'I was trying yesterday to recover Gray's Elegy, as you had been doing down here at Christmas, with shut Eyes. But I had to return to the Book: and am far from perfect yet: though I leave out several Stanzas; reserving one of the most beautiful which Gray omitted. Plenty of faults still: but one doats on almost every line, every line being a Proverb now.' {271} Tales of the Hall, Book XIV. (vol. vii. p. 89). {272} Tales of the Hall, Book XIV. (vol. vii. p. 89). {273} On Foot in Spain, by J. S. Campion, 1879. {274} From Calderon's _Cada uno para si_, the seven lines beginning 'Bien dijo uno, que su planta' (Comedias, ed. Keil, iv. 731). {277} Edwards died on Sept. 15. 'Those two and their little Dunwich in Summer were among my Pleasures; and will be, I doubt, among my Regrets.' So he wrote me at the end of 1877. {280a} C. K. of Punch. {280b} Now in my possession. {281} In the Atlantic Monthly for May 1880, 'A Neglected Poet,' by G. E. Woodberry. {282} Tales of the Hall, Book IV. vol. vi. p. 71. {283} Tales of the Hall, Book III. vol. vi. p. 61. {285a} From the Life of Lord Houghton, by Mr. Wemyss Reid, ii. 406, and by his kind permission inserted here. {285b} Printed 1881. {286} FitzGerald was reading Lord Seaton's Regiment (the 52nd Light Infantry) at the Battle of Waterloo, by the Rev. W. Leeke, who as Ensign Leeke carried the colours of the regiment on the 18th of June. {290} Edwin Edwards. {293} A sheltered path in the field next his garden, where he walked for hours together. {302} Spedding died on March 9. {303} The death of Spedding. {308a} Now (1893) the Dowager Lady Tennyson. {308b} See p. 219. {309} Printed in the Life of Archdeacon Allen, by Prebendary Grier, pp. 35-37. {311} In Macmillan's Magazine for April 1881. {313} Mrs. Kemble was at Leamington. {317} Euphranor. {322} Nearly two years before, 21st March 1880, Fitzgerald wrote to Professor Cowell: 'My dear Donne (who also was one object of my going) seemed to me feebler in Body and Mind than when I saw him in October: I need not say, the same Gentleman. Mrs. Kemble says that he, more than any one she has known, is the man to do what Boccaccio's Hero of the Falcon did.' This was said, Mrs. Kemble informs me, by her sister Mrs. Sartoris. {323} Keene recommended FitzGerald to read Roger North's Memoir of Music. 'You will see in North,' he says, 'that Old Rowley was a bit of a musician and sang "a plump Bass." Can't you hear him?' His question to me was about the meaning of the word 'fastously,' which is not a musical term, but described the conduct of an Italian violinist, Nicolai Matteis, who gave himself airs, 'and behaved fastously' or haughtily. Barrow uses both 'fastuous' and 'fastuously.' {324a} The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, published in 1682. {324b} A volume of 17th century pamphlets, containing among others Howell's Dodona's Grove, given me by Archdeacon Groome.