LYT'TON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER. See BELWER-LYTTON, EDWARD. LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER 1831 91 ) A poet and statesman, only son of the novelist Bulwer-Lytton (q.v.) and best known under his pseudonym Owen Meredith. He was born in London, November S, 1S31. Ile was educated at Harrow and at Bonn, where he devoted himself to modern languages. After long; service as diplomatist at Washington, where he was private secretary to his uncle, Lord (1849), at Florence, Paris, The Hague, Madrid, Vienna (1868-72), Constantinople, Lisbon, and other places, he wa.; appointed by Lord Beacons field to be Viceroy of India (1S76). The memor able events of his administration were the procla mation of the Queen as Empress of India, the great famine, and the Afghan War. A man of immense' energy and resources, he inaugurated many internal reforms in the Government of In 1880 he resigned and returned to England. His administration of India was harsh ly criticised. He was even accused of being a puppet of Downing Street. Time, however, wrought a change. His political opponents came to admire him. On the death of his father (1873) he became Baron Lytton, and in 1880 was made Earl of Lytton. In 1883 be published the first two volumes of a biography of his father. This biog raphy, unfortunately, breaks off with the year 1832. The son would have heen put to a severe test had he candidly followed his father's career from 1832 From 1SS7 till his death, November 24, 1891. lie was British Ambassador at Paris.
Among his many vblumes of verse are: Clytem nestra (1S55) The Wanderer (1857), contain ing his best lyrics; Lucile (1S60), a very pop ular novel in verse. avowedly borrowed in part from George Sand's La Lucile it in rhyming anapxstie couplets. and therefore an interesting experiment in English literary history. Lytton himself rather disapproved of Lucile. Tann hiiuser, written in collaboration with .Tulian Fane (1861) , imitations of Tennyson; Scrbski Pesme (1861), imitations of Servian songs; Orral, or the Fool of Time, a work of importance because it is the only English reflection of the mystical poetry of Poland that arose after the extinction of Polish liberty (1869) ; Fables in Song (1S74) ; Olena•eril (1885), a novel in verse; and King Poppy (1892), are his other most indicative works. Consult Selections front Poems, with preface by Betbam-Edwards (Lon don, 1890). Consult also Balfour, History of Lord Lytton's Indian Administration, 1876-1880 (London. 1599).
thirteenth letter in the Eng lish alphabet. In form it is de rived from the Phcenieian through the Greek and Latin with little variation to the present time. Its form in the Bunie fnthark, for example, is pi, where it stands as the twentieth rune and is called Mann. The Greek name for the letter• mu, comes from the Phcenician mu. 'water.' This was probably the original form of the word, the Hebrew win being a translation.