f British Plants_, 3rd ed.,
1879, p. 59.

{15} Reprinted from the _Cornhill Magazine_, June 1919.

{16} Though, I confess, I only guess at some of them.

{17a} Fogle means a silk handkerchief, according to Farmer and Henley's
_Dictionary of Slang_, 1905, and may perhaps suggest the picking of
pockets. Its connection with Bandanna is obvious.

{17b} The appropriateness of Burke is sufficiently obvious. The trial
of Thurtell by Judge Park was also a _cause celebre_. There was a ballad
of the day in which the victim is described with some bloodthirsty detail
which I omit:

"His name was Mr William Weare,
He lived in Lyons Inn."

After the murder Thurtell drove back to London and had a hearty supper at
an eating-house. Judge Park, who tried him, is said to have exclaimed:
"Commit a murder and eat six pork chops! Good God, what dreams the man
must have had." Catherine Hayes was also a well-known miscreant.

{18} A collocation preceding by half a dozen years Doyle's immortal
travels of Brown, Jones, and Robinson.

{19} There is also a Mrs Glowry (chap. xxvi.), who speculates as to
whether the Pope is to fall in 1836 or 1839.

{20} _The History of Pickwick_, 1891, pp. 14, 15.

{21} _The History of Pickwick_, 1891, p. 153.

{23} How much better is the name Madge Wildfire for a somewhat similar
character in _The Heart of Midlothian_.

{25} The name of the ducal seat Gatherum Castle is utterly bad.

{26} Here referred to by his Christian name only. I think it was this
eminent M.D. who was called in when Bishop Grantley was dying.

{29a} In two volumes: Oxford, 1857.

{29b} The book, according to the _Dictionary of National Biography_, was
edited by Warton and Huddesford.

{30a} "Even when a Boy, he [T. H.] was observed to be continually poring
over the Old Tomb-Stones in his own Church-yard, as soon almost as he was
Master of the Alphabet."

{30b} The following description is taken from _Reliquiae Hearnianae_,
vol. ii., p. 904. Hearne wrote:--

5_th Feb._ 1729.--"My best friend, Mr Francis Cherry, was a very
handsome man, particularly when young. His hands were delicately
white. He was a man of great parts, and one of the finest gentlemen
in England. K. James II., seeing him on horseback in Windsor forest,
when his majesty was hunting, asked who it was, and . . . said he
never saw any one sit a horse better in his life.

"Mr Cherry was educated