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of Ariosto. Johnson and Baretti had quarrelled with him.

73. His literary performances. Thomas Davies (1712 ?-1785) published in 1780 Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, and in 1784 Dramatic Miscellanies.

74 note.

This note by Boswell first appeared in 1793, in the second edition of the Life, not, as Malone says, in 1791. Murphy's Essay was published in 1792.

75. An engraving. An engraving of Sir Joshua Reynolds's first portrait of Johnson formed the frontispiece to the first edition of the Life.

77. The Elements of Criticism. By Henry Home, Lord Kames (1762).

77. Speaking of one, etc. Mr. Wilkes, no doubt. Boswell was a friend and, personally, an admirer of Wilkes, and therefore very properly (Wilkes being still alive) suppressed the name.- -Croker.

78. Dr. Hugh Blair (1718-1800), Professor of Rhetoric at Edinburgh University, published in 1763 a Dissertation on Ossian. He published also many Sermons, and in 1783 Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.

78. Dr. James Fordyce (1720-1796), author of Sermons to Young Women (1765), Addresses to Young Men (1777), and Poems (1786).

91. A volume of Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell Esq. was published in 1763.

91. George Dempster (1732-1818), M.P. for the Forfar and Fife Burghs 1762-90, is referred to by Burns in The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer (stanza xiii.) and the Epistle to James Smith (stanza xxiii.).

100. John Campbell (1708-1775) wrote Lives of the British Admirals (1742-44), A Political Survey of Britain (1774), and many other works. His Hermippus Redivivus was published in 1743

105. John Ogilvie (1733-1813) published Poems on Several Subjects in 1762.

116. Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes (1726-1792), famous for his work in connection with early Scottish history, is frequently referred to in the Life.

117. The tyrant. Caligula.

118. Tall Sir Thomas Robinson. The elder brother of the first Lord Rokeby, called long Sir Thomas Robinson on

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account of his height, and to distinguish him from Sir Thomas Robinson, first Lord Grantham. He was a familiar acquaintance of Lord Chesterfield, and by him, as Hawkins relates, employed as a mediator with Johnson, who, on his first visit, treated him very indignantly. It was on his request for an epigram that Lord Chesterfield made the distich

"Unlike my subject will I make my song,

It shall be witty and it shan't be long:
and to whom he said in his last illness, "Ah, Sir
Thomas, it will be sooner over with me than it
would be with you, for I am dying by inches." Lord
Chesterfield was very short. Sir Thomas did not
long survive his witty friend, and died in 1777.
-Croker.

120. Boswell's letters to his friend, the Rev. William
Johnson Temple were discovered in a shop at
Boulogne. They had been bought from a hawker
who was in the habit of passing through Boulogne
for the purpose of supplying the different shops
baden with paper. They were published in 1857.
121. Came to be ultimately tried. In Donaldson v. Becket, where
a majority of the House of Lords held that, though
aborthe author of a literary composition had, by the
Common Law, the sole right of printing and publish-
ing the same in perpetuity, this right had been taken
away by the statute 8 Anne, c. 19.

122. Rousseau's treatise. Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de wki l'inégalité parmi les hommes (1754).

123. Sir William Petty (1623-1687) wrote a number of enlightened tracts, chiefly on economical subjects. In his Political Arithmetic, or a Discourse concerning the Extent and Value of Lands, etc. (1699 ed. p. 261), he estimates "the middle expence of each head in the King's dominions" at £7 per annum.

126. Of a gentleman who was mentioned.

No doubt Dempster,

with whom he had dined the previous day.

131. The first volume of Dr. Joseph Warton's Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope was published in 1756, the second in 1782.

132. For particulars of Sir James Macdonald, who died at Rome in 1766, see the Tour to the Hebrides, Sept. 5.

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132. M. Martin's Description of the Western Islands of Scotland,
etc., was published in 1703.

135. 8. Probably Burke is referred to.

135. A young man. No doubt Boswell himself.

142. Johnston. Arthur Johnston (1587-1641), whom John-
Carson describes in his Journey to the Western Islands as
holding "among the Latin poets of Scotland the
next place to the elegant Buchanan."

143. Formosam, etc. Virgil, Eclogues, I. 5. Johnson trans-
lated the line:

"And the wood rings with Amarillis' name."

See vol. i. p. 28.

144. Sir William Scott (1745-1836), afterwards Lord
Stowell, the great Admiralty judge. He was the
elder brother of John Scott, Lord Eldon.

146. An imprudent publication. This probably alludes to Mr.
Burke's Vindication of Natural Society, a work published
in 1756, in a happy imitation of Lord Bolingbroke's
style, and in an ironical adoption of his principles.-

Groker.

151. Joseph Spence (1699-1768), Pope's friend, published
in 1754 An Account of the Life, Character, and Poems of
que Mr. Blacklock, t

156. Père Bouffier. Claude Buffier (1661-1737) published in
1724 Traité des premières vérités et de la Source de nos
jugements.

156. 8. Mr. Burke. Croker.

156. 16. These lines are from Goldsmith's Retaliation.
163. Dr. Christopher Nugent was Burke's father-in-law.
He died in 1775-799

169. Audiet cives, etc. Horace, Odes, I. 2, 21.

"Our sons shall hear, shall hear to latest times,

Of Roman arms with civil gore embrued

ni Which better had the Persian foe subdued."

175. Dr. Thomas Leland (1722-1785) translated Demos-
thenes, and published a History of Ireland (1773),
which is more than once referred to in the Life.
176. William Gerard Hamilton (1729-1796), known as
"Single-Speech Hamilton."

179. The Conscious Lovers, by Sir Richard Steele, was pro-
duced in 1722.

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184. William Kenrick (1725 ?-1779), subsequently attacked both Goldsmith and Garrick. He founded the London Review in 1775.

184. One of his numerous literary sallies. For the quotation from Voltaire here referred to, see the Dictionnaire Philosophique, Art Dramatique. Œuvres (édit. 1784), xxxviii. p. 10.

191. Robert François Damiens, who in 1757 attempted to assassinate Louis XV., was executed with horrible

tortures.

191. Two brothers. The name of these brothers was Dosa, not Zeck.

192 A foreign friend. Probably Baretti.-Croker.

196. His novel. Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse was published in 1760.

202. Mr. Lye. Edward Lye's (1694-1767) Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum was brought out by Rev. Owen Manning in 1772.

209. Hæc sunt, etc. Virgil, Æneid, iii. 461. to mabos“This is what Heaven allows me to relate: Now part in peace."-Dryden.

224. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1709-1759), whom Mr. Croker calls "the most celebrated wit of the day," wrote Poems (1763) and Odes (1775).

224. The Queen's house. Buckingham House, in St. James's Park, built in 1703 for Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, bought in 1761 by George III. for £21,000, and settled on Queen Charlotte in lieu of Somerset House.

The present Buckingham Palace occupies the

site.-P. Cunningham.

228. Robert Lowth (1710-1787), Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1741-50, and successively Bishop of St. David's, Oxford, and London. His lectures, De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum, were published in 1753. From a passage in them the controversy with Warburton ultimately arose.

229. Lord Lyttelton's history.

History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in which he lived (1767). 229. John Hill, M.D. (1716 ?-1775), who assumed latterly the title of Sir John, on receiving a Swedish order of

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knighthood. This literary and medical quack died
in 1775. Garrick's epigram is well known :-
"For physic and farces, his equal there scarce is,
His farces are physic, his physic a farce is."
-Lockhart.

230. The Journal des Savans was established in 1665, and continued till 1792.

230. Philosophical Transactions, i.e., the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which were commenced in March, 1664-65.

238. False Delicacy, by Hugh Kelly. The Provoked Husband, by Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber.

239. Sir Francis Wronghead.

Husband.

A character in The Provoked

240. The Suspicious Husband, by Dr. Hoadley, son of Bishop Hoadley.

240. The great Douglas Cause. The Douglas cause, which is frequently referred to in the Life and the Tour to the Hebrides, was concerned with the succession to the estates of the first Duke of Douglas, who died childless in 1761. Archibald Stewart, the defendant, claimed them as the son of the Duke's sister, Lady Jane Douglas, and her husband, Sir John Stewart of Grandtully, both of whom had on their deathbeds declared his legitimacy. On behalf of the Duke of Hamilton it was alleged that Stewart was a supposititious child, and it was so found in the Court of Session by the casting vote of the President. This decree was, however, reversed by the House of Lords.

241. The Rev. Kenneth Macaulay's History of St. Kilda was published in 1764.

242. Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782), author of Elements of Criticism (1762) and Sketches of the History of Man (1774).

243.

essay. The Rev. Richard Dean's Essay on the Future Life of Brutes (1767).

245. Bell's Travels. John Bell's Travels from St. Petersburg in

Russia to Divers Parts of Asia (1763).

245. Du Halde. See vol. i. pp. 117, 140.

246. Joseph Baretti (1719-1789) published his Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy in 1768.10