_Morning Post._--'The Editor is to be heartily congratulated on the conscientious execution of a delicate but most interesting task.' _Standard._--'A most valuable contribution to the political and constitutional history of the period that lies immediately behind us.' _Manchester Guardian._--'The appearance of the first volume of the Second Supplement is an event of more than usual importance.' _Daily Chronicle._--'The first real, intimate, authoritative account of King Edward.' * * * * * London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W. * * * * * Transcriber's note: The book contains some foreign words and a few old spellings, e.g., 'authour', 'tenour', etc., and also instances of hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants of some words. These have all been retained. Instances of both 'adhaesit' and 'adhæsit' appear in the text. Both have been retained. Punctuation is not always consistent. Some punctuation has been amended for conformity; sundry missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired. Page 28: Extraneous closing quote removed after "alive.'" "There is no better fellow alive." Page 56: 'Rochefoucault' is the spelling used by Boswell; Rochefoucauld appears in the Index. Both have been retained. Page 65: 'possble' corrected to 'possible' "... there can be no possible doubt that Boswell wrote it...." Page 108: 'Boswell:' changed to '_Boswell_:' for consistency. "... _Boswell_: 'They were afraid of you, Sir, as...." Page 200: 'compositon' corrected to 'composition'. "... and he was so vain that he was undoubtedly proud of what must have been an absurd composition." Page 336: 'Tory, Boswella corrected to 'Tory, Boswell a' "Tory, Boswell a, 8, 137, 153, 176, 177, 181" A few corrections have been made to page numbers in the index, some numbers (without a reference on the page) removed, and some added: The corrected number is after the name; The printed number is in (brackets). Akerman, ... 251 (250) Boswell: law ... (187)(204) lawyers ... 205 () letters: Temple, quoted ... 70 (69) ... 167^1 () ... (179) ... 185-186 (186) Eglinton, Earl of ... 197 (196) Graham, ... 201 (202) Hypochondriack, ... 145-6 (146) Samuel Johnson: talks for victory, ... 121 () 'just frown', ... 155 () gay Sam, ... 254, 295 (246) Lisburne, ... 178 (179) Lochbuy, ... 260 (258) London Magazine, ... (69) (104) Lowe, ... (255) Macaulay, ... 2 (1) ... (61) Macaulay, Mrs., ... 61 () Montgomerie, ... 100, 197 (98-9, 100) More, Hannah, ... 284 (283) Nichols, John, ----, 'Literary History,' ... 307^9 (308) Paoli, General, ... 67 (66) 187 () Percy, Bishop, ... 284 (283) Reynolds, Sir Joshua, ... 249 (248) ... 259 (258) Robertson, Dr., ... 259 (258)