"And who is the gentleman in lace?"-" Mr. Wilkes, sir." This information confounded him still more: he had some difficulty to restrain himself, and taking up a book sat down upon a window seat and read.

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

COMPRISING

A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATIONS
WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS; AND VARIOUS ORIGINAL
PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION;

WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES AND
NUMEROUS WORKS.

THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN,
FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY.

BY JAMES BOSWELL, Esq.

A NEW EDITION,

ELUCIDATED BY COPIOUS NOTES.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JULIAN PORTCH.

LONDON:

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE.

NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET.

[1867]