So much for style. For the rest Hazlitt remarks that 'it is the extremely moral and didactic tone of the _Spectator_ which makes us apt to think of Addison (according to Mandeville's sarcasm) as "a parson in a tie-wig"'. How often history repeats itself. P. 15. _Dodd._--His _Beauties of Shakespeare_, published in 1752, is still well known. Dodd was hanged for forgery, despite many efforts, including those of Dr. Johnson, on his behalf. P. 16. _Hunt._--The periods referred to by Leigh Hunt are 'the dark ages, as they are called', and 'the gay town days of Charles II, or a little afterwards'. In the first the essayist imagines 'an age of iron warfare and energy, with solitary retreats, in which the monk or the hooded scholar walks forth to meditate, his precious volume under his arm. In the other, I have a triumphant example of the power of books and wit to contest the victory with sensual pleasure:--Rochester staggering home to pen a satire in the style of Monsieur Boileau; Butler, cramming his jolly duodecimo with all the learning that he laughed at; and a new race of book poets come up, who, in spite of their periwigs and petit-maîtres, talk as romantically of "the bays" as if they were priests of Delphos.' In Chapman's translation of Homer occur the words: 'The fortresses of thorniest queaches.' A queach is a thick bushy plot, or a quickset hedge. You will see Hunt--one of those happy souls Which are the salt of the earth, and without whom This world would smell like what it is--a tomb. SHELLEY. _Letter to Maria Gisborne._ P. 17. _Lamb._-- What youth was in thy years, What wisdom in thy levity, what truth In every utterance of that purest soul! Few are the spirits of the glorified W. S. LANDOR. Encumbered dearly with old books, Thou, by the pleasant chimney nooks, Didst laugh, with merry-meaning looks, Thy griefs away.--LIONEL JOHNSON. P. 18. _Burton._--Compare the remark of the 'Hammock School' reviewers in Mr. G. K. Chesterton's _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_--'Next to authentic goodness in a book (and that, alas! we never find) we desire a rich badness.' P. 19. _Channing._--An address introductory to the Franklin lectures delivered at Boston, 1838. Channing's influence increased after his death, which occurred in 1842. In the seventies nearly 50,000 copies of his _Complete Works_ were circulated in America and Europe. P. 20. _Hunt._--The novel _Camilla_ is Madame D'Arblay's; the entire passage relating to the Oxford scholar's books is given on page 216. Petrarch is quoted on pages 1 and 369. P. 21. _Landor._--See 'Old-Fashioned Verse' on p. 186.