or. _The Professor_, a Tale, by
Currer Bell, in two volumes. Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1857.

{348} Lady Eastlake died in 1893.

{349} _Letters and Journals_ of Lady Eastlake, edited by her nephew,
Charles Eastlake Smith, vol. i. pp. 221, 222 (John Murray).

{350} _Life of J. G. Lockhart_, by Andrew Lang. Published by John
Nimmo. Mr. Lang has courteously permitted me to copy this letter from
his proof-sheets.

{361} Name of place is erased in original.

{373} Thus in original letter.

{398} That Thackeray had written a certain unfavourable critique of
_Shirley_.

{402} This article was by John Skelton (_Shirley_).

{403} Now in the possession of Mr. A. B. Nicholls.

{408} Thackeray writes to Mr. Brookfield, in October 1848, as
follows:--'Old Dilke of the _Athenaeum_ vows that Procter and his wife,
between them, wrote _Jane Eyre_; and when I protest ignorance, says,
"Pooh! you know who wrote it--you are the deepest rogue in England, etc."
I wonder whether it can be true? It is just possible. And then what a
singular circumstance is the + fire of the two dedications' [_Jane Eyre_
to Thackeray, _Vanity Fair_ to Barry Cornwall].--_A Collection of Letters
to W. M. Thackeray_, 1847-1855. Smith and Elder.

{423} _Chapters from Some Memories_, by Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
Macmillan and Co. Mrs. Ritchie and her publishers kindly permit me to
incorporate her interesting reminiscence in this chapter.

{432} George Henry Lewes (1817-1878). Published _Biographical History
of Philosophy_, 1845-46; _Ranthorpe_, 1847; _Rose_, _Blanche_, _and
Violet_, 1848; _Life of Goethe_, 1855. Editor of the _Fortnightly
Review_, 1865-66. _Problems of Life and Mind_, 1873-79; and many other
works.

{434} Richard Hengist Horne (1803-1884). Published _Cosmo de Medici_,
1837; _Orion_, an epic poem in ten books, passed through six editions in
1843, the first three editions being issued at a farthing; _A New Spirit
of the Age_, 1844; _Letters of E. B. Browning to R. H. Horne_, 1877.

{444} Printed by the kind permission of the Rev. C. W. Heald, of Chale,
I.W.

{446} Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth (1804-1877). A doctor of medicine, who
was made a baronet in 1849, on resigning the secretaryship of the
Committee of Council on Education; assumed the name of Shuttleworth on
his marriage, in 1842, to Janet, the only child and heiress of Robert
Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley (died 1872). His son, the
presen