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rmanus.' Bede, 'Eccl. Hist.' b. ii. c. xvi. P. 131, l. 10. 'Fuller;' viz. his 'Church History.' P. 131, l. 16. 'Turner.' The late laborious Sharon Turner, whose 'Histories' are still kept in print (apparently). P. 131, l. 21. 'Paulinus.' Bede, 'Eccl. Hist.' b. ii. c. xvi. P. 131, l. 26. 'King Edwin.' Bede, 'Eccl. Hist.' b. ii. c. xiii. P. 136, l. 28. 'An old and much-valued friend in Oxfordshire;' viz. Rev. Robert Jones, as before. P. 137, l. 10. 'Dyer's History of Cambridge,' 2 vols. 8vo, 1814. P. 137, l. 14. 'Burnet,' in his 'History of the Reformation;' many editions. P. 119, ll. 4-5. Latin verse-quotation, Ovid, 'Metam.' viii. 163, 164. P. 151, l. 11. 'Charlotte Smith.' It seems a pity that the Poems of this genuine Singer should have gone out of sight. P. 155, l. 31. 'Russel.' Should be Russell. Some very beautiful Sonnets of his appear in Dyce's well-known collection, and to it doubtless Wordsworth was indebted for his knowledge of Russell. He has cruelly passed out of memory. P. 165, ll. 7-9. 'Is not the first stanza of Gray's,' etc. Gray himself prefixed these lines from Aeschylus, 'Agam.' 181: [Greek: Zena * * * * * ton phronein brotous hodo- santa, ton pathos thenta kurios echein.] He seems to have been rather indebted to Dionysius' Ode to Nemesis, v. Aratus. P. 182, l. 9. 'Dr. Darwin's _Zoonomia_;' _i.e._ 'The Laws of Organic Life,' 1794-96, 2 vols. 4to. P. 182, l. 24. 'Peter Henry Bruce ... entertaining Memoirs.' Published 1782, 4to. P. 185, ll. 2-3. Verse-quotation, from Milton, 'Il Penseroso,' ll. 109-110. P. 190, l. 27. 'Light will be thrown,' &c. We have still to deplore that the Letters of Lamb are even at this later day either withheld or sorrowfully mutilated; _e.g._ among the Wordsworth Correspondence (unpublished) is a whole sheaf of letters in their finest vein from Lamb and his sister. Some of the former are written in black and red ink in alternate lines, and overflow with all his deepest and quaintest characteristics. His sister's are charming. The same might be said of nearly all Wordsworth's greatest contemporaries. Surely these MSS. will not much longer be kept in this inexplicable and, I venture to say, scarcely pardonable seclusion? P. 192, foot-note. This deliciously _naive_ note of 'Dora' to her venerated father suggests that it is due similarly to demur--with all respect--to the representatio
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