P. 80. The note on Young was printed off before I saw the sixth volume of Moore's Diary in which (11) I find Rogers very happily remarking to Moore, on this very subject of Young's mirth in conversation, "I dare say that people who act melancholy as he did, must have a vent in some way or other. Now, mutes at funerals-I can "imagine them, when they throw off their cloaks, playing leap-frog together." P. 81. After Burckhardt's Syria, insert "Ed. 1822."

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P. 82-87. The Mr. John Evans of Pullin's-row, who relates the curious and characteristic anecdotes of Goldsmith in his capacity of usher at Milner's school, was at this time a popular preacher in the baptist persuasion, and already distinguished as the writer of a Brief Sketch of the Denominations, &c. He conducted a school in Pullin's-row; and his high character is an additional voucher for the authenticity of what he relates. He was a very prolific writer. See a list of his works in Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816), 110; and in the London Catalogue (1846), 161. He sent his anecdotes to the fifty-third volume of the European Magazine (373-375). P. 93. The words " 'grew acquainted with love" in Johnson's letter to Lord Chesterfield should have been " grew at last acquainted with love." I was misled by quoting from a collection of Johnson's Works, execrably edited, and discreditable to the trade. At p. 96, the references to Walpole, iv. 160, and to Nichols, 530, were accidentally omitted.

P. 104-105. I had mislaid the original passages of abuse between Griffiths and Smollett when these pages were written. I now subjoin them. Griffiths, remarking on a pamphlet by some irritated author (an Occasional Critic) abusive of Smollett, had said of the reviewer and the reviewed: "By their reciprocal defamation, they appear "to be physicians without practice; authors without learning; men without decency, "and (notwithstanding he has made some lucky discoveries of their mistakes, yet, if "their critical merit be no greater than his, the public will, probably, be ready to "add) critics without judgment.' To which Smollett, addressing "the Old Gentle66 woman who directs the Monthly Review," replied: "There is to be sure great "elegance in this long, drawling, disjointed, paralytic sentence, that, propped upon "the crutch of parenthesis, drags its slow length along. But good, now, Gammer, "will you tell us how you discovered that what we said of the Occasional Critic was "defamation? Have we said anything of him, but what you yourself have expressly "confirmed?.. Have you found out by his defamation, that we are physicians "without practice; authors without learning; men without decency; gentlemen "without manners; and critics without judgment? Defamation implies slander, "Goody, and slander is founded upon falsehood," &c.

P. 107. "Eighteen pence a piece" should have been "eighteen pence a quart; and I have some doubt (from observing a passage in Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, vi. 29-30) whether my dates respecting the Poker Club are quite correct. But it is in no degree material to the sense of the passage. At p. 110 I might have added that the celebrated painter was nephew to the author of the Epigoniad. P. 114. Warburton's abuse of Smollett is too characteristic to have been omitted in a note. "It was well observed that nobody in the Augustan age could conceive that so soon after, a Horse should be made Consul; and yet matters were so well "prepared by the time of Caligula, that nobody was surprized at the matter. So, when "Clarendon and Temple wrote History, they little thought the time was so near when a vagabond Scot should write nonsense ten thousand strong." Letters to Hurd, 278.

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Gay and Hanway (see Coryat's Crudities, i. 134); and Drayton's lines must be held simply to refer to a protection from sun and wind. What Wolfe writes from Paris to his mother in 1752 bears out exactly what I say of the custom in Hanway's time. "The people" he says "here use umbrellas in hot weather to defend them from the and something of the same kind to secure them from snow and rain. I wonder a practice so useful is not introduced in England, where there are such frequent "showers; and especially in the country, where they can be expanded without any "inconveniency." I may add that Southey quotes this letter in his Common Place Book (i. 574), and accompanies it with the remark: "My mother was born in the year when this was written. And I have heard her say she remembered the time "when any person would have been hooted for carrying an umbrella in Bristol.”

P. 124. In the letter quoted from Gray to Hurd, " many topics of consolation" should be "moving topics of consolation ;" and the authority for it should have been subjoined as Works, iii. 166, 169, 177-178.

P. 128. This Temple Exchange Coffee-house was called "George's," and some curious notices of it may be seen in Cunningham's Hand-Book of London, 197.

P. 150-153. I have an impression that this letter was printed before, but the authority from which it is here taken is Prior, i. 268, 273. The passage in it about the starving of Butler and Otway, coupled with the remark, written at the same date for the first edition of the Polite Learning, as to its sufficing for one age to have neglected "Sale, Savage, Amhurst and Moore" (he struck Savage and Amhurst out of the second edition, though he had meanwhile again introduced them in the 8th number of the Bee), seems to connect itself with Dryden's affecting remark in his letter to Lord Rochester, "Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and "starved Mr. Butler."

P. 171. In support of my statement about Mr. Griffiths, see Monthly Review, ii. 431, March 1750. For other evidences of the man's taste in such matters, see the Monthly Review, v. 43, 70, June 1751; and, at the close of volume vii, the list of books "published by R. Griffiths." The book to which I allude is that which was written by the son of a Colonel Cleland, who is generally supposed to have been Pope's Cleland, but is more likely to have been his brother or cousin. Pope's friend is described always as Major Cleland. A letter from his infamous descendant or kinsman is printed in the Garrick Correspondence, i. 56-59.

P. 185. In giving the reference for the review of Murphy's Orphan of China as the Critical Review, vii. 434-440, May 1759, I might have added that the remarks in it both as to Shakspeare and Voltaire are better than usual. On the next page I have omitted the reference for the notice of Formey's Miscellanies (Critical Review, vii. 486, June 1759; in which, by the way, occurs an expression repeated both in his letters and his novel, where he laughs at professors in college with "their "whole lives passed away between the fireside and the easy chair "); and also the reference for the paper on Van Egmont's Travels in the Critical Review, vii. 504-512, June 1759. On the page following, in second note, "98" ought to have been "89." P. 190. The doubt I have here expressed whether the articles unacknowledged by Goldsmith during his life, but reprinted as his on the authority of Percy and Thomas Wright (in Isaac Reed's 1798 edition of the Essays, &c.), have in every case been correctly attributed to him, is borne out by the opinion of my friend Mr. Cunningham, founded on subsequent and closer examination; and the third volume of his edition of the Works, now passing through the press, while it will contain all these unacknowledged Essays, will yet most properly print them as such, in a type distinct from the rest.

P. 193. The chapters of the Enquiry into Polite Learning are here quoted from Percy's edition of 1801, and do not so stand in the ordinary editions. And I should remark that passages are occasionally quoted from the same edition of 1801; though in the main I have followed the first edition, both here and at pp. 238-240.

P. 215. Mrs. Thrale (Anecdotes, 232-233) is the best authority for the knocking down of bookseller Osborne. "And how was that affair, in earnest? Now, do tell "me, Mr. Johnson?" "There is nothing to tell, dearest lady, but that he was "insolent and I beat him, and that he was a blockhead and told of it, which I should never have done; so the blows have been multiplying, and the wonder thickening "for all these years, as Thomas was never a favourite with the public. I have beat many a fellow, but the rest had the wit to hold their tongues."

P. 224. The definition of philosophy as the moral of the essay in the second number of the Bee was not inserted till its reprint in 1765.

P. 249. The passage quoted from Cumberland will be found in his Memoirs, i. 80-81.

P. 254. In a note to this page, misled by a note in a recent publication, I regret to say that I have prematurely killed a very worthy man, Mr. Glover, who, though he certainly suffered much from the neglect of the great people who deserted him on the decline of his political fortunes, instead of wreaking their spite upon himself by doing the silly thing here mentioned, more sensibly retrieved his position by a successful speculation in the copper trade, and lived not only sufficiently long (as indeed I admit in a later passage in this volume, 411) to punish Mr. Pitt by writing him down in a book, but to be mistaken, with his small cocked hat, his accurately dressed wig, and his bag, for "the tall gentleman," the veritable author of Junius, who was seen throwing a letter into Woodfall's office in Ivy-lane.

P. 262. I might have added a good illustration of Goldsmith's remark on Hawkins Browne's imitations by quoting what is so sensibly said by Pope (Spence's Anecdotes, 157-158) : "Browne is an excellent copyist; and those who take it ill of him are very much in the wrong. They are very strongly mannered, and perhaps could not "write so well if they were not so; but still 'tis a fault that deserves the being "pointed out."

P. 273. In mentioning the Lettres Persanes as having preceded the Chinese Letters, I ought not to have forgotten a delightful paper in the Spectator (No. 50) which preceded the Lettres Persanes. I quote Swift's Journal to Stella (Works, ii. 248). "The Spectator is written by Steele with Addison's help: 'tis often very 66 pretty. Yesterday it was made of a noble hint I gave him long ago for his Tatlers, "about an Indian supposed to write his travels into England. I repent he ever had "it. I intended to have written a book on that subject. I believe he has spent it "all in one paper, and all the under hints there are mine too; but I never see him "or Addison."

P. 276. The allusion to Russia should have been given as from Letter lxxxvii; and the word "would" at the close of the first line of the note at page 278, "if he "desire," should be transferred to the third line, "and would introduce."

P. 290. I ought to have added, to my mention of the application from the Bowstreet magistrates on the subject of the Beggar's Opera, that Colman's answer was very spirited. He declined to be a party to Garrick's consent, and "for his own part cannot help differing in opinion with the magistrates, thinking that the "theatre is one of the very few houses in the neighbourhood that does not contribute "to increase the number of thieves." Post. Let. 194.

P. 298-300. I here give, from the Newbery MSS. in the possession of Mr. Murray

of Albemarle-street, the text of the receipts referred to. "Received from Mr. Newbery "three guineas for a pamphlet respecting the Cock-lane Ghost. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, "March 5th 1762." "Received from Mr. Newbery eleven guineas and an half for an "Abridgment of Plutarch's Lives, March 5th 1762. OLIVER GOLDSMITH." The notes to Newbery quoted as to the latter compilation are on scraps of paper, wafered, or sent open, and evidently sent by hand. The receipt at the bottom of page 300-301 is dated 5th March, 1762, and written on the back of a torn receipt for the Chinese Letters also in Goldsmith's handwriting; and I might have added that though fourteen guineas would seem thus to have comprised the entire munificent payment for the Life of Nash, he made some curious and important additions, dictated doubtless by a real love of the subject, in his second impression of the book. And for an interesting recollection of Goldsmith's occasional visits to Bath, here mentioned, let me refer the reader to Mr. Mangin's letter to myself, at p. 442-443.

P. 302. "Hitherto careless" at line 17, should have been "As yet restricted." At p. 307 and p. 308, I ought to have given a reference to Grainger's Letters, 25, 26, &c.

P. 308. I meant to have added to that admirable saying of Johnson's at the end of the last note, these lines from Swift's Journal to Stella. "There is something of "farce in all these mournings, let them be ever so serious. People will pretend to "grieve more than they really do, and that takes off from their true grief." Works, iii. 196.

P. 309-310. In further proof of the not unkindly feeling of Johnson to Foote, a characteristic letter to Mrs. Thrale on hearing of his death in 1776 was worth quoting. "Did you see Foote at Brightelmstone? Did you think he would so soon be gone? "Life, says Falstaff, is a shuttle. He was a fine fellow in his way; and the "world is really impoverished by his sinking glories. Murphy ought to write his "life, at least to give the world a Footeana. Now, will any of his contemporaries "bewail him? Will Genius change his sex to weep? I would really have his life "written with diligence." Piozzi Letters, i. 396.

P. 312. In connection with Goldsmith's visit to the Cherokee kings, let me mention Foote's, the rather because the passage (written by Mrs. Thrale in 1781) shows what the impression was that remained among the set as to Goldsmith's philosophy about rich and poor, luxury and simplicity, many years after he had passed away. "It has been thought by many wise folks," she writes to Johnson, “that we "fritter our pleasures all away by refinement, and when one reads Goldsmith's works, "either verse or prose, one fancies that in corrupt life there is more enjoyment-yet 66 we should find little solace from ale-house merriment or cottage carousals, whatever "the best wrestler on the green might do I suppose; mere brandy and brown sugar "liqueur, like that which Foote presented the Cherokee kings with, and won their "hearts from our fine ladies who treated them with sponge biscuits and frontiniac." Letters, ii. 215. For a further account of Peter Annet, see Hawkins's Life of Johnson, 566.

P. 314. With the hope that some possible trace might be found of this application, or memorial, which there is no reason to doubt was really sent by Goldsmith to the first minister, Lord Dudley Stuart was so kind, at my request, as to cause strict search to be made through the voluminous and very interesting unpublished correspondence of Lord Bute. But nothing was discovered of it, or in any way bearing upon it.

P. 320. George Steevens's account of Levett appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for February, 1785.

Pages 322, 323, 326, 327, 370, 371, 400. For additions to the Newbery and

Fleming accounts printed in these pages, and for some errors of transcription corrected by comparison with the original MSS, see pp. 104-107, of my second volume. Besides the general receipt, quoted at the bottom of page 324, I may add that the cautious Mr. Newbery seems to have required specific acknowledgments in addition. Thus on one sheet, among the papers in Mr. Murray's possession, I find the following: "October 11, 1763. Receivd of Mr. John Newbery eleven guineas in full for writing the introduction and preface to Dr. Brooke's Natural History. OLIVER GOLD"SMITH. "Oct. 11, 1763. Receivd of Mr. John Newbery three guineas for a "Preface to the History of the World. OLIVER GOLDSMITH."-"Oct. 11, 1763. Receivd "of Mr. John Newbery twenty-one pounds, which, with what I receivd before, is in "full for the copy of the History of England, in a series of letters, two volumes in 12mo. "OLIVER GOLDSMITH."—"Oct. 11, 1763. Receivd of Mr. John Newbery twenty-one pounds for translating the Life of Christ, and the Lives of the Fathers. OLIVER GOLD66 SMITH." ."-At the top of another large sheet is Goldsmith's promissory note "on "demand" for the balance named at p. 323. I perceive, too, that Newbery had a considerable share in a newspaper at Reading (his native place), and that Goldsmith's compilation about "the late war" (p. 324) had been printed in this paper from week to week before its publication in a collected form.

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P. 332. The quotation from Reynolds is at the close of the Sixth Discourse, Works, i. 186.

P. 334. In the first line of first note, insert "of State" after "Under Secretary ;" and the remark on the great people who sought election into the Club (335-336), requires to be modified by what the reader will find on a subsequent page (ii, 167169). There seems to be no doubt whatever that the Monday meetings of the Club continued till December 1772, when the change to Friday took place. See Percy Memoir, 72.

P. 338. The reference to Madame d'Arblay's Memoirs should have been ii, 164, At p. 340 I might have referred the reader for additional facts as to Burke's outset in life to my second volume, p. 300-302. At p. 342, the authority of Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes, 209, should have been added to the first note. At p. 348, the reference "282" in first note should be "289."

P. 350. The remark on Beauclerc is in all respects confirmed by a passage in Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes (184). She is describing Johnson's frequently expressed dislike of what he called "effort" in conversation; and adds that the encomiums she had so often heard him pronounce on the manner of Topham Beauclerc in society, constaħtly ended in that peculiar phrase, that "it was without effort."

P. 351-352. In connection with pleasant Dick Eastcourt, let me quote two passages from Swift's Journal to Stella. "I dined with Rowe Prior could not come : "and after dinner we went to a blind tavern, where Congreve, Sir Richard Temple, "Eastcourt and Charley Main, were over a bowl of bad punch. . we staid till 12." (Works, ii. 63.) "I came back and called at Congreve's, and dined with him and "Eastcourt, and laughed till six . . . Congreve's nasty white wine has given me the "heartburn." (ii. 182.) Add, after the reference to the Piozzi Letters at the bottom of p. 360, See also ii. 66, 80, 171, 175-176, 311, &c. &c.

P. 362. In the third line of note, alter "down a long winding," to "down a very "long entry." The authority for the correction in the last note of p. 367, is the European Magazine (xxx. 160. Sept. 1796.) At p. 368 the asterisk referring to note has dropped out, and should be replaced at "no passion for it." At p. 372, an anecdote appears for which I have given no authority. It is told in Prior (ii. 33), on the relation of Mrs. Gwyn, but I saw it also in an earlier publication, and have lost the

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