D'Israeli's views on the _Representative_,
offers editorship of _Representative_ to Lockhart;
Scott's opinion of the scheme,
secures foreign
correspondents for _Representative_,
bears the whole expense,
appoints Lockhart Editor of _Q.R._ on Coleridge's resignation,
letters to him from Scott on Lockhart's fitness for the _Q.R._
editorship,
letters from Lockhart,
Hallam's "Constitutional History,"
renews friendship with Constable after fifteen years' interval,
other books published by him during the year,
1826--_Representative_ started--its utter failure,
health breaks down,
commercial crisis and failure of large publishing houses, Constable
& Co., Ballantyne & Co., Hurst, Robinson & Co., and others,
helps London publishers in their difficulties,
_Representative_ ceases to exist after career of six months,
misunderstanding with I. D'Israeli,
intimacy with Lockhart,
Wordsworth's proposal to him,
1827--Letter from his son describing Scott's acknowledgement of
the authorship of "Waverley Novels" at the Theatrical Fund dinner in
Edinburgh,
Henry Taylor's "Isaac Comnenus,"
buys all Byron's works,
1828--Offers Scott L1,250 for copyright of "History of Scotland,"
"Tales of a Grandfather,"
Napier's "History of Peninsular War,"
the "Wellington Despatches,"
"Library of Entertaining Knowledge,"
negotiations with Moore as to "Life of Byron,"
1829--Resigns his share in "Marmion" to Scott,
Croker's edition of "Boswell's Johnson,"
"The Family Library,"
1830--Milman's "History of the Jews,"
Moore's "Life of Byron," Vol.
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