The sun., 1910-06-12
Tales From Lord Rroushtoa.


Tales FPom LoFd nroughtoa.
An old story but always a new story is
an oppression from Heine that IL appro-
priately employed as a motto for two new
volumes of RerolleciioRs Of Long Life.
by Lord BROUOHToS GOHN CAM Hos
HOUsE). edited by his daughter. Lady
DORcHEsrER. and furnished with extracts
from his diary and with portraits Tim
ported by Charles Scribner's Sonsl. The
first two volumes Of this work. published
last summer. were 20 well received. Lady
dorchester says. that she now adds a third
and a fourth volume. This brings the
matter down 70 iSsL Count PietrO
uamla. a brother of the Countess Guic-
cioli. was with Byron al Mi-solOnghi. ard
q hitherto unpublished letter from him
to Byron's sister. Mrs. Leigh. describing
the poets las, illness and death is included
here. The new volumes are largely con-
eerned with English home politioA but
there i much of general nature that 10
calculated 70 interes, any liberal reader
Il is upon this element of the work that We
draw FOR the purpos- II illustration.
In the summer Of iS22 the author made
journey TO Italy He was detained at
Dover by the blowing weather. which
would prevent the boats reaching the
pack-ts In ths ofing He delayed pleas
nntly at Heidelberg and Stuttgart AZ
Milan he heard of the suicide ~ Lord Lon
donderry Reaching Pisl on September
IS he made inquiries for Byron and found
him az his PalazzO tanfranrhi Leigh
Hunt was thsre too. Byron had given him
apartments in his houss for himself and
his wife and ak children Says the diar-
ist Leigh Hunt was brought out here by
Percy Bysshe shelley MIR shelley was
lately drowned in going from LeghOn 20
la Spezzia. and Lord Byron considered
leigh Hunt as a legacy left % him
There Was nothing more about shelley.
but We find in another place a little some
thing about Leigh Hunt. -Four years
later the diarist records a conversation
with Barry. Byron's banker At Genoa
We read Byron told Barry he was very
anxious 10 get rid Of the Hunt connection.
Leigh Hunt was insolent enough 20 writs
a letter 20 Byron approaching him with
abandoning Mrs shelley. the widow Of
bic lByron'sl best friend. To this Byron
returned a short reply telling Hunt that
o. As for shelley. his name was unneceaaar-
ily introduced: that Mrs shelley had no
claims on him: and that AZ for him Hunt
he had only regret that he had ever com
municated 10 much with him. as hs had
thereby lost not only his money but his
charnctsr. This letter he read 10 Barry
and cent H. I now adds the diaFist,
account for the animOsity Of HaElitt to
Byron He takes his cue from crony
Hunt
To return 10 the visit az Pisa. Il was not
very long. Byron was going TO ride and
his friend left him. He found Byron mudh
chanRed-his face fattsr and tho eKpres-
sion Of II injured. They were both at first
a little formal. but there were other visits
and the ice was soon thAwed Byron was
going 70 Genoa. He said the Plsana dis
liked him because he would not associate
with them and with the professors Of tho
university and beoause he would not 20 TO
a hall that had been given at Christmas.
We read nf Byron's beautiful friend the
Countess Guiccioli. The diarist says. 1T
seems Nine Guiccioli and her father and
brother lived together In a house apart
until the Gambas went TO prepare Lord
Byron's house az Genoa. This IL Italian
morality. The brother of Nine. Guic-
cioli. Gamba. is a great friend Of Lord
Byron's. and here in Italy the brother Of a
lady with whom a man lives is called his
cognato. I. O.. brother-in-hW The diary
notes that the palace In which Byron lived
at Pisa belonged 70 the LAnfranchi who
con, ,uegsd ugolino. and tha. there we're
dungeons at the bottom Of IL.
The entry for September 10 gives a
good idea Of the brevity by which the
diary IL distinguished. Il is not too
long 90 quote. In ita entirety IL goes:
Rode with Byron. Caught in a storm
Of thunder and lightning and took shelter
In a vineyard cottage where an adventure
occurred which gave NJ no high notion
Of the monls oG tho country. Passed
the evening with lord Byron 10 the
reader wishes to know what tho adven-
turc in the vineyard cottage was he mus,
make special Investigation.
Byron read tO bis friend a0msthins
that he had written agninst the Duke Of
Wellington in some new oantOs for Don
Juan He also said that he had write,
something against Castlsreagh. His
friend advised him n be cautious how
he touched On Castlsroagh'a death.
but Byron did not seem 70 think that
caution was necessary. Byron acclaimed
against Shakespeare and Dante and
Milton and said that vOltairs was worth
thousand such. This was probably
q ploasantry. fnr tho diarist follows his
reoOFd of it with the word scherzo In pa
rentheses. There were other scharui 0f
which Byron waa guilty. Ono of them
vas that Cain was night In killing Abel:
u he had not killed him hs would have
suffered the hire n passing two hundred
yaars with him. Byron TALKED ahout ~
lisison. Il appsared that hs did NOT W.ah