Page 283, line 15. Colnaghi’s.  Colnaghi, the printseller, then in Cockspur Street, now Pall Mall East.  After this word came in the London Magazine “(as W——­ calls it).”  The reference, Mr. Rogers Rees tells me, is to Wainewright’s article “C. van Vinkbooms, his Dogmas for Dilletanti,” in the same magazine for December, 1821, where he wrote:  “I advise Colnaghi and Molteno to import a few impressions immediately of those beautiful plates from Da Vinci.  The ... and Miss Lamb’s favourite, ‘Lady Blanche and the Abbess,’ commonly called ‘Vanitas et Modestia’ (Campanella, los. ed.), for I foresee that this Dogma will occasion a considerable call for them—­let them, therefore, be ready.”

Page 283, line 5 from foot. To see a play.  “The Battle of Hexham” and “The Surrender of Calais” were by George Colman the Younger; “The Children in the Wood,” a favourite play of Lamb’s, especially with Miss Kelly in it, was by Thomas Morton.  Mrs. Bland was Maria Theresa Bland, nee Romanzini, 1769-1838, who married Mrs. Jordan’s brother.  Jack Bannister we have met, in “The Old Actors.”

Page 286, line 12. The Great yew R——­.  This would be Nathan Meyer Rothschild (1777-1836), the founder of the English branch of the family and the greatest financier of modern times.

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Page 286.  POPULAR FALLACIES.

This series of little essays was printed in the New Monthly Magazine in 1826, beginning in January.  The order of publication there was not the same as that in the Last Essays of Elia; one of the papers, “That a Deformed Person is a Lord,” was not reprinted by Lamb at all (it will be found in Vol.  I. of this edition); and two others were converted into separate essays (see “The Sanity of True Genius” and “The Genteel Style in Writing").

After Lamb’s death a new series of Popular Fallacies was contributed to the New Monthly Magazine by L.B. (Laman Blanchard) in 1835, preceded by an invocation to the spirit of Charles Lamb.

Page 286.  I.—­THAT A BULLY is ALWAYS A COWARD.

New Monthly Magazine, January, 1826.

Page 287, line 1. Hickman.  This would be Tom Hickman, the pugilist.  In Hazlitt’s fine account of “The Fight,” Hickman or the Gas-Man, “vapoured and swaggered too much, as if he wanted to grin and bully his adversary out of the fight.”  And again, “’This is the grave digger’ (would Tom Hickman exclaim in the moments of intoxication from gin and success, showing his tremendous right hand); ’this will send many of them to their long homes; I haven’t done with them yet.’” But he went under to Neale, of Bristol, on the great day that Hazlitt describes.

Page 287, line 2. Him of Clarissa.  Mr. Hickman, in Richardson’s novel Clarissa, the lover of Miss Bayes.

Page 287.  II.—­THAT ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVER PROSPERS.

New Monthly Magazine, January, 1826.