ADDITIONAL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. (VOL. I.) xjcxi

• 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 hest 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 Memovrs,
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, tlwragh
he ca-tainly suffered much from the neglect of the great people who deserted him oh
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 sxifSciently 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 Ms 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'a 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 (Spencers 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 Lettns Persanes. I quote Swift's Journal to Stella (Works, ii.
248). " The Spectator is written by Steele with Addison's help : 'tis often very
" pretty. Yesterday it was made of a noble hint I gave Mm long ago for Ms Tatlers,
" about an Indian supposed to write Ms 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 Mm
" or Addison."

P. 276. The allusion to. Eussia should have, been given as from Letter Ixxxvii; 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 Bow-
street magistrates on .the subject of the Beggar's Opera, that Oolman's answer was
very spirited. He declined to be a party to Gtenick'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.Newbe'ry MSS.un the possession of Mr.:Murray.