ature, de cet humus et de
ce detrius vegetal, de ces feuilles accumulees et entassees qu'on ne
distingue pas, si l'on ne se baisse.' At the end of his copy FitzGerald
has referred to this as 'Carlyle's Peat.'

{71} In The Gamester. See 'Macready's Reminiscences,' i. 54-57.

{72a} In Rowe's Tamerlane. See 'Macready's Reminiscences,' i. 202.

{72b} Probably the English Tragedy, which was finished in October 1838.
See 'Records of Later Days,' ii. 168.

{74} In the _Transactions of the New Shakspere Society_ for 1875-76. The
surviving editor of the 'Cambridge Shakspeare' does not at all feel that
Spedding's criticism 'smashed' the theory which was only put forward as a
tentative solution of a perhaps insoluble problem.

{75a} See 'Letters,' ii. 177.

{75b} See 'Letters,' ii. 198, 228, and Boswell's 'Johnson' (ed. Birkbeck
Hill), iv. 193.

{77} FitzGerald wrote to me about the same time:

"Spedding has (you know) a delicious little Paper about the Merchant
of Venice in July _Fraser_:--but I think he is wrong in subordinating
Shylock to the Comedy Part. If that were meant to be so, Williams
['the divine Williams,' as some Frenchman called Shakespeare]
miscalculated, throwing so much of his very finest writing into the
Jew's Mouth, the downright human Nature of which makes all the Love-
Story Child's play, though very beautiful Child's play indeed."

{78} 'On the Stage,' in the _Cornhill Magazine_ for December 1863
Reprinted as an Introduction to Mrs. Kemble's 'Notes upon some of
Shakespeare's Plays.'

{79} See his 'Life and Letters,' p. 46.

{80} In the _Cornhill Magazine_ for July 1875, The Merchant of Venice at
the Prince of Wales's Theatre.

{82a} 'The Enterprising Impresario' by Walter Maynard (Thomas Willert
Beale), 1867, pp 273-4.

{82b} Beginning, 'A spirit haunts the year's last hours.' It first
appeared in the poems of 1830, p. 67, and is now included in Tennyson's
Collected Works. See 'Letters,' ii. 256.

{82c} By Sir Gilbert Elliot, father of the first Lord Minto. The query
appeared 25 Sept. 1875 ('N. & Q.' 5th Series, iv. 247), and two answers
are given at p. 397, but not by E. F.G.

{83} See 'Letters,' ii. 185.

{84} The _Atlantic Monthly_ for August, September, and October 1875.

{85a} _Atlantic Monthly_, August 1875, p. 167, by T. S. Perry.

{85b} _Ibid._, p. 240.

{86} From Oct. 30 to Nov. 4.

{87a} The Trial of Queen Katharine in _Henry