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Reviews:

New Monthly Magazine (London), Series II, volume 119, p. 469-471, 1860

Athenaeum (London) 1695 (April 21, 1860)

Leader and Saturday Analyst (London), Second series #527 (April 28, 1860)

Literary Gazette (London), Saturday, May 5, 1860

New York Times, June 23, 1860

Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond, VA) 31:1 (July 1860).

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine DXXXVII (July 1860), vol. LXXXVIII, p37-53. "Poetry"

Lady's Home Magazine, August 1860, 16, p125. “Lucile”

Peterson's Magazine (Philadelphia), August 1860, XXXVIII:2, p160

Littell's Living Age (Boston) 66:848 (September 1, 1860), p564-567. Review.
---- 1262 (August 8, 1868), p374-5. Francis Jacox. "Unready-Witted." (Reprinted from St. James Magazine). Quotes Meredith's description of Vargrave at a loss for words.

Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine (New York). September 1860 (61), p274. "Literary Notices."

The North British Review (Edinburgh) 33 (1860), p114-129. "Recent Poetry."

The English Woman's Journal (London) 32/6 (1860), p131-137.

New Englander (New Haven, CT) 18. November 1860, p1112. Brief notice which reads, "Lucile -- This very readable poem, by Owen Meredith, the author of "The Wanderer, and "Clytemnestra," has been published by Messrs. Ticknor & Fields in 'blue and gold.'" A footnote cites it as 24mo. pp. 352. 75 cents. [Available from] T.H. Pease, New Haven.

The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal (Boston). January 1861 (25:1), p68.

The Literary Gazette (London) 140 (2300) New Series (March 2, 1861), p201-204. MR. OWEN MEREDITH'S "LUCILE." Details plagarism from George Sand's "Lavina"

Saturday Evening Post. March 30, 1861, p3. "Alleged Plagarism."

Dublin University Magazine LVII (April 1861), p405- 417.

The London Review XVI (April and July 1861), p393-412. "Recent Poetry." Reprinted in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature (New York) 54:1 (September 1861), p93+.

Alfred Austin, The Season: A Satire (London: George Manwaring, 1861; second edition revised) and  My Satire and Its Censors (London: George Manwaring, 1861), p14-15.

National Review (London) XVII (July-October 1863), pages 174-203. Long, thorough, review of Meredith's work with emphasis on Lucile.

The Nation. December 12, 1867, p476. "Illustrated Gift Books." Criticism of the Du Maurier illustrations.
----. September 9, 1869, p212. Notice of a Lovell edition.
----. August 11, 1881. Number 841, p115. "Notes." Note on Osgood "Holiday" edition.
----. December 15, 1881. Number 859, p472-473. Review of "Holiday" edition with mention also of Geraldine.
----. June 19, 1884. p527. Note on a new translation of Sand's Lavinia with mention of Lucile.
----. 65:1695. December 23, 1897, p498. Notice of Stokes' calendar with LeMaire illustrations.
----. 69:1793. November 9, 1899, p352. "Notes." Notice of new Crowell editions.
----. November 22, 1906, p435. Notice of Lady Balfour's edition of Lytton's letters, with long notice of Lucile, by Andrew Lang.
----. May 18, 1946, p605-606. "A Faded Violet." Review by Rolph Humphries of Owen Meredith. A Critical Biography of Robert, First Earl of Lytton. By Aurelia Brooks Harlan. Columbia University Press

The Dial: A Monthly Magazine for Literature, Philosophy and Religion. September 1860 (I:9), p581.
---- 10 (May 1879-April 1880), p220. Notice of Estes & Lauriat edition of The Earl's Return.
---- 2 (May 1881-April 1882), p176. Notice of Osgood's "Holiday" edition.
---- 10 (December 1889), p218. Notice of Stokes & Brother "Vignette" editon and Estes & Lauriat The Earl's Return.
---- 11(May 1890-April 1891), p. 249. Notice of Stokes "Vignette" edition.
---- 15 (July 1-December 16, 1893), p397.  Notice of Estes "Imperial 8vo." edition.
---- 16 (January 1-June 16, 1894), "Briefer Mention," p338. Notice of Longman's edition of Lucile.
---- 23 (July 1-December 16, 1897), "Holiday Publications," p397. Notice of Stoke's edition illustrated by Lemaire.

Putnam's Magazine 1:1 (January 1868), p.129. Review of the DuMaurier-illustrated edition.

The Contemporary Review (London) VII (June-April 1868), p462-463. Review of Lucile (with illustrations by George Du Maurier. London: Chapman and Hall, 1867) and Chronicles and Characters (1867).

Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, January 1879, p49. Lucile as winter reading.

Algernon Charles Swinburne. "Last Words of a Seventh-Rate Poet." The Heptalogia, or The Seven Against Sense. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880. p65-91. A brilliant, perhaps even vicious, parody of Meredith.

The Literary World (Boston), August 13 and  December 17, 1881. Notice and review of Osgood's "Holiday" edition.

Scribner's Monthly (New York). XXII:6 (October 1881), back material. The Book-Buyer's Guide. "ANNOUCEMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER." [James R. Osgood & Co. advertisement for the "Holiday" edition].

Harper's Magazine 381 February 1882 (64: p473). Notice of Osgood's "Holiday" edition.

The Critic (New York), September 24, 1881. Review of Osgood's "Holiday" edition, a portrait of Lytton and a critical review of Lytton's life by R. Seton.
---- "Popular Books in a Free Library." (February 19, 1887), p90. Report on circulation of popular books at the New York Free Circulating Library.

The Academy 20 (July-December 1881), p470. Review of the London: Kegan Paul edition of Osgood's "Holiday" edition.

Atlantic Monthly 47 (1881), p136. "Contibutor's Club." An American critic independently discovers Meredith's plagiarism.
---- 49 (January 1882). Notice of Osgood's Holiday Edition.

Clipped 1882 Newspaper Notice of Osgood's Holiday Edition.

American Notes and Queries (August 10, 1889), p170-173. "Is Owen Meredith's 'Lucile' entirely original, and who first claimed it was not?"

The Globe, Toronto: April 30, 1892. Note on Meredith's status as a poet, with comment on Lucile.

W.H. Mallock. "Poetry and Lord Lytton." The Fortnightly Review (London), 57 (NS 51) June 1892, p795-810.

Catholic World 58, issue 345 (December 1893).

Life, April 23, 1895, p231. Notice of Glenaveril characterizes Lucile.

George Saintsbury. "The Poetry of the Earl of Lytton." The Forum ( New York ), XXII (September 1896-February 1897), p. 467-482.

Charles Wells Moulton. "Edward Rober Bulwer Earl Lytton (Owen Meredith), 1831-1891." The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors. Buffalo: Moulton Publishing Co., 1904. Volume VIII (1891-1904), p43-49.

William S. Walsh, “Plagiarism and Plagiarists,” Handy Book of Literary Curiosities (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1909), p891-899+.

Walter Sargent. "A Poet and a Diplomat." The Catholic World (New York), XC, No. 538 (January 1910), p493-501. A review of Lytton's daughter's (Lady Balfour) two volume edition of his letters (1906); much concerned with other critics, including Wilfrid Ward (see "Sightings").

Outlook October 16, 1918, p250. "Wanted - A Book for Every Man Over There [in France]. " An interview with an overseas dispatch agent, by H.H. Moore, of the Outlook Staff: Lucile the book most often donated.

Rolfe Humphries. A review of Owen Meredith. A Critical Biography of Robert, First Earl of Lytton. By Aurelia Brooks Harlan. Columbia University Press. The Nation. May 18, 1946. p605-606.

Descriptions and Obituaries

The Times (London), Wednesday, November 25, 1891. Reprinted in Eminent Persons, Biographies reprinted from The Times (London: Macmillan, 1896), V, pages 147-152.

The Critic (London), (November 29, 1891), p309-310. "Lord Lytton ('Owen Meredith')" and "A Man of Many Countries"; (December 5, 1891), p413-414. "The Late Lord Lytton"; (No. 416, 1891), p358-359. "How Lord Lytton Died."

Mackin, Sarah Maris Aloisa Britton Spottiswood. A Society Woman on Two Continents. New York & London: Transatlantic Publishing Co., 1896.  p130-131.

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