Island," and knew it practically by heart. I, myself, am not averse to
a good book as a traveling companion; but in my judgment, for constant
reading, year in and year out, it should be a book which sets you
thinking, rather than a narrative like "Treasure Island," but--_chacun à
son goût._
[Illustration: TITLE OF STEVENSON'S "MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF"]
But it were tedious to enumerate his treasures, nor is it necessary.
They will ever remain, a monument to his taste and skill as a collector,
in the keeping of Harvard University--his Alma Mater. It is, however,
worth while to attempt to fix in some measure the individuality, the
rare personality of the man. I cannot be mistaken in thinking that many,
looking at the wonderful library erected in Cambridge by his mother in
his memory, may wish to know something of the man himself.
There is in truth not much to tell. A few dates have already been given,
and when to these is added the statement that he was of retiring and
studious disposition, considerate and courteous, little more remains to
be said. He lived with and for his books, and was never so happy as when
he was saying, "Now if you will put aside that cigar for a moment, I
will show you something. Cigar ashes are not good for first editions";
and a moment later some precious volume would be on your knees. What
collector does not enjoy showing his treasures to others as appreciative
as himself? Many delightful hours his intimates have passed in his
library, which was also his bedroom,--for he wanted his books about him,
where he could play with them at night and where his eye might rest on
them the first thing in the morning,--but this was a privilege extended
only to true book-lovers. To others he was unapproachable and almost
shy. Of unfailing courtesy and an amiable and loving disposition, his
friends were very dear to him. "Bill," or someone else, "is the salt of
the earth," you would frequently hear him say.
"Are you a book-collector, too?" his grandfather once asked me across
the dinner-table.
Laughingly I said, "I thought I was, but I am not in Harry's class."
To which the old gentleman replied,--and his eye beamed with pride the
while,--"I am afraid that Harry will impoverish the entire family."
I answered that I should be sorry to hear that, and suggested that he
and I, if we put our fortunes together, might prevent this calamity.
[Illustration: BEVERLY CHEW, OF NEW YORK, WHO COMBINES A PROFOUND LOVE
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH AN INEXHAUSTIBLE KNOWLEDGE OF FIRST EDITIONS]
His memory was most retentive. Once let him get a fact or a date
imbedded in his mind and it was there forever. He knew the name of
every actor he had ever seen, and the part he had taken in the play last
year and the year before. He knew the name of every baseball player and
had his batting and running average. When it came to the chief interest
of his life, his thirst for knowledge was insatiable. I remember one
evening when we were in New York together, in Beverly Chew's library,
Harry asked Mr. Chew some question about the eccentricities of the
title-pages of the first edition of Milton's "Paradise Lost." Mr. Chew
began rolling off the bibliographical data, like the ripe scholar that
he is, when I suggested to Harry that he had better make a note of what
Mr. Chew was saying. He replied, "I should only lose the paper; while if
I get it in my head I will put it where it can't be lost; that is," he
added, "as long as I keep my head."
And his memory extended to other collections than his own. For him to
see a book once was for him to remember it always. If I told him I had
bought such and such a book, he would know from whom I bought it and all
about it, and would ask me if I had noticed some especial point, which,
in all probability, had escaped me.
He was a member of several clubs, including the Grolier Club, the most
important club of its kind in the world. The late J. P. Morgan had sent
word to the chairman of the membership committee that he would like
Harry made a member. The question of his seconder was waived: it was
understood that Mr. Morgan's endorsement of his protégé's
qualifications was sufficient.
It was one night, when we were in New York together during the first Hoe
sale, that I had a conversation with Harry, to which, in the light of
subsequent events, I have often recurred. We had dined together at my
club and had gone to the sale; but there was nothing of special interest
coming up, and after a half hour or so, he suggested that we go to the
theatre. I reminded him that it was quite late, and that at such an hour
a music-hall would be best. He agreed, and in a few moments we were
witnessing a very different performance from the one we had left in the
Anderson auction rooms; but the performance was a poor one. Harry was
restless and finally suggested that we take a walk out Fifth Avenue.
During this walk he confessed to me his longing to be identified and
remembered in connection with some great library. He expanded this idea
at length. He said: "I do not wish to be remembered merely as a
collector of a few books, however fine they may be. I want to be
remembered in connection with a great library, and I do not see how it
is going to be brought about. Mr. Huntington and Mr. Morgan are buying
up all the books, and Mr. Bixby is getting the manuscripts. When my time
comes, if it ever does, there will be nothing left for me--everything
will be gone!"
We spent the night together, and after I had gone to bed he came to my
room again, and calling me by a nick-name, said, "I have got to do
something in connection with books to make myself remembered. What
shall it be?"
[Illustration: MR. HUNTINGTON AMONG HIS BOOKS]
I laughingly suggested that he write one, but he said it was no jesting
matter. Then it came out that he thought he would establish a chair at
Harvard for the study of bibliography in all its branches. He was much
disturbed by the lack of interest which great scholars frequently evince
toward his favorite subject.
With this he returned to his own room, and I went to sleep; but I have
often thought of this conversation since I, with the rest of the world,
learned that his mother was prepared, in his memory, to erect the great
building at Harvard which is his monument. His ambition has been
achieved. Associated with books, his name will ever be. The great
library at Harvard is his memorial. In its _sanctum sanctorum_ his
collection will find a fitting place.
We lunched together the day before he sailed for Europe, and I happened
to remark at parting, "This time next week you will be in London,
probably, lunching at the Ritz."
"Yes," he said, "very likely with Quaritch."
While in London Harry spent most of his time with that great bookseller,
the second to bear the name of Quaritch, who knew all the great
book-collectors the world over, and who once told me that he knew no man
of his years who had the knowledge and taste of Harry Widener. "So many
of your great American collectors refer to books in terms of steel
rails; with Harry it is a genuine and all-absorbing passion, and he is
so entirely devoid of side and affectation." In this he but echoed what
a friend once said to me at Lynnewood Hall, where we were spending the
day: "The marvel is that Harry is so entirely unspoiled by his fortune."
Harry was a constant attendant at the auction rooms at Sotheby's in
London, at Anderson's in New York, or wherever else good books were
going. He chanced to be in London when the first part of the Huth
library was being disposed of, and he was anxious to get back to New
York in time to attend the final Hoe sale, where he hoped to secure some
books, and bring to the many friends he would find there the latest
gossip of the London auction rooms.
Alas! Harry had bought his last book. It was an excessively rare copy of
Bacon's "Essaies," the edition of 1598. Quaritch had secured it for him
at the Huth sale, and as he dropped in to say good-bye and give his
final instructions for the disposition of his purchases, he said: "I
think I'll take that little Bacon with me in my pocket, and if I am
shipwrecked it will go with me." And I know that it was so. In all the
history of book-collecting this is the most touching story.
The death of Milton's friend, Edward King, by drowning, inspired the
poet to write the immortal elegy, "Lycidas."
Who would not sing for Lycidas?--
He must not float upon his watery bier
Unwept.
When Shelley's body was cast up by the waves on the shore near Via
Reggio, he had a volume of Keats's poems in his pocket, doubled back at
"The Eve of St. Agnes." And in poor Harry Widener's pocket there was a
Bacon, and in this Bacon we might have read, "The same man that was
envied while he lived shall be loved when he is gone."
[Illustration: HARRY ELKINS WIDENER'S BOOK-PLATE]
INDEX
À BECKET, GILBERT, _Comic History of Rome_, 78;
_Comic History of England_, 78.
ADAM, ROBERT B., 184 _n._
ADAMS, JOHN, 58.
ADVERTISEMENTS, importance of, in verifying first
editions of certain books, 79.
AINSWORTH, W. H., 346.
ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT. _See_ MARTIN, SIR THEODORE.
ALBERT MEMORIAL, 285.
ALDERSON, AMELIA (Mrs. Opie), 232.
ALDINES, 5, 88.
ALEXANDRA, PRINCESS OF WALES, 284.
ALKEN, HENRY, _Analysis of the Hunting Field_, and _Life
of John Mytton_, illustrated by, 77.
ALLAN, JOHN, 83, 84, 85.
ALLEN, EDMUND, 21, 307 _ff._
ALLEN, JOHN, _Memorial_ of, 57.
ALLIS, WILLIAM E., 115, 116.
_American Book Prices Current_, 103.
ANDERSON, MARY, 327.
ANDERSON'S AUCTION ROOMS, 103, 354.
ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING, _Gossip about Book-collecting_, 51.
ANNE, QUEEN, 278.
ANNE OF DENMARK, Queen of James I, 280.
ARBLAY, MADAME D'. _See_ Burney, Fanny.
ARGYLE, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Duke of, 150.
ARNOLD, WILLIAM HARRIS, _Record of Books and Letters_, 18, 103-106;
_First Report of a Book-collector_, 101, 102.
ASSOCIATION BOOKS 1, 107 _ff._
_Athenæum, The_, 106 _n._
AUCHINLECK, ALEXANDER BOSWELL, LORD, his Death, 173;
mentioned, 150, 165, 166, 172.
AUCHINLECK, Boswell's birthplace, the author's visit to, 181-184.
AUCTION CATALOGUES, 30.
AUCTION SALES, 59, 60.
AUDUBON, JOHN J., _Birds of North America_, 5.
AULUS GELLIUS, _Noctes Atticæ_, 90.
AUSTEN, JANE, 186, 187, 253.
BACON, FRANCIS, LORD, quoted, 7;
and Shakespeare, 92;
_Essaies_ (1598), Widener's last purchase, 354, 355.
BAGEHOT, WALTER, 272.
BANGS & CO., 104.
_Bank of North America, History of the_, 57, 58.
BARCLAY, ALEXANDER, 91.
BARCLAY and PERKINS'S, 195.
BARETTI, GIUSEPPE M. A., attacks Mrs. Piozzi, 216;
mentioned, 194, 198.
BARHAM, THOMAS, _Ingoldsby Legends_, unique presentation copy
of first edition, 347.
BARRETT, LAWRENCE, 327.
BARRIE, SIR JAMES M., _What Every Woman Knows_, 196.
BARTLETT, HENRIETTA, 72.
BARTON, BERNARD, 135.
BEACONSFIELD, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Earl of. _See_ Disraeli.
BEARD, TOM, presentation copy of _A Christmas Carol_ to, 116.
BEARDSLEY, AUBREY, caricature of O. Wilde, 114, 319.
BEAUCLERK, LADY DIANA, 179.
BECKFORD, WILLIAM, presentation copy of Disraeli's _Henrietta
Temple_ to, 29.
BELL, CURRER, ELLIS, and ACTON, _Poems_, 83. _See_ Brontë Sisters.
BEMENT, CLARENCE S., 89.
BERAYNE, KATHERINE TUDOR DE ("Mam y Cymry"), 189.
BERNHARDT, SARAH, 337.
BIBLE, the, Shakespeare "cryptogram" in, 92, 117. _See_ Gutenberg Bible.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES, 113 _ff._
_Biddle, Nicholas, Memoirs of_, 58.
BINDINGS, 54, 55, 74.
BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE, quoted, 33, 151.
BIXBY, WILLIAM K., 72, 352.
BLAIR, MISS, 161.
BLAKE, WILLIAM, _Marriage of Heaven and Hell_, 52, 82;
_Poetical Sketches_, 81, 82;
_Songs of Innocence and Experience_, 81, 82;
Linnell collection, sale of, 82.
BLANDFORD, MARQUIS OF. _See_ Spencer, George.
BLOUNT, EDWARD, 93.
"BLUE-STOCKINGS, THE", 194.
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI, the _Decameron_, 70.
BOEHM, SIR J. E., 285, 286.
BOETHIUS, _De Consolatione Philosophiæ_ (MS.), 90, 91.
BOLEYN, ANNE, 275.
BOLINGBROKE, HENRY ST. JOHN, Viscount, 177.
BONNELL, H. H., 83.
_Book Auction Records_, 103.
_Book Prices Current_, 72.
BOOK-COLLECTING, delights of, 2 _ff._;
changing fashions in, 5.
BOOK-PLATES, 60, 61.
BOOKS, "as originally published," 54, 55;
advancing prices of, 66 _ff._, 70 _ff._ _See_ Association Books,
Bindings, Extra-illustrated Books, Presentation Books, Subscription Books.
BOOKSELLERS, Second-hand, catalogues of, 30 _ff._
BOSCAWEN, MRS. EDWARD, 179.
BOSWELL, JAMES, quoted, on London, 13;
Macaulay's characterization of, refuted, 148, 149;
early years, 149, 150;
first meeting with Johnson, 150, 151;
his style, 151;
portraiture of Johnson, 152;
devotion to Johnson, 152;
not very much in Johnson's company, 153;
qualities as a biographer, 153, 154;
weaknesses considered, 154 _ff._, 159 _ff._;
Carlyle on, 154;
conversational powers, 156;
Life of Johnson, largely his own autobiography, 156, 157;
letters to Temple, 157 _ff._;
last days and death, 164, 165, 180;
wanderings about Europe, 165, 166;
letter to Dilly, 166;
first paper drawn by, as an advocate, 168;
"press notices" of himself, 170-172;
marries Margaret Montgomerie, 172;
continued interest in Johnson, 172, 173;
death of his father, 173;
financial difficulties, 173;
effect of Johnson's death on, 173;
publishes the _Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides_, 174;
its success encourages him to undertake Johnson's life, 174;
the _Life_ published (1791), 175, 176;
wife's death, 174;
thinks of running for Parliament, 175;
contemporary opinions of, 181;
Johnson on, 181;
mentioned, 21, 30, 174, 201, 214, 226.
_Life of Samuel Johnson_, dedication copy, to Sir Joshua
Reynolds, 18, 19, 347;
divers editions of, 64;
Macaulay's essay on, considered and criticized, 145 _ff._;
merits of, in general, 153;
its success, 175;
presentation copy of, to James Boswell, Jr., 176;
effect of its publication, 178-180;
almost universally praised, 184, 185;
the great English epic, 185;
Mrs. Thrale's copy of, 222;
mentioned, 61, 98, 307, 308, 309.
_An Account of Corsica_, 166-170, 172;
presentation copy of, 59.
BOSWELL, JAMES, JR., 176, 180.
BOSWELL, MRS. MARGARET, her _bon mot_ on Johnson, 173;
her death, 174;
mentioned, 154, 164, 172.
BOWDEN, A. J., 75.
BRADFORD CLUB, 57.
BRANDT, SEBASTIAN, _The Ship of Fools_, 91, 92.
BRISTOL, BISHOP OF, 317.
BRITISH MUSEUM, 43, 101, 111.
BROADLEY, A. M., published Mrs. Thrale's _Journal of a
Tour in Wales_, 218, 221.
BRONTË, CHARLOTTE, presentation copy of _Henry Esmond_ to, 347;
mentioned, 83.
BRONTË, EMILY, 187.
BRONTË MUSEUM, 83.
BRONTË SISTERS, 186, 187. _See_ Bell, Currer, etc.
BROOKS, EDMUND D., bookseller, 53, 54, 83.
BROUGH, FANNY, 336.
BROWNING, ARABEL, 26.
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT, letter of, 26, 27;
mentioned, 186, 187.
BROWNING, ROBERT, _Pauline_, 103;
mentioned, 26, 27, 91, 228.
BULWER-LYTTON, SIR EDWARD, 253.
BUNBURY, HENRY W., 32.
BURKE, EDMUND, inscription to, from Boswell, 185;
mentioned, 151, 181, 187, 188, 194, 221.
BURNEY, DR. CHARLES, 194, 208.
BURNEY, FANNY (Madame d'Arblay), _Evelina_, 46, 127, 199, 200;
her _Diary_, quoted, on life at Streatham Park, 199 _ff._;
mentioned, 186, 187, 204, 209, 221.
BURNS, ROBERT, _Poems_, first Edinburgh edition, 83, 84;
Kilmarnock edition, 83-86, 103.
BURNS MUSEUM, 86.
BUSHNELL, JOHN, 281.
BUTLER, SAMUEL, _The Way of all Flesh_, 124.
BYRON, ALLEGRA, 238, 244.
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD, copy of Thomson's _Seasons_
presented by, to Frances W. Webster, 29;
mentioned, 238.
CAINE, HALL, 268.
CARLTON HOTEL, London, 268.
CARLYLE, THOMAS, presentation copy of Dickens's _American Notes_ to, 115;
on Boswell, 154;
mentioned, 185, 293.
CARNEGIE, ANDREW, _Triumphant Democracy_, quoted, 271.
CASSATT, A. J., 54.
CATALOGUES of second-hand books, 30 _ff._, 65 _ff._;
amusing blunders in, 62, 113.
CAXTON, WILLIAM, his books in general, 8, 72;
his edition of _Tully, his Treatises on Old Age and Friendship_, 22;
mentioned, 91.
CAXTON HEAD, Sign of the, 30.
CHAFFANBRASS, MR., 256, 264.
CHAPMAN, GEORGE, translation of Homer, 102.
CHARING CROSS, 268.
CHARING CROSS ROAD, the book-lover's happy hunting-ground, 15, 16.
CHARLES I, 278, 281.
CHARLES II, 278, 282.
CHARLOTTE, Queen of George III, Dodd's letter to, 309;
mentioned, 21, 306.
CHATHAM, WILLIAM PITT, Earl of, 246.
CHAUCER, GEOFFREY, _Works_, 102.
CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, fourth Earl of, 21, 301.
CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP STANHOPE, fifth Earl of, 305, 306.
CHEW, BEVERLY, 7, 75, 87, 102, 103, 351.
_Christ Church, History of_, 58.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, 53.
CICERO, _Cato Major_, Franklin's edition of, 9;
_Treatises of Old Age and Friendship_ (Caxton), 22.
"CITY" OF LONDON, royal visit to, 266 _ff._;
physical boundaries and jurisdiction of, 277.
CLAIRMONT, MRS. M. J., Godwin's second wife, 237. _See_ Godwin, Mrs. M. J.
CLAIRMONT, MARY JANE (Claire), Lord Byron's mistress, 238, 242, 243, 244.
CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN, 18.
CLARKE, MARY COWDEN, 18.
CLASSICS, THE, collectors' waning interest in, 5.
CLOUGH, SIR RICHARD, 189.
COCK (tavern), THE, 283.
COGGESHALL, EDWIN W., sale of his Dickens collection, 78, 79, 115, 116.
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR, 111, 222.
COLLIER, JANE, 38.
COLLIER, JOHN PAYNE, 37, 38, 39, 41.
COLLINS, W. WILKIE, _The Moonstone_, 226, 255.
COLMAN, GEORGE, JR., 231.
COMMON PRAYER, Book of, 117.
CONGREVE, WILLIAM, 44.
CONRAD, JOSEPH, inscription in _The Nigger of the Narcissus_, 56.
_Contributions to English Bibliography_, 113.
CONWAY, W. A., and Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi, 23, 224.
CORSICA, Boswell's visit To, and its results, 165, 166.
CORYAT, THOMAS, _Coryat's Crudities_, 90, 91.
COSENS, F. W., his Lamb and Southey MSS., 38-41.
COSTELLO, DUDLEY, 115.
COTTLE, JOSEPH, _Annual Anthology_, 38, 39 and _n._, 41.
COWPER, WILLIAM, _The Task_, Thackeray's copy of, with
inscription, 346, 347.
"CRAWFORD, MRS.," 134, 135.
CROKER, JOHN WILSON, his edition of Boswell's _Life_ and Macaulay, 146, 147.
CROMWELL, OLIVER, 278.
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE, 68.
DALY, AUGUSTIN, 41.
DAVIES, THOMAS, bookseller, 30, 150, 151, 165.
DAVIES, MRS. THOMAS, 31, 151.
DEFOE, DANIEL, _Robinson Crusoe_, first edition, 43, 44, 99-101, 102;
rare newspaper edition of, 101;
mentioned, 122, 126.
DEVIL TAVERN, THE, 282, 283.
DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL, 5.
DICKENS, CHARLES, disappearance of his London, 10;
the author's presentation copies of various works of, 46;
Eckel's _First Editions of Charles Dickens_, 55, 79, 114, 115;
value of presentation copies of, 73;
Coggeshall collection of his works, 78, 115, 116;
why prices of early editions continue to advance, 117;
and Miss Kelly, 130;
mentioned, 66, 152, 250, 251, 252, 253, 261.
_A Christmas Carol_, first edition, 10, 11;
presentation copies of, 116.
_The Cricket on the Hearth_, manuscript of, 27, 53, 54;
presentation copy of, to Macready, 116.
_Oliver Twist_, presentation copy of, to Macready, 44, 46.
_Pickwick Papers_, in parts (Coggeshall copy), 78-80;
copy of, inscribed to Mary Hogarth, 80, 81;
fourth in circulation among printed books, 117;
"in parts as published," 346;
presentation copy of, to W. H. Ainsworth, 346; 255.
_Bleak House_, presentation copy of, to D. Costello, 115.
_American Notes_, presentation copies of, to Carlyle, 115,
and to Macready, 116.
_The Haunted Man_, presentation copy of, to Maclise, 116.
_The Chimes_, presentation copy of, to C. Dickens, Jr., 116.
_The Village Coquette_, dedication of, 118.
_A Tale of Two Cities_, 255.
DICKENS, CHARLES, JR., presentation copy of _The Chimes_ to, 116.
DICKINSON, JOHN EHRET, inscription from O. Wilde to, 342.
DILLY, CHARLES, publisher of _Corsica_,
letter of Boswell to, 166, 167;
publishes the _Life of Johnson_, 175, 176.
DISRAELI, BENJAMIN, _Henrietta Temple_, presentation
copy of, to W. Beckford, 29;
mentioned, 253, 324.
DOBELL, BERTRAM, Bookseller, 28 and _n._, 29.
DOBSON, AUSTIN, quatrain by, 266;
quoted, 293.
DODD, MRS. MARY, 295, 301, 302, 306, 309.
DODD, ROBERT, 48.
DODD, WILLIAM (the "Macaroni Parson"), the Johnson-Dodd
letters, 19-21, 306 _ff._;
his history, 294 _ff._;
_Beauties of Shakespeare_, 296, 297;
_The Sisters_, 297;
chaplain at Magdalen House, 298;
character of his preaching, 299;
made a royal chaplain, 300;
tutor to Lord Chesterfield's son, 301;
builds Charlotte Chapel and becomes prosperous and extravagant, 302;
leads a triple life, 302;
tries to purchase living of St. George's, Hanover Square, 303;
and is disgraced, 304;
convicted of forgery and sentenced to death, 305, 306;
_Thoughts in Prison_, 306;
Dr. Johnson's aid enlisted to obtain his pardon, 306, 310, 311;
his execution, 315-317.
DODD, REV. MR., father of William, 294, 296.
DODD, MEAD & CO., 48.
DONNE, JOHN, Walton's _Life_ of, 96.
DOWDEN, EDWARD, _Life of Shelley_, 108.
DRAKE, JAMES F., bookseller, 49, 51, 110.
DREER, FERDINAND J., 57, 58, 83.
DUTTON, E. P., & CO., 115.
ECKEL, JOHN C., _First Editions of Charles Dickens_, 55, 79, 114 _ff._
_Edinburgh Review_, 147.
EDMONTON CHURCHYARD, 53.
EGAN, PIERCE, _Boxiana_, 81.
_Elia and Eliana_, 52.
ELIOT, GEORGE. _See_ Evans, Mary Ann.
"ELIOT" BIBLE, 86.
ELIZABETH, QUEEN, 189, 270, 277, 278.
ELIZABETHAN CLUB, 72.
ELLIOTT, EBENEZER, 83.
ELZEVIRS, 5, 88.
ENGLAND, dispersion of great private libraries in, 70, 71.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, three greatest characters in, 151.
EVANS, MARY ANN, 111, 186, 187, 253.
_Examiner, The_, 135, 143.
EXECUTIONS, public, in England, in 18th century, 314, 315.
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, 55, 57.
FELL, JOHN, Bishop of Oxford, 96.
FIELD, EUGENE, 15.
FIELDING, HENRY, 156, 253.
FITZGERALD, EDWARD, _Rubaiyat_, 7.
FLEET STREET, in author's book-plate, 61.
FOLGER, H. C., 72.
FOOTE, SAMUEL, 304.
FORE-EDGE PAINTING, fine example of, 74.
FORMAN, H. BUXTON, 106.
_Formosa, Historical and Geographical Description of_, 32.
FORSTER, JOHN, 24.
_Fortnightly Magazine_, 332.
FOX, CHARLES JAMES, 130.
FOXE, JOHN, _The Book of Martyrs_, 76.
FRANCE, ANATOLE, _The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard_, 65.
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, his edition of the _Cato Major_, 9;
mentioned, 58, 177.
FREDERICK WILLIAM, Crown Prince of Prussia, 284.
FRENCH REVOLUTION, 229.
FRISWELL, HAIN, 261.
FURNESS, HORACE H., 92.
GALE, MINNA, 327.
GAMP, SAIREY, 243.
GARRETT, MR., President of B. & O. Railroad, 54.
GARRICK, DAVID, _Love in the Suds_, 28;
mentioned, 43, 194, 200.
GARRICK, MRS. DAVID, 194.
GASKELL, ELIZABETH C., _Cranford_, 125.
GEORGE III, 21, 214, 306, 307, 309.
GEORGE V, 266, 270.
GIBBON, EDWARD, 162, 181.
GILBERT, WILLIAM S., 78, 331.
GILBERT and SULLIVAN, _Patience_, Wilde caricatured in, 324.
GISSING, GEORGE, _Workers in the Dawn_, 124.
GODWIN, FANNY, illegitimate daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, 244, 245.
GODWIN, M. J., Godwin's second wife, Lamb's comments on, 238, 239, 240;
her bookshop on Skinner St., 239;
pursues Shelley and his companions, 242, 243.
GODWIN, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, Godwin's First Wife, dies in childbirth, 233;
mentioned 232, 238.
GODWIN, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, 2d, copy of _Queen Mab_ inscribed to, 108;
marries Shelley, 244, 245.
_See_ Shelley, Mary W.
GODWIN, WILLIAM, sketch of his life, 228 _ff._;
a political heretic and schismatic, 229;
_Enquiry concerning Political Justice_, 229, 230;
_Adventures of Caleb Williams_, 231, 232;
fascination for the fair sex, 232;
relations with Mary Wollstonecraft, 232, 233:
marries her, 233;
her death, 233;
courts Harriet Lee, 234;
financial troubles, 234, 235;
quarrelsomeness, 234;
his tragedy, _Antonio_, "damned with universal consent," 235-237;
marries Mrs. Clairmont, 237, 238;
_Life of Chaucer_, 238, 239;
books for children, 239;
suggests _Tales from Shakespeare_ to the Lambs, 239;
his opinions become less advanced, 240;
revival of interest in, through Shelley, 242;
absurd relations with Shelley, 243, 244;
his financial troubles thicken, 243, 244, 245;
his later literary work, 246;
Hazlitt's anecdote of, 246;
becomes Yeoman Usher of the Exchequer, 247;
death, 247;
essay on "Sepulchres," 247, 248;
the "husband of the first suffragette," 248.