Lord Byron

Here is a new light on the character of Lord Byron. Tbequotation is frona a letter by .Tohn Murray: "Lord Byron is a 'curious man. He gave me, as I told you, the copyright of his new poems, to be printed only in his works. I did not rcceive the last untü Tuesday uight. I was sodelighted with it that eveu as I read I sent him a draft tor 1,000 guineas. The two poems are altogether do more than 1,200 and 1,000 lines and will together sell for ös. (d. But he returned the draft, saying that itwas very liberal - much more than they were worth ; that I was perfectly vceloome to both poems to print in his (collected) works without cost or expei'tutiou, but that he did not think them equal to wbat they ought to be, and that be would not adrnit of tbeir separate publication. "I went yesterday, and he was rallying me upon my folly in offering so much and that he dared to say I thought now I bad a most lucky escape. " 'To prove how niucb I think so, my lord,' said I, 'do me the favor to accept tb is pocket book,' in whioh I had brought with me the draft, changed into two bank notes of L1,000 and L50, bat be would uut take it. "