[101] _Tatler_, No. 142. According to the author of a lively rattling book, conversant with the furniture of old times, Arbuthnot was a great amateur in sticks. "My uncle," says he, "was universally allowed to be as deeply skilled in caneology as any one, Dr. Arbuthnot not excepted, whose science on important questions was quoted even after his death; for his collection of the various headed sticks and canes, from the time of the first Charles, taken together, was unrivalled."--_Wine and Walnuts_, vol. i., p. 242. [102] Tatler, No. 86. [103] Spence's Anecdotes, by Singer, p. 337. [104] Ibid. [105] Tatler, as above, vol. iv., p. 600. [106] Censura Literaria, vol. iv., p. 345. [107] Imitations of Horace, Ep. i., book ii. [108] Pennant, _ut supra_, p. 172. [109] Faerie Queen, book vi., canto iii. [110] Britannia's Pastorals, book i., song iii. [111] Londinium Redivivum, vol. ii., p. 279. [112] See Malcolm's Londinium Redivivum, vol. iii., 453. [113] Boswell, _ut supra_, vol. i., p. 441. [114] Malone, on the passage in Boswell, ibid. [115] Boswell, vol. ii., p. 117. [116] Beauclerk, of the St. Alban's family, was a descendant of Charles II., whom he resembled in face and complexion, for which Johnson by no means liked him the less. [117] Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, &c. Allman, 1822, p. 69. [118] Boswell, vol. iii., p. 398. [119] Johnson's Court runs into Gough Square, "a place lately built with very handsome houses, and well inhabited by persons of fashion."--_Maitland's History and Survey of London_, by Entick, folio, 1756 p. 961. [120] Boswell, vol. i., p. 384. [121] Boswell, vol. i., p. 400. [122] Id., p. 408. [123] Boswell, vol. ii., p. 469. [124] Boswell, vol. ii., p. 455. [125] Ibid., vol. iv., p. 77. [126] Ibid., vol. iii., p. 327. CHAPTER IV. THE STRAND.