and with a greater flow of animal spirits than Southey.  He mentioned that he never wrote down as he composed, but composed walking, riding, or in bed, and wrote down after; that Southey always composes at his desk.  He talked a great deal of Brougham, whose talents and domestic virtues he greatly admires; that he was very generous and affectionate in his disposition, full of duty and attention to his mother, and had adopted and provided for a whole family of his brother’s children, and treats his wife’s children as if they were his own.  He insisted upon taking them both with him to the Drawing-room the other day when he went in state as Chancellor.  They remonstrated with him, but in vain.[276]

[275] ‘Diary of Sir Walter Scott,’ Life, by Lockhart, as before, vol. ix. pp. 62-3.

[276] The Greville Memoirs.  A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV.  By the late Charles C.F.  Greville, Esq., Clerk of the Council to those Sovereigns.  Edited by Henry Reeve, Registrar of the Privy Council. 3 vols. 8vo, fourth edition, 1875.  Vol. ii. p. 120.

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

P. 5.  Footnotes:  5a, ‘Intake.’  Cf. p. 436 (bottom).

P. 6, l. 6.  ‘Gives one bright glance,’ &c.  From ‘The Seasons,’ l. 175, from the end of ‘Summer.’  Originally (1727) this line ran, ’Gives one faint glimmer, and then disappears.’

P. 17, l. 2.  Shelvocke’s ‘Voyages:’  ’A Voyage round the World, by the Way of the Great South Sea.’ 1726, 8vo; 2d edition, 1757.

P. 22, l. 27.  Milton, History of England, &c.  ’The History of Britain, that Part especially now called England; from the first traditional Beginning, continued to the Norman Conquest.  In six Books.’  Lond. 1670.  (Works by Mitford, Prose, iii. pp. 1-301.)

P. 24, l. 28.  Hearne’s ‘Journey,’ &c.; viz.  Samuel Hearne’s ’Journey from the Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean.’ 1795, 4to.

P. 31, l. 12.  Waterton’s ‘Wanderings,’ &c.; viz.  Charles Waterton’s ’Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles.’ 1825, 4to.  Many subsequent editions, being a book that has taken its place beside Walton’s ‘Angler’ and White’s ‘Selborne.’

P. 32, l. 11.  James Montgomery’s ‘Field Flower.’  Nothing gratified this ‘sweet Singer’ so much as these words of Wordsworth.  He used to point them out to visitors if the conversation turned, or was directed, to Wordsworth.  The particular poem is a daintily-touched one, found in all the editions of his Poems.

P. 32, l. 33.  ‘Has not Chaucer noticed it [the small Celandine]’?  Certainly not under this name, nor apparently under any other.

P. 33, l. 2.  ‘Frederica Brun.’  More exactly Frederike.  She was a minor poetess; imitator of Matthison, whose own poems can hardly be called original. (See Gostwick and Harrison’s ‘Outlines of German Literature,’ p. 355, cxxiii., 7th period, 1770-1830.)