The New York herald., 1922-03-26

Imagination. The man is alive and
constantly under my gaze. In foct,
he is my o,on husband" The writer
Of the letter was my adored
poodle" Lady Bulwer-Lytton.
HNO continue the general subject.
i In England certain new Byron
letters under the title OF lord
Byron's Correspondence - Chiefly
with Lady Melbourne, Mr.. Hob
house, the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird
and P. B. Shelley" have recently
been published. In this country
they have just been issued by
Charles Scribner's Sons and will be
further discussed in the book sec
ton. AS in the case OF the
Thacheray letters to Mrs. Brook
field, the existence of these letters,
called the Broughton Letters be-
cause they were in the possession
OF Byron's friend and executor
John Cam Hobhouse, afterward
Lord Broughton, has long been
known. They deal with the seamy
side of Byron's life, his unhappy
marriage, his tempestuous affair
with Caro-" (Lady Caroline Lamb
MS unscrupuloLs pursuit OF Lady
Frances Webster when he was &C,
cepting her husbands hospitality,
and the story, whispered in Byron's
lifetime, and years later given pub
licity by the American Harriet
, Beecher Stowe, that his separation
; from his wife was due to her dis
covery of his guilty relations with
, his half sister, Mrs. Leigh, a story
which has never been satisfactorily
: proved or disproved.
IN HERE is no doubt that Byron
, i had many love AFFAIRS and thai
he wrote many letters about them
!, All the women, to use phrase o.
a the time, were "flinging their heads
: at him." He had club foot, ant
= was given to biting his nails II
q public, but on the other hand, ~
: was young, pale and melanchol.
a looking, with blue-gray eyes, blacl
> lashes, auburn hair, a curved, scorn
r full mouth and a voice 80 sweet tina
v child at house he visited dc
e scribed him az 'the gentleman wh
If talked music" That was the Byro
y, who. in 1912, met Lady Carolin
o. Lamb, and his affair with Caro-
}; more than any other shows him a
h, his best and at his baseet. Whe
DO Byron ceased to love Caro- hi
ap sentiment toward her became ths
u. of a vindictive old hag. Even b
yond his grave he struck her. 500
after his death book Of remini
so cences by Medwin appeared. 1t i
=, cluded the verse that Byron ha
dashed off on the fly leaf OF bso
,,s on which Lady Caroline had Write
"a Remember me-"
ot Remember thee, remember thee
Till Lethe auench lifes burnt
stream.
S! Remorse and shame shall cling 10 IN
on And haunt thee like feverish ereal
:. Remember thee, Aye, doubt 1t not,
- Thy husband, too. shall think of .h'
o.. BY neither SHALT thou be forgot,
40 Thou false to him, thou tie,sd to rs
~ { CsARO" was a niece of Georgia
ny ~ Duchess OF Devonshire.
whom she had been brought up
" Devonshire House, the headquarte
of the most famous Wings OF t
= day, with Charles James Fox as
- leader. In 1896 she married Wi
lam Lamb, the son and heir OF I
~ ~ first Lord Melbourne. In 1912, VIII
~ Byron, after the publication
"Childe Harold" "awoke one q
- to find himself famous" she was
=. leader of the London younger
-, Several literary men we're frequ'
visitors at her home, among tn
Tom Moore, the Erin spar
and Samuel Rogers. the banker pt
She has been described as not I
ling slight in form C'too d thl
q II rxf VI,