ement I persist in
recommending for your Chapel: but no one will do it. Instead of
Lucretius' line (which might apply to Shakespeare, etc.) at the foot of
Newton's Statue, you should put the first words of Bacon's Novum Organum,
(Homo) 'Naturae Minister et Interpres': which eminently becomes Newton,
as he stands, with his Prism; and connects him with his great Cambridge
Predecessor, who now (I believe) sits in the Ante-Chapel along with him.'

{162} Agamemnon.

{163a} Written in French, 22 July 1873.

{163b} The Family of Love, vol. viii p. 43.

{163c} Ibid. p. 40.

{164} Tacitus, by W. B. Donne, in Ancient Classics for English Readers,
1873.

{165} Ann. XIV. 10.

{169} In January 1874, Donne wrote to Thompson, 'You probably know that
our friend E. F. G. has been turned out of his long inhabited lodgings by
a widow weighing at least fourteen stone, who is soon to espouse, and
sure to rule over, his landlord, who weighs at most nine stone--"impar
congressus." "Ordinary men and Christians" would occupy a new and
commodious house which they have built, and which, in this case, you
doubtless have seen. But the FitzGeralds are not _ordinary_ men, however
_Christian_ they may be, and our friend is now looking for an alien home
for himself, his books, pictures, and other "rich moveables."'

{170} See Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. I. 137.

{171} A copy of Pickersgill's portrait of Crabbe.

{172} Dryburgh.

{173} Dryburgh.

{174} See the Chronicle of the Drum.

{184} Chapter IV.

{187} Tales of the Hall. Book X. (vol. vi. p. 246).

{188a} Carlyle's niece, now Mrs. Alexander Carlyle.

{188b} To his nephew Tom, meaning that he should outlive him. Letter of
Jeremiah Markland (Bowyer's Miscellaneous Tracts, ed. Nichols, p. 521).

{189} That his boat was intentionally run down by a felucca.

{193} Among my Books. First series.

{196} June 10, 1876, was a Saturday. Perhaps the letter was finished on
Sunday.

{197} In 1851. Wordsworth's Letters are in the second volume, pp. 145-
173.

{198} Boswell's Johnson, VIII. 183.

{199} Haydon's Memoirs, III. 199.

{200} Archdeacon Groome, Rector of Monk Soham, Suffolk.

{202} Suffolk for 'donkey.'

{206} The Song of Brunanburh by Hallam Tennyson. Contemporary Review,
Nov. 1876.

{208} In 1863 he wrote to George Crabbe,--

'I am now reading Clarissa Harlowe, for about the fifth time: I dare
say you wouldn't have patien