New-York tribune., 1910-06-26

something commanding but not overaWin, @
manner. He was neither grave nor CAV -.
place, and he seemed always made for tho.
pany in which he happened to find H.
There was a mildness and yet a decisio, =
mode of cOnversing and even In his aas vs.
which are seldom united in the same Nc
Writing forty years after he saw his frian1 "a
in the grave, HObhOuse testifes 10 the a @a
paired strength OF his affection for this 60
gentleman" His heart is wrung when P,'
Genoese banker, Barry. tells him that tba
when setting out on that uniucky exnadit, ~
Greece, confessed that he would not %
then but that "HObhouse and the Others -
laugh at him" Colonel StaHhOpe. who v,,a
Byron in Greece. told Hobhouse that tbo
was sorry now and then that he ever ca,,'s Y's'
the country:
He expressed anger at the Greek r.o-,..
publishing his letter from Genoa in which tr
Of going. that when his intention vss s aisei
At other times he said he glad ne bag 70 % Il
and talked with enthusiasm Of the caas 9.asa cone
than going about talking and singing at nss..olgai
London at past forty. like Tom Moore '"'-es a
Count Gamba's detailed account ~
illness and death is published for the sr.t
by Lady Dorchester the translation b,.'
been made by her father. Particulars f-o-.
other sources Hobhouse gathered and fai,L.-
preserved He notes. on undoubted autbo-.
that until the sick man became delirio,,-
was perfectly calm, and calls to mind hon -. "'
he had heard him say that he was NOT ...-7
hensive as to death itself. but as TO hon
physical infrmity. he might behave =, ' .s
hour. Let no one" he said, come re.,
when 1 dying. if you can help # ana
hoy 70 be1
charging himself with the arrangements fos -
funeral. deputed Mrs. Leigh to ask Lady p
if she had any wishes respecting il That 80
placent lady answered that If the deceased So,
left no directions she thought the matter -.
be left to the judgment Of Mr. Hobhouse ~
house adds: There was a postscript savi,, =,
you like you may show this The GOODNESS ana
calculation of so young woman on sue, -.
occasion are quite Unaccountable7 Hobbon--
says no harder thing than this OF his frs,+-
wife. but between the lines of all his reference,
to her we can read sincere disgust. In ma.
tioning his desire to publicly refute the cbsryo,
made on her authority in regard to the senar,-
ton. he says: Il consulted friends. and amony
them Lord Holland, who strongly recomr,srdas
silence, and did not scrupIe to say that the ta4v
would be more annoyed if she were Isf, nm.
noticed than if, whether wrong or right sbs
had to figure in a controversy. I was far fron
wishing to annoy her at all: my sole wish WA
to do my duty by my friend: and hope
have done that sufficiently by leaving behind
me. to be used IL necessary, a full and scrlrnu
lousIy accurate account of the transaction il,
question I shall content myself here with as
serting that IT was not fear on the part Of Lord
Byron that persuaded him to separate from his
wife. On the contrary, he was quite ready to
go into court as they call it,
Hobhouse's position as Byron's executor was
no easy one. He had to prevent the publication
by Dallas of number of the private letters Of
the poet to his mother and others. thereby call
ing down in print the vituperative wrath Of
that gossip monger. He had TO refuse Lady
Caroline Lambs request that he should give her
her letters to Byron in order to make sure that
she did not use ByrOn's letters to her in
novel Worst Of all. he had to labor nightly
make sure OF the destruction OF the memoirs
in manuscript which, in an Unthinking hour
Byron had put into the hands Of Tom Moore
The executors full and careful narrative of the
proceedings which led up to the burning Of the
MSS. is included in these records 1t certainly
does not shed much lustre on the memory Of
Moore. After cOnceding that it was wise and
right to destroy them and agreeing to the sacr
flee. Moore still hankered for probable profits
and attempted to retain part if not the whole Of
the material Then rose John Murray the
publisher. who had paid him $4,000 for the
MSS. which Moore then proposed to redeem
Il do not care whose the MSS. are!" he ex-