Ali Pacha's barbarity. Affecting tale. Real incident in 'The Giaour.' Albanian guards. The Doctor in alarm. Lord Byron's ghost. He prophesies that he should die in Greece. Lord Byron and
Intended Auto da fé. Priestly charity. Duchess of Lucca. Lord Guilford. Grand Duke of Tuscany. Intended rescue; escape of the victim. Madame de Staël and the opposition leaders in England: her ultraisms. Brummell. Reported double marriage; Baron Auguste and Miss Millbank; Lord B. and the Duchess of Broglie. Madame de Staël's conversational powers. 'Glenarvon.' Madame de Staël's amiable heart. Women, and Opera figurantes: pirouetting common to both. Napoleon and Madame de Staël. Lord B.'s opinion of Napoleon and of his exit. Madame de Staël's historical omission. Rocca
Walter Scott's Novels. Rarity of novelty. Plagiarisms. Claims of Shakspeare and Sheridan. A good memory sometimes a misfortune. Lord Byron's partiality to W. Scott's novels.
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Scott, the great Unknown: two anecdotes in proof. Scott's prose fatal to his poetry: his versatility. Halidon Hill.' Charla- tanism in writing incognito. Junius: Sir Philip Francis. His conjugal felicity and marital affection. Warren Hastings. 'Pur- suits of Literature.' Monk Lewis and Walter Scott. The Fire-.
Fiorabella's flowers. The Giaour' and the sage reviewer. Shelley and the bookseller. Sotheby, Edgeworth, Galignani, and Moore. Intended mystification. Baron Lutzerode; his heroic action. Lord Byron's distaste for princes and their satellites. De la Mar- tine's comparison; his 'Méditations Poétiques.' Harrow the nursery for politicians. Lord Byron's indifference to politics; his detesta- tion of Castlereagh. Lord Byron's two speeches in the House;