of sixty or seventy, "ouu HaIo
gone on writing poetry as MS chlei occuPHIi,ru'
without taxing mp any other occmpHtlon III a,. ia
JIe says yes poetry and prose lrelaWhy In s,
other Trends had especially cncouIagou 0nerTs 0,pcs
toward dramatic writing; and ifoiaWuy tniln' t.
that If he mad once lad any pnhllc inoI9 I
larly any stage suCcesS ~ dIandllsi, hc WI" ~
have taken MP that line of writing. ming w mo
gaps left hy Shakespeare more espetlal! III i-nH ~
lish or other great historical subjects SntleS aoJ
Tre9wny believes he really did not regard then rs
destined to 1--we for generations or ages iIc
recited them or read them out WITHIN iielaNHN .
experience, but may from time to time nave sn0""
a new stauZa or 80 TO hls vile.
Shelley bad an uncommon faculty for ahstractlng
himself from ANYTHING going on about iilm III Nul.
be took no interest If he met thoroughly sluplu,
commonplace persons, this faculty came iutD PC
in miscellaneous company he M"uld st' ll lllU '"l
with such people as hc iet diSpos9n ,, f tho
whom re would judge mostly by me lopk lo1 VI t.o
face. He a good Judge OF chararter Hs i IT, h;p
was not to he called dIsagreeable; III tni tnr n'1, "
notes it was somewha unpleasant hut hS R5n.,t"mt
spoke in low tone. very earnest an" ula'n,,'
TIelawny does not rccOllect bis ever SAY 'ns any
thing funny he e never laughed"
To my intense satisfaction. he gave me litlle
piece mot before seen by mel OF shelley - skui
taken from the brow. II is wholly hackeI19-po
Ike the iawbonc whitened-by the irr. 10 li'is
two such BITS Of iawbone, and three Iat loas, VI
the skull including this ono no" lh my Pps
sion | must consider how best to preserve ". /
inquired whether he has any ol hnellrI n%"Il, %
Answcr-No. the scalp having with the hair been
all eaten oil tie corpse when recovered IhS ioii'
/ think, has never yet been notlheu'
Shelley Trelawny SAYS. was not good at recltlng
poetry this, however, | have seen stated comlraI-
WISE in some other authority. nor yet byron,
whose voice rs tull and melodlous, but ne mao an
affected twang in Tecltng, pIOhahly acqu'iyu aU
re
now mnch fadcd-whicn Byron wore for about INC
last thee years of his life he making littc use ol
hat. Bvron's head is known to have bcch s'Aat @ H.
the apex The shape Of Shcey's could not be DIS
cerneu owing to the thick growth of his haT.
Byron's last words to Trcawny as they parted
after landing in Greece were: " Now. lleiawhS. u
depends ON what Won DO whether put yon INTO thc
next canto of 'Chlde Iiafod' or l"to the next OF
Don JUAN" capital anecdotic 'oucn thls: u
appears but not identical IN terms III lrelaWnV
ook Byron projected, after leaving Greece going
to Naples. and there writing MIN cah'o VI
" Harold" As to bon Juan, he had no iXcd pan.
hut would have continued II indefinitely aS iTms @
a. Murray pays { 600 cani0,' lie sdId 10 re-
lawnv He enioined Irelawnv, in the event oi HIS
drai H. to have MIN buried IN desert islet near
Malna-" don't treat me as you did Sheiley, ana
showed him the Iset IN the course of the voyage
saving it was the he had had IN view III ! 10
COrsar."
Byron had no religion at all. though C2odish
deal of superstiton had not as has been SaIdl any
SUPERSTITION rs 10 III luck on ''''N
no suuerstItlon of any kind whatever. Ireldwhl
SAYS the book which has been lately pubilahcd
about McdOra Leigh is substantially true but not
that snc really was Byr0ns daughIer; the peIieI
that she was so. however was the Impeding cause
of Lady ByrOn's separation
BYRON WAS IN n marked and extreme degree III
different TO ruins. He said on one occasion oi an
introduction proposed by lclawny, that he wished
to know no men under thirty nor women beyond IT,
Was to some extent jealous OF She lleys Genus had
been startled at tie evidence OF dramatic power iii
" The Ccncl."
Shelley never walked out with his wife while
Irelawny knew them he was out almost an Gay,
| and would sleep unGcr tree or the IKE wren ne
felt inclined Dreamed much. lie retained ihe
habit of lying down before the hearth recorded ny
lIogg) and often sat on tho ioor rs readily as on
| CHAIR Had no longer the habit (which Hogg
| speaks Of of pIOpeng pellets OF bread nor that
| of launching paprr boats though he did tins once
at ! rclaWny's request He would gaze great ueiI
| at failing autumn leaves or leaves drIlt,hE Oh
stieam. Fear positively unknown to Shelley.
March ID called again on Treawny. asked
him whether Shelley had-as MedwIn intlmales-
any of the prepOs'essols OF an arlstocrat VII her,
for instance, he wOuld have nad any pelereLce lor
a well-bred, intelligent man of good family o'er
like man of no family. lrelawny says shelley had
no such feeling: nor indeed, does he think that
even Byron had much Of the arsto cratic feeling IN
this particular direction his dIsaQreements with
Leigh Hunt not assignable to any such cause.
Shelley's face. Trciawny says was very mobile
The look of it, as centred IN the eyes, hlghV I'M
AT "A distance. l1claNnN pll'u pc'h
liked thereby when he happened ID see Shelley ut
some considerable distance up the LGngaIuo Of
Pisa.
Shelley. when ho was alone, or supposed himself
So would sometimes recltc passages Of ms own
poetry: would, especially when out IN The country.
rece poems then in course of conpOsti,, so ita to
try on his own ear the effect OF the metre ana dc
tiOn was extremely fastidlous rs tn dlctl"n thlnK-
inQ that there would he always some best word or
phrase of all dIscOverabe Tor any particular pas
sage. aud that the fashioning of tile verses ought
not to bc given up until tins was attained.
Trelawny again told me- what he has said more
than once that Shelley ied nothing about cnl-
d.eu: once in TTolawnys presence, Shelley stepped
over his own child Percy, near the threshold OF the
house. without observing that 1t rds Percy TIL The
nurse told him. On that occasion Irclawny made
a iocular remark about wise man who knows
his own children" when Shelley rejoined: n C'st
man wouldn't have any,
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL NOTES.