DEATH

LADY LYTTON.

The Dowager Lady LYTTON, whose death has just been announced, was a

remarkable woman. Thirty years ago her name was familiar to everybody, and her

literary productions, such as they were, had a wide circulation.

The wife of a great man of letters, who shone as a writer of romances,

she had herself sought to achieve fame as a novelist. Unfortunately, her

stories were too satirical, and too bitter in their judgments upon men and the

world in general, to command admiration.

Moreover it is suspected that, under the guise of fiction, she had taken

occasion to paint the characters of those with whom she had quarrelled in

the most unfavourable colours; and among those with whom she had thus dealt, it

was generally believed that the late Lord LYTTON himself was to be found.

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