ing, by Mr. James Russell Lowell, of Miss Margaret Thomas's bust
of Fielding, September 4th, 1883, also contains busts of Admiral Blake
and John Locke.

"_The Journal of his middle-age._"--Page 118.

It is, perhaps, needless to say that the reference here is to the
_Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon_, published posthumously in February,
1755,--a record which for its intrinsic pathos and dignity may be
compared with the letter and dedication which Fielding's predecessor and
model, Cervantes, prefixed to his last romance of _Persiles and
Sigismunda_.

CHARLES GEORGE GORDON.--Page 120.

These verses appeared in the _Saturday Review_ for February 14th, 1885.

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.--Page 122.

These verses appeared in the _Athenaeum_ for October 8th, 1892.

"_With that he made a Leg._"--Page 137.

"JOVE made his Leg and kiss'd the Dame,
Obsequious HERMES did the Same."
Prior.

"_So took his Virtu off to Cock's._"--Page 137.

Cock, the auctioneer of Covent Garden, was the Christie and Manson of
the last century. The leading idea of this fable, it should be added, is
taken from one by Gellert.

"_Of Van's 'Goose-Pie.'_"--Page 139.

"At length they in the Rubbish spy
A Thing resembling a Goose Py."
SWIFT'S verses on _Vanbrugh's House_, 1706.

"_The Oaf preferred the_ 'Tongs and Bones.'"--Page 145.

"I have a reasonable good ear in music; let us have the tongs and the
bones."

_Midsummer-Night's Dream_, Act iv., Sc. i.

"_And sighed o'er Chaos wine for Stingo._"--Page 145.

Squire Homespun probably meant Cahors.

THE WATER-CURE.--Page 178.

These verses were suggested by the recollection of an anecdote in Madame
de Genlis, which seemed to lend itself to eighteenth-century treatment.
It was therefore somewhat depressing, not long after they were written,
to find that the subject had already been annexed in the _Tatler_ by an
actual eighteenth-century writer, who, moreover, claimed to have founded
his story on a contemporary incident. Burton, nevertheless, had told it
before him, as early as 1621, in the _Anatomy of Melancholy_.

"_In Babylonian numbers hidden._"--Page 180.

"--nec Babylonios
Tentaris numeros."
Hor. i., 11.

"_And spite of the mourning that most of us wear._"--Page 259.

In March, 1773, when _She Stoops to Conquer_ was first played, there
was a court-mourning for the