New-York tribune., 1901-12-01

he was living in Pisa to the day of his death,
at Mesolonghi in April, 1924 1t deals with the
outcry against Cain" the quarrel with
Southey the death of Allegra, the troubles in
which Byron was involved through his efforts to
be of service to Leigh Hunt, the death of Shell
ley and the plunge into Greek affairs. There
divers other episodes Of anything but
peaceful nature associated with this time. in
Guiding the brawI at Pisa in which the dragoon
Mast was wounded. and it in this closing
stage of his life, too that Byron had one of his
most trying squabbles with Murray Yet to the
last he preserved that vigor of intellect that
splendid sincerity and that indonitabIe spirit
to which we have referred often in discuss
ing the different volumes in this edition,
and these later pages, like their predecessors,
abound in the valuable because most
vincing, illustrations of his character One OF
the best of these, in its exhibition of the manli-
and retcence always characteristic of this
genius often blamed for trailing the pag-
cant of his bleeding heart before the world
is found in the letter Shelley the death OF
AHegra. We reproduce it intact follows:
The blow was stunning and unexpected; for
thought the danger over. by the long in
teryal between her stated ameloration and the
arrival of the express. But / have borne up
against it as | best can, and so far successfully
that can go about the usual business Of life
with the same appearance of cOmpOSure, ana
even greater There is nothing to prevent your
coming tomorrow, but, perhaps. to-day, and
yester-evening, it better not to have met
DO not know that / have anything TO re-
proach in my conduct, and certainly nothing
in my feelings and intentions, toward the dead
But 1t IS q moment Wnen apt to think
that If this or that had been done, such events
might have been prevented though every day
and hour shows US that they the most nat
ural and inevitable L suppose that Time viii
| do his usual wOrk-Death has done his
We know from the Countess GuiccioIis ac-
count. translated by Moore. how poignant
| Byron's grief; but know. too how accurate
ly the dignity of that grief is expressed in the
letter TO Shelley. 1t was like him 70 ignore the
| possibility of any misunderstanding on the
part of strangers in this whole matter of AL
| legra- He sent the body home to England to
| be buried in Harrow Church. where at enc time
he had hoped that his own bones would Clti-
mately be laid, and only the opposition of the
church wardens prevented it from being placed
within the walls of the edifce, with a marble
| tablet erected to the chiId's memory He made.
| indeed. bones of his actions. Those who did
not like them might leave them To Moore.
for example. he writes from Pisa:
1 had. and still have. thoughts of South
America but am fuctuating between it and
Greece. / should have gone. long ago. to one
of them but for my liaison with the Countess
G.; for love, in these days. is little compatible
but 1 Go choose to expose her TO long
voyage, and a residence in unsettled cOun-
try, where 1 shall probably take a part of some
sort
However he may have allowed personal con-
siderattons TO influence him where matter Of
such public Importance the expedition to
Greece was concerned-and here. perhaps, he
was a little less than fair TO himself-wheu he
had once taken UP the task, he devoted himself
tn will III
Treiawny who was associated with him in the
venture has said in his Records some sharp
" critical things. as. for example: I well
knew that once on shore. Byron would fall
back on his old routine Of dawdlinE habits
plotting. planning. shiIly-shaIlyi yiuE- and doing
nothing" But TrrIawny did not have Ey-1n's
responsibility; he did not possess all Of his
chiefs knowledge Of the facts. which made it
important that matters should be cautiously ad-