Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Excerpt from The New Timon: St. Stephen's and the Lost Tales of Miletus "The New Timon" marks as nearly as possible Lord Lytton's mid-career in authorship. It originally appeared anonymously in 1846, being issued from the press by Mr. Colburn in four parts, which were collected into a volume in 1847. More than a quarter of a century before in - 1820 - Mr. Hatchard of Piccadilly had printed Edward Bulwers first work, his boyish metrical tale of "Ismael." More than a quarter of a century after - in 1873 - the pen fell from Lord Lytton shand while he was yet writing his last work, his all but finished romance of "The Parisians." The sketches of contemporary statesmen and orators which were incidentally given in the course of "The New Timon," probably first suggested to its author the idea which found full expression thirteen years afterwards in "St. Stephens." The three divisions of that work originally appeared (like "The New Timon," and like so many other books from the same hand) quite anonymously at the beginning of 1860, in the January, February, and March numbers of Blachvood's Magazine. Prefixed to the first instalment was the following explanatory bracketed note: - ["In this Poem it is intended to give succinct sketcheg of our principal Parliamentary Orators, commencing with the origia of Parliamentary oratory (in the Civil Wars) and closing with the late Sir Robert Peel."] About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.