‘The loss and the sore prospect of the slain,’

for,

    ‘And even the prospect of our brethren slain.’

In l. 14: 

    ‘True glory, everlasting sanctity,’

for,

    ‘In glory will they sleep and endless sanctity.’

P. 161, l. 22.  ‘Milton compares,’ &c.  In ‘Paradise Lost,’ ii. 636-7.

P. 163, l. 2.  ‘Duppa is publishing a Life of Michael Angelo,’ &c.  It appeared in 1806 (4to); reprinted in Bohn’s ‘Illustrated Library.’

P. 163, footnote A. Alexander Wilson, who became the renowned ‘Ornithologist’ of America, was for years a ‘pedlar,’ both at home and in the United States.  His intellectual ability and genius would alone have given sanction to Wordsworth’s conception; but as simple matter-of-fact, the class was a peculiarly thoughtful and observant one, as the Biographies of Scotland show.

P. 167, ll. 30-1.  ‘A tale told,’ &c.  From Shakspeare, ‘Macbeth,’ v. 5.

P. 170, l. 34.  ‘Houbraken,’ &c.  Reissued from the old copper-plates.

P. 171, l. 30.  ‘I have never seen the works,’ &c.  In the Fuller Worthies’ Library I have collected the complete Poems of Sir John Beaumont, 1 vol.

Pp. 178-9.  Quotation (bottom).  From Milton, ‘Paradise Lost,’ book iv. ll. 604-9; but ‘How’ is inadvertently substituted for ‘Now.’

P. 196, l. 35.  John Dyer.  Wordsworth’s repeated recognition and lofty estimate of Dyer recalls the fact that a collection of his many-sided Writings is still a desideratum that the present Editor of Wordsworth’s Prose hopes some day to supply—­invited to the task of love by a lineal descendant.

(b) Of the Principles of Poetry and his own Poems.

P. 211, ll. 24-5.  Verse-quotation from Cowper:  more accurately it reads: 

    ’The jay, the pie, and even the boding owl
    That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.’

(’The Task,’ b. i. ll. 205-6.)

IV.  DESCRIPTIVE.

(a) A Guide through the District of the Lakes.

P. 217.  It seems somewhat remarkable that Wordsworth nowhere mentions the following work:  ’Remarks made in a Tour from London to the Lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland in the Summer of MDCCXCI., originally published in the Whitehall Evening Post, and now reprinted with additions and corrections....  By A. Walker, Lecturer,’ &c. 1792, 8vo.  Wordsworth could not have failed to be interested in the descriptions of this overlooked book.  They are open-eyed, open-eared, and vivid.  I would refer especially to the Letters on Windermere, pp. 58-60, and indeed all on the Lakes.  Space can only be found for a short quotation on Ambleside (Letter xiii., August 18, 1791):  ’We now leave Low Wood, and along the verge of the Lake have a pleasing couple of miles to Ambleside.  This is a straggling little market-town, made up of rough-cast white houses,