Carlyle's Cromwell (ed. I), i. 193.

{230a} Pliny, Ep. III. 21.

{230b} In a subsequent letter, written when this was supposed to be
lost, he says, 'I liked all your quotations, and wish to read Busbequius;
whose name would become an owl.'

{231} Lord Hatherley.

{232} In the People's Journal, ed. Saunders, iv. 355-358.

{233} iv. 104.

{235} 26 Feb. 1848.

{238} Dombey and Son.

{240} Hellenica, II. i. 25.

{241} Evenings with a Reviewer.

{242} A lithograph of the portrait by Laurence.

{243} Bernard Barton died 19 Feb. 1849.

{247} Grandson of the poet, afterwards Rector of Merton, near Walton,
Norfolk.

{251} No one but FitzGerald in humorous self-depreciation would apply
such an epithet to this delightful piece of biography.

{252a} Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton.

{252b} Of course this is not intended to be taken quite seriously. It
is to be remembered that FitzGerald also said of them, 'There are many
verses whose melody will linger in the ear, and many images that will
abide in the memory. Such surely are those of men's hearts brightening
up at Christmas "like a fire new-stirred"--of the stream that leaps along
over the pebbles "like happy hearts by holiday made light"--of the
solitary tomb showing from afar "like a lamb in the meadow," etc.'

{254a} Diogenes and his Lantern.

{254b} Old Lady Lambert.

{261} E. B. Cowell.

{262a} The Rev. George Crabbe, son of the Poet, and Vicar of Bredfield.

{262b} Bramford, near Ipswich.

{265} Charles Childs.

{266} Containing an article by Spedding on Euphranor.

{267a} The Cowells had gone to live in Oxford.

{267b} Euphranor.

{268} Azael the Prodigal, adapted from Scribe and Auber's L'Enfant
Prodigue.

{272} On the English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

{273} To Polonius.

{274} To visit his friend John Allen.

{275} Esmond.

{282} Six Dramas from Calderon.

{283a} Chief Justice.

{283b} Baron Parke, afterwards Lord Wensleydale.

{284} This conjecture was correct. See p. 307.

{285a} The Gardener and the Nightingale in Sir W. Jones's Persian
Grammar.

{285b} Vicarage.

{287a} Farlingay Hall, sometimes called Farthing Cake Hall.

{287b} Mrs. De Soyres.

{291} Not Harry, but Franklin Lushington in Points of War.

{292a} It was in the autumn of 1791.

{292b} From Cowley's translation of Anacreon.

{292c} P. 148.

{302a} This with a wider