1 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 31

B.ROUGHAM AND BYRON.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIB,—The subjoined entry settles, I think, the doubt about Brougham's authorship of the article alluded to in your subleader on the Edinburgh in last week's issue. Lacaita was the most accurate of men:— "February 25th, 1871.

The Breakfast Club met at Pollock's, and Lacaita told us that Lord Brougham confessed in his presence at Brougham Hall, after denying it for thirty years, that he had written the article in the Edinburgh Review which made Byron write 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."