JOHN MURRAY (2) his son, was then fifteen. During his minority the business was conducted by Samuel Highley, who was admitted a partner, but in 1803 the partner ship was dissolved. Byron called him "the Anak of publishers." In 1807 he took a share with Constable in publishing Marmion, and became part owner of the Edinburgh Review, although with the help of Canning he launched in opposition the Quarterly Review (Feb. 1809), with William Gifford as its editor, and Scott, Canning, Southey, Hookham Frere and John Wilson Croker among its earliest contributors. Murray was closely connected with Constable, but, to his distress, was compelled in 1813 to break this association on account of Constable's business methods, which, as he foresaw, led to disaster. In 1811 the first two cantos of Childe Harold were brought to Murray by R. C. Dallas, to whom Byron had presented them. Murray paid Dallas 500 guineas for the copyright. In 1812 he bought the publishing business of William Miller (1769-1844), and migrated to 5o Albemarle street. Literary London flocked to his house, and Murray became the centre of the publishing world. It was in his drawing-room that Scott and Byron first met, and here, in 1824, after the death of Lord Byron, his memoirs manuscript, considered by Gifford unfit for publication, was destroyed. A close friendship existed between Byron and his publisher, and their correspondence is one of the chief literary documents of the period. For political reasons
business relations ceased after the publication of the 5th canto of Don Juan. Murray paid Byron some .L20,000 for his various poems. To Thomas Moore he gave nearly 15,000 for writing the life of Byron, and to Crabbe £3,000 for Tales of the Hall. He died on June 27, His son, JOHN MURRAY (3) (1808-1892), began the famous series "Murray's Handbooks" for travellers; he himself wrote several volumes. (See his article on the "Handbooks" in Murray's Magazine, November 1889.) He published many books of travel; also Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, The Speaker's Com mentary, Smith's Dictionaries; and works by Hallam, Gladstone, Lyell, Layard, Dean Stanley, Borrow, Darwin, Livingstone and Samuel Smiles. He died on April 2, 1892, and was succeeded by his eldest son, SIR JOHN MURRAY (4) (1851-1928), under whom, in association with his brother, A. H. Hallam Murray, the firm was continued. Sir John Murray edited Gibbon's Autobiography and Byron's Correspondence. He died Nov. 3o, 1928.
See Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and his Friends, Memoirs and Correspondence of the late John Murray . . . (1891), for the second John Murray ; a series of three articles by F. Espinasse on "The House of Murray," in The Critic (Jan. 186o) ; and a paper by the same writer in Harper's New Monthly Magazine (Sept. 1885). See the Letters and Journals of Byron (ed. Prothero, 1898-1901).