Kemble says (_Atlantic Monthly_, December 1876, p. 707):--

"I was perfectly miserable when the curtain fell, and the poor young
author, as pale as a ghost, came forward to meet my father at the side
scene, and bravely holding out his hand to him said, 'Never mind, Mr.
Kemble, I'll do better another time.'"

{120c} Francisco Javier Elio, a Spanish General, was executed in 1822
for his seventies against the liberals dining the reactionary period 1814-
1820.

{122a} _Atlantic Monthly_, February 1877, p. 222.

{122b} Holbrook, near Ipswich. That she had also some of the family
humour is evident from what she wrote to Mr. Crabbe of her brother's
early life. 'As regards spiritual advantages out of the house he had
none; for our Pastor was one of the old sort, with a jolly red nose
caused by good cheer. He used to lay his Hat and Whip on the Communion
Table and gabble over the service, running down the Pulpit Stairs not to
lose the opportunity of being invited to a good dinner at the Hall.' It
was with reference to his sister's husband that FitzGerald in
conversation with Tennyson used the expression 'A Mr. Wilkinson, a
clergyman.'

'Why, Fitz,' said Tennyson, 'that's a verse, and a very bad one too.' And
they would afterwards humorously contend for the authorship of the worst
line in the English language.

{123} _Atlantic Monthly_, February 1877, pp. 210, 211, and pp. 220, 221.

{124a} See note to Letter of Dec. 29_th_ 1875.

{124b} For November 1875, in an article called 'The Judgment of Paris,'
p. 400.

{125a} See 'Letters,' ii. 217. This is in my possession.

{125b} It came to an end in April 1877. In a letter to Miss St. Leger,
December 31st, 1876 ('Further Records,' ii. 33), Mrs. Kemble says, 'You
ask me how I mean to carry on the publication of my articles in the
_Atlantic Magazine_ when I leave America; but I do not intend to carry
them on. The editor proposed to me to do so, but I thought it would
entail so much trouble and uncertainty in the transmission of manuscript
and proofs, that it would be better to break off when I came to Europe.
The editor will have manuscript enough for the February, March, and April
numbers when I come away, and with those I think the series must close.
As there is no narrative or sequence of events involved in the
publication, it can, of course, be stopped at any moment; a story without
an end can end anywhere.'

{126} See letter of December 29