And least of all can you complain, Reviewers, whose unholy trade is, To puff with all your might and main Biographies of single ladies. [3] Never mind. [4] The plan forgot (I know not how, Perhaps the Refectory filled it), To put a chapel in: and now We’re mortgaging the rest to build it. [5] There can be no doubt that the work is a true example of the early Semitic Comedy. It was probably sung in Parts at the Spring-feast, and would be acted by shepherds wearing masks and throwing goatskins at one another, as they appear on the Bas-relief at Ik-shmûl. See the article in _Righteousness_, by a gentleman whom the Bible Society sent out to Assyria at their own expense; and the note to Appendix A of Benson’s _Og: King of Bashan_. [6] The house is now occupied by Mr. Heavy, the well-known financier. [7] The old school house has been pulled down to make room for a set of villas called “Whortlebury Gardens.” I believe No. 35 to be the exact spot, but was unable to determine it accurately on account of the uncourteous action of the present proprietor. [8] I am speaking of 1861. [9] Mr. Lambkin has assured me that his lordship had maintained these relations to the day of his death. [10] To be pronounced as a monosyllable in the American fashion. [11] Mr. Punt, Mr. Howl, and Mr. Grewcock--(now, alas! deceased). [12] A neat rendering of “Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.” [13] _To the Examiners._--These facts (of which I guarantee the accuracy) were given me by a Director. [14] A reminiscence of Milton: “Fas est et ab hoste doceri.” [15] Lambkin told me he regretted this line, which was for the sake of Rhyme. He would willingly have replaced it, but to his last day could construct no substitute. [16] The anecdote will be found in my _Fifty Years of Chance Acquaintances_. (Isaacs & Co., 44s. nett.) [17] Lambkin resolutely refused to define Happiness when pressed to do so by a pupil in June, 1881: in fact, his hatred of definitions was so well-known as to earn him the good-humoured nick-name of “the Sloucher” among the wilder young scholars. [18] τὸ μεσόν [19] This was the first historical example of Lambkin’s acquaintance with Hebrew--a knowledge which he later turned to such great account in his attack on the pseudo-Johannes. [20] It is the passage that follows which made so startling an impression on the examiners. At that time young Lambkin was almost alone in holding the views which have since, through the Fellows of Colleges who may be newspaper men or colonial governors, influenced the whole world. [21] Jocular. [22] The MS. is here almost illegible [23] The very word “dormant” comes from the Latin for “sleeping.” [24] I knew Professor M‘O. in the sixties. He was a charming and cultured Scotchman, with a thorough mastery of the English tongue. [25] Dr. von Lieber-Augustin. I knew him well. He was a charming and cultured German. [26] How different from the cynical ribaldry of Voltaire.