She also mentions a little volume of her own verses, which the boy had printed with the tell-tale name of “H-ll-n Sh-ll-y” on the title-page.  Medwin gives a long account of a poem on the story of the Wandering Jew, composed by him in concert with Shelley during the winter of 1809-1810.  They sent the manuscript to Thomas Campbell, who returned it with the observation that it contained but two good lines:—­

    It seemed as if an angel’s sigh
    Had breathed the plaintive symphony.

Undeterred by this adverse criticism, Shelley subsequently offered “The Wandering Jew” to two publishers, Messrs. Ballantyne and Co. of Edinburgh, and Mr. Stockdale of Pall Mall; but it remained in Ms. at Edinburgh till 1831, when a portion was printed in “Fraser’s Magazine.”

Just before leaving Eton he finished a novel of “Zastrozzi”, which some critics trace to its source in “Zofloya the Moor,” perused by him at Sion House.  The most astonishing fact about this incoherent medley of mad sentiment is that it served to furnish forth the 40-pound Eton supper already spoken of, that it was duly ushered into the world of letters by Messrs. Wilkie and Robinson on the 5th of June, 1810, and that it was seriously reviewed.  The dates of Shelley’s publications now come fast and frequent.  In the late summer of 1810 he introduced himself to Mr. J.J.  Stockdale, the then fashionable publisher of poems and romances, at his house of business in Pall Mall.  With characteristic impetuosity the young author implored assistance in a difficulty.  He had commissioned a printer in Horsham to strike off the astounding number of 1480 copies of a volume of poems; and he had no money to pay the printer’s bill.  Would Stockdale help him out of this dilemma, by taking up the quires and duly ushering the book into the world?  Throughout his life Shelley exercised a wonderful fascination over the people with whom he came in contact, and almost always won his way with them as much by personal charm as by determined and impassioned will.  Accordingly on this occasion Stockdale proved accommodating.  The Horsham printer was somehow satisfied; and on the 17th of September, 1810, the little book came out with the title of “Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire.”  This volume has disappeared; and much fruitless conjecture has been expended upon the question of Shelley’s collaborator in his juvenile attempt.  Cazire stands for some one; probably it is meant to represent a woman’s name, and that woman may have been either Elizabeth Shelley or Harriet Grove.  The “Original Poetry” had only been launched a week, when Stockdale discovered on a closer inspection of the book that it contained some verses well known to the world as the production of M.G.  Lewis.  He immediately communicated with Shelley, and the whole edition was suppressed—­not, however, before about one hundred copies had passed into circulation.  To which of the collaborators this daring act of petty