The inadvertencies to which I allude, are,Firstly, in speaking of Anstey, whom he accuses of having taken his leading characters from Smollett." Anstey's Bath Guide was published in 1766. Smollett's Humphry Clinker (the only work of Smollett's from which Tabitha, &c. &c. could have been taken) was written during Smollett's last residence at Leghorn, in 1770.-"Argal," if there has been any borrowing Anstey must be the creditor, and not the debtor. I refer Mr. Campbell to his own data in his lives of Smollett and Anstey.

Secondly, Mr. Campbell says, in the life of Cowper, note to page 358, vol. 7,) that he knows not to whom Cowper alludes in these lines:

"Nor he who, for the bane of thousands born,

Built God a church, and laugh'd his name to scorn.

The Calvinist meant Voltaire, and the church of Ferney, with its inscription, "Deo erexit Voltaire." Thirdly in the life of Burns, Mr. C. quotes Shakspeare thus,

To gild refined gold, to paint the rose, Or add fresh perfume to the violet." This version by no means improves the original, which is as follows:

"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,

To throw a perfume on the violet, &c.

King John.

A great poet, quoting another, should be correct; he should also be accurate when he accuses a Parnassian brother of that dangerous charge "borrowing" a poet had better borrow any thing (excepting money) than the thoughts of another-they are always sure to be reclaimed; but it is very hard, having been the lender, to be denounced as the debtor, as is the case of Anstey versus Smollett.

As there is "honour among thieves," let there be some among poets, and give each his due,-none can afford to give it more than Mr. Campbell himself, who, with a high reputation for originality, and a fame which cannot be shaken, is the only poet of the times (except! Rogers) who can be reproached (and in him it is indeed a reproach) with having written too little.

Note 3. Stanza xviii. Was printed Grove, although his name was Gram A fact: see the Waterloo Gazettes. I recollect a marking at the time to a friend :- There is fame! man is killed-his name is Grose, and they print i Grove." I was at College with the deceased, who wy a very amiable and clever man, and his society in gre request for his wit, gayety, and “chansons à boire." Note 4. Stanza xxiii.

As any other notion, and not national, See Major Vallancy and Sir Lawrence Parsons Note 5. Stanza xxv.

'Tis pity that such meanings should pave hell." The Portuguese proverb says that "Hell is pare with good intentions."

CANTO IX.

Note 1. Stanza i.

Humanity would rise, and thunder * Nay" Query, Ney ?-PRINTER'S DEVIL.

Note 2. Stanza vi.

Note 3. Stanza xxxiii.

Note 4. Stanza xlvii.

Note 6. Stanza lxiii.

Your "fortune" was in a fair way "to swell A man," as Giles says.

CANTO X.

Note 1. Stanza xiii.

Would scarcey join again the "reformadoes." "Reformers," or rather "Reformed." The Baron Bradwardine, in Waverley, is authority for the word. Note 2. Stanza xv.

The endless soot bestows a tint far deeper Than can be hid by altering his shirt. Query, suit ?-Printer's Devil.

days:

"On the high toby-spice flash the muzzle,

In spite of each gallows old scout;
If you at the spellken can't hustle,
You'll be hobbled in making a Clout.

"Then your blowing will wax gallows haughty,
When she hears of your scaly mistake,
She'll surely turn anitch for the forty,

That her Jack may be regular weight."

If there be any gem'man so ignorant as to require a traduction, I refer him to my old friend and corporeal pastor and master, John Jackson, Esq. Professor of Pugilism; who I trust still retains the strength and symmetry of his model of a form, together with his good humour, and athletic as well as mental accomplishments. Note 2. Stanza xxix.

St. James's Palace and St. James's "Hells." “Hells,” gaming-houses. What their number may now be in this life, I know not. Before I was of age I knew them pretty accurately, both "gold" and "silver.* was once nearly called out by an acquaintance, because when he asked me where I thought that his soul would be found hereafter, I answered, "In Silver Hell."

Note 3. Stanza xliii.

—and therefore even I won't anent This subject quote.

"Anent" was a Scotch phrase, meaning " concerning," -"with regard to." It has been made English by the Scotch Novels; and, as the Frenchman said-" If it be not, ought to be English."

Note 4. Stanza xlix.

The milliners who furnish “ drapery misses." "Drapery misses”—This term is probably any thing now but a mystery. It was however almost so to me when I first returned from the East in 1811-1812. It means a pretty, a high-born, a fashionable young female, well instructed by her friends, and furnished by her milliner with a wardrobe upon credit, to be repaid, when married, by the husband. The riddle was first read to me by a young and pretty heiress, on my praising the "drapery" of an "untochered" but "pretty virginities" (like Mrs. Anne Page) of the then day, which has now been some years yesterday :-she assured me that the thing was common in London; and as her own thousands, and blooming looks, and rich simplicity of array, put any suspicion in her own case out of the question, I confess I gave some credit to the allegation. I could quote both "drapery and the wearers. Let us If necessary, authorities might be cited, in which case hope, however, that it is now obsolete.

Note 5. Stanza Ix.

'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. 'Divinæ particulam auræ."

CANTO XII.

Note 1. Stanza xix.

Gives, with Greek truth, the good old Greek the lie. See MITFORD's Greece. "Græcia Veraz." His great pleasure consists in praising tyrants, abusing Plutarch, spelling oddly, and writing quaintly; and, what is strange after all, his is the best modern history of Greece in any language, and he is perhaps the best of all modern his torians whatsoever. Having named his sins, it is but fair to state his virtues-learning, labour, research, wrath, and partiality. I call the latter virtues in a writer, because they make him write in earnest. Note 2. Stanza xxxvii.

A hazy widower turn'd of forty's sure. This line may puzzle the commentators inore than the present generation.

Note 3. Stanza Ixxiii.

Like Russians rushing from hot baths to snows. The Russians, as is well known, run out from their hot baths to plunge into the Neva: a pleasant practical antithesis, which it seems does them no harm. Note 4. Stanza lxxxii.

The world to gaze upon those northern lights. For a description and print of this inhabitant of the polar region and native country of the aurora borealis, see PARRY's Voyage in Search of the North-Wess Passuge.

Note 5. Stanza lxxxvi.

CANTO XIII.

Note 1. Stanza vii.

Right honestly, "he liked an honest hater."

any in the world-was an angler: true, he angled with painted flies, and would have been incapable of the extravagances of I. Walton."

The above addition was made by a friend in reading over the MS.-" Audi alteram partem"-I leave i v counterbalance my own observation.

CANTO XIV.

Note 1. Stanza xxxiii.

And never craned, and made but few "faux pas. Craning.-"To crane" is, or was, an expression used to denote a gentleman's stretching out his neck over a hedge, "to look before he leaped :—a pause in his vaulting ambition," which in the field doth occasion some delay and execration in those who may be imme diately behind the equestrian skeptic. Sir, if you don't choose to take the leap, let me"-was a phrase which generally sent the aspirant on again; and to gooc purpose: for though "the horse and rider" might fa they made a gap, through which, and over him and he steed, the field might follow.

Note 2. Stanza xlviii.

Go to the coffee-house, and take another.

In SWIFT'S OF HORACE WALPOLE's Letters, I think

Note 2. Stanza xxvi.

Also there bin another pious reason. "With every thing that pretty bin, My lady sweet arise."-Shakspeare.

Note 3. Stanza xlv.

They and their bills "Arcadians both,” are left. "Arcades ambo."

Note 4. Stanza lxxi.

Or wilder group of savage Salvatore's. Salvator Rosa.

Note 5. Stanza lxxii.

His bell-mouth'd goblet makes me feel quite Danish. If I err not, "Your Dane" is one of Iago's catalogue of nations "exquisite in their drinking.”

Note 6. Stanza lxxviii.

Even Nimrod's self might leave the plains of Dura. In Assyria.

Note 7. Stanza xcvi.

friend, was answered by a universal Pylades: "When I lose one, I go to the Saint James's Coffee-house, and take another.'

I recollect having heard an anecdote of the same kind. Sir W. D. was a great gamester. Coming in one day to the club of which he was a member, be was observed to look melancholy. "What is the mat ter, Sir William ?" cried Hare, of facetious memory. "Ah!" replied Sir W. "I have just lost poor Lady Li "Lost! What! at-Quinze or Hazard ? was the cut solatory rejoinder of the querist.

Note 3. Stanza lix.

And I refer you to wise Oxenstiern.

The famous Chancellor Oxenstiern said to his son, on the latter expressing his surprise upon the great effects arising from petty causes in the presumed mys tery of politics: "You see by this, my son, with how little wisdom the kingdoms of the world are governed."

CANTO XV

Note 1. Stanza xviii.

And Thou, Diviner still, Whose lot it is by man to be mistaken.

Note 8. Stanza cvi.

The quaint, old, cruel corcomb, in his gullet

Should have a hook and a small trout to pull it.

It would have taught him humanity at least. This sentimental savage, whom it is a mode to quote (among the novelists) to show their sympathy for innocent sports and old songs, teaches how to sew up frogs, and break their legs by way of experiment, in addition to the art of angling, the cruelist, the coldest, and the stupidest of pretended sports. They may talk about the beauties of nature, but the angler merely thinks of his dish of fish; he has no leisure to take his eyes from off the streams, and a single bite is worth to him more than all the scenery around. Besides, some fish bite best on rainy day. The whale, the shark, and the tunny fishery have somewhat of noble and perilous in them; even netfishing, trawling, &c. are more humane and useful -but angling!-No angler can be a good man.

a

"One of the best men I ever knew-as humane, delicate-minded, generous, and excellent a creature as

I say, that I mean, by "Diviner still," CHRIST. I ever God was Man-or Man God-he was both. I never arraigned his creed, but the use or abuse-made of it. Mr. Canning one day quoted Christianity te sanction Negro Slavery, and Mr. Wilberforce had little to say in reply. And was Christ crucified, that black men might be scourged? If so, he had better been born a Mulatto, to give both colours an equal chance of freedom, or at least salvation.

Note 2. Stanza xxxv.

When Rapp the Harmonist embargoed marriage
In his harmonious settlement.

This extraordinary and flourishing German colony in America does not entirely exclude matrimony, as the "Shakers" do; but lays such restrictions upon it as prevent more than a certain quantum of births within a certain number of years; which births (as Mr. Hulme observes) generally arrive "in a little flock like those of a farmer's lambs, all within the same month perhaps." These Harmonists (so called from the name of their settlement) are represented as a remarkably flourishing pious, and quiet people. See the various recent writers on America.

Mr Coleridge's" Biographia Literaria" appeared in 1817.

↑ Wordsworth's place may be in the Customs-it is, I think, in that

"Pale, but not cadaverous:"-Milton's two elder daughters are said to have robbed him of his books, besides cheating and plaguing tim in the economy of his house, &c. &c. His feelings on such an entram, both as a parent and a scholar must have been singularly pais Hayley compares him to Lear. See part third, Life of Milton, by W. Hayley (or Hailey, as spel: in the edition before me). ↑ Or,

"Would he subside into a nackney Laureate

A scribbling, self-sold, soul-hired, scorn'd Iscariot ?**

I doubt if "Laureate" and "Iscariot" be good rhymes, but mut say, as Ben Jonson did to Sylvester, who challenged him to rhyme with

"I, John Sylvester Lay with your sister."