(40) Her cousin, Charles Rousseau Burney-Hetty’s husband.-Ed.

(41) A French authoress, who wrote about the middle of the eighteenth century.  Her novels, according to Dunlop “"A History of Fiction,” chap. xiii.), “are distinguished by their delicacy and spirit.”  Her best works ar:  “Miss jenny Salisbury,” “Le Marquis de Cressy,” “Letters of Lady Catesby,” etc.-ed. (42) Mrs. Williams, the blind poetess, who resided in Dr. Johnson’s house.  She had written to Dr. Burney, requesting the loan of a copy of “Evelina."-Ed.

(43) william Seward “a great favourite at Streatham,” was the son of an eminent brewer, Mr. Seward, of the firm of Calvert and Seward, and was born in 1747.  He was not yet a “literary lion,” but he published some volumes—­“Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons “—­at a later date.  He died in 1799.-Ed.

(44) Miss Frances Reynolds—­Dr. Johnson’s “Renny”—­was the sister of the great Sir Joshua, and a miniature painter of some talent.-Ed.

(45) Her brother.-Ed.

(46) Bennet Lanpton, of Langton in Lincolnshire, was an old and much loved friend of Dr. johnson, and is frequently mentioned in Boswell’s “Life.”  He was born about 1737, was educated at Oxford, was a good Greek scholar, and, says Boswell, “a gentleman eminent not only for worth, and learning but for an inexhaustible fund of entertaining conversation.” .”  He succeeded Johnson, on the death of the latter, as Professor of Ancient History to the Royal Academy, and died in 1801.  Boswell has printed a charming letter, written by johnson, a few months before his death, to Langton’s little daughter jane, then in her seventh year.-Ed.

(47) “My master” was a Common appellation for Mr, Thrale,—­and One which he seems, in earnest, to have deserved.  “I know no man,” said johnson, “who is more master of his wife and family than Thrale, he but holds up a finger, he is obeyed.” (Boswell.)- Ed.

48) Suspirius the Screech Owl.  See “Rambler” for Oct. 9, 1750.  (This is unjust to Goldsmith.  The general idea of the character of Croaker, no doubt, closely resembles that of Suspirius, and was probably borrowed from johnson; but the details which make the part so diverting are entirely of Goldsmith’s invention, as anyone may see by comparing “The Good-natured Man” with “The Rambler."-Ed.]

(49) Mrs. Thrale tells a good story of Johnson’s irrational antipathy to the Scotch.  A Scotch gentleman inLondon, “at his return from the Hebrides, asked him, with a firm tone of voice, ‘what he thought of his country?’ ’That it is a very vile country, to be sure, sir,’ returned for answer Dr. Johnson.  ‘Well sir!’ replies the other, somewhat mortified, ‘God made it!’ ‘Certainly he did,’ answers Mr. Johnson, again, ’but we must always remember that He made it for Scotchmen; and—­comparisons are odious, Mr. S.—­but God made hell!’—­(Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson)-ed.