gaining a competence which shall enable one to
devote one's whole time to a favorite pursuit. Grote was a banker until
he reached the age of forty-nine when he retired from the banking house
and began the composition of the first volume of his history. Henry C.
Lea was in the active publishing business until he was fifty-five, and
as I have already frequently referred to my own personal experience, I
may add that I was immersed in business between the ages of twenty-two
and thirty-seven. After three years of general and special preparation I
began my writing at forty. The business man has many free evenings and
many journeys by rail, as well as a summer vacation, when devotion to a
line of study may constitute a valuable recreation. Much may be done in
odd hours in the way of preparation for historical work, and a business
life is an excellent school for the study of human character.

[3] Conversations of Goethe, Eng. trans., 230.

[4] Trevelyan, I, 86.

[5] Life of Gladstone, II, 181.

[6] III, 51.

[7] Talks with Emerson, 23.

[8] My Vol. II, 142, n. 2.

[9] Curtis, I, 250.

[10] _Ibid._, I, 252.

[11] Miscellanies, I, 275.

[12] Exam. of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy, II, 310, 311.

[13] Gladstone, I, 195.

[14] p. 142.

[15] Trevelyan, I, 91.

[16] Froude, II, 317.

[17] Nichol, 20.

[18] Talks with Emerson, 162.

[19] Trevelyan, I, 379, 387, 409.

[20] Froude, III, 64, 65.

[21] _Ibid._, II, 385; III, 59.

[22] _Ibid._, III, 73.

[23] English Composition, 158.

[24] Letters of Jane Carlyle, II, 31.

[25] Froude's Carlyle, IV, 125.

[26] Causeries du Lundi, XV, 95.

[27] Froude, II, 19.

[28] Dramatic Opinions, II, 53.

[29] "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:" etc.

[30] Trevelyan, II, 388, n.

[31] Eng. trans., 236.

[32] _Ibid._, 115.

[33] Nouveaux Lundis, III, 265.

[34] Eng. trans., 222.

[35] Nouveaux Lundis, III, 328.

[36] Enc. Brit.

[37] Balzac, 309.

[38] Brander Matthews, _Cent. Mag._, 1901.

[39] Letter of April 4, 1864, _Harper's Mag._, June, 1889.

[40] I speak of the first four volumes.

[41] _L.c._

[42] p. 103.

[43] New Letters, II, 11.

[44] Life, II, 345.

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