New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-06

,iaces Now il is poet like Coleridge to whom
! =, cyes fifty pounds, and for whom he laDois
ononc publishers and friends. Now 1t IS an OBJ
} cpre hack like COncanen, whose manuscript
| =, coils for more pounds than the author could
| 80 cot shilIings if unaided by his powerful
| ,torest And on his travels, after the sepdra-
J zion with all the stings of that bitter occur
| renee ranking in his SOUL he stlll finds time to
| think of ms old servant at Newstead Abbey
| writing TO Hanson: Pray do not forget to rem
state Joe Murrays wages and board wages
/ nv sister tells me they are cut off; but hope
t,ero is at least rent enough the estate to
defrav his cxpenses-pOor old man-and ! par
tcularly request that you will have the good
ness to see to him. l shall not feel easy tn
bear he is So"
With all these warrants for high estimate
Of Pvron's character the reader naturally turns
with heightened eagcrness TO those fairly nuih'r-
ous pages in the present volume touching upon
the uoet's matrimonial disaster. This is an au-
thortatiye edition of his works, an edition
sanctioned, in fact by the living representa-
t,yes of his family and such views on the sub
i.C Of the marriage and separation as II mlS'
advance would necessarily be accepted as being,
for the time conclusive. The editor surprises
ms however by having views at all mo
evidence exists" he observes, Ito prove the pre-
.c.se nature of the charges on when Lazy Byron
separated from her husband. They We're as
Eyron alleged, unknown to himscf ana MS
friends In these circumstances, nothing can
l.. gained by adding another guess to the con-
lectures which have been, at various uueS'
hazarded" The only hint OF bias in tins mat
fer Of fact introduction to the collection oi
documents printed in a kind of formal ap-
r.ndix Oh the subject lies in the statement that
the charges were, "as Byron alleged unKho"h
10 himself and his friends 1t ls open 10 'he
reader 10 place as much belief in Lady byron
ALLEGATION as in her husbands. She wrote 10
his friend the Rev. Francis Hodssoh WHO
tried f. effect q reconciliation, He does know
foo Vell-what he affects to inquire addihs
that Lord Byron had been fully, earnestly and
atfectionately warned of the unhappy conSe-
ou,nces of his conduct" AS to what that con
duct may have been like it is idle to speculate
LADY Byron, it is true, is on record as follows
Il may give you general idea OF what nave
.yro,i.uccd nv saving that he married me win
the deepest determination Of revenge aVo"eu
on the day of my marriage, and executed ever
s,,co with systematic and increasing cruelty
which no affection could change But TINS
statement is on the face of it, suspicious ana
there are no conclusions Of a profitable nature
10 be drawn from either Lady Byrons letters
or her husbands. The editor wisely ignores the
deplorablo and incredible hypothesis advanced
in The once notorious essay of certain Amefl-
can autbor whose sympathes it is chailtapie
70 eunnose ran away with her judgment; nor
does he nay more attention than IS suircieh' ior
their lust appraisal to the Unauthorized PUBL
cations in which the Jackals OF the cohteH-
rorary press exploited to their own profit the
private miseries of the poet and ms VIE Ohe
OF these malicious opuscula lies before US no"
q pamphlet of about thirty pages bound up by
some collector of the time with the first EDITION
~ Clara" Poems on His Domestic Circum-
stances BY Lord Byron" is the title OF thls
errerious publication, the mawklsh lhtrOuuc-
ton 10 which is begun with the statement lld'
The unhappy differences which have gwen rise
f. th. following poems have excited through
ont the kingdom the most lively interest Then
follo,y some newspaper paragraphs, with letters
that passed between Sir Ralph Noel and one OF
me editors; and after these come thoSe TWO
,tr,olic noems. Fare Thee Well and "A
eketch from Private Life" in when byron re-
Loved himself Of some Of his wrath over the
+,soriars in his household. Some spurious
,oerne are added poems which Byron indignant
~, reuudiated and to the whole there ~ pre-
t.ed = curious portrait 1t is a contemporary
document a pamphlet 'palpitatlng win actual
Nv" but like everything else relating 10 'le
.,bi.ct including MI Protheros aoihlrdp'e
nody If letters and other papers II leaves '''e
toIe soualid business of Byrons separation
fl, the mystery in which, indeed. IL ~ pest Il"
geloped. .,.oo