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Title: Literary by-paths in old England
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Shelley, Henry Charles
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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No. 17, Elm-tree Road, St. Johns Wood IN OLD ENGLAND gentleman sitting in state in the dining-hall, andwere duly sentenced to instant execution on thetree from which their thefts had been committed.The poets infantdaughter had beenpreviously coachedto plead for mercy,and at her entrea-ties the sentencewas as solemnlyrevoked as it hadbeen pronounced.From the earlymonths of 1835to the autumn of1840, Hood wasan exile, living firstat Coblenz andafterwards at Os- , T . Thomas Hood tend. It is not necessary to dwell upon the sequence of mone-tary misfortunes which drove him to the Con-tinent for the sake of cheap living, but thosemisfortunes ought never to be mentioned with-out the reminder being given that they were dueto no fault on his side. When at last it be-came possible for him to return home, he resided357
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LITERARY BY-PATHS for a brief season near Camberwell Green, remov-ing to No. 17, Elm-tree Road, St. Johns Wood,towards the end of 1841, on his being appointededitor of Colburns New Monthly Magazine at a salary of £300 a year. In this house heresided until the Christmas of 1843, when hemade his final flitting to Devonshire Lodge,New Finchley Road. That building, however— the scene of his death in 1845 — is no longerstanding. Hoods appointment as editor of the NewMonthly Magazine was hailed with genuinesatisfaction on all hands, and through the wholeof 1842, and well on towards the end of thenext year, he continued to discharge the dutiesof that position in such a manner as to fulfil allthe favourable prophecies of his friends. Thenthere arose some misunderstanding between Mr.Colburn and his editor, in the midst of whichthe latter received the following letter from hisstaunch friend, Charles Dickens. It will assistin its interpretation if the reader bears in mindthat when Hood rece

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