Arizona republican., 1901-09-28
LITERARY NOTES
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BuLwER-LyrroN NOVELS.


 In the flood of modern fiction and the energy of publishers in it's dissemi- nation, it Is not unlikely that the nov els of Bulwer-Lytton are somewhat t forsotten, and if they are read at oll It is only by those who have some love of literature. and desire to know it's history and progress.
 rev writers in our literary history have been more versatile than Bulwer- Lytton. and Johnson's famous de- scription of Goldsmith, .who left scarcely any style of writing un- touched. and touched nothing that he did not adorn." might reasonably be applied to him. He wrote novels, plays. poems, histories. and essays, and In these departments of literature Ee reached high though not the highest level. As novelist and essayist his sue : cess was the most pronounced. though two of his plays. "The Lady of Lyons and ''Richelieu," were favorftes unti comparatively recent times with both actors and play goers. The unappeas- able appetite for some new thing or new sensation that characterizes the present generation has obscured his plays as we'll as his novels.
 Though ambitious of distinction iu whatever he attempted, he was not an envious or a jealous man, and Dickens. | who named one of ais sons after him | and lived on terms Of friendship with him. said: There can not now be. as there can not ever have been among the followers of literature a man $, l entirely without the grudging little | jealousies that too often disparnge it's brightness as Sir Edward Bulwer- Lyttop."
 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwei afterward Sir Edward Lytton Buiwoi | and later Lord Lytton. was born in | 1903. the youngest son of General Rui- wer. distinguished British officer. whu married somewhat late in life Elizabeth | Lyttol. heiress of Kuebworth. Geu- eral Bulwer. who lived unhappily with his wife, died when Edward was q child. and he was brought up by his mother. He was not educated at :, public school. a fact that is sometimes mentioned as having been detrimen It to him. There is no doubt that an Eng iisn public school Is a place where q boy gets a good deal of nonsense and egotism knocked out of him. and If that had occurred to young Bulwer he would have grown to be a much more manly man. However, he received good instruction. and at the age of r went {: to Cambridge and soon took a place | s-.nolS the foremost WitS Of the uni.- versity- His associates all became me,, os eminence. among them his brother Henry Winthrop Mackwor.h Praed. Charles Villiers. Charles Butler, Alex ander Cockburn. and Macaulay, the latter being three years his senior. It was the latter's erudition and splendid oratory that first stirred Bulwer's em,i- lation. and in one of his letters written at this time descriptive of his associ- ates he says of Macaulay's success: The trophies of AIiltiades would not suffer me to sleep"
 At the university he obtained the chanceilor's prize for English verse. and after taking his degree pubiisheo volume of verses that met with no great success. He went to London in 1925 and joined the set that revolved around Lady Blessington. He was The friend and associate of young DisraeiI, Count D'Orsay. Louis Napoleon, and the dandies generally and beca me known as one Of the exquisites of the day.
 ' Falling in love with an Irish girl .,r great beauty. but of no fortune, he married her without his mothers con sent, who thereupon- cut down his :n- come to 9200 a year. His tastes were expensive. but he had a horror of debt. and he set to work in earnest to earn living by his pen.
 His first novel. Falkland" failed. but he persevered. Then he wrote