_But yet, now living, fain were I That some one then should testify, Saying--"He held his pen in trust To Art, not serving shame or lust." Will none?--Then let my memory die In after days!_ NOTES. NOTES. "_To brandish the poles of that old Sedan Chair!_"--Page 7. A friendly critic, whose versatile pen it is not easy to mistake, recalls, _a-propos_ of the above, the following passage from Moliere, which shows that Chairmen are much the same all the world over:-- 1 Porteur (prenant un des batons de sa chaise). _Ca, payez-nous vitement!_ Mascarille. _Quoi!_ 1 Porteur. _Je dis que je veux avoir de l'argent tout a l'heure._ Mascarille. _Il est raisonnable, celui-la,_ etc. _Les Precieuses Ridicules_, Sc. vii. "_It has waited by portals where Garrick has played._"--Page 8. According to Mrs. Carter (Smith's _Nollekens_, 1828, i. 211), when Garrick acted, the hackney-chairs often stood "all round the Piazzas [Covent Garden], down Southampton-Street, and extended more than half-way along Maiden-Lane." "_A skill Preville could not disown._"--Page 23. Preville was the French Foote, _circa_ 1760. His gifts as a comedian were of the highest order; and he had an extraordinary faculty for identifying himself with the parts he played. Sterne, in a letter to Garrick from Paris, in 1762, calls him "Mercury himself." MOLLY TREFUSIS.--Page 32. The epigram here quoted from "an old magazine" is to be found in the late Lord Neaves's admirable little volume, _The Greek Anthology_ (_Blackwood's Ancient Classics for English Readers_). Those familiar with eighteenth-century literature will recognize in the succeeding verses but another echo of those lively stanzas of John Gay to "Molly Mogg of the Rose," which found so many imitators in his own day. Whether my heroine is to be identified with a certain "Miss Trefusis," whose _Poems_ are sometimes to be found in the second-hand booksellers' catalogues, I know not. But if she is, I trust I have done her accomplished shade no wrong. AN EASTERN APOLOGUE.--Page 43. The initials "E. H. P." are those of the late eminent (and ill-fated) Orientalist, Professor Palmer. As my lines entirely owed their origin to his translations of Zoheir, I sent them to him. He was indulgent enough to praise them warmly. It is true he found anachronisms; but as he said these would cause no disturbance to orthodox Persians, I concluded I had succeeded in my little _pastiche_, and, with his permission, inscribed it to him. I wish now that it had been a more worthy tribute to one of the most erudite and versatile scholars this age has seen. A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC.--Page 48.