Smiles: Memoir of John Murray

It would be tedious and unprofitable to give a mere list of the works offered to Mr. Murray even by authors of recognised repute, save in cases where the negociation was attended by some special incident or correspondence which might appear worthy of record. The burst of inspiration which had marked the commencement of the present century had all but died out, and the public demand for poetry, as well as the quality of the supply, had waned. From this time forward we find Mr. Murray making it his rule to refuse all original works of this kind, and when Henry Taylor offered him his ‘Philip van Artevelde,’ the drama by which he established his reputation, Mr. Murray, mindful of the ill-success of ‘Isaac Comnenus,’ declined the proposal. In the department of fiction, too, the quality of the MSS. submitted was so disproportionate to the quantity, that few of them found favour in Albemarle Street. Mr. G. P. R. James, historian and novelist, had some correspondence with Mr. Murray, and on one occasion described his method of composition, though he did not succeed in getting any of his books accepted:

Mrs. Sarah Austin’s literary career, including her dealings with Mr. Murray, have been so well described by her grand-daughter in the ‘Lives of Three Englishwomen,’ that it would be superfluous to do more than mention her name here.

“Most extraordinary changes have taken place here, all arising from the Duke’s rash and impolitic conduct respecting the Catholic question (which Moore said had made him cease to be a rebel), and his unstatesmanlike speech at the opening of Parliament. Where the rolling stone will stop God only knows. I was with Southey this morning, when he told me that as he rose from his knee at the last levee, who should be the first man to embrace him but the Lord High Chancellor of England! Lord Brougham is writing and circulating all sorts of trash to quiet the people; proving to them that they get much more by machinery than without it.”

“The present number is as strong a number as you ever put forth . . . but in consequence of the bad times, and the declining sale of the Review during the Reform Bill agitation, you may find it necessary to lower the scale of remuneration to editor as well as author, and I am quite willing to abide by your decision in the matter. When another fortnight is past and gone, we shall begin to have some notion of the probable future of public affairs, which must, of course, as we all feel, have great influence over private resources and arrangements. Thank God! this country is quiet. There has not been such a harvest in every way for ten years, and the heart of the husbandman singeth aloud for joy.”

Mr. Murray did not consent to reduce the salary of the editor, nor the payment for contributions of the authors; but on the contrary, resolved to increase them. When he paid for the articles, which appeared in the Quarterly for March 1834, Lockhart answered:—“Many thanks for your cheques: that for the article on Southey’s ‘Doctor’ makes one ashamed.” And again, he wrote:—

One result of the Reform Bill was the final retirement of Mr. Croker from official life. His active mind, however, could not remain at rest, and he turned with redoubled energy to literary work, promising to devote his pen exclusively to the Quarterly, though he seldom, if ever, from this time forward wrote an article on current politics. Mr. Lockhart wrote to Murray that he should press Croker to review the Duke of Wellington’s ‘Despatches.’ Croker immediately answered the appeal, and reviewed the ‘Despatches’ admirably in No. 102. When sending an article for the April number, he wrote to Murray from his country house at Molesey, that he had written thirty-two pages in four hours. In 1836, in which year five numbers of the Review appeared, Croker wrote ten articles, including three on ‘French subjects,’ and five on books of the season. From the commencement of the Review to April 1835, he had written no fewer than 99 articles in the first 100 numbers; some of them were brief, but others were most elaborate. After he had finished his review of Dr. Keith on the ‘Prophecies,’ he wrote:—

“You remember telling me that some one (I suppose Dr. Milman) had put you on your guard about the comparatively modern date of the architecture at Petra. Is it not wonderful that that adverse point should have led to the discovery by me (if I am not deceived) of another most marked accomplishment of prophecy? for, though I did not give much weight to the objection, as the answer was obvious, still it seemed to require some explanation; and lo! while I was looking through the ‘Prophecies,’ I lighted upon Malachi i. 4, which positively predicts the subsequent more modern re-building, and I have made use of it accordingly. As this is quite new, I should like, when you read this article, to know how it strikes you. I know not how to believe that it should be left for me to discover so remarkable a corroboration of the original prophecy and the newly-discovered facts.”

I send, as you were so good as to desire me to do, a list—as well as I could make it out—of my articles in the Q. R., being exactly as I reckon, 99 in the first hundred numbers. There are now, I believe, 115, which will make about four volumes of my works, and certainly the most valuable part of that respectable collection, if ever such a collection be made; for I have been so long dawdling about it, that I am grown more indifferent than ever. Your offer to give me the missing, or rather wanted, articles has revived my spirit of authorship. I am going to cut up ‘The Georgian Era’* for you—rare game; but I know not what else to do. If ‘Robespierre’ does not arrive in time, I think I shall try ‘Mirabeau’—but what else? There seems a dearth of matter.

Not infrequently Mr. Murray was made the medium of communication between Mr. Lockhart and his somewhat wilful contributor Mr. Croker, as when the editor writes: “My dear Murray—I shall study the last revise of the last article and send my humble suggestions to you by-and-by, that Mr. Croker may have them in the evening;” or, “I have received a very thankful letter from Monkland and a short self-lauding one from J. W. C.;” or, again, when Mr. Croker writes: “My dear Murray—Pray forgive me, I am very sorry to give trouble and make expense, but our friends POSITIVELY Insist that I shall not give up the Thompson episode, and I am forced to submit; I send you, therefore, the sheet to be revised and have this added—if the press be not broken up, there will be little delay.”

I am very glad for your sake and for that of the Review that you have had this explanation with Murray. You know that I have always attended to—I might almost say invariably followed—his opinions, for two reasons—because he is a sensible man, and because he is master of his own publication, and therefore has a right to be heard in matters so deeply concerning his interests. I therefore did not object to his interference, but to the tone of it, which was, to my feelings, intolerable. I acknowledge fully Murray’s sovereignty over the Review, but ’tis a constitutional sovereignty, and must be exercised through his ministers. He has a perfect right to change them as he thinks proper, but not to dictate to them what they shall think or say, and, above all, not to do so offensively.

This is a terrible blow for us all—to me, somehow, ’tis like Walter Scott dying again; but then, poor Lockhart, and the dear motherless children!!! Is there anything that I or Mrs. Croker could do to alleviate this distress? Would they like to come here? They should find, after Monday, solitude and sympathy, and such opportunity for the diversion of sad thoughts as the country affords. I do not write to Lockhart; but as you will no doubt have some communication with him, say anything on our part that you think timely or likely to be acceptable, and offer from me to do anything that I can to relieve him from the troubles of business—though I know well that generally “the troubles of business” are God’s most bountiful mercies on such occasions. Prayer and business are the only consolations.

Mr. Murray was frequently invited to obtain situations for young men in London. It was through his influence with Sir Francis Freeling, with whom he was very intimate, that Mrs. Trollope obtained for her son Anthony a clerkship at the Post Office. She writes from Bruges to Mr. Murray (20th January, 1835) expressing her thanks to him and the Freelings, and adds, “he leaves the office at five, and would like to be employed as corrector of the press, or in some other occupation of the kind.” She deplored the loss of her boy, but says, “I can never forget that the last weeks of his life here were rendered as comfortable as they could be, by your premature payment.”*

Among other recommendations of young men, Murray received one in 1836, from an old friend, the Duke of Gordon, in favour of a countryman named John Douglas Cook, who came up to London, a raw Scotchman, to seek his fortune. Murray gave him a kind reception, and to aid him in the quest of literary employment placed in his hand such work as he had at his disposal. Finding out that Cook possessed real abilities, he invited him to his home and showed other kindnesses to one who had arrived in London with few other friends. More than this, Murray introduced him to Lord Mahon—for whom he executed some literary work—and to Mr. Barnes, the editor of the Times. Cook was employed by Mr. Walter as his election agent in Nottingham, where he made the acquaintance of Lord Lincoln, by whom he was sent on official business into Cornwall. Having been engaged for some years on the staff of the Times, he was selected by Mr. Beresford Hope and Mr. Cardwell to assist in the Morning Chronicle, from which he was finally transferred to the editorship of the Saturday Review. He acquired a share in that paper, and died a man of wealth.

Mr. Crabbe, the poet, died on the 3rd of February, 1832; and his son, in communicating the event to Mr. Murray, stated that his father had left an eighth volume of poetry, and gave the contents of the work, adding, “my father has always spoken of you as having acted in the most friendly manner with regard to his literary transactions.” He also desired to know whether Mr. Murray would be disposed to publish the posthumous works, and on what terms. Mr. Murray replied by informing him of the loss which he had sustained by publishing Crabbe’s Poems. He had given £3000 for the copyright, and spent a considerable sum on the illustrations, but in the end his total loss had been about £2500. He sold the greater part of the remainder to Mr. Tegg, for one-third of what the poems and illustrations had cost him. Nevertheless he was willing to publish the life and posthumous poems under the direction of Mr. Lockhart, and offered 500 guineas for the work, but Mr. Crabbe preferred a division of profits. Mr. Murray then offered him the whole profit on the first edition of 5000 copies, taking his chance on the sale of future editions, when two-thirds of the profits were to be given to Mr. Crabbe.

Mr. Murray circulated the work, when published, to the reviewers and his friends. Praises came from all quarters, but it is unnecessary to quote them. He sent one to Dr. Paris, the well-known physician and author of ‘Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest,’ who replied from Brighton:—

In a previous chapter we have mentioned the anxiety of Dr. Paris that he should not be publicly announced as the author of ‘Philosophy in Sport,’ lest it should injure him in his profession. A curious instance of this same professional jealousy is that of Samuel Warren, the author of the ‘Diary of a late Physician.’ Warren had originally studied medicine at Edinburgh, but was by profession a barrister. When the work appeared some of the medical journals made a severe attack upon it for betraying the secrets of the profession, under the belief that it was the actual reminiscences of a doctor and not a work of fiction.

I intended to write a note to Mr. Lockhart, but as I have not the honour of any personal acquaintance with him, I have chosen rather to throw myself entirely on your good nature.

Southey, who had been returned Member of Parliament for Downton (before the Reform Bill passed), but refused the honour, had written, between 1808 and 1838, ninety-four articles for the Quarterly; the last was upon his friend Thomas Telford, the engineer, who left him a legacy. When about 55 years old, his only certain source of income was from his pension, from which he received £145, and from his laureateship, which was £90. But the larger portion of these sums went in payment for his life insurance, so that not more than £100 could be calculated on as available. His works were not always profitable. In one year he only received £26 for twenty-one of his books, published by Longman. Murray gave him £1000 for the copyright of the ‘Peninsular War;’ but his ‘Book of the Church’ and his ‘Vindiciæ’ produced nothing.

“I am going tooth and nail to the ‘Peninsular War,’ and shall undertake nothing serious until it is completed. On the score of my procrastination in this and other things, you have shown a forbearance which I have always felt as a kindness, and as evincing much more of gentlemanly feeling than of what is too commonly the spirit of business.”

It was said of Southey, that literature had been to him a mine of wealth. Charles Lamb said, “Southey has made a fortune by book drudgery.” But it was really very different.

“Writing for a livelihood,” said Southey—“a livelihood is all that I have gained; for, having something better in view, and therefore never having courted popularity, nor written for the mere sake of gain, it has not been possible for me to lay by anything . . . Happily, while my faculties last, I shall never be in want of employment. Just now (29th September, 1835), two presses are calling upon me, a third longing for me, and a fourth at which I cast longing eyes myself. The two which, like the daughters of the horse-leech, cry Give! Give! are employed upon Cowper and the Admirals; the third is asking for the new edition of ‘Wesley;’ and the quantity of a good Quarterly article must be written before that can be satisfied.”

In 1835 Southey received a pension of £300 from the Government of Sir Robert Peel. He was offered a Baronetcy at the same time, but he declined it, as his circumstances did not permit him to accept the honour.

“What Sir Robert Peel has done for me will enable me, when my present engagements are completed, to employ the remainder of my life upon those works for which inclination, peculiar circumstances, and long preparation, have best qualified me. They are, ‘The History of Portugal,’ ‘The History of the Monastic Orders,’ and ‘The History of English Literature,’ from the time when Wharton breaks off. The possibility of accomplishing three such works at my age could not be dreamt of, if I had not made very

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considerable progress with one, and no little, though not in such regular order, with the others.”

Dr. Shelton Mackenzie recollects the conversation at a meeting between Southey and Wordsworth:—

“We spoke,” he says, “of American reprints of English works; and Wordsworth said it was wonderful what an interest they took in our literature: ‘it was like the yearning of a child for its parents;’ while Southey remarked, with a smile, ‘Rather the yearning of a robber for his booty.’ They reprint English works because it pays them better than to buy native copyrights; and until men are paid, and paid well for writing, depend upon it that writing well must be an exception rather than the rule. . . . . Wordsworth could scarcely believe that of a three volume work, published here at a guinea and a half, the reprint was usually sold at New York for two shillings—in later days the price has been as low as sixpence, the great sale making a fraction of profit worth looking for. Wordsworth expressed a strong desire to obtain an American reprint of any of Southey’s works; but Southey appeared quite indifferent. ‘I should be glad to see them,’ said he, ‘if the rogues would only give me a little of what the work of my brains may yield to them.’”

Mr. Roderick I. Murchison was also busy with his geological works. He wrote to Mr. Murray, from Hereford (24th July, 1834), saying that he was preparing his opus magnum on the geology of the country of the Silures, and requesting that the work should be announced:—

A few years later, when Mr. Murchison had returned from his famous expedition to Russia and the Ural Mountains, Lockhart, who was a personal friend of the distinguished geologist, wrote of him:—

Sir Alexander Burnes had published in 1834 his ‘Travels into Bokhara,’ giving an account of his wonderful journey of exploration on the N.W. Frontier of India. In 1835 he returned to India for the last time, and his account of the recently instituted Overland Route will be read with interest in these days when the journey from London to Bombay can be performed within a fortnight.

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Sarah Austin [née Taylor] (1793-1867) The daughter of John Taylor of Norwich (1750-1826); she was a respected translator unhappily married to the legal philosopher John Austin (1790-1859) in 1819.

Thomas Barnes [Strada] (1785-1841) The contemporary of Leigh Hunt at Christ's Hospital; he was editor of The Times from 1817.

William Blackwood (1776-1834) Edinburgh bookseller; he began business 1804 and for a time was John Murray's Scottish agent. He launched Blackwood's Magazine in 1817.

William Brockedon (1787-1854) English landscape painter who composed the text for Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron, 3 vols. (1833-34).

Henry Peter Brougham, first baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a founder of the Edinburgh Review in which he chastised Byron's Hours of Idleness; he defended Queen Caroline in her trial for adultery (1820), established the London University (1828), and was appointed lord chancellor (1830).

Sir Alexander Burnes (1805-1841) Scottish officer and assistant to the British resident in Cutch in India.

Edward Cardwell, first viscount Cardwell (1813-1886) Educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, he was an MP and associate of Robert Peel.

Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham- Clinton, fifth duke of Newcastle (1811-1864) Son of the fourth duke (d. 1851); he was chief secretary for Ireland (1846) and secretary for war (1854-55).

John Douglas Cook (1808 c.-1868) Reporter for the Times and editor of the Morning Chronicle (1848).

John Singleton Copley, baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863) The son of the American painter; he did legal work for John Murray before succeeding Lord Eldon as lord chancellor (1827-30, 1834-35, 1841-46); a skilled lawyer, he was also a political chameleon.

George Crabbe (1754-1832) English poet renowned for his couplet verse and gloomy depictions of country persons and places; author of the The Village (1783), The Parish Register (1807), The Borough (1810), and Tales of the Hall (1819).

George Crabbe the younger (1785-1857) English clergyman, son of the poet George Crabbe whose life he wrote for John Murray.

John Wilson Croker (1780-1857) Secretary of the Admiralty (1810) and writer for the Quarterly Review; he edited an elaborate edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831).

Rosamund Carrington Croker [née Pennell] (1789-1880) Daughter of William Pennell of Waterford; she married John Wilson Croker in 1806.

Gérard Paul Deshayes (1795-1875) A student of fossils and a founder of the Société Géologique de France.

Sir Francis Freeling, first baronet (1764-1836) Postal reformer and member of the Roxburghe Club; he was secretary to the General Post Office. He was a friend of William Jerdan and Sir Walter Scott.

King George IV of Great Britain (1762-1830) Prince Regent (1811-20) and King of Great Britain (1820-1830).

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) Author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788).

George Gordon, fifth duke of Gordon (1770-1836) After service in the Napoleonic wars he entered the House of Lords in 1807 as marquess of Huntly.

Robert Henley, second baron Henley (1789-1841) Son of the first baron, Morton Eden (1752-1830) and brother-in-law of Robert Peel; he practised law and argued for the redistribution of church property in Plan of Church Reform (1832).

Alexander James Beresford Hope (1820-1887) MP, journalist, and president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher and historian; author of Essays Moral and Political (1741-42), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748) and History of Great Britain (1754-62).

King James VI and I (1566-1625) King of Scotland (1567-1625) and England (1603-1625).

George Payne Rainsford James (1801-1860) English novelist and historiographer royal to William IV; he published Richelieu (1829) and Philip Augustus (1831).

Alexander Keith (1792-1880) Minister of the Free Church of Scotland and author of Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion from the Fulfilment of Prophecy (1823).

Charles Lamb [Elia] (1775-1834) English essayist and boyhood friend of Coleridge at Christ's Hospital; author of Essays of Elia published in the London Magazine (collected 1823, 1833) and other works.

Sir John Leslie (1766-1832) Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh University, author of Experimental Enquiries into the Nature and Properties of Heat (1804), and contributor to the Edinburgh Review.

John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) Editor of the Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter Scott and author of the Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).

Sophia Lockhart [née Scott] (1799-1837) Walter Scott's eldest daughter, who married John Gibson Lockhart in 1820.

Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842) A leading London publisher whose authors included Southey, Wordsworth, Scott, and Moore.

Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet (1797-1875) Scottish geologist educated at Exeter College, Oxford; he was author of Principles of Geology (1830-33) and The Antiquity of Man (1863).

Robert Shelton Mackenzie [Sholto] (1809-1880) Irish-born biographer, journalist, and man of letters who worked in London before emigrating to Philadelphia in 1852.

Sir John McNeill (1795-1883) Son of John McNeill of Colonsay; he was surgeon for the East India Company in Bombay (1816-36), afterwards minister to the Shah of Persia (1836) and chairman of the supervisory board of the Scottish Poor Act (1845-78).

Sir James Melville of Halhill (1536-1617) Scottish diplomat and memoirist in the service of Mary Queen of Scots.

Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) Educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was a poet, historian and dean of St Paul's (1849) who wrote for the Quarterly Review.

Mohammed Ali Pasha (1769-1849) The Pasha of Egypt from 1805; he defended the Turkish rule in Greece until his defeat of his navy at the battle of Navarino.

Lady Charlotte Murchison [née Hugonin] (1788-1869) She married Roderick Murchison in 1815 and was a partner in his geological researches.

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, baronet (1792-1871) Scottish geologist, FRS (1826); he published The Silurian System (1838). He was made a baronet in 1866.

Anne Murray [née Elliot] (1782-1854) The daughter of the Scottish bookseller Charles Elliot; she married the second John Murray in 1807.

John Murray II (1778-1843) The second John Murray began the Quarterly Review in 1809 and published works by Scott, Byron, Austen, Crabbe, and other literary notables.

John Murray III (1808-1892) The son of the Anak of publishers; he successfully carried on the family publishing business.

John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856) Writer, geologist, and president of the Royal College of Physicians (1844-56).

Sir Robert Peel, second baronet (1788-1850) Byron's schoolmate at Harrow, afterwards prime minister from 1834-1835 and 1841-1846.

Deborah Maria Phillpotts [née Surtees] (d. 1863) Daughter of William Surtees (1750-1832) of Bath; in 1804 she married Henry Phillpotts.

Henry Phillpotts, bishop of Exeter (1778-1869) High-church Tory clergyman and controversialist opposed to Catholic emancipation; he was dean of Chester (1828) and bishop of Exeter (1830).

Louis-Constant Prévost (1787-1856) He was professor of geology at the Athenaeum at Paris (1821-1829), afterwards at the Sorbonne.

Philip Pusey (1799-1855) The elder brother of the divine Edward Pusey; as MP from Berkshire he advocated agricultural reforms.

Sir Walter Scott, baronet (1771-1832) Scottish poet, novelist, antiquary, biographer, editor, and sheriff.

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a mathematics tutor in 1815 before being elected Woodwardian professor of geology (1818-73). He was a friend of Charles Darwin.

Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London (1677-1761) English divine; he was bishop of Bangor (1728-34) and bishop of London (1748-61).

Horace Smith (1779-1849) English poet and novelist; with his brother James he wrote Rejected Addresses (1812) and Horace in London (1813). Among his novels was Brambletye House (1826).

William Henry Smith (1808-1872) Writer for the Athenaeum, Blackwood's, and Westminster Review; he published A Discourse on Ethics of the School of Paley (1839).

Robert Southey (1774-1843) Poet laureate and man of letters whose contemporary reputation depended upon his prose works, among them the Life of Nelson, 2 vols (1813), History of the Peninsular War, 3 vols (1823-32) and The Doctor, 7 vols (1834-47).

Philip Henry Stanhope, fifth earl Stanhope (1805-1875) Historian and man of letters, the son of the fourth earl; he published The History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, 7 vols, (1836-53).

Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, baron St Leonards (1781-1875) English barrister, lord chancellor in 1852; he published on legal issues.

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) Poet, writer for the Quarterly Review, and autobiographer; he was author of the tragedy Philip van Artevelde (1834).

Thomas Tegg (1776-1846) London bookseller who sold remainders and inexpensive editions of out-of-copyright books.

Thomas Telford (1757-1834) Civil engineer who did innovative work with roads, canals, and bridges; he was a friend of Archibald Alison, Thomas Campbell, and Robert Southey.

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) English novelist; author of the Barchester Chronicles.

Frances Trollope [née Milton] (1779-1863) Novelist, travel-writer and mother of Anthony Trollope; she married Thomas Anthony Trollope in 1809. She published Domestic Manners of the Americans, 2 vols (1832).

John Walter (1776-1847) After education at Merchant Taylors' School and an apprenticeship with Thomas Longman he succeeded his father (also John Walter) as proprietor of The Times, which he co-edited with John Staddart and Thomas Barnes.

Samuel Warren (1807-1877) English barrister who studied at Edinburgh and the Inner Temple; he was MP, novelist, and a writer for Blackwood's.

Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Soldier and statesman; commander in the Peninsular Campaign (1809-1813), he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and was prime minister (1828-1830).

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) With Coleridge, author of Lyrical Ballads (1798), Wordsworth survived his early unpopularity to succeed Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843.

Morning Chronicle. (1769-1862). James Perry was proprietor of this London daily newspaper from 1789-1821; among its many notable poetical contributors were Coleridge, Southey, Lamb, Rogers, and Campbell.

The Quarterly Review. (1809-1967). Published by John Murray, the Quarterly was instigated by Walter Scott as a Tory rival to the Edinburgh Review. It was edited by William Gifford to 1824, and by John Gibson Lockhart from 1826 to 1853.

The Saturday Review. (1856-1938). A weekly paper edited by John Douglas Cook (1856-68).

The Times. (1785-). Founded by John Walter, The Times was edited by Thomas Barnes from 1817 to 1841. In the romantic era it published much less literary material than its rival dailies, the Morning Chronicle and the Morning Post.

Dates and Distances: showing what may be done in a Tour of Sixteen Months through various Parts of Europe, as performed in the Years 1829 and 1830. (London: John Murray, 1831). Anonymously published.

Sir Alexander Burnes (1805-1841) Travels into Bokhara; being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia. 3 vols (London: J. Murray, 1834).

William Clarke (1800-1838) The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most eminent Persons, who have flourished in Great Britain, from the Accession of George the First to the Demise of George the Fourth. 4 vols (London: Vizetelly, Branston and Co., 1832-1834). Published anonymously with additional biographies by Robert Shelton Mackenzie.

William Cowper (1731-1800) The Works of William Cowper, esq., comprising his Poems, Correspondence and Translations. With a Life of the Author. 15 vols (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1836). Edited by Robert Southey with an extensive biography.

David Hume (1711-1776) “Essay on Miracles” in Essays, Moral and Political. (London: A. Millar, 1748). The third edition of the Essays, with additions.

Alexander Keith (1792-1880) Sketch of the Evidence from Prophecy; containing an Account of those Prophecies which were distinctly foretold, and which have been clearly or literally fulfilled. (Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1823). There were several later editions.

John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) “The Doctor” in Quarterly Review. Vol. 51 (March 1834): 68-96. A review of Southey's anonymous olio.

Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet (1797-1875) Principles of Geology; being an Attempt to explain the former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation. 3 vols (London: J. Murray, 1830-1833).

Sir John McNeill (1795-1883) Progress and Present Position of Russia in the East.. (London: John Murray, 1836). Anonymous; reprinted 1838.

John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856) Philosophy in sport made science in earnest: being an attempt to illustrate the first Principles of Natural Philosophy by the aid of the Popular toys and Sports. (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827). For juvenile readers; several later editions were published by John Murray.

Janet Ann Ross [née Duff Gordon] (1842-1927) Three Generations of Englishwomen: Memoirs and Correspondence of Mrs. John Taylor, Mrs Sarah Austin and Lady Duff Gordon. 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1888).

Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London (1677-1761) The Use and Intent of Prophecy in the several Ages of the World: in Six Discourses. (London: J. Pemberton, 1725).

Robert Southey (1774-1843) The Book of the Church. 2 vols (London: J. Murray, 1824). A history of Christianity in England upholding the claims of the Established Church.

Robert Southey (1774-1843) The Doctor &c.. 7 vols (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834-1847). A rambling biographical satire that contains the first publication of the story of The Three Bears.

Robert Southey (1774-1843) History of the Peninsular War. 3 vols (London: Murray, 1823-1832).

Robert Southey (1774-1843) “Life of Thomas Telford” in Quarterly Review. Vol. 63 (March 1839): 403-57.

Robert Southey (1774-1843) The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism. 2 vols (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820). A second edition was published in 1820.

Robert Southey (1774-1843) Lives of the British Admirals: with an Introductory View of the Naval History of England. 5 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longman's, and John Taylor, 1833-1840).

Robert Southey (1774-1843) Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ: Letters to Charles Butler, comprising Essays on the Romish Religion and vindicating The Book of the Church. (London: John Murray, 1826).

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) Isaac Comnenus: a Play. (London: J. Murray, 1827).

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) Philip Van Artevelde: a Dramatic Romance in two parts. (London: E. Moxon, 1834). There were several later editions.

Frances Trollope [née Milton] (1779-1863) Belgium and Western Germany in 1833; including Visits to Baden-Baden, Wiesbaden, Cassel, Hanover, the Harz Mountains, &c &c.. 2 vols (London: J. Murray, 1834).

Samuel Warren (1807-1877) Passages from the Diary of a late Physician. 2 vols (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1832). A fictional memoir, originally serialized in Blackwood's Magazine, several times reprinted.

Samuel Warren (1807-1877) A Popular and Practical Introduction to law studies. (London: A. Maxwell, 1835).

Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington (1769-1852) The Dispatches of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, K.G. during his various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, from 1799 to 1818. (London: Murray, 1834-1838). Released in parts, with later supplements.

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Source Description:

Author: Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904

Title: Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891).

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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org

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