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NOTES AND eOBREOTIONS, (VQL. I.)

. At p. 373, the passage at the opening of he second note ig*ken from
PereM stoekdL's 2kWT* «*•!« ; Nekton's letter, quoted m the note at
P- 376, should have been referred to the flterr** tfom^to, i. 7; and m the
same note I hare understated the distance to Goodmans-fields.

P. 377. The branch of the Poz family to which Lady Susan belonged took the
name of Strangways, on her father's marriage with an heu-ess so called. Of 0 Btwn
it is said m Taylor's Records of his life (L 177) « He was, I have heard, a fencing
*^l master in Dublin, or the son of a fencing master, but with manners so easy and BO
*< sprightly, that he was admitted into the best company, and was a member of several
** of the most fashionable clubs at the west end of the town." In the peerages you
see him entered as Wm. O'Brien, of Stinsford, Co. Dorset, Esq. At p. 378, in tho firrt
line of the note referring to him, " afterwards " should be '' also." Crass Imposes
was not played till after his return from America.

P. 379. To the note at the bottom of the page, the following extract from the

P'iozd Letters (i. 185), might have been added—"Mr. M------was robbed going homo

*' two nights ago, and had a comical conversation with the highwayman alxrat behaving
'* like a gentleman. He paid four guineas for if 1" Mrs. Thrale to Dr. Johnson,
Oct. 1773. At the bottom of p. 383, insert " Soswell, vii. 57."

P. 398. In the passage respecting Charles Fox, " one of &Q first," should be " ono
" of the finest." An earlier opinion as to the Traveller, written by Fox while yet a
boy, mil be found at p. 39 of my second volume.

P. 400. Newbery's account, here quoted, is -written at the back of a more elaborate
memorandum, headed "Settle the following Accounts," of which the sixteenth item
runs thus: "MX Brookes's, and charge for alterations made in the Plates, and the
¹ ^e printed copy y* was obliged to be cancelled, 26Z, and to Dr. Goldsmith, writing Prefaces
'* and correcting the work, 30Z, in all 561." I need not remind the reader that the
success of his "prefaces" to this dull book, led to Ms engagement to write tho Animated
JVcctwe. See Percy Memoir, 83.

P. 402. An error is committed in. saying that Goldsmith's ballad received tho title
of the Hermit in the Vicar of Wakefteld, it having been transferred to the novel -with-
out any title. At p. 403-405, I ought to have quoted the remark which Percy makes
(Memoir, 74-75) upon Goldsmith's denial of having copied him in this ballad. " Ho

* justly vindicated the priority of his own poem ; "but in asserting that the plan of the
' other was taken from his (in nothing else have they the most distant resoinblaiwe),
^c and in reporting the conversation on this subject, Ms memory must have failed him ;

* for the story in them both was evidently taken from a very atioient ballad in that
' collection beginning thus, 'Gentle heardsman, &c.' as anyone will bo convinced

* "who will but compare them."

P. 415. Add to first note. " For Burke'a opinion of him, see Qorrewpondenca, iv.
" 526-531, and Addenda, 549-552."

P. 419. In speaking of Garriek's finessing 'and trick, reference shoxilcl have been
made to Cohuan's Posthimow Letters, 271-278, where Oolman receives inebruotionft
to puff "ourlittle stage heroe" in his absence, from the little stage hero himself.
'* Davies," at the bottom of the page, should be '' Davies's." For the anecdote tub the
close of p. 423, told on the relation of Mrs, Ghvyn, reference should have been made to
Prior, ii. 105.

^P. 426. At eighth line from top, ."decently" ought to be "comfortably;" at
p. 429-430, the authority of " WodP* Wan-ton, 312-318," should have been given for
the letter which I have only partially quoted; and at p. 432, in connection with what
is said of Johnson and Qarrick, the following may be added from dolman's PovOvwav*