because he had been prominent among those who recognised the merit of its predecessor. Notes: [44] Perhaps a remembrance of Mrs Slipslop's "_ironing_." [45] Clayden's _Rogers and his Contemporaries_, 1889, i. 225. As an epigrammatist himself, Rogers might have been more indulgent to a _consoeur_. Here is one of Madame de Stael's "ends of chapters":--"_La monotonie, dans la retraite, tranquillise l'ame; la monotonie, dans le grand monde, fatigue l'esprit_" (ch. viii.). But he evidently found her rather overpowering. [46] Table-Talk, 1856, p. 258. Several of Scott's poems, with Rogers's autograph, and Scott's card, appear in the catalogue; and, in 1812, Byron, who a year after inscribed the _Giaour_ to Rogers, sent him the first two cantos of _Childe Harold._ In 1838, Moore presents _Lalla Rookh_, with Heath's plates, a work which, upon its first appearance, twenty years earlier, had been dedicated to Rogers. In 1839 Charles Dickens followed with _Nicholas Nickleby_, succeeded a year later by _Master Humphrey's Clock_ (1840-1), also dedicated to Rogers in recognition, not only of his poetical merit, but of his "active sympathy with the poorest and humblest of his kind." Rogers was fond of "Little Nell"; and in the Preface to _Barnaby Rudge_, Dickens gracefully acknowledged that "for a beautiful thought" in the seventy-second chapter of the _Old Curiosity Shop_, he was indebted to Rogers's Ginevra in the _Italy_:-- And long might'st thou have seen An old man wandering _as in quest of something,_ Something he could not find--he knew not what. The _American Notes_, 1842, was a further offering from Dickens. Among other gifts may be noted Wordsworth's _Poems_, 1827-35; Campbell's _Pilgrim of Glencoe_, 1842; Longfellow's _Ballads and Voices of the Night_, 1840-2; Macaulay's _Lays_ and Tennyson's _Poems_, 1842; and lastly, Hazlitt's _Criticisms on Art_, 1844, and Carlyle's _Letters and Speeches of Cromwell_, 1846. Brougham's philosophical novel of _Albert Lunel; or, the Chateau of Languedoc_, 3 vols, 1844, figures in the catalogue as "withdrawn." It had been suppressed "for private reasons" upon the eve of publication; and this particular copy being annotated by Rogers (to whom it was inscribed) those concerned were no doubt all the more anxious that it should not get abroad. Inspection of the reprint of 1872 shows, however, that want of interest was its chief error. A reviewer of 1858 roundly calls it "feeble" and "commonplace"; and it could hardly have increased its writer's reputation. Indeed, by some, it was not supposed to be from his Lordship's pen at all. Rogers, it may be added, frequently annotated his books. His copies of Pope, Gray and Scott had many _marginalia_. Clarke's and Fox's histories of James II. were also works which he decorated in this way.