SADI'S Bostan, i. 344
Ste. Beuve, ii. 169, 228; his saying of Madame de Sevigne, 244, 249
Schlegel (A. W. V.), his History of Literature, i. 92
Schutz (Mrs.), i. 44, 45, 49, 59, 174
Science, poetry of, i. 229
Scott (Sir Walter), The Pirate, ii. 128, 130, 131; FitzGerald's love for,
190, 235, 237, 261; depreciated by the Lake Poets and Carlyle, 194;
appreciated by Emerson, _ib._; his Journey to Douglas Dale, _ib._;
subjects for pictures from, 235; Guy Mannering, 244, 245, 250; hated by
the Whigs, 247; The Bride of Lammermoor, 261; Kenilworth, 265
Sea Words and Phrases, ii. 116
Selden's Table Talk, FitzGerald's notes on, i. 231
Sellar (Professor), his article on Lucretius, ii. 58
Selwyn's Correspondence, i. 196
Seneca, i. 151, 182
Severn, his letters about Keats, ii. 276
Sevigne (Mad. de), ii. 184, 185, 196, 217, 310, 312; FitzGerald's
Dictionary of the Dramatis Personae in her letters, 217, 289; Ste.
Beuve's saying of, 244, 249; subject for a picture from, 293
Shakespeare, his Sonnets, i. 14; FitzGerald buys the second and third
Folios, 31; Othello, ii. 251, 252
--(the Cambridge), ii. 47
Shelley, reviewed in the Edinburgh, i. 62; Trelawny's story of his death,
ii. 189; disputed reading in, 250; too unsubstantial for FitzGerald, 251
Sheridan's School for Scandal the best comedy in the language, ii. 159
Siddons (Mrs.), ii. 137, 149
Sizewell Gap, ii. 290
Smith (Horace), i. 97
Sonnets, FitzGerald's indifference to, i. 84, 87; ii. 212
Sophocles, the Antigone of, i. 186, 188; FitzGerald's admiration for, ii.
85; his superiority to Euripides, 86, 87; translation of the two
OEdipuses, 258, 275, 278, 279, 301, 315, 318, 319, 321; the OEdipus
Tyrannus played at Harvard, 316; the Ajax at Cambridge, 339
Sophocles and AEschylus compared, i. 240; ii. 49, 259
Southey, Life of Cowper by, i. 40, 42; his Life and Letters, 256
Southey (Mrs.), Caroline Bowles, i. 97
Spedding (James), at school with FitzGerald, i. 2; living in Lincoln's
Inn Fields, 43; reviews Carlyle's French Revolution in the Edinburgh, 73;
mentioned, 76, 114, 115, 138, 164, 167, 177, 207, 228, 239, 272, 276; ii.
38, 152, 174; his portrait by Laurence, i. 77; his forehead, 77, 78, 83,
116; his character, 193, 257; ii. 299, 302, 308; Evenings with a
Reviewer, i. 241; ii. 25; at Bramford with the Cowells, i. 262; his
article on Euphranor, 266; death of his niece, 291; his edition of Bacon,
310, 322; ii. 1, 25, 55; forestalled by Hepworth Dixon, 20; paper on
English hexameters, 25; FitzGerald's regret at his life wasted on Bacon,
38, 45, 46; should have edited Shakespeare, 38, 48, 135; his pamphlet on
Authors and Publishers, 89; article on Twelfth Night, 103; Carlyle's
letter on him, 175; his accident, 298; and death, 301, 303, 305, 307;
FitzGerald suggests a collection of his letters, 307, 309; Mrs. Cameron's
portrait of him, 338
Spenser, ii. 194
Spinoza, i. 204, 205, 209
Sprenger's Catalogue, i. 342
Spring Rice (Hon. S.), ii. 30, 32
Squirarchy, ii. 19, 20, 22
Squire Letters (the), i. 213, 216-220, 231; ii. 230, 235, 241, 242, 244,
331
Stephen (Leslie), review of Richardson's Novels in the Cornhill, ii. 102;
his Hours in a Library, 208, 209; on Crabbe's want of humour, 341
Sterling (John), i. 43
Stobaeus, i. 122, 123
Strawberry Hill, i. 276
Suicide, i. 257
Sumner (Charles), Memoir and Letters of, ii. 243, 247
TACITUS, i. 60; ii. 164, 165
Talma, ii. 75
Tannhauser, ii. 29
Tassy (Garcin de), i. 324, 325, 327; his edition of the Mantic, 325, 330,
342; ii. 100; his paper on Omar, i. 329, 343, 345
Taste the Feminine of Genius, i. 255; ii. 226
Taylor (Jeremy), i. 34, 35, 42, 44
--(Tom), Diogenes and his Lantern, i. 254
Tenby, i. 338
Tennant (R. J.), at Blackheath, i. 43; candidate for a school at
Cambridge, _ib._
Tennyson (A.), a contemporary of FitzGerald's at Cambridge, i. 3; his
Mariana, 9; and Lady of Shalott, 10; his new volume, 17; the Dream of
Fair Women, 20; fresh poems, 25; at Mirehouse and Ambleside with
FitzGerald, 33; ii. 305-307, 310; in London, i. 51, 81; at Leamington,
Stratford, and Kenilworth with FitzGerald, 68; preparing for the press,
93, 113; edition of his poems, 1842, 115, 119; undergoing the water cure,
151; staying at Park House, 176, 224; at Carlyle's, 181; In Memoriam,
187, 250, 263, 273; mentioned, 168, 190, 192, 277; new poem, 194; in the
Isle of Wight, 207; The Princess, 237, 246, 249, 250, 253, 254; his
portrait by Laurence, 242, 243; ii. 346; his opinion of Thackeray's
Pendennis, i. 244; in chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 250, 253, 254;
his marriage, 263; at Twickenham, 285; goes to the Isle of Wight, 286,
287; King Arthur, 311; his saying of Hafiz, 320; his bust not at first
admitted into Trinity College Library, ii. 12; his saying of the Dresden
Madonna, 23, 181; FitzGerald regrets that he left Lincolnshire, 47; his
Maud, 60; at Greyshott Hall, Haslemere, 89; his Death of Lucretius, 89;
Locksley Hall, 105; The Holy Grail, 111; his Gareth and Lynette, 143; his
saying of Crabbe, 152; of Dante and Goethe, 193; of Milton's similes and
his diction, 193; visits FitzGerald at Woodbridge, 202, 204; The Northern
Farmer, 206; Ode on the Funeral of the Duke of Wellington, 216; Ballad on
Lucknow, 267
Tennyson (Charles), his poems, ii. 259, 264, 294, 297; his death, 264
--(Frederic), his account of Cicero's villa, i. 123; urged to publish his
poems, 164, 250, 258, 264; their publication, 285, 289; with FitzGerald
at Woodbridge, ii. 55; lives in a World of Spirits, 65; FitzGerald sends
him Lowell's Study Windows, 257
Tennyson (Hallam, now Lord), his Song of Brunanburh, ii. 206
--(Septimus), i. 152
Thackeray (Miss), afterwards Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, her story in the
Cornhill, ii. 82; her Old Kensington, 140; meets FitzGerald at the Royal
Academy Exhibition, 143
--(W. M.), at Cambridge with FitzGerald, i. 2; in Paris, 3, 38;
mentioned, 17, 30, 77, 116, 125, 158, 257, 311; illustrated Undine for
FitzGerald, 29; his Paris Sketch Book, 73; his second Funeral of
Napoleon, 79; his Irish Sketch Book, 141; contributes to Punch, 163; goes
to the East, 177; at Malta, 181; writes in Fraser's Magazine, 193;
Journal from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 202; Mrs. Perkins's Ball, 214;
Vanity Fair, 238, 244; ii. 53; Pendennis, i. 244, 250, 255; ii. 51-53;
his illness, i. 250; Lectures on the Humourists, 272; Esmond, 275, 276;
goes to America, 279; letter of farewell to FitzGerald, 280; The
Newcomes, 288; ii. 50, 51; Lectures on the Georges, i. 317; edits the
Cornhill Magazine, ii. 13; his death, 50, etc.; his Roundabout Papers,
127; describes Humanity in its depths, 135, 190; his saying of Lamb, 198,
243; his song, 'Ho, Pretty Page,' set to music by FitzGerald, 207, 213
Thirlwall (Bishop), i. 73; his Letters, ii. 328
Thompson (W. H.), at Cambridge with FitzGerald, i. 2, 79; at the water
cure, 264; his letters, ii. 37; appointed Master of Trinity, 73, 74; his
marriage, 81, 88; his edition of Plato's Gorgias, 123-126
Tichborne Trial (the), ii. 134, 135, 159, 170
Ticknor's Memoirs, ii. 197, 200; his Spanish Literature, 198
Titian, pictures by, i. 107, 108, 141; ii. 151
Tom the Piper, ii. 240
Trench (Mrs.), her Journal, ii. 23, 24, 144
--(R. C.), i. 43; his Sabbation, 54; Study of Words, 274; his translation
of Calderon's Life's a Dream, 307; ii. 287
Trinity College, Cambridge, the Hall, ii. 161; the Chapel, _ib._
Trollope (Anthony), his Barchester Towers, ii. 14; Can you forgive her?
71; He knows he was right, 152; the Eustace Diamonds, 159
Turner (Dawson), i. 198
Twalmley, The Great, ii. 198, 228
VANDENHOFF, as Macbeth, i. 31; as Iago, 43; in the Antigone, 188
Vandyke, ii. 151
Vaughan (Henry), Silex Scintillans, i. 46
Venables (G. S.), i. 257
Verdi, ii. 151
Vestiges of Creation, i. 186, 187
Vestris (Madame), ii. 120, 138
Virgil, his Georgics, i. 134; FitzGerald's love for, ii. 83, 88, 218
Voltaire's Pucelle, ii. 168; his saying of Habakkuk, 182
Volunteer Rifles, ii. 18, 22
WALPOLE (Horace), i. 276; his Letters, ii. 205; Carlyle's opinion of him,
206
Warburton (Bishop), Letters quoted, i. 52
--(Eliot), i. 189
Waterford's (Lady), Babes in the Wood, ii. 18
Waterloo, Battle of, ii. 286, 290
--Gallery, i. 63
Wesley's Journal, i. 292; ii. 59, 219, 254; story from, 110; Memorials of
his Family, 219; Southey's Life of, 220
Westminster Abbey, ii. 295
Wherstead, i. 28; ii. 231
White (James), i. 201
Wilkie (David), i. 39
Wilkinson (Mrs.), Jane FitzGerald, E. FitzGerald's sister, i. 147, 167,
170
--(Rev. J. B.), portrait by Laurence, i. 167, 170
Williams-Wynn (Miss), Memorials, ii. 237
Windham's Diary, ii. 84
Winsby Fight, i. 155, 160
Woburn Abbey, pictures at, i. 56
Woodberry (G. E.), his article on Crabbe in the Atlantic Monthly, ii. 281
Wordsworth (Dr. C.), Master of Trinity, ii. 194
--(W.), i. 18; and Tennyson, 36, 37; his Sonnets, 84, 87, 88; mentioned,
ii. 194, 195, 197; Lowell's account of him, 199; his opinion of Crabbe,
283, 288
Wotton (Sir H.), quoted, i. 15
XENOPHON, i. 240
ZINCKE (Rev. Foster Barbam), ii. 149, 150, 231
Zoolus, account of, by Capt. Allen Gardiner, i. 64
THE END
_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_
Footnotes:
{2} See note on Omar Khayyam, stanza xviii.
{5} See p. 2.
{13} Article on 'British Novelists' in Fraser's Magazine, Jan. 1860.
{18} Major Rolla Rouse of Melton.
{22} His brother.
{23a} Dean of Westminster and afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.
{23b} Journal of Mrs. Trench, not then published.
{24} In 1872 he wrote to me: 'I hope that others have remembered and
made note of A. T.'s sayings--which hit the nail on the head. Had I
continued to be with him, I would have risked being called another Bozzy
by the thankless World; and have often looked in vain for a Note Book I
had made of such things.'
And again in 1876: 'He _said_, and I dare say, _says_ things to be
remembered: decisive Verdicts; which I hope some one makes note of: post
me memoranda.'
{25} In Fraser's Magazine for June 1861, 'On Translating Homer.'
{27} Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1860, pp 1-17; published
in 1861.
{29} [In the book the AT is a symbol made of a capital A, with a small T
inside it with the bar of the T in the same position as the bar in the
A.--D.P.]
{30} The Hon Stephen Spring Rice.
{34} Sat. III. 254.
{35a} Hermann's conjecture on Agam. 819.
{35b} Sat. VI. 460.
{37} As Greek Professor.
{40} At Ely
{47a} ? Forty.
{47b} The Cambridge Shakespeare.
{48a} Purgatorio, xxiii.
{48b} Euripides.
{50} Thackeray died 24 Dec. 1863.
{55} A copy by Laurence of his portrait of Thackeray.
{56a} Gainsborough's sketch of Dupont which Laurence copied.
{56b} Gainsborough, when dying, whispered to Reynolds, 'We are all going
to heaven, and Vandyke is of the party.'
{58} By Professor Sellar in the Oxford Essays for 1855: reprinted in his
Roman Poets of the Republic, 1863.
{59a} Late Archdeacon of Suffolk.
{59b} VI. 556.
{61} Pliny, Hist. Nat. ii. 5. FitzGerald quotes only a part of the
passage in the first scene of The Mighty Magician.
{62a} In June 1864.
{62b} The third was probably the Agamemnon.
{63} So by mistake for Woodbridge.
{68} Probably, as I am informed by Mr. Mowbray Donne, 'that when Lord
Chatham met any Bishops he bowed so low that you could see the peak of
his nose between his legs.'
{69a} Sappho, Fr. xlvi. (Gaisford).
{69b} P. 308.
{74} Quoted by the Scholiast on Theocritus, V. 65, and to be found in
the editions of the Paroemiographi Graeci by Gaisford and Leutsch.
{77} Francis Duncan, Rector of West Chelborough.
{78a} See note, p. 110.
{78b} OEd. Tyr. 1076.
{78c} OEd. Col. 607.
{86} Sophocles, Ajax 674, 5.
{87a} Not Jocasta, but Alcmene.
{87b} Arist. Poet. 13, 10.
{88} Her son, the Suffolk Poet, says that in the decline of her life she
'observed to a relative with peculiar emphasis, that "to meet Winter, Old
Age, and Poverty, was like meeting three great giants."' For 'Sickness'
FitzGerald at first had written 'Old Age.'
{91} Article in the Athenaeum of 2nd Feb. 1867 on Donne's edition of the
Correspondence of George III. and Lord North.
{97a} Delivered 23rd Oct. 1867.
{97b} By Emanuel Deutsch.
{102} By Leslie Stephen.
{104} Who said that the description of the boat race with which
Euphranor ends was one of the most beautiful pieces of English prose.
{105} Referring to The Two Generals, Letters and Literary Remains, vol.
ii. p. 483.
{107} See p. 105.
{109} The Agamemnon.
{110} FitzGerald frequently referred to a story from Wesley's Journal,
which he quotes in Polonius, p. LXX. 'A gentleman of large fortune,
while we were seriously conversing, ordered a servant to throw some coals
on the fire. A puff of smoke came out. He threw himself back in his
chair, and cried out, "O Mr. Wesley, these are the crosses I meet with
every day!"'
{111} The Holy Grail.
{116a} Printed in the East Anglian Notes and Queries for 1869 and 1870.
{116b} The partnership was dissolved in June 1870.
{118a} Ten years before, Nov. 2, 1860, FitzGerald wrote to his old
friend, the late Mr. W. E. Crowfoot of Beccles: 'I have been reading with
interest some French Memoirs towards the end of the last century: when
the French were a cheerful, ingenious, witty, trifling people; they had
not yet tasted of the Blood of the Revolution, which really seems to me
to have altered their character. The modern French Novels exhibit
Vengeance as a moving Virtue: even toward one another: can we suppose
they think less well of it towards us? In this respect they are really
the most barbarous People of Europe.
{118b} 29 Oct. 1870.
{120} Gilbert's Palace of Truth.
{122a} Edwin Edwards.
{122b} Cornhill, June 1870. 'A Clever Forgery,' by Dr. W. Pole.
{127} Thirty Years' Musical Recollections, vol. i. p. 162.
{128} In 1879 he wrote to Professor Cowell, 'O, Sir Walter will fly over
all their heads "come aquila" still!'
{133} Not 'Yaffil' but 'yaffingale.'
{135a} In Hamlet, ii. 2. 337, 'Whose lungs are tickle o' the sear.'
{135b} 'Read rascal in the motions of his back,
And scoundrel in the supple-sliding knee.'--_Sea Dreams_.
{136} Thus far written in pencil by Carlyle himself. The rest of the
letter except the signature and postscript is in Mr. Froude's hand.
{139a} This appears to be a mistake.
{139b} At Whitsuntide.
{139c} As Thackeray used to call Carlyle.
{140} Old Kensington.
{141a} In 1873 he wrote to Miss Thackeray,
'Only yesterday I lighted upon some mention of your Father in the
Letters of that mad man of Genius Morton, who came to a sudden and
terrible end in Paris not long after. He was a good deal in Coram
Street, and no one admired your Father more, nor made so sure of his
'_doing something_' at last, so early as 1842. A Letter of Jan. 22/45
says: "I hear of Thackeray at Rome. Once there, depend upon it, he
will stay there some time. There is something glutinous in the soil
of Rome, that, like the sweet Dew that lies on the lime-leaf, ensnares
the Butterfly Traveller's foot." Which is not so bad, is it? And
again, still in England, and harping on Rome, whose mere name, he
says, "moves the handle of the Pump of Tears in him" (one of his
grotesque fancies), he suddenly bethinks him (Feb. 4/45). "This is
the last day of Carnival, Thackeray is walking down the Corso with his
hands in his Breeches pockets: stopping to look at some little Child.
At night, millions of Moccoletti, dasht about with endless Shouts and
Laughter, etc."'
{144} Byron's verses on Rogers.
{145} In Fraser's Magazine, May 1870.
{146a} Inferno, Canto V. 127.
{146b} F. C. Brooke of Ufford.
{146c} Probably a frontispiece to Omar Khayyam which was never used.
{147} Roqueplan, La Vie Parisienne.
{148} Salons Celebres, p. 97, ed. 1882.
{149a} Q. Rev. No. LXVII. p. 216.
{149b} Wherstead.
{150} Euphranor.
{153} 31st March, when the letter was probably finished.
{160} Cent. III. section 238.
{161} In June 1871 he wrote to me, 'One Improvement I persist in
recommending for your Chapel: but no one will do it. Instead of
Lucretius' line (which might apply to Shakespeare, etc.) at the foot of
Newton's Statue, you should put the first words of Bacon's Novum Organum,
(Homo) 'Naturae Minister et Interpres': which eminently becomes Newton,
as he stands, with his Prism; and connects him with his great Cambridge
Predecessor, who now (I believe) sits in the Ante-Chapel along with him.'
{162} Agamemnon.
{163a} Written in French, 22 July 1873.
{163b} The Family of Love, vol. viii p. 43.
{163c} Ibid. p. 40.
{164} Tacitus, by W. B. Donne, in Ancient Classics for English Readers,
1873.
{165} Ann. XIV. 10.
{169} In January 1874, Donne wrote to Thompson, 'You probably know that
our friend E. F. G. has been turned out of his long inhabited lodgings by
a widow weighing at least fourteen stone, who is soon to espouse, and
sure to rule over, his landlord, who weighs at most nine stone--"impar
congressus." "Ordinary men and Christians" would occupy a new and
commodious house which they have built, and which, in this case, you
doubtless have seen. But the FitzGeralds are not _ordinary_ men, however
_Christian_ they may be, and our friend is now looking for an alien home
for himself, his books, pictures, and other "rich moveables."'
{170} See Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. I. 137.
{171} A copy of Pickersgill's portrait of Crabbe.
{172} Dryburgh.
{173} Dryburgh.
{174} See the Chronicle of the Drum.
{184} Chapter IV.
{187} Tales of the Hall. Book X. (vol. vi. p. 246).
{188a} Carlyle's niece, now Mrs. Alexander Carlyle.
{188b} To his nephew Tom, meaning that he should outlive him. Letter of
Jeremiah Markland (Bowyer's Miscellaneous Tracts, ed. Nichols, p. 521).
{189} That his boat was intentionally run down by a felucca.
{193} Among my Books. First series.
{196} June 10, 1876, was a Saturday. Perhaps the letter was finished on
Sunday.
{197} In 1851. Wordsworth's Letters are in the second volume, pp. 145-
173.
{198} Boswell's Johnson, VIII. 183.
{199} Haydon's Memoirs, III. 199.
{200} Archdeacon Groome, Rector of Monk Soham, Suffolk.
{202} Suffolk for 'donkey.'
{206} The Song of Brunanburh by Hallam Tennyson. Contemporary Review,
Nov. 1876.
{208} In 1863 he wrote to George Crabbe,--
'I am now reading Clarissa Harlowe, for about the fifth time: I dare
say you wouldn't have patience to read it once: indeed the first time
is the most trying. It is a very wonderful, and quite original, and
unique, Book: but almost intolerable from its Length and
Sentimentality.'
{213} See p. 207.
{217} In Crabbe's Borough.
{219a} _Essais_, i. 18.
{219b} Lucr. iv. 76-80.
{220a} Formerly Professor of Sanskrit in King's College, London.
{220b} On English Adjectives in -able, with special reference to
reliable, 1877.
{224} The Hon. J. R. Lowell, formerly United States Minister at the
Courts of Madrid and St. James'.
{231} Chap. xlv.
{234} Melanges et Lettres.
{237} Memorials of Charlotte Williams-Wynn, p. 59.
{238} Criticisms, and Elucidations of Catullus, by H. A. J. Munro.
{239} Of Lamb's Life, mentioned in the following letter.
{240a} Book II. Song 2.
{240b} Endymion, i. 26, etc.
{240c} FitzGerald's memory was at fault here. The lines are from
Tennyson's Gardener's Daughter.
{242} Charles Lamb. A calendar of his life in four pages.
{243} That to Bernard Barton about Mitford's vases, December 1, 1824.
{247} A calendar of Charles Lamb's Life.
{251} Not in the Essays but in the Colours of Good and Evil, 4: 'For as
he sayth well, _Not to resolve is to resolve_.'
{252} See Lamb's Verses to Ayrton (Letters, ed. Ainger, II. 2).
{253} The Only Darter, A Suffolk Clergyman's Reminiscence. Written in
the Suffolk Dialect by Archdeacon Groome under the name of John Dutfen.
{254} Wesley's Journal, 30 May 1786, and 22 May 1788.
{255a} Edwin Edwards.
{255b} Lowestoft.
{256a} These two lines are crossed out.
{256b} Tales of the Hall, Book XI. vol. vi., p. 284, quoted from memory.
{259a} This was never finished.
{259b} Lord Carnarvon.
{267} Tales of the Hall, Book X.
{270} A year before, FitzGerald wrote to Professor Cowell:
'I was trying yesterday to recover Gray's Elegy, as you had been doing
down here at Christmas, with shut Eyes. But I had to return to the
Book: and am far from perfect yet: though I leave out several Stanzas;
reserving one of the most beautiful which Gray omitted. Plenty of
faults still: but one doats on almost every line, every line being a
Proverb now.'
{271} Tales of the Hall, Book XIV. (vol. vii. p. 89).
{272} Tales of the Hall, Book XIV. (vol. vii. p. 89).
{273} On Foot in Spain, by J. S. Campion, 1879.
{274} From Calderon's _Cada uno para si_, the seven lines beginning
'Bien dijo uno, que su planta' (Comedias, ed. Keil, iv. 731).
{277} Edwards died on Sept. 15. 'Those two and their little Dunwich in
Summer were among my Pleasures; and will be, I doubt, among my Regrets.'
So he wrote me at the end of 1877.
{280a} C. K. of Punch.
{280b} Now in my possession.
{281} In the Atlantic Monthly for May 1880, 'A Neglected Poet,' by G. E.
Woodberry.
{282} Tales of the Hall, Book IV. vol. vi. p. 71.
{283} Tales of the Hall, Book III. vol. vi. p. 61.
{285a} From the Life of Lord Houghton, by Mr. Wemyss Reid, ii. 406, and
by his kind permission inserted here.
{285b} Printed 1881.
{286} FitzGerald was reading Lord Seaton's Regiment (the 52nd Light
Infantry) at the Battle of Waterloo, by the Rev. W. Leeke, who as Ensign
Leeke carried the colours of the regiment on the 18th of June.
{290} Edwin Edwards.
{293} A sheltered path in the field next his garden, where he walked for
hours together.
{302} Spedding died on March 9.
{303} The death of Spedding.
{308a} Now (1893) the Dowager Lady Tennyson.
{308b} See p. 219.
{309} Printed in the Life of Archdeacon Allen, by Prebendary Grier, pp.
35-37.
{311} In Macmillan's Magazine for April 1881.
{313} Mrs. Kemble was at Leamington.
{317} Euphranor.
{322} Nearly two years before, 21st March 1880, Fitzgerald wrote to
Professor Cowell: 'My dear Donne (who also was one object of my going)
seemed to me feebler in Body and Mind than when I saw him in October: I
need not say, the same Gentleman. Mrs. Kemble says that he, more than
any one she has known, is the man to do what Boccaccio's Hero of the
Falcon did.' This was said, Mrs. Kemble informs me, by her sister Mrs.
Sartoris.
{323} Keene recommended FitzGerald to read Roger North's Memoir of
Music. 'You will see in North,' he says, 'that Old Rowley was a bit of a
musician and sang "a plump Bass." Can't you hear him?' His question to
me was about the meaning of the word 'fastously,' which is not a musical
term, but described the conduct of an Italian violinist, Nicolai Matteis,
who gave himself airs, 'and behaved fastously' or haughtily. Barrow uses
both 'fastuous' and 'fastuously.'
{324a} The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, published in 1682.
{324b} A volume of 17th century pamphlets, containing among others
Howell's Dodona's Grove, given me by Archdeacon Groome.
{326} Edward Marlborough FitzGerald.
{327} Euphranor, referred to in the following letters.
{328} Now (1893) Lord Tennyson.
{330a} Virgil's Garden, printed in Temple Bar for April, 1882.
{330b} Longfellow died 26th March, and Emerson 27th April, 1882.
{337} 20 June, 1882.
{342} A newspaper cutting: 'ALDEBURGH. THE STORM. On Tuesday evening
the tide ran over the Promenade, in many places the river and sea
meeting. The cattle are all sent inland, and all the houses at Slaughden
are evacuated.'