Pelham: or, Adventures of a gentleman

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PELHAM on ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MESSRS. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE &. SONS' EDITIONS OF Or, Adventures of a Gentleman.' First Published in 3 vols. in 1828, by Henry Colburn. 1/6 Railway Edition, from 1853 to 1858 46,000 Copies 2/- Railway Library Edition, from 1859 to 1893 35,750 „ 2/6 Standard Novel Edition, from 1861 to 1874 4,000 3/6 Knebworth Edition, from 1873 to 1893 ... 21,250 1/- Railway Library Edition, 1878 4,000 7/6 Library Edition, from 1877 to 1889 2,260 1/- Pocket Library Edition, from 1886 to 1887 20,000 6d. EditioD, from 1879 to 1890 66,000 Tfclkir ft BmiUll.jih.ic r'Mswpfy^yifJS&M^Sw./lS??: PELrtAM BY LORDLYTTON CDO:ROimED0E6s59NS IS LONDON AND NEWYORK :\GS>Q PELHAM Oi: ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN BY THE RIGHT HON. LOED LYTTON 'Je suis peu se'vere, mais sage — Philosophe, mais amoureux — Mon art est de me rendre heureux.

J'y re'ussis — en faut-il davantage 1 ' ' A complete gentleman, who, according to Sir Fopling, ought to dress well, dance well, fence well, have a genius for love-letters, and an agreeable voioe for a chamber.' — Ethekege LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Limited BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL MANCHESTER and NEW YOEK DEDICATION prefixed to the first collected edition of the author's works in 1840 My dear Mother, In inscribing with your beloved and honoured name this Collection of my Works, I could wish that the fruits of my manhood were worthier of the tender and anxious pains bestowed upon my education in youth. Left yet young, and with no ordinary accomplishments and gifts, the sole guardian of your sons, to them you de voted the best years of your useful and spotless life ; and any success it be their fate to attain in the paths they have severally chosen, would have its principal sweetness in the thought that such success was the reward of one whose hand aided every struggle, and whose heart sympathized in every care.

From your graceful and accomplished taste, I early learned that affection for literature which has exercised so large an influence over the pursuits of my life ; and you, who were my first guide, were my earliest critic. Do you remember the summer days, which seemed to me so short, when you repeated to me those old ballads with which Percy revived the decaying spirit of our national muse, or the smooth couplets of Pope, or those gentle and polished verses with the composition of which you had beguiled your own earlier leisure ? It was those easy lessons, far more than the harsher rudiments learned subsequently in schools, that taught me to admire and to imitate ; and in them I recognise the germ of the flowers, however perish able they be, that I now bind up and lay upon a shrine hallowed by a thousand memories of unspeakable affection.

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. oldest of the London daily newspapers, my editorship of which extended over a quarter of a century, from 1845 to 1870, The first work of Bulwer Lytton's that 1 reviewed was " Lucretia," published in 1846, he at once writing a must cordial acknowledgment to the then unknown critic. This led to a correspondence which rapidly grew into an intimacy that continued unbroken to the last moment of his life, ln February, 1851, he honoured me by becoming my guest at some private theatricals, and our intercourse both in London and at Knebworth soon became so frequent that, on New Year's Day, 1853, he invited me to accompany him to Paris. We started from Folkestone on the following Monday, arriving at our destination that evening, and taking up our quarters at the Hotel de Bade, on the Boulevard des ltaliens.

During my countless visits to Knebworth, where 1 was for the most part the only guest — his parties o{ house-gueBtS being comparatively infrequent — we used to saunter through the Park together, or ride out on horseback through I lie sur rounding country, and in this familiar companionship 1 had ninny opportunities of appreciating his noble heart, his gentle nature, his profound sympathy, his power of atleet ionatc at tachment, and 1 may add also, the singular loneliness of his life — his only daughter having died prematurely, and his only sou being absent abroad pursuing his high professional career as a diplomatist. Speaking of the latter, who, on his father's death, said to me that he had " inherited my friendship," 1 well remember our first meeting. It was at a ball at llolder nesse House, Park Lane, when his lather brOUghl us laee to face, saying to me, with a gracious smile of introduction, "Robert.'' Thenceforth "Owen Meredith" was one of my dearest friends, second only to his father.

On one occasion, arriving at Knebworth on a brilliant summer afternoon, as I sauntered into the garden with my host, ho said, "Here, I'll give you the subject for a poem,'' and then, oonduoting me across the terrace to the grass-plot immediately in front of his study window, he directed niv attention to a standard rose-bush on its tall green stem, where,

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. III among what Leigh Hunt calls "lumps of flowers," a linnet had made its nest. Glancing furtively from the corner of my eye as we passed, I perceived the mother bird sitting calmly in its ideal home. As another instance of his kindly consideration for the living creatures around him, I may mention his care for the beautiful peacocks haunting that portion of the terrace, trailing their plumage along the gravel, or unfolding their gorgeous feathers in the sunshine. I have often seen them fed by him at that study window, and, if his attention were otherwise engaged at the moment, have marked them " tap the casement for the expected crumb." In taking the briefest survey of Bulwer Lytton's career, all must be struck by the amazing diversity and fecundity of his imaginative powers. Carlyle defined genius as " an immense capacity for taking pains."

Lytton has given a better defini tion than Carlyle, for in " My Novel " he speaks of genius as " the enthusiasm for self-improvement." And if he had not that quality no man ever possessed it. As a Dramatist he produced Eight Plays. As a Poet lie published Ten Volumes. As an Essayist he wrote " The Student," in two volumes, being then a youthful dreamer ; and in middle life, " Caxtoniana," in two volumes, being by that time a keen-eyed man of the world, and a profound social philosopher. As an Orator, his Speeches in and out of Parliament were posthumously collected in two volumes. As a Scholar, he translated into classic unrhymed verse the Odes and Epodes of Horace ; and, while travelling in his carriage between Knebworth and London, he translated from the German the Lyrics and Odes of Schiller.

As an Administrator, he created and organized Two great Colonies — one, British Columbia, on the shores of the Pacific ; the other, Queensland, at our Australian Antipodes. Beyond all this, he was pre-eminently a great writer of Prose Fiction, having published no fewer than twenty-five Novels and Romances. He was such a glutton of work that he often produced two of his books simultaneously, the red-hot metal, as it were, of each being laid in turn upon the anvil. For instance, his tragic

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. romance, " Eugene Aram," was worked at alternately with his political novel, "Godolphin." Again, "Rienzi" had been half completed at Rome, when he made an excursion to Naples, and visited, for the first time, the disburied classical watering-place of Pompeii. There his imagination was so fired by the marvels he witnessed in going among the ruins, that nothing could pre vent his at once re-peopling them with the creatures he called into existence in " The Last Days of Pompeii," which was published in 1834. He then reverted to "Rienzi," which, on its completion, appeared in 1835. Finally, "Lucretia" and " The Caxtons " were written simultaneously, illustrating, in contrast to each other, the influence of home education in Evil and in Good, the one being entitled " Lucretia : or the Children of Night," and the other " The Caxtons : a Family Picture."

His powerful novel of "Eugene Aram" he inscribed to Sir Walter Scott, as a work of art which he hoped might be deemed not unworthy of that honour. This recalls to my recollection that Bulwer Lytton related to me how, on one occasion, Her Majesty the Queen had informed him that, before her accession to the throne, the only two novels she had read were his " Eugene Aram," and Sir Walter Scott's "Bride of Lammermoor." The mention of " Rienzi " brings vividly before me a scene in the Library at Knebworth — where, over the mantelpiece, is emblazoned his own selected motto, " Hie vivunt vivere digni." He was recalling to mind the source of that novel when he took down from an upper shelf a volume of the Italian chronicle " Vita di Cola di Rienzi," and read aloud to me, in a rapture of enthusiasm and with animated gesticulation, the account, in the Italian original, of the tragic death of the Roman Tribune, which had inspired his description of the catastrophe of that historical romance.

In " Paul Clifford " the plot is in form a burlesque, in essentials a tragedy. William Brandon, the judge who condemns to death his then unknown son, the highwayman (who is the hero of the book), on realising the truth at the

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. V close of the trial, is found dead in his carriage from the very horror of the situation. In his " Pilgrims of the Rhine," thongh death is at the heart of the love story of the betrothed, Gertrude and Trevylyan, there is nothing morbid in its pathos. And as the lovers make their pilgrimage up the Rhine, the tender narrative is interspersed with a number of enchanting Apologues. " The Last Days of Pompeii " has been already mentioned. Perhaps the perfecting touch in that wonderful romance is the thought of Nydia, by reason of her very blindness, holding in her grasp the clue which guides Glaucus and lone through the gloom of the appalling darkness to their escape. " Night and Morning " is remarkable among all his works as having sold better than any other of his novels. It brought to him besides grateful letters from total strangers, who traced to its influence the redemption of their lives and fortunes — its young hero, Philip Morton, triumphing over all difficulties.

"Zanoni,'' the greatest of his mystic romances, and one of his noblest works of art in the shape of prose fiction, is a grand type of the ideal Rosierucian. The narrative begins with the appearance of the heroine, Viola, in the Opera composed by her father, Gaetano Pisani, to his rapturous improvisations on his beloved barbitou. It ends in the midst of the stupendous catastrophe of the great French Revolution. Never, perhaps, in the long series of works describing that terrible epoch, has its climax been more magnificently depicted than in the final chapters of "Zanoni," when the abhorred Triumvirate, one after another, are decapitated on the scaffold. — " To the Place de la Revolution rolls the tumbril of the King of Terror. A woman — a childless woman, with hoary hair — springs to his side : ' Thy death makes me drunk with joy ! ' Be opened his bloodshot eyes : ' Descend to hell with the curses of wives and mothers ! ' The headsman wrenched the rag from the shattered jaw ! a shriek, and the crowd laugh, and the axe descends amidst the shout of countless thousands. And blackness rushes on thy soul, Maximilieu Robespierre ! " " Harold" may be cited as an instance of Lytton's marvellous VI

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. rapidity in composition. On the publication of a new edition, I had spoken of this fact in my review, and, after it was posted to him, I wrote to him in great anguish, at having inadvertently made him appear ridiculous by speaking of the impossible time of a fortnight, for the production of the three volumes ! In his answer lie consoled me by saying that I was quite right as to the fortnight. He further insisted there was nothing extraordinary in that, seeing that he had planned out the whole work in his mind, had made all his researches, and availed himself of a fortnight's visit to his old friend Tennyson D'Eyncourt, at his country house, Bayons Manor, in the library of which lie had run off the whole book in those two weeks. While he was writing "What Will He Do With It?" (which novel I had in vain urged him to entitle "Guy Darrell " by preference) very late one night, after the whole household had retired, we were smoking together in his study, when he startled me, after a moment's pause in our conversation, by saying, iu a meditative tone, " Do you know, I think I shall kill Sophy !

" — Sophy being one of t he heroines of the tale, and also the name of the old family housekeeper, Mrs. Tate. The whimsical idea occurred to me of the horror those winds might have occasioned, had they been overheard by any one of the servants passing the door ! Another curious reminiscence is associated with "The Haunted and the Haunters," which Thackeray pronounced " the finest ghost story that was ever written," and which appeared iu the pages of Blackwood's Magazine in the August of 1859. During the previous month, I being at Knebworth as his solitary companion, Bulwer Lytton, having just finished writing the story, began reading the MS. to me late one night, and at the grisliest part of the tale tantalized me by abruptly stopping. Lighting a bedroom candle, he then conducted me through the minstrel's gallery to my room, where, on bidding me "Good night," lie glanced furtively into the dark shallows around, muttering under his breath, "I don't think there are any ghosts here ! " After breakfast on the following morning, we

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. VII strolled down the avenue and round the lake to the fishing cottage, where, reclining on the grass, he finished reading the weird narrative. In consequence of an alarming drop in the circulation of All the Fear Bound, resulting from the dead failure of the serial entitled "A Day's Ride, a Life's Romance," Charles Dickens appealed to Bulwer Lytton to come to his aid in the emergency, to which the latter instantly assented. " A Strange Story " being then ready for immediate issue as a complete publi cation, was substituted for the serial which had just come to a close. This arrangement involved the sudden adapta tion of a three volume novel to its serial issue in a weekly periodical, to the necessities of which he had never before been accustomed. Dickens expressed to me at the time his wonder at the marvellous adroitness with which this transformation was accomplished, thus proving, as his brother novelist added, " What a master of his craft Bulwer Lytton was !

" "My Novel" was unquestionably his masterpiece. Among all his plots it was incomparably the finest. It illustrated with extraordinary comprehensiveness the scope of his most perfect form of fiction, namely, a novel descriptive of the " Varieties of English Life and Manners." In regard to this, I may here add, that one day he called (being a perfect stranger to him) on Donovan, the well-known phrenologist, and asked him to examine the developments of his head, and give him some record as to anything that might be noted in its conformation. Before he left him, the phrenologist gave a careful estimate in answer to this request, and Bulwer Lytton coming to me immediately afterwards explained the nature of that estimate. It may be expressed briefly thus, that the organ which predominated far beyond all others was the organ of Constructiveness !

In " My Novel " he took the widest range, describing town and country, noble and peasant ; Squire Hazeldean and Sprott the tinker ; Parson Dale and Dick Avenel ; the Squire's wife, "Harry," and the Parson's wife "Carry"; the chivalrous Harley L'Estrange, and the crafty and despicable Randal Leslie.

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. As a specimen of Bulwerian eloquence may be cited the following passage descriptive of — Anachronistic Dreamers. "Just as liberty was fast dying out of Greece, and the successors of Alexander were founding their monarchies, and Rome was growing up to crush in its iron grasp all States save its own, Plato withdraws his eyes from the world to open them on his dreamy Atlantis. Just in the grimmest period of English history, with the axe hanging over his head, Sir Thomas More gives you his Utopia. Just when the world is to be the theatre of a new Sesostris, the sages of France tell you that the age is too enlightened for war, and that man is henceforth to be governed by pure reason and live in a Paradise." And here is another descriptive of — Felon Footfalls. " Randal walked home slowly ....

Only once, in a lonely thoroughfare, and on the opposite side of the way fell a foot fall, and glanced an eye that seemed to betray a soul in sympathy with Randal Leslie's .... That man was a felon, as yet undetected. Between him and his kind there stood but a thought, a veil air-spun, but impassable as the veil of the image at Sais. And thus moved, and thus looked, Randal Leslie, a thing of dark and secret mischief, within the pale of the law, but equally removed from man by the vague consciousness that at his heart lay that which the eyes of man would abhor and loathe. Solitary amidst the vast city, and on through the machinery of civilisation, went the still spirit of intellectual evil ! " From two of Bulwer Lytton's Minor Poems may be excerpted these pre-eminently characteristic quatrains.

First this hearten ing passage : — Better than fame is still the wish for fame, The constant training for a glorious strife : The athlete nurtured for the Olympian Game Gains strength, at least, for life.

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. IX And next this lovely thought : — Longings obscure as for a native clime, Flight from what is to live in what May Be. God gave the Soul ; thy discontent with Time Proves thine Eternity. While surveying Bulwer Lytton's varied achievements, it is important to note how, as if wearied by his reiterated successes, he had again and again courted fresh popularity by concealing his identity under the anonymous. For instance, in his political novel of " Godolphin " he disappeared altogether until he was universally recognised as the author. When also, in 1838, "The Lady of Lyons" was first pro duced it was strictly anonymous. Having himself to take part in a debate on the Ballot that very evening, the author was prevented from going to witness the rise of the curtain on the first night. Burning to hasten to the theatre, he saw Talfourd enter the House of Commons, and knowing that he had been at the opening, asked his brother dramatist what he thought of the play.

The reply was, " Oh, very good for that sort of thing ! " Having spoken in the debate, Bulwer hurried to Drury Lane, where he was pledged to meet the Countess of Blessington and Count D'Orsay ; he being only just in time, before the fall of the curtain, to witness the triumphant success of the play. Lady Blessington, not knowing it to be his, asked her tardy guest, in the midst of the applause, " What do you think of it 1 " Bulwer answered her, " Oh, it's very good for that sort of thing ! " He learned afterwards, that when he had quitted the box, Lady Blessington turned to Count D'Orsay and said, " I never knew him to be jealous before ! " He was unknown to be the writer of " The New Timon " until its fame was achieved ; and again, in " King Arthur " his identity was not only unrevealed, but when the remark was made by one of the critics, " aut Bulwer aut Diabolus," the publisher authoritatively and flagrantly announced that the work was not Sir Bulwer Lytton's ! . . . " The Caxtons " ran between one and two years in Blackwood's Magazine unsus pected to be his, and was only re-published with his name X

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. on the title page when its brilliant success was unmis takable. " The Coining Race," also published anonymously, was sent to me by the Blackwoods. On reading it, I could hear the familiar voice so distinctly that I was sure it was his, and no one else's ! I therefore wrote to him my congratulations, and also to John Blackwood. Lord Lytton's answer was the only evasive one I ever received from him : in it he said he " should be sorry to be supposed the author of so singular a production." Blackwood, who was evidently pledged to secrecy, said, that my conjecture only showed " how the ablest critics might be mistaken." My reply to Lord Lytton was that nothing should be " supposed " through me ; aud to Blackwood, that I would not promulgate the idea in any direction — and I remained absolutely dumb until the authorship was (after the writer's death) announced in the Athenæum.

Two other posthumous works were "Kenelni Chillingly," his last complete novel ; and " The Parisians," which was appearing in B/ackieood's Magazine at the time of his death, and which was finished by his son. By a curious coincidence, " Kenelni Chillingly," the latest of his romances, embodied his own earliest love story ! Bulwer Lytton's was indeed a full life. For nearly half a century he was before the public. At the outset of his career he had been dubbed, not in ridicule, but seriously, " The Lord of Young Romance ! " while in Society he had gained the appellation of " Arbiter Elegantiarum." Many-sided though he was, there was not a work of his but was stamped with his marked individuality. A foreign audience is like an anticipa tion of posterity. His fame among foreigners was remarkable in his lifetime, especially among Germans.

He was translated into every living language, even into Japanese. 1 have examined a copy of " Ernest Maltravers " in that Oriental tongue, profusely embellished with Japanese illustrations. " Pelham," written at twenty-rive, was unsurpassed by himself in wit and epigram. The hero all through was conquering and to conquer, the very incarnation of success.

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. XI As a Novelist he varied his manner all through his career. He was a Classicist and a Romancist, a Sentimentalist and a Humorist, a Fashionable Story-teller, a Political and Historical Romance-writer. He wrote tales of Crime, and of Life and Manners. His allusions to abstract qualities, as the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, were simply akin to Carlyle's denun ciations of Shams, and frequent allusions to the Immensities. They were of a piece with Disraeli's " Men of Light and Leading," and with Matthew Arnold's reiterated references to " Sweetness and Light." Scott, in his historical romances, selects as his hero some purely imaginary and comparatively insignificant character. Bulwer, on the contrary, chooses by preference the great central figure, as in his three historical masterpieces "Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes " ; Warwick the King-maker, " The Last of the Barons ; " and " Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings."

Among the novelists of their day, Thackeray is at his best when describing a gentleman like Colonel Newcome, or a club man like Major Pendennis. Dickens is at his best when por traying the lowly, particularly the lowly in London. Bulwer Lytton is at his best when delineating a great statesman like Audley Egerton, Lumley Ferrers, or Sir Sedly Beaudesert. In one of our many walks together, starting from Knebworth, Bulwer Lytton began a long and interesting discussion by asking me who, among all European poets, I considered had the most enviable reputation. My instant answer was "Horace," I being guided to this selection by the remembrance of the exquisite perfection and terseness of his matchless Odes, count less lines of which are familiar to all cultured Europeans. From this Bulwer dissented, insisting that, in his opinion, Torquato Tasso claimed pre-eminence, adding that, for his own part, he would have preferred, above all other works, to have been the author of "Jerusalem Delivered."

As the discussion proceeded, I could not but feel that, in the fitness of things, we ought to have changed places in our argument, a fact that was rendered more patent when later on he became the trans lator of "Horace."

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. In 1868, Richard Bentley, the publisher, feeling that age was growing upon him, remarked to me one day, that among all the authors he had known, with almost all of whom he added he had had quarrels, there was one with whom he had never had any contention. Knowing my intimacy with Lord Lytton, he begged me to appeal to him, in his name, that he might have the honour of bringing out another work of his, saying that in that case, he could fold his toga around him, and close his pub lishing career with dignity. Hence the collected edition of the Miscellaneous Works, in three volumes, marked Lord Lytton's sense of this tribute of respect to himself. One of the most interesting letters I ever received from him, and one which touched me profoundly, was written on the very evening in which his peerage was gazetted, Friday, July 13, 1866.

This letter — Lord Lytton's First Letter — concludes thus: — "Dining at the Portland, I saw myself rise with the Sun at 8 p.m. You are the first to whom I doff my baptismal initials, and sign myself ' Lytton.' " Among all his varied writings, so many of them masterpieces ! the one that, to my thinking, best sums up his noblest characteristics as a knightly and chivalrous gentleman, is the terse and beautiful inscription emblazoned around the cornice of the Banqueting Hall at Knebworth, which runs as follows : — JScab the JUbc of this olb JRoof "Œm. gljrre be trust fast. (Opinion fr«. ginightJu flight Sj-.tnb. -Christian knee SBovih in all. (LElit in some. daughter open. bumb. dearth toherc rootcb .Jffrieitbships groto, cSafc as JUiar rben to JFoe. ,3-inb the sparks that upuiarbs go S&hctt the dearth flame bics beloto if tltti sap xn them mari be, Jftar no ttunter, ffllb Jloof ttrec.

Charles Kent. Athknæum Cldb, March 10, 1898. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD BULWER, FIRST LORD LYTTON Enumerated in Chronological Order by Charles Kent. 1820. Nos. Publishers. I. Ismael. Poem ... .1 vol. Hatchard. 1821. Second Edition . . . . i vol. T. & J. Hoitt. 1823. 2. Delmour, or a Tale of a Syli vol. Carpenter & Son. PHID. 1825. 3. Sculpture. A Prize Poem . . 1 vol. Camb. Uni. Press. 1826. 4. Weeds and Wildflowers. Poems. 1 vol. A. Coniam, Paris. 1827. 5. Falkland. Novel . . . . 1 vol. Colburn. Colburn. 6. O'Neill. Poem . . . . 1 vol. 1828. Colburn. 7. Pelham. Novel . ... 3 vols. 1829. 8. Disowned. Novel .... 3 vols. Colburn. 1830. 9. Devereux. Novel .... 3 vols. Colburn. 1831. Colburn & Bentley. 10. Paul Clifford. Novel . . 3 vols. 11. Siamese Twins. Poem . . . 1 vol. Colburn & Bentley.

Colburn & Bentley. 12. Speeches on the Taxes upon i vol. Knowledge. 1832. 13. Eugene Aram. Novel . . .3 vols. Bentley. LORD LYTTON'S WORKS. XIV i833- Nos. Publishers. 14. Pilgrims ofthe Rhine. Novel . 1 vol. Saunders & Ottley. 15. Godolphin. Novel .... 3 vols. Bentley. 16. England and the English . . 2 vols. Bentley. 17. Asmodeus at Large . . .1 vol. Carey, Lee & Blanchard. Philadelphia. 18. Speech on Slavery . . . i vol. Abolition Committee. 1834. 19. Last Days of Pompeii. Novel . 3 vols. Bentley. 20. Papers on the Irish Coercion i vol. Bentley. Bill. 21. The Crisis. 20 edit. Political . . 1 vol. Saunders & Ottley. (These twenty editions, greatly influencing the General Election, helped to gain the author his Baronetcy.) IS35- 22. The Student. Essays . . .2 vols. Saunders & Ottley. 23. Rienzi.

Novel .... 3 vols. Saunders & Ottley. 24. Leila and Calderon. Tales . . 1 vol. Longman & Co. 1836. 25. Duchess de la Valliere. Drama. 1 vol. Saunders & Ottley. 26. History of Athens. Historical . 2 vols. Saunders & Ottley. 1837- 27. Ernest Maltravers. Novel . . 3 vols. Saunders & Ottley. 1838. 28. Alice. Novel 3 vols. Saunders & Ottley. 29. Lady of Lyons. Drama . . .1 vol. Saunders & Ottley. 1839- 30. Richelieu. Drama . . . . 1 vol. Saunders & Ottley. 31. The Sea Captain. Drama . . 1 vol. Saunders & Ottley. 1840. 32. Money. Drama . . . . 1 vol. Saunders & Ottley. 1S41. 33. Night & Morning. Novel . . 3 vols. Saunders & Ottley. LORD LYTTON'S WORKS. XV l842- Nos. Publishers. 34. Zanoni. Novel .... 3 vols. Saunders & Ottley. 35. Eva, or the Ill-Omened Mari vol. Saunders & Ottley. riage. 1843 36.

The Last of the Barons. Novel 3 vols. Saunders & Ottley. 1844. 37. Poems and Ballads of Schiller . 2 vols. Blackwood -Sc Sons. 1846. 38. Confessions of a Water Patient . 1 vol. Colburn. Colburn. Colburn. 39. The New Timon. Poem . . 1 vol. 40. Sketch of Laman Blanchard . 1 vol. 1847. 41. Lucretia. Novel .... 3 vols, Saunders & Ottley. 42. A Word to the Public . . .1 vol. Blackwood & Sons. 1S48. 43. Harold. Novel . ... 3 vols. Bentley. Colburn. 44. King Arthur. Poem . . .1 vol. 1849. 45. The Caxtons. Novel . . .3 vols. Blackwood & Sons. 1851. 46. My Novel. Novel .... 4 vols. Blackwood & Sons. 47. Not So Bad as We Seem. Drama 1 vol. Chapman 6c Hall. 48. Letters to John Bull . . .1 vol. Blackwood & Sons. 1852. 49. Outlines of History of the East, i vol. S. & I. Warren, Royston. 1854. 50. Speech at Leeds Mechanics' i vol. G. Roudedge & Sons.