MEMOIRS OF LADY HERVEY AND HORACE WALPOLE--BELZONI--MILMAN--SOUTHEY -- MRS.

RUNDELL, ETC.
About the beginning of 1819 the question of publishing the letters and reminiscences of Lady Hervey, grandmother of the Earl of Mulgrave, was brought under the notice of Mr.Murray.Lady Hervey was the daughter of Brigadier-General Lepel, and the wife of Lord Hervey of Ickworth, author of the "Memoirs of the Court of George II.

and Queen Caroline." Her letters formed a sort of anecdotal history of the politics and literature of her times.

A mysterious attachment is said to have existed between her and Lord Chesterfield, who, in his letters to his son, desired him never to mention her name when he could avoid it, while she, on the other hand, adopted all Lord Chesterfield's opinions, as afterwards appeared in the aforesaid letters.

Mr.Walter Hamilton, author of the "Gazetteer of India," an old and intimate friend of Mr.
Murray, who first brought the subject under Mr.Murray's notice, said, "Lady Hervey writes more like a man than a woman, something like Lady M.W.Montagu, and in giving her opinion she never minces matters." Mr.
Hamilton recommended that Archdeacon Coxe, author of the "Lives of Sir Robert and Horace Walpole," should be the editor.