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We take to it as naturally as we do to the cut of the last tippet from the Boulevard de la Madeleine, or to the style of the last bijouterie from the Palais Royal. The Pascal letters are only the sequel of those of Marie Antoinette. First, the autograph collector is taken in, and then the attempt is made with luxurious type and learned introductions, written ^ith perfect good faith, to delude the public. It is not long ago since two leading publishers of London esteemed, themselves fortunate in being able to secure, at a long
price, a batch of letters, purporting to comprise a large portion of Byron and Shelley's Italian correspondence. A packet of Shelley's letters had been previously bought up by the present baronet of the Shelley family, in order to burke the slanders contained, by withdrawing them from circulation. But when Mr. Moxon secured his collection, he immediately looked round for an editor worthy of the occasion. A distinguished poet only was thought to be a fitting instrument to usher the letters of a distinguished poet into the world. Hence Mr. Robert Browning became the man. The weekly reviewers hailed the volume as a valuable accession to the literary memorials of Shelley. The 'Literary Gazette' , really thought they were calculatedCheap Christian Louboutin
to refute the charges of Atheism and immorality under which Shelley had hitherto laboured. It recoinmemled some of the letters to the religions public as being quite equal to parish sermons. Mr. Browning, whose introduction to the letters was somewhat lengthy, was accused by Jerdan, with L)iogeman asperity, of standing in the way of the sunshine. Browning had set out with asserting that the occasion had at length arrived for a complete life of the poet. With a view to guide the new biographer in » his labours, he entered intoVa full disquisition upon Shelley's character in general, and his correspondence in particular, which as an introduction to twenty-five tawdry letters, was as much out of place as the erection of a Corinthian porf ico to a mud cottage. A copy of this book, so pompously ushered into the world, was sent by Moxon to Tennyson. Mr. Palgrave, a son of Sir Francis, happened at that time to be staying with the Laureate. On casually turning over the leaves of the volume he lighted on a passage Written by his father in the pages of the ' Quarterly,' on the fine arts in Florence. Christian Louboutin Sale
Sir Francis at once wrote to Moxon for an explanation, but Moxon had none to give. He had bought the letters from White the publisher, in Pall Mall, at a price of something like three guineas a letter. They were stamped with the postmarks of the Italian towns, whence they had been despatched to England. The post-office clerks to whom they were submitted -pronounced the stamps to be genuine. The letters were also written in Shelley's handwriting, or in something which could not be distinguished from it. The water-mark of the paper exactly tallied with the dates.