Most of these were collected by the late Dr Birkbeck Hill in his two volumes of _Johnsonian Miscellanies_ (Oxford, 1897); two volumes of Johnson's _Letters_ were also published by the same editor in 1892. Of modern criticism on Johnson the following may be recommended: Lord Macaulay: _Boswell's Life of Johnson_. 1831. Article on Johnson in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, 1856. Thomas Carlyle: _Boswell's Life of Johnson_. 1832. Sir Leslie Stephen: _Samuel Johnson_. (_English Men of Letters_ series. Macmillan, 1878.) G. B. Hill: _Dr Johnson, His Friends and His Critics_. (1878.) Sir Walter Raleigh: _Six Essays on Johnson_. (Oxford, 1910.) Lieut.-Col. F. Grant: _Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson_, with a bibliography by J. P. Anderson. (_Great Writers_ series. Walter Scott Co.) Johnson's _Collected Works_, of which there were many editions, e.g. the Oxford edition (_Works_, 9 vols, _Debates_, 2 vols, 1825), are easily obtainable second-hand, as are also _The Lives of the Poets_ and _The Rambler_. _The Lives of the Poets_ and _Rasselas_ were edited with notes by Dr Birkbeck Hill for the Oxford University Press. Johnson's _Poems_, together with the poetry of Goldsmith, Gray, and Collins, are published in a handy form, with introduction and notes by Colonel T. Methuen Ward, in the _Muses' Library_ series (Routledge, 1905). _A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson_, by W. P. Courtney, was published by the Oxford University Press in 1915. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J. B. PEACE, M.A., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS * * * * * Transcriber's note: Obvious punctuation errors were corrected. In the list of illustrations, one is entitled: "Boswell standing firm to his post" BUT the caption under the illustration in the text is "Boswell holding firm to his post". No correction has been made to the text. p50 The first letter to Mr Francis Barber, the original was signed off "Your's affectionately" This has been replaced with "Yours affectionately"