containing 1215 lines, was ready to supplant the fourth edition. A sixth edition, a reproduction of the fifth, may have appeared in October. A seventh edition of 75 pages, containing 1334 lines, which presented the poem in its final shape, was issued subsequently to November 27, 1813 (a seventh edition was advertised in the Morning Chronicle, December 22, 1813), the date of the last revise, or of an advance copy of the issue. The ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth editions belong to 1814, while a fourteenth edition is known to have been issued in 1815. In that year and henceforward the Giaour was included in the various collected editions of Byron's works. The subjoined table assigns to their several editions the successive accretions in their order as now published :

Lines.

I- 6. MS. First edition of 28 pages.

7- 20.

Second edition. [47 pages, 816 lines.]

21-45. Third edition. [53 pages, 950 lines.]

Approximate date, June 24, 1813.

July 30, 1813.

46-102.

Second edition.

103-167. Fifth edition.

[66 pages, 1215 lines.]

August 25, 1813.

168-199. MS. First edition of 28 pages.

200-250. Third edition.

251-252.

Seventh edition. [75 pages, 1334 lines.]

253-276. Third edition.

November 27, 1813.

277-287. MS. First edition of 28 pages.

288-351. Third edition. (Second issue?) August 11, 1813.

[56 pages, 1004,? 1014 lines.]

352-503. MS. First edition of 28 pages.

504-518. Third edition.

519-619. MS. First edition of 28 pages.

620-654. Second edition.

655-688. MS. First edition of 28 pages.

689-722. Fourth edition. [58 pages, 1048 lines.] August 19. 723-737. MS. First edition of 28 pages. 733-4 not in the MS., but in First edition of 28 pages.

Lines.

Giaour.

Edition of

738-745. First edition of 41 pages.

June 5, 1813.

746–786. First edition of 28 pages. Not in the MS. MS. First edition of 28 pages.

787— 831.

832 915.

916- 998.

999-1023.

1024-1028.

Seventh edition.

First edition of 41 pages. 937-970 no MS.
Second edition.

Seventh edition.

1029-1079. First edition of 41 pages.

1080-1098. Third edition.

1099-1125. First edition of 41 pages.

1126-1130.

Seventh edition.

1218-1256. Fifth edition.

1257-1318. First edition of 41 pages. 1319-1334. MS. First edition of 28 pages.

NOTE.

The first edition is advertised in the Morning Chronicle, June 5; a third edition on August 11, 13, 16, 31; a fifth edition, with considerable additions, on September 11; on November 29 a 66 'new edition;" and on December 27, 1813, a seventh edition, together with a repeated notice of the Bride of Abydos. These dates do not exactly correspond with Murray's contemporary memoranda of the dates of the successive issues.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common in the East than formerly; either because the ladies are more circumspect than in the "olden time," or because the Christians have better fortune, or less enterprise. The story, when entire, contained the adventures of a female slave, who was thrown, in the Mussulman manner, into the sea for infidelity, and avenged by a young Venetian, her lover, at the time the Seven Islands were possessed by the Republic of Venice, and soon after the Arnauts were beaten back from the Morea, which they had ravaged for some time subsequent to the Russian invasion. The desertion of the Mainotes, on being refused the plunder of Misitra, led to the abandonment of that enterprise, and to the desolation of the Morea, during which the cruelty exercised on all sides was unparalleled even in the annals of the faithful.