THE DATES OF BYRON'S WORKS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—Mrs. Oliphant, at the end of the article on Lord Byron, Vol. III. of her most admirable " Literary History," appends a list of Byron's works, with dates of publication. Against the dates she assigns for "Hebrew Melodies" and "Marino Faliero" the authoress puts a query. 1 have the pleasure to inform her 1815 is the correct date of the first edition of the "Hebrew Melo- dies," but "Marino Faliero" was published in 1821, not 1820. " The Prophecy of Dante " was published with the latter, besides fifty pages of preface and appendix, being extracts from Italian histories, with English translations. But why are the names of more than a dozen works omitted from Byron's list, and others without dates ? This is serious in the case of Byron ; what reason can Mrs. Oliphant assign for this ?—I am, Sir, &c., C. L.
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