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TRELAWNY'S LETTERS 1
ANY one who has read Trelawny's recollections
of
Shelley and Byron must know that their J**- *911
author was something much more considerable
than a friend of the great. Any one who,
lured by that enchanting book, has gone on to
the " Adventures of a Younger Son " may be
pardoned for supposing, if we are really to
take it for autobiography, that its author was
a stupendous liar. Just what he was the
man who wrote those enthralling memoirs and
that excellent romance may now be pretty
well made out from this collection of old and
new letters put together by Mr. Buxton
Forman.
"
Vigour and
"
directness," transparent
honesty and complete fearlessness," are the
qualities that impress this able editor as he
reads the letters of the man who, in his "
opinion,
was less tainted with the sordid commercialism
and ever-increasing snobbery of that
century [the nineteenth] than almost any man
1 " Letters of Edward John Trelawny." Edited, with a
brief Introduction and Notes, by H. Buxton Forman,
(Frowde.)
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