These cannot fix our souls to love.
It is not too severe a stricture,
To say they form a pretty picture;
But wouldst thou see the secret chain
Which binds us in your humble train,
To hail you queens of all creation
Know, in a word, 'tis : ANIMATION."

(j) "A man must serve his time to ev'ry trade
Save censure · · critics all are ready made.”

(k)

And shall we own such judgment? No-
Seek roses in December - ice in June;
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff,
Believe a woman, or an epitaph,

Or any other thing that 's false, before
You trust in critics."

as soon

(2) "It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded
Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill,
Which then seems as if the whole earth it bounded,
Circling all nature, hush'd and dim and still,
With the far mountain-crescent half-surrounded
On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill
Upon the other, and the rosy sky,

With one star sparkling through it like an eye.

"And thus they wander'd forth, and hand in hand,
Over the shining pebbles and the shells,
Gliding along the smooth and harden'd sand;

And, in the worn and wild receptacles
Work'd by the storms, yet work'd as it were plann'd,
In hollow halls, with sparry roofs and cells,
They turn'd to rest: and, each clasp'd by an arm,
Yielded to the deep twilight's purple charm."

(m) "T is time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it has ceased to move:

Yet, though I cannot be beloved,

Still let me love.

"My days are in the yellow leaf;

The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief,

Are mine alone."

(n) "If thou regrett'st thy youth-why live? —
The land of honorable death

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Is here: - up to the field, and give
Away thy breath!

· Seek out - less often sought than found
A soldier's grave, for thee the best;
Then look around, and choose thy ground,
And take thy rest."

2.

ANSWERS.

I. Haidée. "Don Juan." 3. (a) Lady Byron; (b) Lady Blessington; (c) The Countess Guiccioli (there are those, however, who think that "Aurora Raby" personates Lady Byron as Byron first knew her); (d) “Thyrza," but who Thyrza was is quite unknown. 4. The Countess Guiccioli and his sister Mrs. Leigh. 5. His wife. 6. Goethe. 7. (a) "The Prisoner of Chillon"; (b) “Mazeppa's Ride"; (c) “Ode to Napoleon"; (d) “To Thomas Moore"; (e) the same; (ƒ) “Cain”; (g) "To Woman,” in "Hours of Idleness"; (h) "The first Kiss of Love," in the same; (2) "To Marion," in the same; (j) "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"; (k) the same; (1) Haidée wandering with Juan, in "Don Juan"; (m) Lines composed by Lord Byron in Greece — being the last he ever composed MISSOLONGHI, January 22,

1824. On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year"; (") the concluding stanzas of the same.

STUDY OUTLINE FOR CLUBS AND CIRCLES.

1. Read the "Biographical Study" as herein contained.

2. If further biographical details are needed they will be found in two excellent books: (1) "The Life of Lord Byron" by the Hon. Roden Noel, in the "Great Writers" series; and (2) Nichol's "Byron" in the " English Men of Letters" series. A very good and sympathetic account of Byron is given by the late Professor Minto in the article on 66 Byron " in the "Encyclopedia Britannica," which every one should read who can possibly get access to it. The article on Byron" by Leslie Stephen in the Dictionary of National Biography " will be found to contain almost all the known important facts concerning Byron's life and work. Of course the standard biography of Byron is his Life and Letters" by Thomas Moore, a work for which Moore was paid by the publisher, John Murray, 4 000 guineas ($20,000). The American edition is published by Harper & Brothers.

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3. Reference is made in the "Biographical Study " to an article bearing on the question of the cause of the separation of Lady Byron from Lord Byron, written by the late Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. This article, entitled, "The True Story of Lady Byron's Life," was published in the Atlantic Monthly, September, 1869. It is very painful reading to all lovers of Byron's name and fame, but it is a too important contribution to the controversy that has arisen over the causes of the separation to be forgotten, or wholly ignored.

4. For a study of Byron's poetry, the first thing the student should do is to read the selections given in the present volume. These, on the whole, give a very fair idea of Byron's poetical power and range, apart from his power and range as a satiric writer. For club work it is difficult beyond such selections as are here given to make recommendations. Much of Byron's best work is too long for club study; and much of it is otherwise unsuited, at least for study in mixed classes. Perhaps the one best work of Byron's for

class study is the Fourth Canto of "Childe Harold." An excellent edition of "Childe Harold " for class use is the one annotated by Dr. W. J. Rolfe, and published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; another is that edited by H. F. Tozer, and published by the Clarendon Press. 5. Other poems that are very representative of Byron are: “The Prisoner of Chillon," "The Bride of Abydos," “Mazeppa,” and "The Giaour." If one should like to read some of "Don Juan" the first four cantos of that long poem are perhaps as good as any. They certainly contain some of the very finest verses Byron ever wrote. But they are to be read privately, and only by those whose minds and judgments are mature. Critics universally agree in describing Byron's characterization of Haidée as one of the most beautiful things in literature. From the seventh to the tenth canto the poem is not so good as it is in other parts, nor are the fifth and sixth cantos equal to the general level of the opening four cantos and the closing cantos.

6. No real lover of Byron will be satisfied with anything less than a complete edition of Byron's poems. But even those who like complete editions like also a well-made selection. Of the “selections," perhaps the best is that edited by Matthew Arnold and published in the "Golden Treasury" series by the Macmillan Company, This edition is also specially valuable because of its introductory essay.

7. For critical estimates of Byron the student is presented in the present volume with a fair selection of some of the best. If further critical appreciation is needed the biographical works above quoted all contain excellent critical chapters. In the fourth volume of Ward's "English Poets" is an excellent critical estimate of Byron by John Addington Symonds, in which Byron's position among the world's great poets is carefully considered. Critical estimates of great value will also be found in John Morley's "Critical Essays," in Swinburne's "Essays and Studies" (Scribners), and in Dowden's "Studies in Literature" (Scribners).

8. Hattie Tyng Griswold's sketch of Byron in "Home Life of Great Authors" (A. C. McClurg & Co.) and the descriptions of Byron's homes, etc., in Dr. T. F. Wolfe's "A Literary Pilgrimage" (J. B. Lippincott Co.) will be found admirable for reading aloud in clubs and circles.

9. Every one should try to glance over if not to read the Countess Guiccioli's "Recollections of Lord Byron" (Harpers). It is

scarcely too much to say that it was the Countess Guiccioli that saved Byron from himself, and the world of literature owes her a great debt, unfortunate as her career in some respects was.

10. Lastly, Macaulay's essay on "Byron" is one of the cleverest things Macaulay ever wrote, and, though the judgments of the essay are not always sound, they are nearly enough so to be generally acceptable. Every member of a Home Study Circle should read this admirable essay.