

Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

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                        CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY

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                                  GEBIR
                                   AND
                              COUNT JULIAN.


                                    BY
                          WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

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                       CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:
                _LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_.
                                   1887




INTRODUCTION.


WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR was born on the 30th of January, 1775, and died at
the age of eighty-nine in September, 1864.  He was the eldest son of a
physician at Warwick, and his second name, Savage, was the family name of
his mother, who owned two estates in Warwickshire—Ipsley Court and
Tachbrook—and had a reversionary interest in Hughenden Manor,
Buckinghamshire.  To this property, worth £80,000, her eldest son was
heir.  That eldest son was born a poet, had a generous nature, and an
ardent impetuous temper.  The temper, with its obstinate claim of
independence, was too much for the head master of Rugby, who found in
Landor the best writer of Latin verse among his boys, but one ready to
fight him over difference of opinion about a Latin quantity.  In 1793
Landor went to Trinity College, Oxford.  He had been got rid of at Rugby
as unmanageable.  After two years at Oxford, he was rusticated; thereupon
he gave up his chambers, and refused to return.  Landor’s father, who had
been much tried by his unmanageable temper, then allowed him £150 a year