xxrriii ADDITIONAL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. (VOL. II.)

P. 237. In mentioning the 1836 Edinburgh edition of Goldsmith, I might have
added that it is a very careful and good little book. The editor, I believe, was
Mr. Hamilton Buchanan.

P. 243. The reader will find an amusing account of Oatcot's attendance on Johnson
and Boswell in their -visit to Bristol, in Boswell, vi. 171-173.

P. 291. " H—rth" is supposed to have been a surgeon named Hogarth living in
I*ieester-square at the time ; but this is doubtful. It has been conjectured that by
u C—y " (Goley), George Colman was intended—a quite incredible supposition.

P. 265. Of the Game ofOkess, Lowndes gives a list of seven versions in English ;
by James Bowbotham, 1562; George Jeffreys, 1736; W. Erskiue, 1736;. Samuel
Puffin (Dublin), 1750 ; Anon, Eton 1769 ; Anon, Oxford 1778 ; and Murphy, 1786.
The latter is to be found in his Works, vii. 67. But though the date of Murphy's
translation is given by Lowndes as 1786 (when for the first time it was printed) it was
in reality a production of his youth. I quote the preface to it. " For translating so
" ingenious a piece, the present writer, after saying that it is the production of his
" earliest years, will make no apology." See Foot's Life, 323-324. Whether the fact
of the existence of this translation by Murphy became known to Goldsmith, and led to
the suppression of his own, can only now be matter of conjecture.

P. 276. The sons of the Duke of Orleans were in England after his death, on the
4th August 1797, and the occurrence called forth this singular remark from Southey,
then in the " hot youth " of his republicanism. " Should there ever again be a king
" in France (which God forbid !) it will be the elder of these young men. He •will be
happier and a better man as an American farmer." Common Place Łooln,
iv. 516.

P. 237. -Add to the last note. "Johnson," says Mrs. Piozzi, " used to say that
" the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth ;
" and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a stroke of genuine
" humour, or sudden sally of odd absurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet saw
" any mam ; and though the jest was often such as few felt besides himself, yet his
" laugh was irresistible, and was observed immediately to produce that of the
" company, not merely from the notion that it was proper to laugh when he did, but
" purely out of want of power to forbear it." Anecdotes, 298-299.

P. 329. Second note, line thirteen, insert after " used to it" vii. 256.

P. 335-336. Boswell's belief in ghosts receives amusing illustration in one of
Johnson's letters from the Hebrides. " The chapel is thirty-eight feet long, and
" eighteen broad. "Boswell, who is very pious, went into it at night to perform, his
" devotions, hut came back in haste for fear of spectres." Pioszi Letters, i. 173. At
line twenty of the note following, instead of " I might have added others to show,"
read "I might here add other passages to show."

P. 341. The reference in the first line of the third note should be i. 225.

P. 347. For Murphy's parody on Hamlet with alterations, see Foot's Life.
256-274.

P. 377. In ninth line of note, "ingenious" should he "ingenuous."

P. 429. At the dose of the note insert a reference to ' Ewropewi Magazine,
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