o the author's memory; for by the specimen of it
that has reached us, it seems to contain only such stuff as has a direct
tendency to expose both to ridicule."

{19} There is an edition with a brief Introduction by Augustine Birrell,
published by Elliot Stock in 1904, and another, with an Introduction by
"H. C.," was issued by H. R. Allenson in 1906.

{31} The Rev. Angus Mackay, author of _The Brontes In Fact and Fiction_.
He was Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Dean Bridge, Edinburgh, when he
died, aged 54, on New Year's Day, 1907. Earlier in life he had been a
Curate at Olney.

{34} John Newton (1725-1807) had been the captain of a slave ship before
his 'conversion.' He became Curate of Olney in 1764 and published the
famous Olney Hymns with Cowper in 1779. In 1780 Newton became the
popular Incumbent of St. Mary Woolnoth, London.

{35} See the Globe _Cowper_, with an Introduction by the Rev. William
Benham, the Rector of St. Edmund's, Lombard Street. Canon Benham has
written many books, but he has done no better piece of work than this
fine Introduction which first appeared in 1870.

{36} Thomas Scott (1747-1821). His commentaries first appeared in
weekly parts between 1788 and 1792, and were first issued in ten volumes,
1823-25. He was Rector of Astin Sandford in Buckinghamshire from 1801
until his death. His _Life_ was published by his son, the Rev. John
Scott, in 1822.

{37} Thomas Percy (1729-1811) became Vicar of Easton Maudit,
Northamptonshire, in 1753. Johnson visited him here in 1764. In 1765
Percy published his _Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_. He became
Bishop of Dromere in 1782.

{38a} William Hayley (1745-1820) was counted a great poet in his day and
placed in the same rank with Dryden and Pope. He wrote _Triumphs of
Temper_ 1781, _Triumphs of Music_ 1804, and many other works; but he is
of interest here by virtue of his _Life and Letters of William Cowper_,
_Esq._, _with Remarks on Epistolary Writers_, published in 1803.

{38b} Robert Southey (1774-1843), whose _Life and Works of Cowper_ is in
fifteen volumes, which were published by Baldwin & Cradock between the
years 1835 and 1837. The attractive form in which the works are
presented, the many fine steel engravings, and the excellent type make
this still the only way for book lovers to approach Cowper. Southey had
to suffer the competition of the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, who produced,
through Saunders & Otley, about the same