alous pain.
Cob shall have sense, and Stephen be polite,
Brainworm shall preach, and Bobadil shall fight--
Each, here, a merit not his own shall find,
And _Every Man_ the _Humour_ to be kind."

[144] Another, which for many reasons we may regret went also into the
limbo of unrealized designs, is sketched in the subjoined (7th of
January, 1848). "Mac and I think of going to Ireland for six weeks in
the spring, and seeing whether anything is to be done there, in the way
of a book? I fancy it might turn out well." The Mac of course is
Maclise.

[145] "Here we are" (23rd of August) "in the noble old premises; and
very nice they look, all things considered. . . . Trifles happen to me
which occur to nobody else. My portmanteau 'fell off' a cab last night
somewhere between London-bridge and here. It contained on a moderate
calculation L70 worth of clothes. I have no shirt to put on, and am
obliged to send out to a barber to come and shave me."

[146] "Do you see anything to object to in it? I have never had so much
difficulty, I think, in setting about any slight thing; for I really
didn't know that I had a word to say, and nothing seems to live 'twixt
what I _have_ said and silence. The advantage of it is, that the latter
part opens an idea for future prefaces all through the series, and may
serve perhaps to make a feature of them." (7th of September, 1847.)

[147] From his notes on these matters I may quote. "The Leeds appears to
be a very important institution, and I am glad to see that George
Stephenson will be there, besides the local lights, inclusive of all the
Baineses. They talk at Glasgow of 6,000 people." (26th of November.)
"You have got Southey's _Holly Tree_. I have not. Put it in your pocket
to-day. It occurs to me (up to the eyes in a mass of Glasgow Athenaeum
papers) that I could quote it with good effect in the North." (24th of
December.) "A most brilliant demonstration last night, and I think I
never did better. Newspaper reports bad." (29th of December.)

[148] "Tremendous distress at Glasgow, and a truly damnable jail,
exhibiting the separate system in a most absurd and hideous form.
Governor practical and intelligent; very anxious for the associated
silent system; and much comforted by my fault-finding." (30th of
December.)

[149] It would amuse the reader, but occupy too much space, to add to my
former illustrations of his managerial troubles; but from an elabor