appears, and he then engaged me to write the notes." As the "delicate spirit" of Shelley suffused the third canto of _Childe Harold_, so the fourth reveals the presence and co-operation of Hobhouse. To his brother-poet he owed a fresh conception, perhaps a fresh appreciation of nature; to his lifelong friend, a fresh enthusiasm for art, and a host of details, "dry bones ... which he awakened into the fulness of life." The Fourth Canto was published on Tuesday, April 28, 1818. It was reviewed by [Sir] Walter Scott in the _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxvii., April, 1818, and by John Wilson in the _Edinburgh Review_, No. 59, June, 1818. Both numbers were published on the same day, September 26, 1818. CHILDE HAROLD, CANTO IV. ORIGINAL DRAFT. [MS. M.] [June 26--July 19. 1817.] Stanza i. "I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,"-- Stanza iii.-xi. "In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more,"--"The spouseless Adriatic mourns her Lord,"-- Stanza xv. "Statues of glass--all shivered--the long file,"-- Stanza xviii.-xxvi. "I loved her from my boyhood--she to me,"--"The Commonwealth of Kings--the Men of Rome!"-- Stanza xxx.-xxxix. "There is a tomb in Arqua;--reared in air,"--"Peace to Torquato's injured shade! 'twas his,"-- Stanza xlii.-xlvi. "Italia! oh, Italia! thou who hast,"--"That page is now before me, and on mine,"-- Stanza xlviii.-l. "But Arno wins us to the fair white walls,"--"We gaze and turn away, and know not where,"-- Stanza liii. "I leave to learnéd fingers, and wise hands,"-- Stanza lxi.-lxxix. "There be more things to greet the heart and eyes,"--"The Niobe of nations! there she stands,"-- Stanza lxxxiii. "Oh, thou, whose chariot rolled on Fortune's wheel,"-- Stanza lxxxiv. "The dictatorial wreath--couldst thou divine,"-- Stanza lxxxvii.-xcii. "And thou, dread Statue! yet existent in,"--"And would be all or nothing--nor could wait,"-- Stanza xcix.-cviii. "There is a stern round tower of other days,"--"There is the moral of all human tales,"-- Stanza cx. "Tully was not so eloquent as thou,"-- Stanza cxi. "Buried in air, the deep blue sky of Rome,"-- Stanza cxv.-cxix. "Egeria! sweet creation of some heart,"--"And didst thou not, thy breast to his replying,"-- Stanza cxxviii.-cxxxiv. "Arches on arches! as it were that Rome,"--"And if my voice break forth, 'tis not that now,"-- Stanza cxxxviii.-cli. "The seal is set.--Now welcome, thou dread Power!"--"The starry fable of the Milky Way,"-- Stanza cliii.-clxvi. "But lo! the Dome--the vast and wondrous Dome,"--"And send us prying into the abyss,"-- Stanza clxxv. "But I forget.--My Pilgrim's shrine is won,"-- Stanza clxxvi. "Upon the blue Symplegades: long years,"-- Stanza clxxix. "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll!"-- Stanza clxxx. "His steps are not upon thy paths,--thy fields,"-- Stanza clxxxiii.-clxxxvi. "Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form,"--"Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been,"--