Since 1886 no article of biographical character has appeared on either Byron or Shelley in this journal with the single exception of the critique on Mrs. Marshall's book in the Athenæum for Nov. 23, 1889. Ten other articles which have appeared on Shelley, are critiques on editions of his works or on works of a purely character referring to them. Nothing of the nature of literary criticism whatever has appeared in the above mentioned journal since 1886 on Byron.

Revue des Deux Mondes, Dec. 1, 1873.

Notes and Queries, Series I-VII, London 1849.

Quarterly Review, June 1853.

The Relations of Lord Byron to Robert Southey (Verhältnis von Robert Southey zu Lord Byron), Anglia, III 426.

Herrig's Archiv, Bd. 70, p. 459, Contains a critique of Jeaffreson's book.

SOME OBSCURE AND DISPUTED

POINTS IN BYRONIC BIOGRAPHY.

JOHN C. ROE.

Contents.

page

I. 'Thyrza'

1

II. On the probability of Byron's having had an illegitimate child

before the birth of Allegra.

5

III. Some remarks on the article in the 'Edinburgh Review' on

'Hours of Idleness'

9

IV. Diverse minor points

11

V. Some new views regarding the separation of Lord and Lady

Byron.

13

VI. Byron's relationship to Mary Jane Clairmont

17

21

VII. Preliminary arrangements for the meeting of Shelley, Mary

Godwin, Mary Jane Clairmont and Byron at Dejean's Hôtel

d'Angleterre at Sécheron (near Geneva)

VIII. Byron's affection for Teresa Gamba Guiccioli

IX. Preliminary intercourse between Byron, Shelley and Leigh

Hunt as regards the editing of a projected journal afterwards

called "The Liberal'