Lytton

EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWERLYTTON, LORD, (lit'tn,) an eminent English novelist, B. in Norfolk, of an anc. family, in 1805. In 1826 he graduated at Cambridge, and published in1827 his first novel, Falkland. In the year following Pelham appeared-awork which placed him at once in the first rank of contemporary writers of fiction. Thenceforward his literary career was one of meteoric brilliancy; novel after novel, drama after drama, flowed from his pen almost without intermi ion. For a quarter of a century he reigned the great master of English fiction -the succe or of Scott, the predece or of Dickens. In 1866 he was created a peer of the realm. Among his pp. novels are: The Disowned (1828); Devereux (1829); Paul Clifford (1830); Eugene Aram (1832); The Pilgrims of the Rhine (1833); The Last Days of Pompeii (1834); Rienzi, The Last of the Roman Tribunes (1835); Ernest Malt ravers(1837), and its sequel Alice, or the Mysteries; Night and Morning (1841); Zanoni (1842); The Last of the Barons (1843); Lucretia, or the Children of the Night (1846); Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings (1848); The Caxtons (1850); My Novel (1851); What will He do with It (1858); and A Strange Story (1861). He is also author of the succe ful and favorite plays The Lady of Lyons, Richelieu, and Money, and of the poems The New Timon, and King Arthur. D. 1874.-His son, ROBERT EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON, B. 1831, was appointed minister toLisbon in1874, and in 1876, Gov.-Gen. of India. He earned popularity by his fine poems published under the nom de-plume of" Owen Meredith,"-among them are, Clytemnestra; The Wanderer; Lucile; and The Ring of Amasis. sound, hence its place between two syllables was usually defined by an elision. M is interchangeable with b, p, v, and w, and often is dispensed with. In writing twom's in succe ion, the Germans have a practice of eliminating one of them, and marking the other with a dash, thus, M. The Romans used Mas a symbol to expre 1,000-a practice also followed by the moderns. The latter, too, employed it by way of abbreviation for Magister; as A. M. (or M. A.), Artium Magister, Master of Arts; for Mundi, as A. M., Anno Mundi (in the year of the world); for Meridiem, as A. M., Ante Meridiem (before noon), . MS. signifies Manuscript, written in the plural MSS. In medical prescriptions, this letter stands for man i pulus, a handful; and sometimes for mis ce (mix), and mistura (a mixture). The French employ it initially, as M. for Monsieur, MM. Me ieurs. In Roman proper names it stood to denote Marcus, Manlius, Martius, Mucius, . [s. 563]