Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. IV. FIRST COMMENCEMENT OF NOVEL-WRITING.--" TREMAINE" PUBLISHED BT COLBURN.--REASONS FOR PRESERVING INCOGNITO.--LETTERS TO AND FROM MR, AND MRS. AUSTEN, ROBERT SOUTHEY, TOE LATE DR. COPLESTON, BISHOP OF LLANDAFF, AND OTHERS.--ODD CONSEQUENCES OF HIS INCOGNITO.--VISITS MULGRAVE CASTLE. LETTERS THENCE TO MR. AND MRS. AUSTEN OTHER FASHIONABLE NOVELISTS IN ME FIELD. CRITICISM ON "VIVIAN GREY."--" DE VERE." LETTERS THEREON FROM CANNING, FROM AN ANONYMOUS CORRESPONDENT, AND FROM B. D'lSRAELI, ESQ. The death of that beloved wife to whom he had been now united for upwards of a quarter of a century affected him deeply, and he began to think of retiring from active public life, in which he had been so long engaged during times of unexampled interest and excitement. He gave up his seat at the Board of Ordnance, and retired from Parliament after the session of 1823, being soon afterwards appointed Auditor of the Civil List. Before, however, he took leave of the House of Commons, he had occasion to make a reply to a vehement attack of Mr. Hume on the Ordnance Estimates, which called forth the following congratulatory letter from one of his oldest college friends. Sir Michael Shaw Stewart to R. Ward, Esq. "Edinburgh, Feb. 26. 1823. "My dear Ward, "I have just been reading your admirable reply to Hume, and I feel an impulse that I cannot resist, to congratulate you on the complete drubbing which you so genteely gave him, and to express the satisfaction I experienced in the ample proofs which you so forcibly brought forward of the fair, honourable, and disinterested conduct of all the individuals concerned in the appointment he so illiberally attacked. Nothing could be more effectually done; and, recollections of former times occurring, I really...
