[304] James Beattie (1735-1803). The _Minstrel_ appeared in 1774 to 1777.--T. [305] _Hours of Idleness_, "When I roved a young Highlander," 1-4.--T. [306] _Hours of Idleness_, "Lines written beneath the Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow," 1-4, 17-18, 24-25, 30, 33-34--T. [307] Arthur Young (1741-1820), a famous writer on agriculture, and Secretary to the Board of Agriculture on its establishment in 1793.--T. [308] Arthur Young, _Travels in France during the Years_ 1787, 1788, 1789. The author passed by Combourg Castle on the 1st of September 1788.--T. [309] _Martyrs_, book IV.--T. [310] _Ad Familiares_, IV. 5: "In my return out of Asia, as I was sailing from Ægina towards Megara, I amused myself with contemplating the circumjacent countries. Behind me lay Ægina, before me Megara; on my right I saw Piræus, and on my left Corinth. These cities, once so flourishing and magnificent, now presented nothing to my view but a sad spectacle of desolation" (MELMOTH's translation).--T. [311] Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780-1857), the national French song-writer. The extract quoted occurs in the notes to Béranger's song, _À M. de Chateaubriand_ (September 1831), which is quoted in a later volume.--T. [312] Abel François Villemain (1790-1870), perpetual secretary of the French Academy from 1835, and author of the notice of Lord Byron in the _Biographie universelle_, from which the above sentences are quoted.--T. [313] Byron spent his childhood at Aberdeen.--T. [314] MACPHERSON's _Ossian_ was published in 1760.--T. [315] GOETHE's _Sorrows of Werther_ appeared in 1774.--T. [316] Rousseau's posthumous work, published in 1782.--T. [317] By Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1784).--T. [318] Chateaubriand cannot have read the _Age of Bronze_: it is true that this poem was written in 1823, at Genoa, a year later than the earlier portion of these remarks. In Stanza XVI. of the _Age of Bronze, or Carmen Seculare et Annus haud Mirabilis_, treating of the Congress of Verona (1822), occur the following lines: There Metternich, power's foremost parasite, Cajoles; there Wellington forgets to fight; There Chateaubriand forms new books of martyrs; And subtle Greeks intrigue for stupid Tartars. And Byron appends the following note: "Monsieur de Chateaubriand, who has not forgotten the author in the minister, receives a handsome compliment at Verona from a literary sovereign: 'Ah! Monsieur C., are you related to that Chateaubriand who-who-who has written _something?_' (_écrit quelque chose!_). It is said that the author of _Atala_ repented him for a moment of his legitimacy."--T. [319] _De la Littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec l'état moral et politique des nations_, by Madame de Staël. As this book appeared in 1800, before _Atala_ and the _Génie du Christianisme_, Madame de Staël may well be excused for not mentioning Chateaubriand's name in it.--B.