A glance at the last section of Mr.Palgrave's "Golden Treasury" shows how large a place they occupy among the permanent jewels of our literature.
The month of January added a new and most important member to the little Pisan circle.

This was Captain Edward John Trelawny, to whom more than to any one else but Hogg and Mrs.Shelley, the students of the poet's life are indebted for details at once accurate and characteristic.
Trelawny had lived a free life in all quarters of the globe, far away from literary cliques and the society of cities, in contact with the sternest realities of existence, which had developed his self-reliance and his physical qualities to the utmost.

The impression, therefore, made on him by Shelley has to be gravely estimated by all who still incline to treat the poet as a pathological specimen of humanity.

This true child of nature recognized in his new friend far more than in Byron the stuff of a real man.

"To form a just idea of his poetry, you should have witnessed his daily life; his words and actions best illustrated his writings." "The cynic Byron acknowledged him to be the best and ablest man he had ever known.