The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-05-31
Literary News and Notes.


greatly exaggerated, and will be glad to have
portrait of the poet as he really was, with moth
ing cXtenuated or aught set down in malice.
Mrs. Stoves book, which was sufficiently con-
demned at the time of its publication scan-
dalous if not untruthful, is etfectuaIly disposed
of i'll the present volume by a complete refutal
of its very grave charges. The adventurous
and martial career of Lord Byron in Italy and
Greece is described at length and his extraorCl-
mary habits of life while dwelling at Venice,
Genoa Pisa, and Rayenna, his relations with
Teresa Guiccoi and Mariana Legati, Tom
Moore and Leigh Hunt, Lady Byron and Mrs
Leigh, his deeds in the Greek war of Indepen-
dence, and his death at Missoloughi. The BIZ
ographv shows Byron as he was, sharing. in
deed in the faults of his age, but clearly inno-
cent OF the many serious charges which have
been alleged against him; and we are given, al
so, "reminiscences of his friendships and CON
tests with Shelley, Trelawney, Goethe, and
many others of the chief men of his time. j.
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The SPORTSMAN'S GAZETTEER. BY Charles
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John Bach McMaster, the new historian. who
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Henry Russell, the composer of "A life on
the Ocean Wave" is still living in England hale
and hearty. He is proud of the growing fame
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Mr.. }. n. McClintock, editor of the Granite
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The Boston Transcript says of George w.
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''Nivisection in the State of New York. by DR..
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His Last Work.
The last work done by the late eX-Gov
| Washburn, previous to his death, was the com.
pleton of the memoir of the late George Evans
| long an hOnOret! and distinguished citizen OF