ADDITIONAL NOTES, AND COEEECTIONS.
No one who observes the immense number of references made in this
book, -will be surprised that on glancing back through the completed sheets
I should have still some errors to correct and omissions to supply ; rior can
I hope that these -will be altogether repaired by such additional notes as
I now request the reader to insert in the places indicated below. In every
case the edition of the authority used is specified at its first introduction,
and always afterwards adhered to.
VOLUME I.
Page 16. Zabova; in the title of Shakspeare's comedy, should be jbabour's. Page 18,
and in other places up to page 94, Goldsmith's JEnquiry is -wrongly spelt with an /.
Page 25, Zaaoder is printed incorrectly L<wder.
P. 25. In support of my remark that the sore disadvantage Tinder which Goldsmith
sank at College, might have been mastered by a stronger judgment and more resolute
purpose, let me quote from the Anecdotes of the Life (i. 13) of Bishop Watson, who
was himself a sizar at Cambridge exactly ten years after this date. ' * Perceiving that
" the sizars were not so respectfully looked upon by the pensioners and scholars of the
" house, as they ought to have been, inasmuch as the most learned and leading men
" in. the University have ever arisen from that order, I offered myself for a scholar-
" slip a year before the usual time of the sizars sitting, and succeeded, &c. &c."
P. 26. I ought to have recollected, in making the remark on. Flood, that ho was
four years younger than Goldsmith, and a fellow-commoner.
P. 39. In regard to the otter-hunting I ought not here to have omitted the mention
of a passage in the Animated Nature. After giving Buffon's description, of the otter
coupling in winter and bringing forth in the beginning of spring, he adds : "It is
" certainly different with us, for its young are never found till the latter end of
" summer ; and I have frequently, when a boy, discovered their retreats, and pursued
" them at that season." iii. 240. A curious account follows of his personal expe-
rience as to their being trained for hunting fish. 242-3.
P. 50. An incident of his residence at Edinburgh ought here to have been included.
It would seem from an entry in the books of the Medical Society that he became a
member on the 13th January 1753, but without complying with the usual condition of
reading a paper on a medical subject. In the third note on this page a misstatement
occurs which is corrected at p. 448.
P. 53. In the note acknowledging the curious and valuable extract from the
Edinburgh merchant-tailor's ledger " advocates " ought to be " signet library."
P. 57- Some mention might here perhaps have been made of the familiar terms iii