Part 48 (1/2)

_Tales of my Landlord_. Scott's.

_Lady Morgan_ (1783?-1859), a writer of Irish stories, of which the best-known is ”The Wild Irish Girl” (1806). She is also the author of certain miscellaneous productions, among which is a ”Life of Salvator Rosa” reviewed by Hazlitt for the Edinburgh Review, July, 1824. Works, X, 276-310.

_Anastatius_, an Eastern romance by Thomas Hope (1770-1831).

_Delphine_ (1802), a novel by Madame De Stael (1766-1817), the celebrated French bluestocking.

_in their newest gloss_. ”Macbeth,” i, 7, 34.

_Andrew Millar_ (1707-1768), the publisher of Thomson's and Fielding's works.

_Thurloe's State Papers_. ”A Collection of State Papers” (1742) by John Thurloe (1616-1668), Secretary of State under Cromwell.

_Sir G.o.dfrey Kneller_ (1648-1723), a portrait painter of German birth whose work and reputation belong to England.

P. 335. _for thoughts_. Cf. ”Hamlet,” iv, 5, 175: ”There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.”

_Fortunatus's Wis.h.i.+ng Cap_, in Dekker's play of ”Old Fortunatus.”

_Bruscambille_. ”Tristram Shandy,” Bk. III, ch. 35.

_the masquerade_. ”Tom Jones,” Bk. XIII, ch. 7.

_the disputes_. Bk. III, ch. 3.

_the escape of Molly_. Bk. IV, ch. 8.

_Sophia and her m.u.f.f_. Bk. V, ch. 4.

_her aunt's lecture_. Bk. VII, ch. 3.

_the puppets dallying_. ”Hamlet,” iii, 2, 257.

P. 336. _ignorance was bliss_. Gray's ”Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton.”

_Ballantyne press_. The printing firm of John and James Ballantyne in Edinburgh with which Scott was a.s.sociated, and in whose financial ruin he was so disastrously involved.

_Minerva Press_. The sponsor of popular romances.

P. 337. _Mrs. Radcliffe_, Anne (1764-1823), a very popular writer of novels in which romance, sentiment, and terror are combined in cunning proportions. Her chief novels are ”The Romance of the Forest” (1791), ”The Mysteries of Udolpho” (1794) and ”The Italian” (1797). Hazlitt writes of her in the lecture ”On the English Novelists.”

_sweet in the mouth_. Revelation, x, 9.

_gay creatures_. ”Comus,” 299.

_Tom Jones discovers Square_. Bk. V, ch. 5.

_where Parson Adams_. ”Joseph Andrews,” Bk. IV, ch. 14.

P. 338. _Chubb's Tracts_. Thomas Chubb (1679-1747), a tallow-chandler who devoted his leisure hours to the deistic controversy. His ”Tracts and Posthumous Works” were published in six volumes in 1754.

_fate, free-will_. ”Paradise Lost,” II, 560.