hearing of the promised treat, with her usual kindly thought and wisdom, urged the young girl to give her utmost attention to the actor's style. "When you are an old woman like me, people will ask you about Munden's acting, as they now ask me about Garrick's, so take particular care to observe all he does, and how he does it."

In connection with this essay see also "Munden's Autobiography," page 268; "The Death of Munden," page 341; the note on page 531; and "The Acting of Munden," Vol. II., page 148.

Munden lived eight years after his retirement. They were, however, marred by financial losses and poor health.

Page 378, line 5. "Give sorrow vent." I cannot find this phrase. Possibly it is an echo of Macduff's words to Malcolm :

Knight.

"Give sorrow words."

:

" Macbeth," Act IV., Scene 3, line 209.

Crack. In "The Turnpike Gate," by Thomas

Jemmy Jumps.

Page 378, line 13. Page 378, line 14. In "The Farmer," by John O'Keeffe (1747-1833). Nipperkin. In "The Sprigs of Laurel," also by O'Keeffe. This play was afterwards reduced to one act, and renamed "The Private Soldiers."

Page 378, line 28. "To rally life's whole energies to die." I have not succeeded in tracing this quotation.

Page 378, line 31. John Buncle.

The Life of John Buncle, Esq., 1756-1766, by Thomas Amory (1691 ?-1788), a book much esteemed by Lamb, Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt.

Page 380. Review of DibDIN'S "COMIC TALES."

The New Times, January 27, 1825.

I have no doubt that Lamb wrote this review, both from internal evidence and from what we know, through the medium of his Letters, of his feelings towards the book and its author. In a letter to John Bates Dibdin, the author's son, dated January 11, 1825, Lamb writes: 66 Pray return my best thanks to your father for his little volume. It is like all of his I have seen, spirited, good humoured, and redolent of the wit and humour of a century ago. He should have lived with Gay and his set. The Chessiad is so clever that I relish'd it in spite of my total ignorance of the game. I have it not before me, but I remember a capital simile of the Charwoman letting in her Watchman husband, which is better than Butler's Lobster turned to Red. Hazard is a grand Character Jove in his Chair." Butler's simile, in Hudibras, runs :—

The sun had long since in the lap
Of Thetis taken out his nap,
And, like a lobster boiled, the morn
From black to red began to turn.

Charles Dibdin the younger (1768-1833) was the author of a number of plays and songs and also of a History of the London Theatres, 1826. The full title of the Comic Tales was Comic Tales and Lyrical

Fancies; including The Chessiad, a mock-heroic, in five cantos; and The Wreath of Love, in four cantos, 1825.

Page 380, line 15. "The Rape of the Lock." poem by Alexander Pope, published in 1712.

The mock-heroic

Page 380, line 26. Joan, the Gentle Pope. Pope Joan-the imaginary female Pope of the ninth century—is among the Immortals in the poem. The line quoted is Dibdin's, in the second canto.

Page 380, line 33. Hoyle . . . Phillidor. Meaning more at home in whist than in chess. From Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769), author of A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, 1742, and François André Philidor (1726-1795), the composer and an authority upon chess. Lamb was, of course, a great whist player.

Page 380, line 36. Swift and Gay. Swift wrote a short but admirably observant city poem, "A Description of the Morning." Gay's Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, would be the work in Lamb's mind.

Page 381.

EXCERPTIONS FROM AN IDLER'S SCRAP-BOOK. London Magazine, March, 1825.

Under this heading in the magazine comes first this article, and then the "Reflections in the Pillory" (page 280). We know Lamb to have written the "Reflections," and it seems reasonable then to suppose that he wrote this too. The criticism of Gray is a little off his common road, but there are many touches in it that commend themselves as his; and late in life he played now and then with translations from the Latin (see Vol. V. of this edition).

I subjoin the text of Gray's ode, written originally in the album of the Grande Chartreuse, in Dauphiny, in 1741. The version is that printed in Mr. Gosse's edition of Gray, 1884 :

ALCAIC ODE

Oh Tu, severi relligio loci,

Quocunque gaudes nomine (non leve
Nativa nam certè fluenta

Numen habet, veteresque sylvas;
Præsentiorem et conspicimus Deum
Per invias rupes, fera per juga,
Clivosque præruptos, sonantes

Inter aquas, nemorumque noctem ;
Quàm si repostus sub trabe citrea
Fulgeret auro, et Phidiaca manu)
Salve vocanti ritè, fesso et

Da placidam juveni quietem.
Quod si invidendis sedibus, et frui
Fortuna sacra lege silentii

Vetat volentem, me resorbens
In medios violenta fluctus :
Saltem remoto des, Pater, angulo
Horas senectæ ducere liberas;
Tutumque vulgari tumultu

Surripias, hominumque curis.

Page 381, line 20. "Word catchers," etc. From Pope's to the Satires, "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," line 166:

Each word-catcher that lives on syllables.

Page 381, line 24. Diocletian's cabbages. Diocletian, Emperor of Rome, voluntarily abdicated the throne, A.D. 304, after twenty-one years of splendour and prosperity, and spent the remainder of his life tending his garden.

Page 381, line 27. famous headmaster of on one day-this was

school.

Page 381, line 30.

Dr. Keate. Dr. John Keate (1773-1852). The Eton, who once flogged more than eighty boys in 1832-and was afterwards cheered by the

"Like Scotland," etc.

Page 382, line 2. Lucan's unknown demon. In the Pharsalia, VI., 744, etc. The unknown demon was Demogorgon, father of all the gods, never seen, and never named but with disaster to the world. Page 382, line 26. The metre which he himself loved. The metre is that of the Elegy.

Page 383. DOG DAYS.

Every-Day Book, July 14, 1825.

This humane letter is considered by Mr. J. A. Rutter, a profound student of Lamb, to be probably Lamb's work, a protest against Hone's remark in the Every-Day Book that dogs would have to be exterminated. There certainly is no difficulty in conceiving it to be from Lamb's pen, although there is no overwhelming internal evidence. Writing to Hone on July 25, 1825 (misdated 1826 in editions of the Letters), Lamb offers further hints as to the "Dog Days" for the EveryDay Book.

Lamb's interest in dogs became more personal after Hood gave him Dash for a companion. In the letter to P. G. Patmore, dated from Enfield, September, 1827, he speaks of mad dogs :

"All the dogs here are going mad, if you believe the overseers; but I protest they seem to me very rational and collected. But nothing is so deceitful as mad people, to those who are not used to them. Try him [Dash] with hot water: if he won't lick it up it is a sign he does not like it. Does his tail wag horizontally, or perpendicularly? That has decided the fate of many dogs in Enfield. Is his general deportment cheerful? I mean when he is pleased-for otherwise there is no judging. You can't be too careful. Has he bit any of the children yet? If he has, have them shot, and keep him for curiosity, to see if it was the hydrophobia. They say all our army in India had it at one time; but that was in Hyder-Ally's time."

Page 383, line 2. "Now Sirius rages." I do not find this, but

VOL. I.-35

assume it to be Lamb's recollection of "The dog-star rages," in line 3 of Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," quoted above.

Not signed.

Page 384. REVIEW OF MOXON'S SONNETS. The Athenæum, April 13, 1833. Edward Moxon (1801-1858), the publisher, and Lamb's protégé and adopted son-in-law, was himself a poet in a modest way. His first book, The Prospect, 1826, he dedicated to Samuel Rogers, another patron; Christmas followed in 1829, dedicated to Lamb; and in 1830 his first collection of Sonnets was issued. In the second series, 1835, are some touching lines on Lamb.

I have no proof that The Athenæum review is by Lamb, but I believe it to be so. Attention was first drawn to it by Mr. J. A. Rutter in Notes and Queries, December 22, 1900, who remarked upon the phrase "integrity above his avocation" as being perhaps the only instance that exists of unconscious humour on the part of Charles Lamb.

Page 384, line 14. Humphrey Mosely. Humphrey Moseley (d. 1661), the bookseller of St. Paul's Churchyard and publisher of the first collected edition of Milton, 1645, and also of Waller, Crashaw, Donne, Vaughan. He prefixed to the Milton the words: "It is the love I have to our own language that hath made me diligent to collect and set forth such pieces, both in prose and verse, as may renew the wonted honour and esteem of our English tongue."

Moxon

Page 384, line 22. What we hope E. M. will be in his. nobly fulfilled the wish. He published Tennyson's first book in 1833 and all that followed during his lifetime; he became Wordsworth's publisher in 1835; he published Browning's Sordello and Bells and Pomegranates; and he commissioned fine editions of the old dramatists.

INDEX

Athenæum, The, Lamb's contributions to, BooKS WITH ONE IDEA IN THEM, 153, 442.