=28= 24. =Reynolds.= We can learn from short articles about Sir Joshua's career, but the index to Boswell's _Johnson_ will introduce us to the good times the great portrait painter had with the great conversationalist whom we are studying. Reynolds was the first proposer of the Club, and "there seems to have been hardly a day," says Robina Napier, "when these friends did not meet in the painting room or in general society." Ruskin says, "Titian paints nobler pictures and Vandyke had nobler subjects, but neither of them entered so subtly as Sir Joshua did into the minor varieties of human heart and temper." The business of his art "was not to criticise, but to observe," and for this purpose the hours he spent at the Club might be as profitable as those spent in his painting room. It will be interesting to make a list of some of the most notable "subjects" Reynolds painted.--=Burke.= Be sure to read Boswell's account of the famous Round Robin. It will make you feel better acquainted with Burke, Johnson, Reynolds, and Goldsmith. The student will find valuable material in Professor Lamont's edition of Burke's _Speech on Conciliation with America_, published by Ginn & Company. =28= 25. =Gibbon.= You noticed on the _Round Robin_ the autograph of the author of _The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_? =28= 26. =Jones.= Sir William Henry Rich Jones was "the first English scholar to master Sanskrit, and to recognize its importance for comparative philology," says _The Century Dictionary_. =29= 9. =Johnson's Club.= The Club still flourishes. Both Scott and Macaulay belonged to it. =29= 14. =James Boswell.= "Out of the fifteen millions that then lived, and had bed and board, in the British Islands, this man has provided us a greater _pleasure_ than any other individual, at whose cost we now enjoy ourselves; perhaps has done us a greater _service_ than can be specially attributed to more than two or three: yet, ungrateful that we are, no written or spoken eulogy of James Boswell anywhere exists; his recompense in solid pudding (so far as copyright went) was not excessive; and as for the empty praise, it has altogether been denied him. Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds."