{101} "The late Mr. Carlyle was a brute and a boor."--_The World_, October 29th, 1884. {102} In the first edition, by a strange and distressing freak of the imagination, I took the 'old struggler' out of Lockhart and put her into Boswell. {117} Anyone who does not wish this story to be true, will find good reasons for disbelieving it stated in Mr. Napier's edition of Boswell, vol. iv., p. 385. {159} All the difficulties connected with this subject will be found collected, and somewhat unkindly considered, in Mr. Dilke's _Papers of a Critic_, vol. ii. The equity draughtsman will be indisposed to attach importance to statements made in a Bill of Complaint filed in Chancery by Lord Verney against Burke fourteen years after the transaction to which it had reference, in a suit which was abandoned after answer put in. But, in justice to a deceased plaintiff, it should be remembered that in those days a defendant could not be cross-examined upon his sworn answer. {178} _Critical Miscellanies_, vol. iii., p. 9. {189} 'I will answer you by quoting what I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius Halicarnassensis I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.' See Lord Bolingbroke's _Second Letter on the Study and Use of History_. {204} _The Works of Charles Lamb_. Edited, with notes and introduction, by the Rev. Alfred Ainger. Three volumes. London: 1883-5. {218} See _Life of Emerson_, by O. W. Holmes. {221} The institution referred to was the Eucharist. {244} Yet in his essay _On Londoners and Country People_ we find Hazlitt writing: 'London is the only place in which the child grows completely up into the man. I have known characters of this kind, which, in the way of childish ignorance and self-pleasing delusion, exceeded anything to be met with in Shakespeare or Ben Jonson, or the Old Comedy.' {255} This passage was written before Mr. Browning's 'Parleyings' had appeared. Christopher is now 'a person of importance,' and needs no apology. {256} _The Prelude_, p. 55.