Many years later (1830) Lamb prepared his collection of _Album-Verses_ at the request of his friend Edward Moxon, who had achieved some fame as a poet and was enabled (by the generous aid of Samuel Rogers) to begin his more lucrative career as a publisher. Three years after the appearance of _Album-Verses_, he married Lamb's adopted daughter, Emma Isola. The _Album-Verses_, like most of their kind, were a collection of small value; the _Literary Gazette_, 1830 (441-442), consequently lost no time in assailing them. The _Athenæum_, 1830, p. 435, at that time the bitter rival of the _Gazette_, published a more favorable review, and a few weeks later (p. 491) printed Southey's verses, _To Charles Lamb, on the Reviewal of his Album-Verses in the Literary Gazette_, together with a sharp commentary on the methods of the _Gazette_. Several times during that year the _Athenæum_ assailed the system of private puffery which was followed by the _Gazette_ and eventually caused its downfall. There is a reply to the _Athenæum_ in the _Literary Gazette_, 1833, p. 772. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Landor was twenty-three when he published _Gebir_ anonymously in 1798--the year of the _Lyrical Ballads_--and he lived until 1864. The nine decades of his life covered an important period of literature. He was nine years old when the great Johnson died, yet he lived to see the best poetic achievements of Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold. However, he did not live to see _Gebir_ a popular poem. Southey gave it a favorable welcome in the _Critical Review_, and became a life-long admirer of Landor; but our brief notices reprinted from the _Monthly Rev._, XXXI, n.s., p. 206, and _British Critic_, XV, p. 190 of February, 1800, represent more nearly the popular verdict. Both reviewers complain of the obscurity of the poem, which, it will be remembered, had been originally written in Latin, then translated and abridged. Notwithstanding the fact that Landor declared himself amply repaid by the praise of a few appreciative readers, he prepared a violent and scornful reply to the _Monthly Review_, and would have published it but for the sensible dissuasion of a friend. Some interesting extracts from the letter are printed in Forster's _Life of Landor_, pp. (76-85). He protested especially against the imputed plagiarisms from Milton and gave ample evidence of the pugnacious spirit that brought him into difficulties several times during his life. See also the _Imaginary Conversation_ between Archdeacon Hare and Walter Landor, wherein the reception of _Gebir_ is discussed and Southey's poetry is praised at the expense of Wordsworth's. Landor's first publication, the _Poems_ (1795) was noticed in the _Monthly Rev._, XXI, n.s., p. 253. SIR WALTER SCOTT