ce to read it once: indeed the first time
is the most trying. It is a very wonderful, and quite original, and
unique, Book: but almost intolerable from its Length and
Sentimentality.'

{213} See p. 207.

{217} In Crabbe's Borough.

{219a} _Essais_, i. 18.

{219b} Lucr. iv. 76-80.

{220a} Formerly Professor of Sanskrit in King's College, London.

{220b} On English Adjectives in -able, with special reference to
reliable, 1877.

{224} The Hon. J. R. Lowell, formerly United States Minister at the
Courts of Madrid and St. James'.

{231} Chap. xlv.

{234} Melanges et Lettres.

{237} Memorials of Charlotte Williams-Wynn, p. 59.

{238} Criticisms, and Elucidations of Catullus, by H. A. J. Munro.

{239} Of Lamb's Life, mentioned in the following letter.

{240a} Book II. Song 2.

{240b} Endymion, i. 26, etc.

{240c} FitzGerald's memory was at fault here. The lines are from
Tennyson's Gardener's Daughter.

{242} Charles Lamb. A calendar of his life in four pages.

{243} That to Bernard Barton about Mitford's vases, December 1, 1824.

{247} A calendar of Charles Lamb's Life.

{251} Not in the Essays but in the Colours of Good and Evil, 4: 'For as
he sayth well, _Not to resolve is to resolve_.'

{252} See Lamb's Verses to Ayrton (Letters, ed. Ainger, II. 2).

{253} The Only Darter, A Suffolk Clergyman's Reminiscence. Written in
the Suffolk Dialect by Archdeacon Groome under the name of John Dutfen.

{254} Wesley's Journal, 30 May 1786, and 22 May 1788.

{255a} Edwin Edwards.

{255b} Lowestoft.

{256a} These two lines are crossed out.

{256b} Tales of the Hall, Book XI. vol. vi., p. 284, quoted from memory.

{259a} This was never finished.

{259b} Lord Carnarvon.

{267} Tales of the Hall, Book X.

{270} A year before, FitzGerald wrote to Professor Cowell:

'I was trying yesterday to recover Gray's Elegy, as you had been doing
down here at Christmas, with shut Eyes. But I had to return to the
Book: and am far from perfect yet: though I leave out several Stanzas;
reserving one of the most beautiful which Gray omitted. Plenty of
faults still: but one doats on almost every line, every line being a
Proverb now.'

{271} Tales of the Hall, Book XIV. (vol. vii. p. 89).

{272} Tales of the Hall, Book XIV. (vol. vii. p. 89).

{273} On Foot in Spain, by J. S. Campion, 1879.

{274} From Calderon's _Cada uno para si_, the seven lines