It contains wit, character, passion, plot, conversations full of spirit and insight, letters sparkling with unstrained humanity; and if the death of the heroine be somewhat frigid and artificial, the last days of the hero strike the only note of what we now call Byronism, between the Elizabethans and Byron himself.

[Note 19: Byronism.

I have sickened on the modern rhodomontade & Byronism, and your plain Quakerish Beauty has captivated me.

BEETS, NICOLAS, a Dutch theologian and poet, born at Haarlem; came, as a poet, under the influence of Byronism; b. 1814. BEFA`NA, an Italian female Santa Claus, who on Twelfth Night fills the stockings of good children with good things, and those of bad with ashes.

So it is with the great convulsion of Nature which was known as Byronism.

But Byron and Byronism were something immeasurably greater than anything that is represented by such a view as this: their real value and meaning are indeed little understood.

Byronism tended towards the desert; the new pessimism towards the restaurant.

Byronism was a revolt against artificiality; the new pessimism is a revolt in its favour.