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Whether Byron bammed him, or he, by virtue of his own stupidity, was the sole and sufficient bammifier of himself, I know not.' A note says that Murray had been much shocked by Byron's misstatements to Medwin as to money-matters with him.

The note goes on to say, 'Medwin could not have invented them, for they were mixed up with acknowledged facts; and the presumption is that Byron mystified his gallant acquaintance.

He was fond of such tricks.' {121} This one fact is, that Lord Byron might have had an open examination in court, if he had only persisted in refusing the deed of separation.
{126} In the history of 'Blackwood's Magazine,' prefaced to the American edition of 1854, Mackenzie says of the 'Noctes' papers, 'Great as was their popularity in England it was peculiarly in America that their high merit and undoubted originality received the heartiest recognition and appreciation.

Nor is this wonderful when it is considered that for one reader of "Blackwood's Magazine" in the old country there cannot be less than fifty in the new.' {139} The reader is here referred to Lady Byron's other letters, in Part III.; which also show the peculiarly active and philosophical character of her mind, and the class of subjects on which it habitually dwelt.
{147} See her character of Dr.King, Part III.
{148} Alluding to the financial crisis in the United States in 1857.
{149} 'The Minister's Wooing.' {150} See her letter on spiritualistic phenomena, Part III.
{161} This novel of Godwin's is a remarkably powerful story.