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Ellis to Isaac D'Israeli--John Barrow's first connection with
the _Quarterly_--Robert Southey--Appearance of No. 4

CHAPTER VII
CONSTABLE AND BALLANTYNE
Murray's and Ballantyne's joint enterprises--Financial
difficulties--Murray's remonstrances--Ballantyne's reckless
speculations--And disregard of Murray's advice--Revival of Murray's
business with Constable--Publication of the "Lady of the
Lake"--Murray excluded from his promised share of it--Transfers his
Edinburgh agency to Mr. William Blackwood--Publication of No. 5 of

the Quarterly --Southey's articles and books--Unpunctuality of the
Review --Gifford's review of "The Daughters of Isenberg"--His letter to
Miss Palmer--Dispute between Murray and Gifford--Attacks on the
Edinburgh Review by the _Quarterly_--Murray's disapproval of
them--The Ballantynes and Constables applying for money--Nos. 8 and
9 of the _Review_--Southey's Publications--Letters from Scott--His
review of the "Curse of Kehama"--Southey's dependence on the
_Quarterly_--His letter to Mr. Wynn

CHAPTER VIII
MURRAY AND GIFFORD--RUPTURE WITH
CONSTABLE--PROSPERITY OF THE "QUARTERLY"
Increasing friendship between Murray and Gifford--Gifford's opinion
of humorous articles--Mr. Pillans--Gifford's feeble health--Murray's
financial difficulties--Remonstrates with Constable--Correspondence
with and dissociation from Constable--Quarterly Review No.
12--Gifford's severe remarks on Charles Lamb--His remorse--Quarterly
Review No. 14--Murray's offer to Southey of 1,000 guineas for his
poem

CHAPTER IX
LORD BYRON'S WORKS, 1811 TO 1814
Lord Byron's first acquaintance with Mr. Murray--Mr. Dallas's offer to
Cawthorn and Miller--Murray's acceptance of "Childe
Harold"--Byron's visits to Fleet Street--Murray's letters to
Byron--Gifford's opinion of the Poem--Publication of "Childe
Harold"--Its immediate success--Byron's presentation to the Prince of
Wales--Murray effects a reconciliation between Byron and
Scott--Letters to and from Scott--Publication of "The Giaour," "Bride
of Abydos" and "Corsair"--Correspondence with Byron--"Ode to

Napoleon"--"Lara" and "Jacqueline"

CHAPTER X
MR. MURRAY'S REMOVAL TO 50, ALBEMARLE STREET
Murray's removal to Albemarle Street--Miller's unfriendly
behaviour--Progress of the _Quarterly_--Miscellaneous publications
--D'Israeli's "Calamities of Authors"--Letters from Scott and
Southey--Southey's opinions on the patronage of literature--Scott's
embarrassments--Recklessness of the Ballantynes--Scott applies to
Murray for a loan--Publication of "Waverley"--Mystery of the
authorship--Mr. Murray's proposed trip to France--His letters to Mrs.
Murray--Education of his son--Announcement of Lord Byron's
engagement--Mr. Murray's visit to Newstead Abbey--Murray in
Edinburgh--Mr. William Blackwood--Visit to Abbotsford--Letter to
Lord Byron--Letters from Blackwood--The "Vision of Don Roderick"

CHAPTER XI
MURRAY'S DRAWING-ROOM--BYRON AND SCOTT--WORKS
PUBLISHED IN 1815
Murray's drawing-room in Albemarle Street--A literary centre--George
Ticknor's account of it--Letter from Gifford--Death of his housekeeper
Nancy--First meeting of Byron and Scott--Recollections of John
Murray III.--Napoleon's escape from Elba--Waterloo--Mr. Blackwood's
letter--Suppression of an article written for the _Edinburgh_--Mr.
Murray's collection of portraits of authors--Mr. Scott's visit to Brussels,
Waterloo, etc.--Mr. Murray's visit to Paris--Return home--Important
diplomatic correspondence offered by Miss Waldie--Miss
Austen--"Emma"--Mr. Malthus's works--Letters from W. Scott

CHAPTER XII
VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS--CHARLES MATURIN--S.T.
COLERIDGE--LEIGH HUNT
Charles Maturin--His early career--His early publications--And
application to W. Scott--Performance of "Bertram" at Drury
Lane--Published by Murray--"Manuel, a Tragedy"--Murray's letter to
Byron--Death of Maturin--S.T. Coleridge--Correspondence about his
translation of "Faust"--"Glycine," "Remorse," "Christabel," "Zapolya,"
and other works--Further correspondence--Leigh Hunt--Asked to
contribute to the _Quarterly_--"Story of Rimini"--Murray's letters to
Byron and Hunt--Negotiations between Murray and Leigh Hunt

CHAPTER XIII
THOMAS CAMPBELL--JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE--J.W.
CROKER--JAMES HOGG, ETC.
Thomas Campbell--His early works--Acquaintance with
Murray--"Selections from the British Poets"--Letters to
Murray--Proposed Magazine--And Series of Ancient Classics--Close
friendship between Campbell and Murray--Murray undertakes to
publish the "Selections from British Poets"--Campbell's explanation of
the work--"Gertrude of Wyoming"--Scott reviews Campbell's poems in
the _Quarterly_--Campbell's Lectures at the Royal
Institution--Campbell's satisfaction with Murray's treatment of
him--"Now Barabbas was a publisher"--Increase of Murray's
business--Dealings with Gifford--Mr. J.C. Hobhouse--His "Journey to
Albania"--Isaac D'Israeli's "Character of James I."--Croker's "Stories
for Children"--The division of profits--Sir John Malcolm--Increasing
number of poems submitted to Mr. Murray--James Hogg--His
works--And letters to Murray--The "Repository"--Correspondence with
Murray--Hogg asks Murray to find a wife for him

CHAPTER XIV
LORD BYRON'S DEALINGS WITH MR. MURRAY--continued
Lord Byron's marriage--Letters from Mr. Murray during the
honeymoon--Mr. Fazakerly's interview with Bonaparte--Byron's
pecuniary embarrassments--Murray's offers of assistance--"Siege of
Corinth"--"Parisina"--Byron refuses remuneration--Pressed to give the
money to Godwin, Maturin, and Coleridge--Murray's remonstrance
--Gifford's opinion of the "Siege of Corinth" and Mr. D'Israeli's
--Byron leaves England--Sale of his Library--The "Sketch from Private
Life"--Mr. Sharon Turner's legal opinion--Murray's letter on the arrival
of the MS. of "Childe Harold," Canto III.
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CHAPTER XIX
WORKS PUBLISHED IN 1817-18--CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
Works published by Murray and Blackwood jointly--Illness of
Scott--Efforts to help the Ettrick Shepherd--Murray's offers of
assistance--Scott reviews the "Wake"--Hogg's house at Eltrive--Scott
and the _Quarterly_--"Rob Roy"--The "Scottish Regalia"--"The Heart
of Midlothian"--Appeal to Scott for an article--"Lord Orford's
Letters"--Murray and James Hogg at Abbotsford--Conclusion of
Hogg's correspondence--Robert Owen--Increased number of would-be
poets--Sharon Turner--Gifford's illness--Croker and Barrow edit
Quarterly Review
CHAPTER XX
HALLAM--BASIL HALL.--CRABBE--HOPE--HORACE AND
JAMES SMITH

Mr. Hallam--Sir H. Ellis's "Embassy to China"--Correspondence with
Lady Abercorn about new books--Proposed _Monthly Register_--Mr.
Croker's condemnation of the scheme--Crabbe's Works--Mr. Murray's
offer--Mr. Rogers's negotiations--Hope's "Anastasius"--"Rejected
Addresses" --Colonel Macirone's action against the
_Quarterly_--Murray's entertainments--Mrs. Bray's account of them

CHAPTER XXI
MEMOIRS OF LADY HERVEY AND HORACE
WALPOLE--BELZONI--MILMAN--SOUTHEY--MRS. RUNDELL,
ETC.
Lady Hervey's Letters--Mr. Croker's letter about the